Kent Smith

Kent Smith (lahir Frank Kent Smith) adalah seorang aktor panggung, layar, dan televisi Amerika. Pengalaman akting awal Smith dimulai pada tahun 1925 ketika dia menjadi salah satu pendiri "Pemain Universitas" Harvard yang terkenal, yang kemudian mencakup Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Joshua Logan dan Margaret Sullavan di Falmouth, Massachusetts. Pengalaman saham Smith juga mencakup produksi dengan Teater Maryland di Baltimore. Debut akting profesionalnya terjadi pada tahun 1929 di Blind Window di Baltimore, Mayland. Dia membuat debut akting Broadwaynya pada tahun 1932 di Men Must Fight. Dia juga muncul di Broadway dalam Measure for Measure, Sweet Love Remembered, The Best Man, Ah, Wilderness!, Dodsworth, Saint Joan,, Old Acquaintance, Antony dan Cleopatra dan Halte Bus. Smith pindah ke Hollywood, California, di mana dia membuat debut filmnya di The Garden Murder Case. Dia muncul di film-film seperti Manusia Kucing, Anak-anak Hitler, Tanah Ini Milikku, Tiga Gadis Rusia, Pemuda Berlari Liar, Kutukan Manusia Kucing, Tangga Spiral, Nora Prentiss, Kota Ajaib, Hatiku yang Bodoh, Kepala Air Mancur, dan Yang Terkutuk Jangan Menangis. Dia terus berakting di film-film seperti Comanche, Sayonara, Party Girl, The Mugger, Imitation General, The Badlanders, This Earth Is Mine, Strangers When We Meet, Susan Slade, The Balcony, A Distant Trumpet, Youngblood Hawke, dan The Young Lovers. Smith berperan dalam film-film televisi seperti How Awful About Allan, The Night Stalker, The Judge and Jake Wyler, The Cat Creature, The Affair dan The Disappearance of Flight 412. Banyak kredit televisinya termasuk peran berkelanjutan dalam sinetron Peyton Place sebagai Dr. Robert Morton; Istri Smith, aktris Edith Atwater, berperan sebagai istri karakternya dalam serial tersebut. Dia mulai menjadi bintang tamu dalam serial televisi pada tahun 1949 di The Philco Television Playhouse, dan juga muncul di Robert Montgomery Presents, Wagon Train, General Electric Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, Have Gun Will Travel, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Beverly Hillbillies, Rawhide, The American, Barnaby Jones, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery, dan miniseri tahun 1976 Once an Eagle. Penampilan terakhirnya adalah di episode Wonder Woman tahun 1977.

Kent Smith (born Frank Kent Smith) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Smith's early acting experience started in 1925 when he was one of the founders of the famed Harvard "University Players", which later included Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Joshua Logan and Margaret Sullavan in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Smith's stock experience also included productions with the Maryland Theatre in Baltimore. His professional acting debut was in 1929 in Blind Window in Baltimore, Mayland. He made his Broadway acting debut in 1932 in Men Must Fight. He also appeared on Broadway in Measure for Measure, Sweet Love Remembered, The Best Man, Ah, Wilderness!, Dodsworth, Saint Joan,, Old Acquaintance, Antony and Cleopatra and Bus Stop. Smith moved to Hollywood, California, where he made his film debut in The Garden Murder Case. He appeared in such films as Cat People, Hitler's Children, This Land Is Mine, Three Russian Girls, Youth Runs Wild, The Curse of the Cat People, The Spiral Staircase, Nora Prentiss, Magic Town, My Foolish Heart, The Fountainhead, and The Damned Don't Cry. He continued acting in films such as Comanche, Sayonara, Party Girl, The Mugger, Imitation General, The Badlanders, This Earth Is Mine, Strangers When We Meet, Susan Slade, The Balcony, A Distant Trumpet, Youngblood Hawke, and The Young Lovers. Smith had roles in television films such as How Awful About Allan, The Night Stalker, The Judge and Jake Wyler, The Cat Creature, The Affair and The Disappearance of Flight 412. His numerous television credits included a continuing role in the soap opera Peyton Place as Dr. Robert Morton; Smith's wife, actress Edith Atwater, played his character's wife on the series. He began guest-starring in television series in 1949 in The Philco Television Playhouse, and also appeared in Robert Montgomery Presents, Wagon Train, General Electric Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, Have Gun Will Travel, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Beverly Hillbillies, Rawhide, The Americans, Barnaby Jones, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery, and the 1976 miniseries Once an Eagle. His last appearance was in a 1977 episode of Wonder Woman.