Kent Smith
Acting

Kent Smith

Born 19 March 1907 · New York City, New York, USA · Died 23 April 1985

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.

Known for

Cat People
Wonder Woman
Mission: Impossible
The Spiral Staircase
The Fountainhead
The Curse of the Cat People
Sayonara
The Night Stalker
The Trouble with Angels
This Land Is Mine
Party Girl
The Damned Don't Cry
Die Sister, Die!
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Lost Horizon
The Cat Creature
The Affair
The Crooked Hearts
The Female Instinct
The Night Stalker
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Probe
Another Part of the Forest
Pete 'n' Tillie
The Last Child
How Awful About Allan
The Games
Death of a Gunfighter
Kona Coast
Assignment to Kill
Games
A Covenant with Death
The Money Jungle
The Trouble with Angels
A Distant Trumpet
Youngblood Hawke
The Young Lovers
The Balcony
Moon Pilot
Susan Slade
Strangers When We Meet
This Earth Is Mine
Party Girl
The Mugger
Imitation General
The Badlanders
Sayonara
Comanche
Paula
The Damned Don't Cry
This Side of the Law
My Foolish Heart
Little Women: Jo's Story
The Fountainhead
Design for Death
Nora Prentiss
The Voice of the Turtle
Magic Town
The Spiral Staircase
The Curse of the Cat People
Youth Runs Wild
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
This Land Is Mine
Hitler's Children
Three Russian Girls
Forever and a Day
Cat People
The Garden Murder Case
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