Kent Smith

Kent Smith

1907-03-19 New York City, New York, USA 63 Credits

Biography

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 m...

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Taking Tiger Mountain

Taking Tiger Mountain

1982

Producer

4.2
Producing

Militant feminist scientists brainwash research subject to assassinate the Welsh Minister of Prostitution. Meanwhile World War III is being fought and...

Die Sister, Die!

Die Sister, Die!

1978

as Dr. Thorne

4.7
Acting

A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him ...

The Disappearance of Flight 412

The Disappearance of Flight 412

1974

as Gen. Enright

4.9
Acting

Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft....

The Cat Creature

The Cat Creature

1973

as Frank Lucas

5.0
Acting

When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police co...

The Affair

The Affair

1973

as Mr. Patterson

3.6
Acting

A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

1973

as Bill Fergunson

5.4
Acting

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon...

The Female Instinct

The Female Instinct

1972

as Warren Packer

Acting

A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.

Pete 'n' Tillie

Pete 'n' Tillie

1972

as Father Keating

5.6
Acting

A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.

The Judge and Jake Wyler

The Judge and Jake Wyler

1972

as Robert Dodd

3.0
Acting

A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.

The Crooked Hearts

The Crooked Hearts

1972

as James Simpson

7.8
Acting

A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly cat-an...

Another Part of the Forest

Another Part of the Forest

1972

as Simon Isham

Acting

A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.

Probe

Probe

1972

as Dr. Edward Laurent

5.5
Acting

That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detect...

The Night Stalker

The Night Stalker

1972

as District Attorney Tom Paine

6.8
Acting

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy a...

The Last Child

The Last Child

1971

as Gus Iverson

7.0
Acting

In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconia...

How Awful About Allan

How Awful About Allan

1970

as Raymond

5.8
Acting

After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him...

The Games

The Games

1970

as Kaverley

7.1
Acting

From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the wor...

Death of a Gunfighter

Death of a Gunfighter

1969

as Andrew Oxley

6.4
Acting

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When h...

Kona Coast

Kona Coast

1968

as Akamai Barnes

3.1
Acting

Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party ...

Assignment to Kill

Assignment to Kill

1968

as Mr. Eversley

6.0
Acting

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance mon...

The Money Jungle

The Money Jungle

1967

as Paul Kimmel

5.0
Acting

When four geologists who form a combine of five industrial companies turn up dead, the race is on to determine whether the culprit is a group of high-...

Games

Games

1967

as Harry Gordon

6.1
Acting

A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.

A Covenant with Death

A Covenant with Death

1967

as Oliver Parmalee

5.0
Acting

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a...

The Trouble with Angels

The Trouble with Angels

1966

as Uncle George Clancy

6.8
Acting

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens gr...

The Young Lovers

The Young Lovers

1964

as Dr. Shoemaker

2.0
Acting

A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.

Youngblood Hawke

Youngblood Hawke

1964

as Paul Winter Sr.

6.1
Acting

An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.

A Distant Trumpet

A Distant Trumpet

1964

as Secretary of War

5.3
Acting

In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona...

The Balcony

The Balcony

1963

as General

5.2
Acting

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Arch...

Moon Pilot

Moon Pilot

1962

as Secretary of the Air Force

5.4
Acting

An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of v...

Susan Slade

Susan Slade

1961

as Dr. Fain

5.8
Acting

A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.

Strangers When We Meet

Strangers When We Meet

1960

as Stanley Baxter

6.3
Acting

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down...

This Earth Is Mine

This Earth Is Mine

1959

as Francis Fairon

6.1
Acting

Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootlegger...

The Mugger

The Mugger

1958

as Dr. Pete Graham

5.6
Acting

A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.

Party Girl

Party Girl

1958

as Jeffrey Stewart

6.8
Acting

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realiz...

The Badlanders

The Badlanders

1958

as Cyril Lounsberry

6.2
Acting

Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people i...

Imitation General

Imitation General

1958

as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane

5.7
Acting

An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.

Sayonara

Sayonara

1957

as Gen. Webster

6.6
Acting

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is...

Comanche

Comanche

1956

as Quanah Parker

5.0
Acting

Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted I...

Paula

Paula

1952

as John Rogers

6.5
Acting

A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Ov...

Little Women: Jo's Story

Little Women: Jo's Story

1950

as Professor Fritz Bhaer

Acting

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in ...

This Side of the Law

This Side of the Law

1950

as David Cummins

4.8
Acting

A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with...

The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950

as Martin Blackford

7.1
Acting

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

My Foolish Heart

My Foolish Heart

1950

as Lewis H. Wengler

6.7
Acting

After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew W...

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

1949

as Peter Keating

6.9
Acting

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to ...

Design for Death

Design for Death

1948

as Narrator

6.0
Acting

Documentary Feature winner "Design for Death" (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan's role in WWII.

The Voice of the Turtle

The Voice of the Turtle

1947

as Kenneth Bartlett

6.6
Acting

An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.

Magic Town

Magic Town

1947

as Hoopendecker

6.7
Acting

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country....

Nora Prentiss

Nora Prentiss

1947

as Dr. Richard Talbot

6.1
Acting

Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become hea...

Okay for Sound

Okay for Sound

1946

5.0
Acting

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 Augus...

The Spiral Staircase

The Spiral Staircase

1946

as Dr. Parry

7.1
Acting

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

Your Next Job

1945

as Instructor Lieutenant

Acting

In this documentary short film, a U.S. Army lieutenant instructs soldiers in how to prepare for new and interesting jobs in civilian life after the wa...

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures

1945

as Briefing Colonel

Acting

This government documentary short film describes the concerns of the U.S. Army Air Forces over the safe, effective, and expeditious handling of the lo...

Youth Runs Wild

Youth Runs Wild

1944

as Danny Coates

4.2
Acting

The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

1944

as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis

6.6
Acting

A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic WW2 training film.

The Curse of the Cat People

The Curse of the Cat People

1944

as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed

6.2
Acting

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

Three Russian Girls

Three Russian Girls

1943

as John Hill

6.0
Acting

Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl Fro...

Dental Health

1943

as Narrator

Acting

Kent Smith educates about dental health.

This Land Is Mine

This Land Is Mine

1943

as Paul Martin

7.1
Acting

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and c...

Three Cadets

1943

as Captain A. Edwards

Acting

The story of Three Cadets and sexually transmitted diseases.

Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day

1943

as Gates Trimble Pomfret

7.4
Acting

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...

Hitler's Children

Hitler's Children

1943

as Professor Nichols

5.9
Acting

This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.

Cat People

Cat People

1942

as Oliver Reed

6.9
Acting

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline pre...

Back Door to Heaven

Back Door to Heaven

1939

as Attorney (uncredited)

3.7
Acting

The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

The Garden Murder Case

The Garden Murder Case

1936

as Woode Swift

5.5
Acting

Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play.