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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Taking Tiger Mountain
1982
Producer
Militant feminist scientists brainwash research subject to assassinate the Welsh Minister of Prostitution. Meanwhile World War III is being fought and...

Die Sister, Die!
1978
as Dr. Thorne
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
1974
as Gen. Enright
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
1973
as Frank Lucas
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
1973
as Mr. Patterson
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.

Lost Horizon
1973
as Bill Fergunson
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
1972
as Warren Packer
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
1972
as Father Keating
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
1972
as Robert Dodd
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
1972
as James Simpson
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
1972
as Simon Isham
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.

Probe
1972
as Dr. Edward Laurent
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
1972
as District Attorney Tom Paine
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
1971
as Gus Iverson
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
1970
as Raymond
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
1970
as Kaverley
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
1969
as Andrew Oxley
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
1968
as Akamai Barnes
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
1968
as Mr. Eversley
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
1967
as Paul Kimmel
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
1967
as Harry Gordon
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.

A Covenant with Death
1967
as Oliver Parmalee
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
1966
as Uncle George Clancy
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
1964
as Dr. Shoemaker
A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.

Youngblood Hawke
1964
as Paul Winter Sr.
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.

A Distant Trumpet
1964
as Secretary of War
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
1963
as General
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
1962
as Secretary of the Air Force
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
1961
as Dr. Fain
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.

Strangers When We Meet
1960
as Stanley Baxter
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
1959
as Francis Fairon
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
1958
as Dr. Pete Graham
A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.

Party Girl
1958
as Jeffrey Stewart
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
1958
as Cyril Lounsberry
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
1958
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.

Sayonara
1957
as Gen. Webster
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
1956
as Quanah Parker
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
1952
as John Rogers
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
1950
as Professor Fritz Bhaer
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
1950
as David Cummins
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
1950
as Martin Blackford
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

My Foolish Heart
1950
as Lewis H. Wengler
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
1949
as Peter Keating
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to ...

Design for Death
1948
as Narrator
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
1947
as Kenneth Bartlett
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.

Magic Town
1947
as Hoopendecker
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
1947
as Dr. Richard Talbot
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
1946
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
1946
as Dr. Parry
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Your Next Job
1945
as Instructor Lieutenant
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
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
1944
as Danny Coates
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
1944
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
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
1944
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
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
1943
as John Hill
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
Kent Smith educates about dental health.

This Land Is Mine
1943
as Paul Martin
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
The story of Three Cadets and sexually transmitted diseases.

Forever and a Day
1943
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
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
1943
as Professor Nichols
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.

Cat People
1942
as Oliver Reed
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
1939
as Attorney (uncredited)
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

The Garden Murder Case
1936
as Woode Swift
Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play.