Kent Smith

Kent Smith

출생 : 1907-03-19, New York City, New York, USA

사망 : 1985-04-23

약력

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.

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Kent Smith

참여 작품

Taking Tiger Mountain
Producer
Militant feminist scientists brainwash research subject to assassinate the Welsh Minister of Prostitution. Meanwhile World War III is being fought and the USA has been invaded.
Die Sister, Die!
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 in a plot to kill her.
The Cat Creature
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 consult scholars from the local University to help with the investigation, which is taking a more serious turn as people connected with the case are killed by wounds that seem to be from a housecat.
The Affair
Mr. Patterson
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
잃어버린 지평선
Bill Fergunson
전쟁에 휩싸인 세상을 등지고 히말라야 깊은 산속에 자리 잡은 유토피아 '샹그라아'에 대한 이야기
The Snoop Sisters
Warren Packer
A spinster and her widowed sister, who are the authors of murder-mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. This TV pilot film became a series of rotating movies the following season.
부부
Father Keating
노처녀 틸리(Tillie Schlaine: 캐롤 버넷 분)는 파티에서 만난 피트(Pete Seltzer: 월터 매튜 분)와 결혼을 하게 된다. 두 사람은 그리 열렬하게 사랑하는 사이는 아니었지만 아이도 낳고 그럭저럭 재미있게 살아간다. 하지만 틸리는 피트의 바람기가 늘 고민이다. 그러던 어느 날, 그들의 아들 로비가 백혈병으로 1년 밖에 더 살 수 없다는 사실을 알게 되고, 피트와 틸리의 노력에도 불구하고 로비는 숨을 거두고 만다. 그 충격으로 피트는 또 다시 바람을 피우고 틸리와는 별거 생활에 들어간다. 하지만 틸리는 늘 철이 없다고 생각한 피트가 마음이 따뜻한 사람임을 알게 되고 또한 자신이 그를 사랑하고 있다는 것도 깨닫게 된다.
The Judge and Jake Wyler
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
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-and-mouse game. This marked the TV-movie debut of both Rosalind Russell and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and was sadly also Russell's last film role.
Another Part of the Forest
Simon Isham
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
Probe
Dr. Edward Laurent
Pilot for sci-fi detective series "Search." Hugh O'Brian as Lockwood, a high-tech private eye, was outfitted with two electronic implants (one to hear what was said at HQ and a dental contact he could bite to communicate with HQ--one bite for yes and two bites for no) and a button-sized "scanner" that combined a micro-miniaturized television camera that could also see in infrared spectrum, microphone, medical sensors, and transmitter, putting him in constant contact with a room full of experts monitoring his actions and vital signs and supplying him with encyclopedic information.
The Night Stalker
District Attorney Tom Paine
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of gruesome murders in Las Vegas. It seems that each victim has been bitten in the neck and drained of all their blood. Kolchak is sure that it is a vampire. He's hot on the trail, but nobody believes him. His editor thinks he's nuts and the police think he's a hindrance in the investigation, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hand.
The Last Child
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 draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
How Awful About Allan
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
Kaverley
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
건파이터의 최후
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 he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.
Assignment to Kill
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 money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Kona Coast
Akamai
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 of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle, who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center. Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family. The determined dad fights to uncover the information that will land the murderer in jail as he avenges the death of his daughter.
The Money Jungle
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-powered industrial interests or the government. A trouble-shooter is hired to find a net of deadly intrigue and treachery. The prize: a field to be leased to private industry by the state.
Games
Harry Gordon
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
A Covenant with Death
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 new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
천사들의 장난
Uncle George Clancy
두 명의 말괄량이 소녀들이 숙녀교육을 받기 위해 수녀원 부속 학교에 억지로 입학하게 된다. 성 프랜시스 아카데미에 입학한 두 명의 천방지축 학생들은 끊임없이 말썽을 일으키며 원장수녀와 수녀들을 곤경에 빠트리고, 원장수녀는 두 소녀를 길들이려고 여러 방법을 써보지만, 그녀들의 재치 넘치는 장난을 막는 데는 역부족이다.
The Young Lovers
Dr. Shoemaker
A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
Youngblood Hawke
Paul Winter Sr.
An unknown Kentucky writer (James Franciscus) comes to New York and pursues fame and women (Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve Page).
A Distant Trumpet
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, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
더 발코니
General
Shelley Winters is the madam of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution that is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop, and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.
문 파일럿
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 various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy succeeds in making contact with the captain. The captain eventually discovers that this woman is not an enemy but rather a friend from a very unusual source.
Susan Slade
Dr. Fain
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.
Strangers When We Meet
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 the street.
This Earth Is Mine
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 bootleggers to survive.
The Mugger
Dr. Pete Graham
A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
파티 걸
Jeffrey Stewart
30년대 시카고를 주름잡던 깡패 두목 리코 안젤로는 자기가 좋아하는 여배우 진 할로가 결혼했다는 소식에 화가 나 호화판 파티를 연다. 한편 이 파티에는 시카고 시내의 유명한 나이트클럽 무용수(파티걸)들도 동원을 했는데, 여기서 안젤로의 고문변호사 토미 패럴은 파티걸중의 한 명인 비키 케이시와 알게되어 급속도로 사랑에 빠진다.
The Badlanders
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 the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme.
Imitation General
Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.
사요나라
Gen. Webster
2차대전 후의 일본을 무대로 미군과 일본인 여성간의 국적을 넘어선 로맨스를 그린 작품. 아카데미 남우조연(레드 버턴스), 여우조연(우미키 미요시)상 수상작. 우메키 키요시는 아시아인으로는 최초로 아카데미 연기 부문 수상자가 되었다. 한국전쟁에서 격추왕의 별명으로 알려진 글루버 소위는 인사이동으로 일본으로 갔다. 어느날 가극단의 꽃인 하나오기와 만난 글루버는 그녀와 뜨거운 사랑에 빠진다. 과거 부하인 켈리 중위가 일본인여성과 사랑을 할 때 그 결혼식에 참석했을 정도로 친일적이었던 글루버는 약혼녀와 헤어지고, 하나오기와의 사랑을 선택한다. 한편 하나오기는 글루버와의 이별을 결심하나, 퇴역각오로 결혼을 설득하는 그의 사랑에 다시금 미래를 약속한다.
Comanche
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 Indian Commissioner.
Paula
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. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
Little Women: Jo's Story
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 the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
This Side of the Law
David Cummins
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment.
더 댐드 돈 크라이
Martin Blackford
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
비정
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 Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
마천루
Peter Keating
천재 건축가 하워드 로크는 당대 건축계와 타협하지 않고 자신의 이상만을 추구한다. 로크는 건축 자금을 마련할 때까지 건설현장 노동자로 일하기로 하는데, 그의 건축에 관심이 있던 매혹적인 도미니크와 예상치 못하게 얽히면서 로크에게 새로운 기회가 찾아온다. 하지만 로크는 자신의 건축적 이상을 절대 굽히지 않는다. (시네마테크부산 2010 - 오래된 극장 III) 아인 랜드가 쓴 동명의 베스트셀러 소설을 영화화한 작품으로 그녀 자신이 시나리오로 각색하였다. 건축을 주제로 한 영화로는 지금까지도 가장 많이 언급되며, 미국식 이상주의와 자본주의를 대변하는 인물들의 이야기가 매우 드라마틱하게 이어진다. (시네마테크부산 2010 - 오래된 극장 III)
The Voice of the Turtle
Kenneth Bartlett
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
마법의 도시
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. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
Nora Prentiss
Dr. Richard Talbot aka Robert Thompson
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Design for Death
Narrator
Documentary Feature winner "Design for Death" (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan's role in WWII.
Okay for Sound
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
나선 계단
Dr. Parry
어린 시절 충격으로 목소리를 잃은 헬렌은 워렌 가문에서 일하고 있다. 마을에서는 불구 여성만 골라가며 살해하는 연쇄살인사건이 일어난다. 한편, 이 마을에 새로 온 의사 패리는 헬렌을 보스턴으로 데려가 그녀가 목소리를 다시 찾을 수 있도록 도와주고 싶어 한다. 또 한 차례의 살인사건이 발생한 날, 워렌 부인은 헬렌에게 당장 떠나라고 경고하고, 헬렌은 패리와 함께 떠나기로 마음먹는데 그 순간 또 한 사람이 워렌 가에서 살해당하고 만다. 워렌 가에서 일하는 또 한 명의 여성 블랑쉬가 살해된 것. 블랑쉬는 한때 형 알버트와 연인관계였으며 현재는 이복동생 스티븐과 사귀는 사이다. 헬렌은 블랑쉬 살해현장에서 마주친 스티븐이 범인이라 생각하고 그를 가둔다. 그리고 결국 드러나는 범인의 실체... 마을에 또 다시 살인사건이 일어난다. 연쇄살인범은 장애가 있는 젊은 여성만 골라 살해한다. 한편, 젊고 아름답지만 말을 하지 못하는 헬렌은 병든 워렌 부인을 위해 일하고 있다. 워렌 부인은 다음 피해자는 헬렌일 거라 걱정하며 헬렌에게 멀리 떠나라 한다. 그러나 곧 저택에서 사건이 발생한다. 에셀 리나 화이트의 소설을 각색한 작품으로, 심리묘사가 뛰어난 스릴러. 으스스한 분위기가 가득한 한정된 공간 안에서 심리적인 압박은 극에 달한다. 이후에도 여러 번 영화화되었다. (2015 영화의 전당 - 세계영화사의 위대한 유산 - 월드시네마 XII)
Your Next Job
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 war. He leads the soldiers through a number of checklists to determine what their interests are and how to make decisions and plans for future employment. One of the soldiers, T-5 Dailey, worries about his options, until his mirror-image self appears to talk him through a plan of action.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
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 loading of bombs onto the Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber. A colonel briefs a command board on the problems inherent in the initial bomb-loading processes and the losses and injuries resultant from those processes. He then informs the board as to the development of new model hoists for loading bombs. The commanding general asks for approval from the board, and following input from an AAF tactical officer, the new hoist is approved.
Youth Runs Wild
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
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 training film.
고양이 인간의 저주
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
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 From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.
이 땅은 나의 땅
Paul Martin
독일 점령기 프랑스. 소심하고 겁 많은 중년의 초등학교 교사 앨버트 로리는 동료인 루이스 마틴을 남몰래 사랑한다. 루이스는 나치 정권의 열렬한 지지자인 철도 기술자 조지 램버트와 약혼한 사이다. 로리는 겁이 많아 보이지만, 사실 레지스탕스의 일원이다. 어느 날 테러가 발생하고, 독일 당국은 로리를 포함한 일군의 인질들을 잡아들여, 진범을 잡지 못하면 이들을 총살하려 한다. 아들에 대한 맹렬하고 이기적인 집착으로 루이스를 매우 질투하는 로리 부인은 루이스의 남동생 폴을 의심하고, 램버트에게 고발한다. 이로 인해 폴은 살해당하고, 램버트는 자살을 선택한다. 결국 이 모든 죽음의 혐의는 앨버트에게 돌아가고, 독일 경찰은 그에게 거부할 수 없는 제안을 한다.
Three Cadets
Captain A. Edwards
The story of Three Cadets and sexually transmitted diseases.
Forever and a Day
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, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Hitler's Children
Professor Nichols
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
캣 피플
Oliver Reed
스타일리스트로 일하는 젊은 이레나는 자신이 발칸 반도에 생존하던 캣 피플의 후예임을 알게 된다. 그들은 평상시에는 인간의 모습을 하고 있지만, 야수로 변신하는 불길한 힘을 갖고 있으며 인간과 맺어져서는 안 된다. 어떤 특수 효과나 배경 음악의 힘도 빌지 않고, 어둠의 힘만으로 투르뇌르는 관객들을 최면 상태로 몰고 간다.
Back Door to Heaven
Attorney (uncredited)
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
The Garden Murder Case
Woode Swift
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.