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Kent Smith is a Actor and Producer American born on 19 march 1907 at New York City (USA)
Kent Smith (March 19, 1907 – April 23, 1985) was an American actor who had a lengthy career in film, theater, and television.
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Birth name Frank Kent Smith
Nationality USA
Birth 19 march 1907 at New York City (USA)
Death 23 april 1985 (at 78 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 19 march 1907 at New York City (USA)
Death 23 april 1985 (at 78 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
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Smith was married to the actress Betty Gillette from 1937 until 1954, and to the actress Edith Atwater from 1962 until his death from congestive heart failure in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 78.Best films
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Die Sister, Die! (1978)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Jack Ging, Edith Atwater, Antoinette Bower, Kent Smith, Robert Emhardt
Roles Dr. Thorne
Rating48%
Edward (Jack Ging) is tired of the "allowance" granted him by his sister, Amanda (Edith Atwater) and becomes impatient for her death, and his inheritance. To hasten her demise, or at least stop her suicides from being thwarted, Edward hires a discredited ex-nurse, Esther (Antoinette Bower) to watch over her. Esther is less than enthusiastic about killing the old woman, though, and is curious about the secrets held in the house, including a mysterious third sister, Nell.
, 2h35Directed by Tom Laughlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Tom Laughlin, E. G. Marshall, Lucie Arnaz, Delores Taylor, Suzanne Somers, Sam Wanamaker
Rating44%
Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) is appointed a United States Senator to fill out the remaining term of another Senator. It is hoped that he will quietly vote the party line, but his term in the Senate runs into trouble when he proposes a bill to fund a national youth camp which happens to be on the property where a nuclear power plant is also being proposed. His fellow Senator Joseph Paine (E. G. Marshall) claims to oppose nuclear power but is secretly taking graft to influence his votes in favor, and moves to try to keep Billy Jack out of the way when the bill is being debated.
, 1h12Directed by Jud Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, David Soul, Guy Stockwell, Greg Mullavey, Kent Smith
Roles Gen. Enright
Rating46%
U.S. Air Force Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is the commander of the Whitney Air Force Base Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To find the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412, with Captain Bishop (David Soul) as commander. Shortly into the test, the Grumman Gulfstream II jet, a small twin-engine VIP transport, picks up three blips on radar. Subsequently, two fighters scramble to investigate and mysteriously disappear.
Lost Horizon (1973)
, 2h30Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, Olivia Hussey, Charles Boyer
Roles Bill Fergunson
Rating52%
This version is much closer to the 1937 film than to the original James Hilton novel. It tells the story of a group of travellers whose airplane is hijacked while fleeing a bloody revolution. The airplane crash lands in an unexplored area of the Himalayas, where the party is rescued and taken to the lamasery of Shangri-La. Miraculously, Shangri-La, sheltered by mountains on all sides, is a temperate paradise amid the land of snows. Perfect health is the norm, and inhabitants live to very old age while maintaining a youthful appearance.
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
, 1h40Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, René Auberjonois, Lee Montgomery
Roles Father Keating
Rating61%
Pete Seltzer (Matthau) is introduced to Tillie Schlaine (Burnett) at a party. Her friends Gertrude and Bert are the hosts and attempting to fix her up.
The Games (1970)
, 1h40Directed by Michael Winner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Athletics films, Films about the Olympic Games
Actors Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Elaine Taylor, Stanley Baker
Roles Kaverley
Rating61%
How Awful About Allan (1970)
, 1h13Directed by Curtis Harrington
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith, Robert H. Harris, Molly Dodd
Roles Raymond
Rating56%
Allan (Perkins) is suffering from hysterical blindness following a fire that killed his father, a renowned academic who punished Allan as a child. The fire also facially scarred Allan's sister Katherine (Harris). Allan had accidentally left some cans of paint thinner near a heater which caught fire.
Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
, 1h31Directed by Don Siegel, Robert Totten
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, Kent Smith, Jacqueline Scott, John Saxon
Roles Andrew Oxley
Rating62%
In the town of Cottonwood Springs, Texas at the turn of the century, Marshal Frank Patch is an Old West style lawman in a community determined to be modern. When Patch kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town decides it is time for the marshal to resign. But Patch refuses, reminding the citizens that when he took he job, the agreement was he could have it as long as he wanted. Afraid of Patch because of his knowledge of their misdeeds in the town's wilder days, the city fathers then decide the only way to remove Patch from office is by violence.
Kona Coast (1968)
, 1h33Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell, Steve Ihnat, Kent Smith, Chips Rafferty
Roles Akamai Barnes
Rating45%
Sam Moran (Richard Boone) 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 (Joan Blondell), who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center where Sam's former love Melissa (Vera Miles) is a recovering alcoholic.
Assignment to Kill (1968)
, 1h42Directed by Sheldon Reynolds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud, Herbert Lom, Eric Portman, Peter van Eyck
Roles Mr. Eversley
Rating60%
A private detective is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping tycoon who is suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships in order to claim the insurance money.
A Covenant with Death (1967)
, 1h37Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Gene Hackman, Earl Holliman, Arthur O'Connell
Roles Oliver Parmalee
Rating59%
A convicted murderer kills his hangman. Then it is discovered that he actually didn't commit the murder he was convicted for.
Games (1967)
, 1h40Directed by Curtis Harrington
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors James Caan, Katharine Ross, Simone Signoret, Don Stroud, Kent Smith, Estelle Winwood
Roles Harry Gordon
Rating63%
Paul Montgomery (James Caan) and his wife Jennifer (Katharine Ross) are a pair of wealthy but blasé Upper East Side New York socialites with an attitude sometimes accompanying the overprivileged: a propensity to amuse themselves in a bizarre, chic, and upscale fashion, in this case playing socialite games for their peers, and occasionally revealing what appears to be a playfully sadistic streak.
The Money Jungle (1967)
, 1h35Directed by Francis D. Lyon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors John Ericson, Lola Albright, Leslie Parrish, Nehemiah Persoff, Edy Williams, Charles Drake
Roles Paul Kimmel
Rating57%
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
, 1h52Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films about religion
Actors Hayley Mills, Rosalind Russell, June Harding, Binnie Barnes, Marge Redmond, Camilla Sparv
Roles Uncle George Clancy
Rating72%
The movie is set at St. Francis Academy (also the name of the school in Sister Act 2), a fictional all-girls Catholic boarding school in Pennsylvania, operated by an order of nuns. Rosalind Russell plays the Mother Superior, who spends the movie at odds with Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills), a rebellious teenager, and her misery-loves-company friend Rachel Devry (June Harding). The episodic storyline follows the young women through their sophomore, junior and senior high-school years. After spending much of the film resenting the authority of the Mother Superior, Mary receives the "call" senior year and, after graduation, remains at the school in the novitiate of the order.
A Distant Trumpet (1964)
, 1h57Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, William Reynolds, James Gregory, Diane McBain, Claude Akins
Roles Secretary of War
Rating62%
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.