Kent Smith

Born: 1907-03-19

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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The Fountainhead

as Peter Keating
Released: 1949-06-25

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism...

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Sayonara

as Gen. Webster
Released: 1957-12-25

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is...

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Cat People

as Oliver Reed
Released: 1942-12-05

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy...

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The Curse of the Cat People

as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Released: 1944-04-01

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first...

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The Trouble with Angels

as Uncle George Clancy
Released: 1966-03-29

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by...

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The Night Stalker

as District Attorney Tom Paine
Released: 1972-01-11

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects...

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Death of a Gunfighter

as Andrew Oxley
Released: 1969-05-08

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an...

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This Land Is Mine

as Paul Martin
Released: 1943-05-07

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn...

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The Spiral Staircase

as Dr. Parry
Released: 1946-02-06

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

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Party Girl

as Jeffrey Stewart
Released: 1958-10-28

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he...

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Lost Horizon

as Bill Fergunson
Released: 1973-03-14

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are...

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The Damned Don't Cry

as Martin Blackford
Released: 1950-05-13

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

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Comanche

as Quanah Parker
Released: 1956-03-01

Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are...

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Games

as Harry Gordon
Released: 1967-09-17

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

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A Distant Trumpet

as Secretary of War
Released: 1964-05-20

In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to...

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Strangers When We Meet

as Stanley Baxter
Released: 1960-06-29

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he...

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The Judge and Jake Wyler

as Robert Dodd
Released: 1972-12-02

A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and...

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My Foolish Heart

as Lewis H. Wengler
Released: 1950-01-19

After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona....

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The Cat Creature

as Frank Lucas
Released: 1973-12-11

When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold...

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Forever and a Day

as Gates Trimble Pomfret
Released: 1943-01-21

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the...

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Moon Pilot

as Secretary of the Air Force
Released: 1962-04-05

An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon....

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Magic Town

as Hoopendecker
Released: 1947-10-07

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of...

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The Disappearance of Flight 412

as Gen. Enright
Released: 1974-10-01

Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been...

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How Awful About Allan

as Raymond
Released: 1970-09-22

After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his...

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The Badlanders

as Cyril Lounsberry
Released: 1958-09-03

Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is...

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A Covenant with Death

as Oliver Parmalee
Released: 1967-02-15

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged...

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The Balcony

as General
Released: 1963-03-21

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is...

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Youth Runs Wild

as Danny Coates
Released: 1944-09-01

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

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The Garden Murder Case

as Woode Swift
Released: 1936-02-21

Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things...

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Assignment to Kill

as Mr. Eversley
Released: 1968-05-01

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of...

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Pete 'n' Tillie

as Father Keating
Released: 1972-12-17

A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong...

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This Earth Is Mine

as Francis Fairon
Released: 1959-07-08

Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide...

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Nora Prentiss

as Dr. Richard Talbot
Released: 1947-02-22

Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a...

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The Games

as Kaverley
Released: 1970-08-07

From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain....

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Back Door to Heaven

as Attorney (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-19

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

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The Last Child

as Gus Iverson
Released: 1971-10-05

In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people...

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This Side of the Law

as David Cummins
Released: 1950-06-17

A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment....

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The Money Jungle

as Paul Kimmel
Released: 1967-12-15

When four geologists who form a combine of five industrial companies turn up dead, the race is...

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Youngblood Hawke

as Paul Winter Sr.
Released: 1964-11-04

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

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The Snoop Sisters

as Warren Packer
Released: 1972-12-18

A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the...

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Die Sister, Die!

as Dr. Thorne
Released: 1978-12-01

A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends...

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Okay for Sound

as uncredited
Released: 1946-09-07

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first...

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Susan Slade

as Dr. Fain
Released: 1961-11-08

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

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The Voice of the Turtle

as Kenneth Bartlett
Released: 1947-12-25

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

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The Affair

as Mr. Patterson
Released: 1973-11-20

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

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The Crooked Hearts

as James Simpson
Released: 1972-11-08

A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely...

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Resisting Enemy Interrogation

as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
Released: 1944-08-01

A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the...

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The Young Lovers

as Dr. Shoemaker
Released: 1964-11-12

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

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Three Russian Girls

as John Hill
Released: 1943-12-30

Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies,...

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Hitler's Children

as Professor Nichols
Released: 1943-01-06

This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally...

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Little Women: Jo's Story

as Professor Fritz Bhaer
Released: 1950-12-25

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord,...

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Design for Death

as Narrator
Released: 1948-06-10

Documentary Feature winner "Design for Death" (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to...

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Another Part of the Forest

as Simon Isham
Released: 1972-10-02

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

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Imitation General

as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
Released: 1958-08-20

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

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Kona Coast

as Akamai Barnes
Released: 1968-05-01

Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical...

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Probe

as Dr. Edward Laurent
Released: 1972-02-21

That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and...

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The Mugger

as Dr. Pete Graham
Released: 1958-11-01

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

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Paula

as John Rogers
Released: 1952-05-15

A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a...

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Perry Mason

as Dr. Arthur Younger
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Perry Mason

as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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The Beverly Hillbillies

as Clifton Cavanaugh
First aired: 1962-09-26

Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells...

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Daniel Boone

as General Hugh Scott
First aired: 1964-09-24

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel...

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Mission: Impossible

as Senator William Townsend
First aired: 1966-09-17

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...

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Matinee Theater

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-10-31

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of...

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The Wild Wild West

as Governor Winston E. Brubaker
First aired: 1965-09-17

The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television...

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Robert Montgomery Presents

as Prince Albert
First aired: 1950-01-30

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC...

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Robert Montgomery Presents

as uncredited
First aired: 1950-01-30

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC...

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Have Gun, Will Travel

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-14

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...

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Have Gun, Will Travel

as Avery Coombs
First aired: 1957-09-14

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...

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The Outer Limits

as Dr. Block
First aired: 1963-09-16

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes...

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The Outer Limits

as Aabel
First aired: 1963-09-16

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes...

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Wagon Train

as Prof. Paul Owens
First aired: 1957-09-18

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...

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The Invaders

as Stan Arthur
First aired: 1967-01-10

The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to...

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The Invaders

as Edgar Scoville
First aired: 1967-01-10

The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Mr. Benner
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Jerry O'Hara
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Dr. Sam Adamson
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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The Philco Television Playhouse

as John Wilkes Booth
First aired: 1948-10-03

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...

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The Philco Television Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-10-03

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...

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The Defenders

as Dwight Harkavy
First aired: 1961-09-16

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...

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Lawman

as Kent Smith
First aired: 1958-10-05

Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962...

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The F.B.I.

as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The F.B.I.

as Wendell Price
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The F.B.I.

as Commodore Coldwell
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The F.B.I.

as Elwood Hayes
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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Rawhide

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Naked City

as George Blake
First aired: 1958-09-30

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....

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Night Gallery

as Doctor
First aired: 1970-12-16

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a...

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Night Gallery

as Bennett
First aired: 1970-12-16

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a...

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Adventures in Paradise

as Michael Legrange
First aired: 1959-10-05

Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on...

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Adventures in Paradise

as Crandall
First aired: 1959-10-05

Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on...

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Studio One

as Friedrich Bhaer
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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The Streets of San Francisco

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-23

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...

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Wonder Woman

as Chief Justice Brown
First aired: 1975-11-07

With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of...

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Felony Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-12

Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western...

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Mr. Macy
First aired: 1964-09-22

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the...

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77 Sunset Strip

as Robert Vincent
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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M Squad

as Howard Meston
First aired: 1957-09-20

Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The...

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The Millionaire

as Bill Franklin
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

as Keats
First aired: 1971-09-16

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and...

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Gunsmoke

as Bealton
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Dakota
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Bronco

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-23

Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United...

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Arrest and Trial

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-15

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964...

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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Dexter Willis
First aired: 1960-09-19

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Gilbert Hughes
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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The Great Adventure

as Gen. Nelson Miles
First aired: 1963-09-27

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964...

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The Great Adventure

as William Carroll
First aired: 1963-09-27

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964...

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The Great Adventure

as Grymes
First aired: 1963-09-27

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964...

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Cain's Hundred

as Charles Dennis
First aired: 1961-09-19

A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top...

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Suspicion

as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
First aired: 1957-09-30

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC...

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Checkmate

as Ainslee
First aired: 1960-09-17

Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot,...

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The Roaring 20's

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-15

The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.

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Going My Way

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-03

Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series

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Lights Out

as uncredited
First aired: 1949-07-19

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a...

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The Aquanauts

as George
First aired: 1960-09-14

The Aquanauts is an American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS in the 1960-1961 season....

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The Snoop Sisters

as Warren Packer
First aired: 1973-12-19

Two elderly mystery novelists solve real crimes.

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Once an Eagle

as Gen. Jacklyn
First aired: 1976-12-02

Once An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Bolingbroke
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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General Electric Theater

as Dr. Jonathan Michael
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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