Biography
Robert Kent (born Douglas Blackley Jr.) was an American film actor. He began his career after working as a prizefighter and gaining stage experience, appearing in films from the mid-1930s under contract to studios including 20th Century Fox.
He specialised in leads in B-pictures, westerns and serials, with roles including appearances in A Chump at Oxford (1940), The Phantom Creeps (1939), Who's Guilty? (1945) and The Phantom Rider (1946). Later credits included a part in the television series Adventures of Superman (1952) and the role of Paul Unger in The Country Girl (1954). He also used the name Douglas Blackley for some performances.
Kent was married to actress Astrid Allwyn from 1937 to 1941. He died in Los Angeles in 1955.
