Willis Kent (June 8, 1878, Michigan – March 11, 1966, Los Angeles, California) was an independent American film producer, active from 1928 to 1958 under at least three different corporate names.
During the 30s, and well into the 1940s, Kent also produced several cheap, sensationalist exploitation features under the banner of Real Life Dramas.
That company's first release, The Pace That Kills (1928), was about innocent young teens being lured into the netherworld of cocaine addiction.
In some markets it was retitled as Cocaine Fiends, which is the title used on most VHS and DVD copies of the film.
For at least two releases in the mid-'30s Kent joined forces with Dorothy Davenport, who had forged her own career in early exploitation films following the death of her husband, the morphine-addicted star Wallace Reid.