Howard Smith
Birthday
1893/08/10
Day of death
1968/01/11 (74 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
Also know as
Howard I. Smith, Howard Irving Smith
Biography
Howard Irving Smith (August 12, 1893 in – January 10, 1968) was an American character actor with a 50-year career in vaudeville, theater, radio, films and television. In 1938 he performed in Orson Welles's short-lived stage production and once-lost film, Too Much Johnson, and in the celebrated radio production, "The War of the Worlds". He portrayed Charley in the original Broadway production of Death of a Salesman and recreated the role in the 1951 film version. On television Smith portrayed the gruff Harvey Griffin in the situation comedy, Hazel.
Acting
(1957) A Face in the Crowd
as J.B. Jeffries
(1948) Call Northside 777
as K.L. Palmer
(1958) I Bury the Living
as George Kraft
(1948) The Street with No Name
as Ralph Demory
(1960) Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia
(1953) The Caddy
as Golf Official
(1946) Her Kind of Man
as Bill Fellows
(1958) No Time for Sergeants
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
(1962) Bon Voyage!
as Judge Henderson
(1951) Death of a Salesman
as Charley
(1951) The Great Merlini
as Davis Belmont
(1950) Cry Murder
as Sen. Alden
(1953) Never Wave at a WAC
as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
(2013) Too Much Johnson
as Joseph Johnson
(1957) Don't Go Near the Water
as Admiral Junius Boatwright
(1959) Face of Fire
as Sheriff Nolan
(1948) State of the Union
as Sam I. Parrish
(1958) Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett
(1964) The Brass Bottle
as Senator Grindle
(1947) Kiss of Death
as Warden
(1945) The Front Page
as Mayor
(1987) Dolly
as ---
(1965) Green Acres
as ---
(1957) Perry Mason
as Frank Warden
(1948) Studio One
as Lt. Haines
(1964) Bewitched
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Uncle Bob
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as ---
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Misrell
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Stanton C. Barryvale
(1960) Outlaws
as ---
(1961) Hazel
as ---
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as ---
(1954) First Love
as ---
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Martin Fairweather
(1963) The Dakotas
as ---
(1960) Harrigan and Son
as ---
(1959) New York Confidential
as ---
(1949) Lights Out
as ---
(1960) Peter Loves Mary
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as T.J. Wilson
(1948) Studio One
as Inch Ravel