Howard Smith
Acting • Born 1893-08-10 – Died 1968-01-11
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.
Filmography
44 credits
A Face in the Crowd
Movie • 1957
J.B. Jeffries
Call Northside 777
Movie • 1948
K.L. Palmer
I Bury the Living
Movie • 1958
George Kraft
The Street with No Name
Movie • 1948
Ralph Demory
Murder, Inc.
Movie • 1960
Albert Anastasia
The Caddy
Movie • 1953
Golf Official
Her Kind of Man
Movie • 1946
Bill Fellows
No Time for Sergeants
Movie • 1958
Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
Bon Voyage!
Movie • 1962
Judge Henderson
Death of a Salesman
Movie • 1951
Charley
The Great Merlini
Movie • 1951
Davis Belmont
Cry Murder
Movie • 1950
Sen. Alden
Never Wave at a WAC
Movie • 1953
Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
Too Much Johnson
Movie • 1938
Joseph Johnson
Don't Go Near the Water
Movie • 1957
Admiral Junius Boatwright
Face of Fire
Movie • 1959
Sheriff Nolan
State of the Union
Movie • 1948
Sam I. Parrish
Wind Across the Everglades
Movie • 1958
George Leggett
The Brass Bottle
Movie • 1964
Senator Grindle
Kiss of Death
Movie • 1947
Warden
The Front Page
Movie • 1945
Mayor
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Movie • 1956
P.L. Nagle
Dolly
TV • 1987
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Frank Warden
Studio One
TV • 1948
Lt. Haines
Bewitched
TV • 1964
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Uncle Bob
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Misrell
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Stanton C. Barryvale
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Hazel
TV • 1961
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
First Love
TV • 1954
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Martin Fairweather
The Dakotas
TV • 1963
Harrigan and Son
TV • 1960
New York Confidential
TV • 1959
Lights Out
TV • 1949
Peter Loves Mary
TV • 1960
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
T.J. Wilson
Studio One
TV • 1948
Inch Ravel
Hazel
TV • 1961
Mr. Griffin