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Howard Smith

Howard Smith

Actor · Born 1893-08-10 · Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Misrell
  2. Bewitched (1964)
  3. A Face in the Crowd (1957) — J.B. Jeffries
  4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Stanton C. Barryvale
  5. Call Northside 777 (1948) — K.L. Palmer
  6. Kiss of Death (1947) — Warden
  7. Perry Mason (1957) — Frank Warden
  8. State of the Union (1948) — Sam I. Parrish
  9. Green Acres (1965)
  10. I Bury the Living (1958) — George Kraft
  11. The Caddy (1953) — Golf Official
  12. No Time for Sergeants (1958) — Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
  13. The Street with No Name (1948) — Ralph Demory
  14. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958) — Martin Fairweather
  15. Wind Across the Everglades (1958) — George Leggett
  16. Murder, Inc. (1960) — Albert Anastasia
  17. Too Much Johnson (2013) — Joseph Johnson
  18. The Brass Bottle (1964) — Senator Grindle
  19. Bon Voyage! (1962) — Judge Henderson
  20. Hazel (1961)
  21. Death of a Salesman (1951) — Charley
  22. Don't Go Near the Water (1957) — Admiral Junius Boatwright
  23. Never Wave at a WAC (1953) — Prentiss (uncredited)
  24. Studio One (1948) — Lt. Haines
  25. Her Kind of Man (1946) — Bill Fellows
  26. Face of Fire (1959) — Sheriff Nolan
  27. Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
  28. The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
  29. General Electric Theater (1953) — Uncle Bob
  30. Lights Out (1949)
  31. The Dakotas (1963)
  32. Cry Murder (1950) — Sen. Alden
  33. Outlaws (1960)
  34. First Love (1954)
  35. Peter Loves Mary (1960)
  36. Sincerely, Willis Wade (1956) — P.L. Nagle
  37. Dolly (1987)
  38. Harrigan and Son (1960)
  39. New York Confidential (1959)
  40. On Trial (1956) — Neeley