Howard Smith

Birthday: 1893-08-10
Deathday: 1968-01-11
Birthplace: Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
2013-10-09 Too Much Johnson Joseph Johnson
1964-05-20 The Brass Bottle Senator Grindle
1962-05-17 Bon Voyage! Judge Henderson
1960-06-28 Murder, Inc. Albert Anastasia
1959-08-09 Face of Fire Sheriff Nolan
1958-09-11 Wind Across the Everglades George Leggett
1958-07-05 No Time for Sergeants Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
1958-07-01 I Bury the Living George Kraft
1957-11-14 Don't Go Near the Water Admiral Junius Boatwright
1957-05-29 A Face in the Crowd J.B. Jeffries
1953-08-10 The Caddy Golf Official
1953-01-28 Never Wave at a WAC Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
1951-12-20 Death of a Salesman Charley
1951-07-03 The Great Merlini Davis Belmont
1950-01-06 Cry Murder Sen. Alden
1948-07-14 The Street with No Name Ralph Demory
1948-04-30 State of the Union Sam I. Parrish
1948-02-13 Call Northside 777 K.L. Palmer
1947-08-27 Kiss of Death Warden
1946-05-11 Her Kind of Man Bill Fellows
1945-11-11 The Front Page Mayor