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