Howard Smith

Known for: Acting

Born: August 9, 1893 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S. - Died: January 10, 1968

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.

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Howard Smith

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A Face in the Crowd

Call Northside 777

I Bury the Living

The Street with No Name

Murder, Inc.

The Caddy

Her Kind of Man

No Time for Sergeants

Bon Voyage!

Death of a Salesman

The Great Merlini

Cry Murder

Never Wave at a WAC

Too Much Johnson

Don't Go Near the Water

Face of Fire

State of the Union

Wind Across the Everglades

The Brass Bottle

Kiss of Death

The Front Page

Sincerely, Willis Wade

Dolly

Green Acres