Howard Smith
ActingAlso Known As
Howard I. Smith, Howard Irving Smith
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
(22 total)
A Face in the Crowd
as J.B. Jeffries
Call Northside 777
as K.L. Palmer
Kiss of Death
as Warden
I Bury the Living
as George Kraft
State of the Union
as Sam I. Parrish
The Caddy
as Golf Official
No Time for Sergeants
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
The Street with No Name
as Ralph Demory
Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett
Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia
Too Much Johnson
as Joseph Johnson
The Brass Bottle
as Senator Grindle
Bon Voyage!
as Judge Henderson
Death of a Salesman
as Charley
Don't Go Near the Water
as Admiral Junius Boatwright
Never Wave at a WAC
as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
Her Kind of Man
as Bill Fellows
Face of Fire
as Sheriff Nolan
Cry Murder
as Sen. Alden
The Front Page
as Mayor
TV Shows
(22 total)
The Twilight Zone
as Misrell
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Stanton C. Barryvale
Perry Mason
as Frank Warden
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Martin Fairweather
Hazel
as Mr. Griffin
Studio One
as Lt. Haines
Studio One
as Inch Ravel
General Electric Theater
as Uncle Bob
General Electric Theater
as T.J. Wilson
