Howard Smith
Acting
1893-08-10 · Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
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.
Filmography
Too Much Johnson
2013 · Movie
Dolly
1987 · Series
Green Acres
1965 · Series
Bewitched
1964 · Series
The Brass Bottle
1964 · Movie
The Dakotas
1963 · Series
Bon Voyage!
1962 · Movie
Hazel
1961 · Series
Harrigan and Son
1960 · Series
Peter Loves Mary
1960 · Series
Outlaws
1960 · Series
Murder, Inc.
1960 · Movie
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
Face of Fire
1959 · Movie
New York Confidential
1959 · Series
Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · Movie
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Series
No Time for Sergeants
1958 · Movie
I Bury the Living
1958 · Movie
Don't Go Near the Water
1957 · Movie
Perry Mason
1957 · Series
A Face in the Crowd
1957 · Movie
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956 · Movie
On Trial
1956 · Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Series
First Love
1954 · Series
The Caddy
1953 · Movie
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
Never Wave at a WAC
1953 · Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Death of a Salesman
1951 · Movie
The Great Merlini
1951 · Movie
Cry Murder
1950 · Movie
Lights Out
1949 · Series
Studio One
1948 · Series
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Series
The Street with No Name
1948 · Movie
State of the Union
1948 · Movie
Call Northside 777
1948 · Movie
Kiss of Death
1947 · Movie
Her Kind of Man
1946 · Movie
The Front Page
1945 · Movie