Howard Smith
Born: 1893-08-10 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died: 1968-01-11
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1987
1965
1964
- Bewitched
- The Brass Bottle as Senator Grindle
1963
1962
- Bon Voyage! as Judge Henderson
1961
1960
- Outlaws
- Murder, Inc. as Albert Anastasia
- Harrigan and Son
- Peter Loves Mary
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Misrell
- New York Confidential
- Face of Fire as Sheriff Nolan
1958
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Martin Fairweather
- Wind Across the Everglades as George Leggett
- No Time for Sergeants as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
- I Bury the Living as George Kraft
1957
- Perry Mason as Frank Warden
- A Face in the Crowd as J.B. Jeffries
- Don't Go Near the Water as Admiral Junius Boatwright
1956
- Sincerely, Willis Wade as P.L. Nagle
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Stanton C. Barryvale
1954
1953
- The Caddy as Golf Official
- Never Wave at a WAC as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
- General Electric Theater as Uncle Bob
1951
- Death of a Salesman as Charley
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- The Great Merlini as Davis Belmont
1950
- Cry Murder as Sen. Alden
1949
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- Studio One as Lt. Haines
- State of the Union as Sam I. Parrish
- Call Northside 777 as K.L. Palmer
- The Street with No Name as Ralph Demory
1947
- Kiss of Death as Warden
1946
- Her Kind of Man as Bill Fellows
1945
- The Front Page as Mayor
1934
- Too Much Johnson as Joseph Johnson