Howard Smith

Howard Smith (74)

1893-08-10 - 1968-01-11 | 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.

On Movies

  • The Brass Bottle
  • Bon Voyage!
  • Murder, Inc.
  • Face of Fire
  • Wind Across the Everglades
  • No Time for Sergeants
  • I Bury the Living
  • Don't Go Near the Water
  • A Face in the Crowd
  • The Caddy
  • Never Wave at a WAC
  • Death of a Salesman
  • The Great Merlini
  • Cry Murder
  • The Street with No Name
  • State of the Union
  • Call Northside 777
  • Kiss of Death
  • Her Kind of Man
  • The Front Page
  • Too Much Johnson

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