Howard Smith
Acting
Born: 1893-08-10 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
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.
Known For
Perry Mason
Frank Warden
Bewitched
The Twilight Zone
Misrell
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Martin Fairweather
Studio One
Lt. Haines
Studio One
Inch Ravel
The Philco Television Playhouse
Green Acres
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Stanton C. Barryvale
Hazel
Hazel
Mr. Griffin
Lights Out
Outlaws
First Love
Dolly
New York Confidential
The Dakotas
Harrigan and Son
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Peter Loves Mary
General Electric Theater
Uncle Bob
General Electric Theater
T.J. Wilson
Kiss of Death
Warden
State of the Union
Sam I. Parrish
The Caddy
Golf Official
A Face in the Crowd
J.B. Jeffries
Murder, Inc.
Albert Anastasia
Call Northside 777
K.L. Palmer
Too Much Johnson
Joseph Johnson
The Street with No Name
Ralph Demory
Bon Voyage!
Judge Henderson
No Time for Sergeants
Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
Wind Across the Everglades
George Leggett
Don't Go Near the Water
Admiral Junius Boatwright
Death of a Salesman
Charley
I Bury the Living
George Kraft
The Brass Bottle
Senator Grindle
Her Kind of Man
Bill Fellows
Sincerely, Willis Wade
P.L. Nagle