Howard Smith
Acting

Howard Smith

Born 10 August 1893 · Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S. · Died 11 January 1968

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

The Twilight Zone
Bewitched
A Face in the Crowd
Call Northside 777
Kiss of Death
Green Acres
State of the Union
I Bury the Living
The Caddy
No Time for Sergeants
The Street with No Name
Wind Across the Everglades
The Brass Bottle
Bon Voyage!
Murder, Inc.
Face of Fire
I Bury the Living
No Time for Sergeants
Wind Across the Everglades
A Face in the Crowd
Don't Go Near the Water
Sincerely, Willis Wade
The Caddy
Death of a Salesman
The Great Merlini
Cry Murder
Call Northside 777
The Street with No Name
State of the Union
Kiss of Death
Her Kind of Man
The Front Page
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