Howard Smith
Actor
Born August 10, 1893 in 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
Joseph Johnson
Dolly
Green Acres
Bewitched
The Brass Bottle
Senator Grindle
The Dakotas
Bon Voyage!
Judge Henderson
Hazel
Harrigan and Son
Outlaws
Murder, Inc.
Albert Anastasia
The Twilight Zone
Misrell
Face of Fire
Sheriff Nolan
New York Confidential
Wind Across the Everglades
George Leggett
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Martin Fairweather
No Time for Sergeants
Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
I Bury the Living
George Kraft
Don't Go Near the Water
Admiral Junius Boatwright
Perry Mason
Frank Warden
A Face in the Crowd
J.B. Jeffries
Sincerely, Willis Wade
P.L. Nagle
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Stanton C. Barryvale
First Love
The Caddy
Golf Official
General Electric Theater
Uncle Bob
Never Wave at a WAC
Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Death of a Salesman
Charley
Cry Murder
Sen. Alden
Lights Out
Studio One
Lt. Haines
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Street with No Name
Ralph Demory
State of the Union
Sam I. Parrish
Call Northside 777
K.L. Palmer
Kiss of Death
Warden
Her Kind of Man
Bill Fellows
The Front Page
Mayor