Howard Smith

Acting

Born August 10, 1893, 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

• 2013Too Much Johnson — Joseph Johnson (uncredited)
• Dolly
• Green Acres
• Bewitched
• 1964The Brass Bottle — Senator Grindle
• The Dakotas
• 1962Bon Voyage! — Judge Henderson
• Hazel — Mr. Griffin
• Harrigan and Son
• 1960Murder, Inc. — Albert Anastasia
• Outlaws
• Peter Loves Mary
• 1959Face of Fire — Sheriff Nolan
• New York Confidential
• The Twilight Zone — Misrell
• 1958I Bury the Living — George Kraft
• 1958No Time for Sergeants — Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Martin Fairweather
• 1958Wind Across the Everglades — George Leggett
• 1957A Face in the Crowd — J.B. Jeffries
• 1957Don't Go Near the Water — Admiral Junius Boatwright
• Perry Mason — Frank Warden
• On Trial — Neeley
• 1956Sincerely, Willis Wade — P.L. Nagle
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Stanton C. Barryvale
• First Love
• General Electric Theater — Uncle Bob, T.J. Wilson
• 1953Never Wave at a WAC — Prentiss (uncredited)
• 1953The Caddy — Golf Official
• 1951Death of a Salesman — Charley
• Hallmark Hall of Fame
• 1951The Great Merlini — Davis Belmont
• 1950Cry Murder — Sen. Alden
• Lights Out
• 1948Call Northside 777 — K.L. Palmer
• 1948State of the Union — Sam I. Parrish
• Studio One — Lt. Haines, Inch Ravel
• The Philco Television Playhouse
• 1948The Street with No Name — Ralph Demory
• 1947Kiss of Death — Warden
• 1946Her Kind of Man — Bill Fellows
• 1945The Front Page — Mayor