Howard Smith
Known for ActingBorn 1893-08-10 — died 1968-01-11Attleboro, 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.
Known for
Kiss of Death
1947 · as Warden
A Face in the Crowd
1957 · as J.B. Jeffries
Call Northside 777
1948 · as K.L. Palmer
No Time for Sergeants
1958 · as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
State of the Union
1948 · as Sam I. Parrish
Murder, Inc.
1960 · as Albert Anastasia
Bon Voyage!
1962 · as Judge Henderson
The Caddy
1953 · as Golf Official
The Street with No Name
1948 · as Ralph Demory
Face of Fire
1959 · as Sheriff Nolan
I Bury the Living
1958 · as George Kraft
Her Kind of Man
1946 · as Bill Fellows
Death of a Salesman
1951 · as Charley
Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · as George Leggett
The Brass Bottle
1964 · as Senator Grindle
Don't Go Near the Water
1957 · as Admiral Junius Boatwright
Never Wave at a WAC
1953 · as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956 · as P.L. Nagle