Howard Smith

Known for ActingBorn 1893-08-10Died 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.Read more

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Dolly

Harrigan and Son

New York Confidential

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Twilight Zone

Sincerely, Willis Wade

Bewitched

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Perry Mason

A Face in the Crowd

Green Acres

No Time for Sergeants

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Death of a Salesman

Kiss of Death

Hazel

General Electric Theater

Outlaws

State of the Union

Call Northside 777

The Dakotas

The Philco Television Playhouse

Peter Loves Mary

Murder, Inc.

The Brass Bottle

The Caddy

The Street with No Name

Wind Across the Everglades

I Bury the Living

Her Kind of Man

First Love

Lights Out

Face of Fire

Bon Voyage!

Studio One

Don't Go Near the Water

Too Much Johnson

On Trial

Never Wave at a WAC

Cry Murder

The Great Merlini

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