Howard Smith

Personal Info

Birthday

August 10, 1893

Day of Death

1968-01-11

(74 years old)

Place of Birth

Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.

Also Known As

Howard I. Smith

Howard Irving Smith

Howard Smith

Biography

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

Perry Mason

The Twilight Zone

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Studio One

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

General Electric Theater

A Face in the Crowd

Call Northside 777

Filmography

2013
Too Much Johnson
as Joseph Johnson
1964
The Brass Bottle
as Senator Grindle
1962
Bon Voyage!
as Judge Henderson
1960
Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia
1959
Face of Fire
as Sheriff Nolan
1958
Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett
No Time for Sergeants
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
I Bury the Living
as George Kraft
1957
Don't Go Near the Water
as Admiral Junius Boatwright
A Face in the Crowd
as J.B. Jeffries
1953
The Caddy
as Golf Official
Never Wave at a WAC
as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
1951
Death of a Salesman
as Charley
The Great Merlini
as Davis Belmont
1950
Cry Murder
as Sen. Alden
1948
The Street with No Name
as Ralph Demory
State of the Union
as Sam I. Parrish
Call Northside 777
as K.L. Palmer
1947
Kiss of Death
as Warden
1946
Her Kind of Man
as Bill Fellows
1945
The Front Page
as Mayor