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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 10, 1893
Died
January 11, 1968
Place of Birth
Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
Also Known As
- Howard I. Smith
- Howard Irving Smith
Howard Smith
1.0 Popularity
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
Credits
Dolly
1987
0.0
Green Acres
1965
7.3
Bewitched
1964
7.9
The Brass Bottle
as Senator Grindle
1964
6.1
The Dakotas
1963
5.7
Bon Voyage!
as Judge Henderson
1962
5.5
Hazel
1961
6.8
Hazel
as Mr. Griffin
1961
6.8
Harrigan and Son
1960
0.0
🎬
Peter Loves Mary
1960
5.0
Outlaws
1960
6.2
Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia
1960
6.4
The Twilight Zone
as Misrell
1959
8.5
Face of Fire
as Sheriff Nolan
1959
5.6
New York Confidential
1959
0.0
Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett
1958
5.9
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Martin Fairweather
1958
6.8
No Time for Sergeants
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
1958
7.2
I Bury the Living
as George Kraft
1958
6.1
Don't Go Near the Water
as Admiral Junius Boatwright
1957
5.1
Perry Mason
as Frank Warden
1957
7.7
A Face in the Crowd
as J.B. Jeffries
1957
7.6
Sincerely, Willis Wade
as P.L. Nagle
1956
0.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Stanton C. Barryvale
1955
7.8
First Love
1954
5.0
The Caddy
as Golf Official
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Uncle Bob
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as T.J. Wilson
1953
6.4
Never Wave at a WAC
as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
1953
4.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
8.6
Death of a Salesman
as Charley
1951
6.9
🎬
The Great Merlini
as Davis Belmont
1951
0.0
Cry Murder
as Sen. Alden
1950
3.0
Lights Out
1949
5.8
Studio One
as Lt. Haines
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Inch Ravel
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Street with No Name
as Ralph Demory
1948
6.3
State of the Union
as Sam I. Parrish
1948
6.7
Call Northside 777
as K.L. Palmer
1948
6.7
Kiss of Death
as Warden
1947
7.0
Her Kind of Man
as Bill Fellows
1946
5.9
The Front Page
as Mayor
1945
0.0
Too Much Johnson
as Joseph Johnson
1938
5.3