1893-08-10 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.
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Too Much Johnson | Joseph Johnson | 2013-10-09 |
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The Brass Bottle | Senator Grindle | 1964-05-20 |
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Bon Voyage! | Judge Henderson | 1962-05-17 |
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Murder, Inc. | Albert Anastasia | 1960-06-28 |
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Face of Fire | Sheriff Nolan | 1959-08-09 |
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I Bury the Living | George Kraft | 1958-07-01 |
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Wind Across the Everglades | George Leggett | 1958-09-11 |
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No Time for Sergeants | Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush | 1958-07-05 |
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Don't Go Near the Water | Admiral Junius Boatwright | 1957-11-14 |
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A Face in the Crowd | J.B. Jeffries | 1957-05-29 |
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The Caddy | Golf Official | 1953-08-10 |
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Never Wave at a WAC | Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited) | 1953-01-28 |
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The Great Merlini | Davis Belmont | 1951-07-03 |
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Death of a Salesman | Charley | 1951-12-20 |
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Cry Murder | Sen. Alden | 1950-01-06 |
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Call Northside 777 | K.L. Palmer | 1948-02-13 |
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The Street with No Name | Ralph Demory | 1948-07-14 |
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State of the Union | Sam I. Parrish | 1948-04-30 |
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Kiss of Death | Warden | 1947-08-27 |
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Her Kind of Man | Bill Fellows | 1946-05-11 |
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The Front Page | Mayor | 1945-11-11 |
