Howard Smith
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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
Kiss of Death (1947)
as Warden
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
as J.B. Jeffries
Call Northside 777 (1948)
as K.L. Palmer
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
as George Leggett
The Street with No Name (1948)
as Ralph Demory
Her Kind of Man (1946)
as Bill Fellows
State of the Union (1948)
as Sam I. Parrish
Death of a Salesman (1951)
as Charley
The Caddy (1953)
as Golf Official
Murder, Inc. (1960)
as Albert Anastasia
Bon Voyage! (1962)
as Judge Henderson
I Bury the Living (1958)
as George Kraft
Sincerely, Willis Wade (1956)
as P.L. Nagle
Never Wave at a WAC (1953)
as Prentiss (uncredited)
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
The Brass Bottle (1964)
as Senator Grindle
Don't Go Near the Water (1957)
as Admiral Junius Boatwright
Too Much Johnson (2013)
as Joseph Johnson
Face of Fire (1959)
as Sheriff Nolan
The Front Page (1945)
as Mayor
Cry Murder (1950)
as Sen. Alden
The Great Merlini (1951)
as Davis Belmont