Actor
Howard Smith
133 years · Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S. · 22 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 22
Too Much Johnson
2013 · Joseph Johnson (uncredited)
On Plex
The Brass Bottle
1964 · Senator Grindle
Bon Voyage!
1962 · Judge Henderson
Murder, Inc.
1960 · Albert Anastasia
On History Vault
Face of Fire
1959 · Sheriff Nolan
Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · George Leggett
No Time for Sergeants
1958 · Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
On Tubi TV
I Bury the Living
1958 · George Kraft
On Plex
Don't Go Near the Water
1957 · Admiral Junius Boatwright
A Face in the Crowd
1957 · J.B. Jeffries
On TCM
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956 · P.L. Nagle
The Caddy
1953 · Golf Official
Never Wave at a WAC
1953 · Prentiss (uncredited)
Death of a Salesman
1951 · Charley
The Great Merlini
1951 · Davis Belmont
Cry Murder
1950 · Sen. Alden
The Street with No Name
1948 · Ralph Demory
State of the Union
1948 · Sam I. Parrish
Call Northside 777
1948 · K.L. Palmer
Kiss of Death
1947 · Warden
On Plex
Her Kind of Man
1946 · Bill Fellows
The Front Page
1945 · Mayor