Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1893-08-10
Day of Death
1968-01-11
Place of Birth
Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
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.
Filmography (22)
⭐ 6.3
Role:
Senator Grindle
The Brass Bottle
1964
⭐ 5.6
Role:
Judge Henderson
Bon Voyage!
1962
⭐ 6.5
Role:
Albert Anastasia
Murder, Inc.
1960
⭐ 5.8
Role:
Sheriff Nolan
Face of Fire
1959
⭐ 6.2
Role:
George Leggett
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
⭐ 7.3
Role:
Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
No Time for Sergeants
1958
⭐ 6.2
Role:
George Kraft
I Bury the Living
1958
⭐ 5.3
Role:
Admiral Junius Boatwright
Don't Go Near the Water
1957
⭐ 7.6
Role:
J.B. Jeffries
A Face in the Crowd
1957
⭐ 8.0
Role:
P.L. Nagle
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956
⭐ 6.4
Role:
Golf Official
The Caddy
1953
⭐ 5.0
Role:
Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
⭐ 7.1
Role:
Charley
Death of a Salesman
1951No Image
⭐ 0
Role:
Davis Belmont
The Great Merlini
1951
⭐ 4.7
Role:
Sen. Alden
