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