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