Howard Smith
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Perry Mason
Frank Warden
1957
Series
Bewitched
1964
Series
The Twilight Zone
Misrell
1959
Series
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Martin Fairweather
1958
Series
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Series
Green Acres
1965
Series
Studio One
Lt. Haines
1948
Series
Studio One
Inch Ravel
1948
Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Stanton C. Barryvale
1955
Series
Hazel
1961
Series
Hazel
Mr. Griffin
1961
Series
Lights Out
1949
Series
Outlaws
1960
Series
The Dakotas
1963
On Trial
Neeley
1956
Series
Dolly
1987
Series
First Love
1954
Series
Peter Loves Mary
1960
Film
Kiss of Death
Warden
1947
Series
Harrigan and Son
1960
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Series
General Electric Theater
Uncle Bob
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
T.J. Wilson
1953
Series
New York Confidential
1959
Film
A Face in the Crowd
J.B. Jeffries
1957
Film
Call Northside 777
K.L. Palmer
1948
Film
The Caddy
Golf Official
1953
Film
State of the Union
Sam I. Parrish
1948
Film
Murder, Inc.
Albert Anastasia
1960
Film
Bon Voyage!
Judge Henderson
1962
Film
The Street with No Name
Ralph Demory
1948
Film
Wind Across the Everglades
George Leggett
1958
Film
Don't Go Near the Water
Admiral Junius Boatwright
1957
Film
No Time for Sergeants
Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
1958
Film
Her Kind of Man
Bill Fellows
1946
Film
Death of a Salesman
Charley
1951
Film
Sincerely, Willis Wade
P.L. Nagle
1956
Film
Never Wave at a WAC
Prentiss (uncredited)
1953
Film
The Brass Bottle
Senator Grindle
1964
Film
I Bury the Living
George Kraft
1958
Film
Face of Fire
Sheriff Nolan
1959
Film
Too Much Johnson
Joseph Johnson
2013
Film
The Front Page
Mayor
1945
Film
Cry Murder
Sen. Alden
1950
The Great Merlini
Davis Belmont
1951