Howard Smith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 10, 1893
- Died
- January 11, 1968
- Birthplace
- Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
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
Too Much Johnson 2013
as Joseph Johnson (uncredited)
The Brass Bottle 1964
as Senator Grindle
Bon Voyage! 1962
as Judge Henderson
Murder, Inc. 1960
as Albert Anastasia
Face of Fire 1959
as Sheriff Nolan
Wind Across the Everglades 1958
as George Leggett
No Time for Sergeants 1958
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
I Bury the Living 1958
as George Kraft
Don't Go Near the Water 1957
as Admiral Junius Boatwright
A Face in the Crowd 1957
as J.B. Jeffries
Sincerely, Willis Wade 1956
as P.L. Nagle
The Caddy 1953
as Golf Official
Never Wave at a WAC 1953
as Prentiss (uncredited)
Death of a Salesman 1951
as Charley
The Great Merlini 1951
as Davis Belmont
Cry Murder 1950
as Sen. Alden
The Street with No Name 1948
as Ralph Demory
State of the Union 1948
as Sam I. Parrish
Call Northside 777 1948
as K.L. Palmer
Kiss of Death 1947
as Warden
Her Kind of Man 1946
as Bill Fellows
The Front Page 1945
as Mayor
Credits from TMDB.