Howard Smith
Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
1893-08-10
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.
Movies:
A Face in the Crowd
Call Northside 777
I Bury the Living
The Street with No Name
Murder, Inc.
The Caddy
Her Kind of Man
No Time for Sergeants
Bon Voyage!
Death of a Salesman
The Great Merlini
Cry Murder
Never Wave at a WAC
Too Much Johnson
Don't Go Near the Water
Face of Fire
State of the Union
Wind Across the Everglades
The Brass Bottle
Kiss of Death
The Front Page
Sincerely, Willis Wade
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