Howard Smith
Actor
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.
Filmography
Call Northside 777
as K.L. Palmer 1948
Kiss of Death
as Warden 1947
I Bury the Living
as George Kraft 1958
State of the Union
as Sam I. Parrish 1948
The Caddy
as Golf Official 1953
No Time for Sergeants
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush 1958
The Street with No Name
as Ralph Demory 1948
Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett 1958
Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia 1960
Too Much Johnson
as Joseph Johnson 1938
The Brass Bottle
as Senator Grindle 1964
Bon Voyage!
as Judge Henderson 1962
Death of a Salesman
as Charley 1951
Don't Go Near the Water
as Admiral Junius Boatwright 1957
Never Wave at a WAC
as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited) 1953
Her Kind of Man
as Bill Fellows 1946