Howard Smith
Acting Born Aug 10, 1893 Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S. 24 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- Perry Mason (1957) as Frank Warden
- Bewitched (1964)
- The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
- The Twilight Zone (1959) as Misrell
- Green Acres (1965)
- Lights Out (1949)
- Studio One (1948) as Lt. Haines
- Studio One (1948) as Inch Ravel
- Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958) as Martin Fairweather
- Outlaws (1960)
- Hazel (1961)
- Hazel (1961) as Mr. Griffin
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) as Stanton C. Barryvale
- On Trial (1956) as Neeley
- The Dakotas (1963)
- First Love (1954)
- Dolly (1987)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
- Peter Loves Mary (1960)
- Harrigan and Son (1960)
- New York Confidential (1959)
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Uncle Bob
- General Electric Theater (1953) as T.J. Wilson
- No Time for Sergeants (1958) as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush