Howard Smith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 10, 1893
- Place of birth
- Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Died
- January 11, 1968
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 with Howard Smith
- A Face in the Crowd 1957 · ★ 7.6
- Call Northside 777 1948 · ★ 6.7
- Kiss of Death 1947 · ★ 7.1
- State of the Union 1948 · ★ 6.8
- I Bury the Living 1958 · ★ 6.2
- The Caddy 1953 · ★ 6.4
- No Time for Sergeants 1958 · ★ 7.3
- The Street with No Name 1948 · ★ 6.4
- Wind Across the Everglades 1958 · ★ 6.2
- Too Much Johnson 2013 · ★ 5.4
- Murder, Inc. 1960 · ★ 6.5
- Bon Voyage! 1962 · ★ 5.6
- The Brass Bottle 1964 · ★ 6.3
- Death of a Salesman 1951 · ★ 7.0
- Don't Go Near the Water 1957 · ★ 5.3
- Never Wave at a WAC 1953 · ★ 5.0
- Her Kind of Man 1946 · ★ 6.2
- Face of Fire 1959 · ★ 5.8
- Cry Murder 1950 · ★ 4.7
- Sincerely, Willis Wade 1956 · ★ 8.0
- The Great Merlini 1951
- The Front Page 1945