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Howard Smith
Acting
Born: August 10, 1893
Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
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.
Known For
Kiss of Death
as Warden
Call Northside 777
as K.L. Palmer
Bon Voyage!
as Judge Henderson
A Face in the Crowd
as J.B. Jeffries
Never Wave at a WAC
as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
State of the Union
as Sam I. Parrish
The Street with No Name
as Ralph Demory
Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia
Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett
I Bury the Living
as George Kraft
