Howard Smith
Born: 1893-08-12 Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died: 1968-01-11
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.
Acting (in our collection)
Murder, Inc.
(1960)
I Bury the Living
(1958)
No Time for Sergeants
(1958)
Call Northside 777
(1948)
The Street with No Name
(1948)
State of the Union
(1948)
Kiss of Death
(1947)