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Howard Smith

Also Known As: Howard I. Smith, Howard Irving Smith

Birth Date

August 10, 1893

Death Date

January 11, 1968

(passed away at 74)

Place of Birth

Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.

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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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Perry Mason

The Twilight Zone

Bewitched

The Philco Television Playhouse

Studio One

Green Acres

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Hazel

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Lights Out

Outlaws

First Love

Dolly

The Dakotas

On Trial

Kiss of Death

Peter Loves Mary

Hallmark Hall of Fame

New York Confidential

Harrigan and Son