
Acting
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
Frank Warden
1957 • 1 episode

Bewitched
1964 • 1 episode

The Twilight Zone
Misrell
1959 • 2 episodes

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 • 1 episode

Green Acres
1965 • 2 episodes

Studio One
Lt. Haines
1948 • 1 episode

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Stanton C. Barryvale
1955 • 1 episode

Wanted: Dead or Alive
Martin Fairweather
1958 • 1 episode

Lights Out
1949 • 2 episodes

Hazel
1961 • 4 episodes

Outlaws
1960 • 1 episode

First Love
1954 • 215 episodes

The Dakotas
1963 • 1 episode

Peter Loves Mary
1960 • 6 episodes

Dolly
1987 • 22 episodes

Harrigan and Son
1960 • 1 episode

New York Confidential
1959 • 1 episode

General Electric Theater
Uncle Bob
1953 • 1 episode
On Trial
Neeley
1956 • 1 episode

A Face in the Crowd
J.B. Jeffries
1957