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Howard Irving Smith was an American character actor with a 50-year career in vaudeville, theatre, 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.
Born
Saturday, 12 August 1893
Died
Wednesday, 10 January 1968
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Actor 'Call Northside 777' | 1997 |
Dolly | A Capella Singer | 1987 |
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk | Cummings | 1967 |
Green Acres | Judge Clemens / Judge Murdock | 1965 |
The John Forsythe Show | Oakes | 1965 |
Bewitched | C.L. Morton | 1964 |
The Brass Bottle | Sen. Grindle / Senator Grindle | 1964 |
Vacation Playhouse | T.J. Gittings | 1963 |
McKeever and the Colonel | Gen. 'Hollerin' Halloran | 1962 |
Bon Voyage! | Judge Henderson | 1962 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Actor 'Call Northside 777' | 1997 |
Dolly | A Capella Singer | 1987 |
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk | Cummings | 1967 |
Green Acres | Judge Clemens / Judge Murdock | 1965 |
The John Forsythe Show | Oakes | 1965 |
Bewitched | C.L. Morton | 1964 |
The Brass Bottle | Sen. Grindle / Senator Grindle | 1964 |
Vacation Playhouse | T.J. Gittings | 1963 |
McKeever and the Colonel | Gen. 'Hollerin' Halloran | 1962 |
Bon Voyage! | Judge Henderson | 1962 |
The Dakotas | Ed Turner | 1962 |
Hazel | Harvey Griffin / Mr. Griffin | 1961 |
Follow the Sun | General Fulton | 1961 |
Harrigan and Son | Lionel Wilton | 1960 |
Peter Loves Mary | Horace Gibney | 1960 |
Michael Shayne | George Barton | 1960 |
Outlaws | J. Horace Porter | 1960 |
The Tom Ewell Show | Warren Prescott | 1960 |
New Comedy Showcase | Harold Martin | 1960 |
Murder, Inc. | Albert Anastasia | 1960 |
The Right Man | 1960 | |
The Twilight Zone | Misrell / Polk | 1959 |
Face of Fire | Sheriff Nolan | 1959 |
Special Agent 7 | Johnston | 1959 |
Naked City | Poker Dealer | 1958 |
Wind Across the Everglades | George Leggett | 1958 |
Wanted: Dead or Alive | Martin Fairweather | 1958 |
I Bury the Living | George Kraft | 1958 |
No Time for Sergeants | Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush | 1958 |
Don't Go Near the Water | Adm. Junius Boatwright / Admiral Junius Boatwright | 1957 |
Perry Mason | Frank Warden | 1957 |
A Face in the Crowd | J.B. Jeffries | 1957 |
Men of Annapolis | Big Carl | 1957 |
Playhouse 90 | P.L. Nagle | 1956 |
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | Committee Chairman | 1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Stanton C. Barryvale | 1955 |
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial | Neeley | 1955 |
The Phil Silvers Show | Cecil D. Chadwick | 1955 |
The Magical World of Disney | Judge Henderson | 1954 |
Studio 57 | Hagney | 1954 |
The Caddy | Golf Official | 1953 |
General Electric Theater | T.J. Wilson / Uncle Bob | 1953 |
Never Wave at a WAC | Maj. Gen. Prentiss | 1953 |
Omnibus | (segment "Minds over Manners") | 1952 |
The Red Buttons Show | Self | 1952 |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | Judge Turner | 1952 |
The Ford Television Theatre | Holmes Mitchell | 1952 |
The Jackie Gleason Show | Mr.Masterson / Mr. Marshall | 1952 |
Death of a Salesman | Charley | 1951 |
The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self | 1950 |
Cry Murder | Sen. Alden | 1950 |
Studio One | Lt. Haines / Inch Ravel | 1948 |
The Philco Television Playhouse | H.L. Harrington | 1948 |
The Street with No Name | Commissioner Ralph Demory / Ralph Demory | 1948 |
State of the Union | Sam I. Parrish | 1948 |
Call Northside 777 | K.L. Palmer | 1948 |
Kiss of Death | Warden | 1947 |
Her Kind of Man | Bill Fellows | 1946 |
Too Much Johnson | Joseph Johnson | 1938 |
Young America | Jack Doray | 1918 |