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Howard Smith

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: Acting

Born: Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S., 1893-08-10

Died: 1968-01-11

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1945	The Front Page	Mayor	0
2	1946	Her Kind of Man	Bill Fellows	58
3	1947	Kiss of Death	Warden	70
4	1948	Call Northside 777	K.L. Palmer	66
5	1948	State of the Union	Sam I. Parrish	67
6	1948	The Street with No Name	Ralph Demory	63
7	1950	Cry Murder	Sen. Alden	30
8	1951	The Great Merlini	Davis Belmont	0
9	1951	Death of a Salesman	Charley	69
10	1953	Never Wave at a WAC	Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)	49
11	1953	The Caddy	Golf Official	64
12	1957	A Face in the Crowd	J.B. Jeffries	76
13	1957	Don't Go Near the Water	Admiral Junius Boatwright	51
14	1958	I Bury the Living	George Kraft	61
15	1958	No Time for Sergeants	Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush	72
16	1958	Wind Across the Everglades	George Leggett	61
17	1959	Face of Fire	Sheriff Nolan	56
18	1960	Murder, Inc.	Albert Anastasia	64
19	1962	Bon Voyage!	Judge Henderson	53
20	1964	The Brass Bottle	Senator Grindle	62
21	2013	Too Much Johnson	Joseph Johnson	53

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1948	Studio One	Lt. Haines	50
3	1948	Studio One	Inch Ravel	50
4	1949	Lights Out		53
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame		86
6	1953	General Electric Theater	Uncle Bob	63
7	1953	General Electric Theater	T.J. Wilson	63
8	1954	First Love		50
9	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Stanton C. Barryvale	77
10	1957	Perry Mason	Frank Warden	77
11	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Martin Fairweather	69
12	1959	New York Confidential		0
13	1959	The Twilight Zone	Misrell	84
14	1960	Outlaws		62
15	1960	Peter Loves Mary		50
16	1960	Harrigan and Son		0
17	1961	Hazel		68
18	1963	The Dakotas		57
19	1964	Bewitched		79
20	1965	Green Acres		73
21	1987	Dolly		0