Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 10, 1893
Place of Birth
Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
Also Known As
- Howard I. Smith
- Howard Irving Smith
Howard Smith
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.
Known For - Movies
Call Northside 777
as K.L. Palmer
The Caddy
as Golf Official
State of the Union
as Sam I. Parrish
A Face in the Crowd
as J.B. Jeffries
Kiss of Death
as Warden
Don't Go Near the Water
as Admiral Junius Boatwright
No Time for Sergeants
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett
Bon Voyage!
as Judge Henderson
Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia
