
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…
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Filmography
Acting (41)
Movies (22)
The Brass Bottle
1964as Senator Grindle
Bon Voyage!
1962as Judge Henderson
Murder, Inc.
1960as Albert Anastasia
Face of Fire
1959as Sheriff Nolan
Wind Across the Everglades
1958as George Leggett
No Time for Sergeants
1958as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
I Bury the Living
1958as George Kraft
A Face in the Crowd
1957as J.B. Jeffries
Don't Go Near the Water
1957as Admiral Junius Boatwright
Sincerely, Willis Wade
1956as P.L. Nagle
The Caddy
1953as Golf Official
Never Wave at a WAC
1953as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
The Great Merlini
1951as Davis Belmont
Death of a Salesman
1951as Charley
Cry Murder
1950as Sen. Alden
Call Northside 777
1948as K.L. Palmer
State of the Union
1948as Sam I. Parrish
The Street with No Name
1948as Ralph Demory
Kiss of Death
1947as Warden
Her Kind of Man
1946as Bill Fellows
The Front Page
1945as Mayor
Too Much Johnson
1938as Joseph Johnson
Television (19)
Dolly
1987
Green Acres
1965
Bewitched
1964
The Dakotas
1963
Hazel
1961
Outlaws
1960Peter Loves Mary
1960
Harrigan and Son
1960
The Twilight Zone
1959as Misrell
New York Confidential
1959
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958as Martin Fairweather
Perry Mason
1957as Frank Warden
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955as Stanton C. Barryvale
First Love
1954
General Electric Theater
1953as Uncle Bob
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Lights Out
1949
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Studio One
1948as Lt. Haines
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