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