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Howard Smith

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Howard Smith

Aug 10, 1893 – Jan 11, 196842 titles 22 movies · 20 TV
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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.

Also known as

Howard I. Smith · Howard Irving Smith

Born

Aug 10, 1893 – Jan 11, 1968

Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.

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Roles across career

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1945 1 title(s)

1946 1 title(s)

1947 1 title(s)

1948 5 title(s)

1949 1 title(s)

1950 1 title(s)

1951 3 title(s)

1953 3 title(s)

1954 1 title(s)

1955 1 title(s)

1956 2 title(s)

1957 3 title(s)

1958 4 title(s)

1959 3 title(s)

1960 4 title(s)

1961 1 title(s)

1962 1 title(s)

1963 1 title(s)

1964 2 title(s)

1965 1 title(s)

1987 1 title(s)

2013 1 title(s)