Acting credits
39
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Howard Smith
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.4
Moderate attention
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Movies: 21Series: 18
TMDB ID: 119381
IMDb ID: nm0808473
Known for: Acting
Born: August 10, 1893
Died: January 11, 1968
Age: 74
Place of birth: Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1945 - 2013
Years active: 69
Average TMDB rating: 6.8
Wikidata: Q3162845
Also known as
Howard I. Smith • Howard Irving 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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Howard Smith.
5.3
Too Much Johnson
as Joseph Johnson
2013 Movie
6.1
The Brass Bottle
as Senator Grindle
1964 Movie
5.5
Bon Voyage!
as Judge Henderson
1962 Movie
6.4
Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia
1960 Movie
5.6
Face of Fire
as Sheriff Nolan
1959 Movie
5.9
Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett
1958 Movie
7.2
No Time for Sergeants
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
1958 Movie
6.1
I Bury the Living
as George Kraft
1958 Movie
5.1
Don't Go Near the Water
as Admiral Junius Boatwright
1957 Movie
7.6
A Face in the Crowd
as J.B. Jeffries
1957 Movie
Sincerely, Willis Wade
as P.L. Nagle
1956 Movie
6.4
The Caddy
as Golf Official
1953 Movie
4.6
Never Wave at a WAC
as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
1953 Movie
7.0
Death of a Salesman
as Charley
1951 Movie
3.0
Cry Murder
as Sen. Alden
1950 Movie
6.3
The Street with No Name
as Ralph Demory
1948 Movie
6.7
State of the Union
as Sam I. Parrish
1948 Movie
6.7
Call Northside 777
as K.L. Palmer
1948 Movie
7.1
Kiss of Death
as Warden
1947 Movie
5.9
Her Kind of Man
as Bill Fellows
1946 Movie
The Front Page
as Mayor
1945 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Howard Smith.
Dolly
22 eps
1987 Series
7.3
Green Acres
2 eps
1965 Series
7.9
Bewitched
1 eps
1964 Series
5.7
The Dakotas
1 eps
1963 Series
6.8
Hazel
4 eps
1961 Series
Harrigan and Son
1 eps
1960 Series
6.2
Outlaws
1 eps
1960 Series
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as Misrell • 2 eps
1959 Series
New York Confidential
1 eps
1959 Series
6.8
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Martin Fairweather • 1 eps
1958 Series
7.7
Perry Mason
as Frank Warden • 1 eps
1957 Series
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Stanton C. Barryvale • 1 eps
1955 Series
5.0
First Love
215 eps
1954 Series
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Uncle Bob • 1 eps
1953 Series
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1 eps
1951 Series
5.8
Lights Out
2 eps
1949 Series
5.0
Studio One
as Lt. Haines • 1 eps
1948 Series
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
1 eps
1948 Series