Howard Smith
Acting
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.
The Brass Bottle
Senator Grindle
Bon Voyage!
Judge Henderson
Murder, Inc.
Albert Anastasia
Face of Fire
Sheriff Nolan
Wind Across the Everglades
George Leggett
No Time for Sergeants
Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
I Bury the Living
George Kraft
Don't Go Near the Water
Admiral Junius Boatwright
A Face in the Crowd
J.B. Jeffries
Sincerely, Willis Wade
P.L. Nagle
The Caddy
Golf Official
Never Wave at a WAC
Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
Death of a Salesman
Charley
The Great Merlini
Davis Belmont
Cry Murder
Sen. Alden
The Street with No Name
Ralph Demory
State of the Union
Sam I. Parrish
Call Northside 777
K.L. Palmer
Kiss of Death
Warden
Her Kind of Man
Bill Fellows
The Front Page
Mayor
Too Much Johnson
Joseph Johnson