Howard Smith

Active - 1918 - 2015  |   Birth - Aug 12, 1893  |   Death - Jan 10, 1968  |   Genres - Drama, Comedy, Action-Adventure, Crime, Romance | Subgenres - Film Noir, Silent Film, Gangster Film, Musical, Political Drama

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Howard Irving Smith was an American character actor with a 50-year career in vaudeville, theatre, 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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