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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.
As actor
Too Much Johnson
The Brass Bottle
Bon Voyage!
Murder, Inc.
Face of Fire
I Bury the Living
No Time for Sergeants
Wind Across the Everglades
A Face in the Crowd
Don't Go Near the Water
Sincerely, Willis Wade
The Caddy
Never Wave at a WAC
Death of a Salesman
The Great Merlini
Cry Murder
Call Northside 777
The Street with No Name
State of the Union
Kiss of Death
Her Kind of Man
The Front Page