Howard Smith

Birthday: 8/10/1893
Deathday: 1/11/1968
Place of birth: Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
Fame for: Acting
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.