Howard Smith (actor)

Howard Irving Smith was an American character actor with a 50year career in vaudeville, theatre, radio, films and television. In 1938 he performed in Orson Welless shortlived stage production and oncelost 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.

Howard Irving Smith was born August 12, 1893, in Attleboro, Massachusetts, to parents George H. Smith and Sybelle Pollard Smith.

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