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.
Acting
TV
The Twilight Zone
as Misrell
1959
TV
Bewitched
1964
Movie
A Face in the Crowd
as J.B. Jeffries
1957
TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Stanton C. Barryvale
1955
Movie
Call Northside 777
as K.L. Palmer
1948
Movie
Kiss of Death
as Warden
1947
TV
Perry Mason
as Frank Warden
1957
Movie
State of the Union
as Sam I. Parrish
1948
Movie
I Bury the Living
as George Kraft
1958
TV
Green Acres
1965
Movie
The Caddy
as Golf Official
1953
Movie
No Time for Sergeants
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
1958
Movie
The Street with No Name
as Ralph Demory
1948
TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Martin Fairweather
1958
Movie
Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett
1958
Movie
Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia
1960
Movie
Too Much Johnson
as Joseph Johnson
1938
Movie
The Brass Bottle
as Senator Grindle
1964
Movie
Bon Voyage!
as Judge Henderson
1962
TV
Hazel
1961
TV
Hazel
as Mr. Griffin
1961
Movie
Death of a Salesman
as Charley
1951
Movie
Don't Go Near the Water
as Admiral Junius Boatwright
1957
Movie
Never Wave at a WAC
as Maj. Gen. Prentiss (uncredited)
1953