

Acting
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.
Highest rated appearances
Murder, Inc.
as Albert Anastasia

Face of Fire
as Sheriff Nolan

Wind Across the Everglades
as George Leggett

No Time for Sergeants
as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush

I Bury the Living
as George Kraft

Don't Go Near the Water
as Admiral Junius Boatwright

A Face in the Crowd
as J.B. Jeffries

Sincerely, Willis Wade
as P.L. Nagle

The Caddy
as Golf Official

Never Wave at a WAC
as Prentiss (uncredited)

Death of a Salesman
as Charley
The Great Merlini
as Davis Belmont

Cry Murder
as Sen. Alden