Cast & creator
Howard K. Smith
Best known for The Dick Cavett Show, Face the Nation, The Odd Couple
Howard Kingsbury Smith was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, and film actor. He was one of the original members of the team of war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys and finished his distinguished 40-year career at ABC News, where he served as a co-anchor and analyst from 1962 to 1979.
17
film credits
7
television credits
23
1948–2025 · acting roles
7.0
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (24)
Showing 24 of 24 credits
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Face the Nation
Self
1954
The Odd Couple
Howard K. Smith
1970
The Bionic Woman
Howard K. Smith (uncredited)
1976
V
Howard K. Smith
1984
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Howard K. Smith (uncredited)
1977
World News Tonight with David Muir
Self - Anchor
1948
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Howard K. Smith
1982
Nashville
Howard K. Smith (uncredited)
1975
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage)
2020
Escape from Sobibor
Narrator (voice)
1987
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage)
2025
The Best Man
Howard K. Smith
1964
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
Howard K. Smith
1981
Trapped Beneath the Sea
Narrator (voice)
1974
Gloria: In Her Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2011
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Self
2007
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
Nasty Habits
Self
1977
The Man
Howard K. Smith
1972The Year Gone By
Self – Host
1958The Year Gone By
Writer
1958Africa
Self - Commentary
1967