

Cast & creator
Best known for Perry Mason, Bewitched, The Twilight Zone
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.
Also known as: Howard I. Smith, Howard Irving Smith
22
film credits
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television credits
45
1945–2013 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Across film & television
Showing 45 of 45 credits

Frank Warden
1957

Misrell
1959
Lt. Haines
1948
Inch Ravel
1948

Martin Fairweather
1958

Stanton C. Barryvale
1955

Mr. Griffin
1961







Neeley
1956

Uncle Bob
1953
T.J. Wilson
1953
J.B. Jeffries
1957
Sam I. Parrish
1948
Warden
1947
Charley
1951
K.L. Palmer
1948
Ralph Demory
1948
Albert Anastasia
1960
Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
1958
Judge Henderson
1962
Golf Official
1953
Bill Fellows
1946
Prentiss (uncredited)
1953
Admiral Junius Boatwright
1957
George Kraft
1958
George Leggett
1958
Senator Grindle
1964
Joseph Johnson (uncredited)
2013
P.L. Nagle
1956
Sheriff Nolan
1959
Mayor
1945
Sen. Alden
1950
Davis Belmont
1951