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Howard Smith

Howard Smith

Acting
10 Aug 1893
11 Jan 1968
Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.

Biography

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...

Also Known As

Howard I. Smith, Howard Irving Smith

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