Howard Irving Smith was an American character actor with a 50-year career in vaudeville, theatre, radio, films, and television. In 1938, he performed in Orson Welles's short-lived stage production and
Howard Smith in I Bury the Living
Howard Smith, Mary Wickes, Orson Welles, Virginia Nicolson, William Herz, Erskine Sanford, Eustace Wyatt, and Joseph Cotten outside the Stony Creek Theatre during the two-week run of the Mercury Theatre stage production of Too Much Johnson (August 16–29, 1938)