Hal Smith

Hal Smith

Actor

Petoskey, Michigan, USA
August 24, 1916

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Harold John "Hal" Smith (August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994) was an American character actor and voice actor. Smith is best known as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and was the voice of many characters on various animated cartoon shorts. He is also known to radio listeners as John Avery Whittaker on Adventures in Odyssey. Smith is often wrongly given credit for the writing of the movie It Came from Beneath the Sea, as well as ten other produced feature films. The true co-writer of those movies is Harold Jacob Smith, who wrote as "Hal Smith" until 1958. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hal Smith (actor),  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Representative Works

The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book
7.3
/ English
The Apartment
The Apartment
8.2
/ English
An American Tail
An American Tail
6.8
/ English
The Great Race
The Great Race
7.1
/ English
The Getaway
The Getaway
7.1
/ English
Fluppy Dogs
Fluppy Dogs
7.0
/ English
The Small One
The Small One
7.0
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Beauty and the Beast
1991Winner

Best Performance

Beauty and the Beast

The Jungle Book
1967Nominee

Best Performance

The Jungle Book

The Apartment
1960Winner

Best Performance

The Apartment

Career Highlights

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1977Highlight

Best Performance

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

An American Tail
1986Highlight

Best Performance

An American Tail

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