Hal Smith
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Character actor Hal Smith (born Harold John Smith) cut his acting teeth in various touring road companies. Before serving in the Air Force during World War II, he had amassed impressive credits as a band singer, radio disc jockey, and writer. In the postwar years, he decided to try his luck in Hollywood, although holding down a real-estate job so he'd have a financial cushion between acting jobs. His first recurring TV role was on the vintage sitcom I Married Joan (1952-53). (It was a different actor who appeared in the bit role of Anne Baxter's suitor in O. Henry's Full House [1952].) He spent most of the '50s playing guest stints and providing voice-overs for cartoon characters, and was briefly Hal the Bartender, a commercial spokesman for a popular brand of beer. In 1960, he was signed for the semi-regular role of town drunk Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show, essaying this hilarious (if politically incorrect) characterization with expertise, although he often insisted, "I don't think I've ever really been drunk in my whole life." Since Otis did not appear in every Griffith episode, Smith had time aplenty to free-lance, playing such film roles as a drunken Santa in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) and an effeminate Roman emperor in The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962), and supplying voices for such cartoon programs as Davey and Goliath and The Flintstones. By 1962, he was making 50,000 dollars per year, a tidy sum in those days. During the 1970s and '80s, Smith was most closely associated with Disney, replacing the late Vance "Pinto" Colvig as the voice of Goofy and providing voices for series ranging from Winnie the Pooh and Friends to Ducktales. Smith died in 1994.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Here Comes the Littles |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | The Town Santa Forgot |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Switched at Birth |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Bad Cat |
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— | 1991 |
29% | 18 Again! |
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— | 1988 |
71% | An American Tail |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Return to Mayberry |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | The Adventures of the American Rabbit |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Here Come the Littles |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Winnie the Pooh: A Day for Eeyore |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Yogi's First Christmas |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | A Flintstone Christmas |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Halloween Is Grinch Night |
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— | 1977 |
100% | Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Oklahoma Crude |
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— | 1973 |
91% | Fantastic Planet |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Shinbone Alley |
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— | 1971 |
17% | The $1,000,000 Duck |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Santa and the Three Bears |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Santa and the Three Bears |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day |
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— | 1968 |
67% | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | The Ugly Dachshund |
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— | 1966 |
74% | The Great Race |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Hey There, It's Yogi Bear |
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— | 1964 |
88% | Son of Flubber |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | The Three Stooges Meet Hercules |
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— | 1962 |
93% | The Apartment |
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— | 1960 |
83% | There's Always Tomorrow |
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— | 1956 |
56% | It Came from Beneath the Sea |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | O. Henry's Full House |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | You for Me |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | The Milkman |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Stars Over Texas |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Night Editor (The Trespasser) |
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— | 1946 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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100% |
DuckTales
2017-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-1968
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No Score Yet |
The Little Mermaid
1992-1994
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No Score Yet |
DuckTales
1987-1990
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No Score Yet |
Highway to Heaven
1984-1989
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No Score Yet |
Night Court
1984-1992
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No Score Yet |
Dukes of Hazzard
1979-1985
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No Score Yet |
Little House on the Prairie
1974-1983
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No Score Yet |
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-1977
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No Score Yet |
The Odd Couple
1970-1975
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78% |
The Brady Bunch
1969-1974
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No Score Yet |
Green Acres
1965-1971
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No Score Yet |
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
1970
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No Score Yet |
Hogan's Heroes
1965-1971
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No Score Yet |
My Favorite Martian
1963-1966
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No Score Yet |
The Flintstones
1960-1966
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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No Score Yet |
Leave It to Beaver
1957-1963
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
1952-1966
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No Score Yet |
The Flintstones (inactive)
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Quotes from Hal Smith's Characters
Owl: | Dash it all, he's gone. |
Winnie-the-Pooh: | After all, he's not in the book, you know. |
Owl: | *cough* oh. |
Owl: | I should think... |
Gopher: | Well, I can't shhhh-tand around lollygaggin' all day. I've got a tight shhhh-cheduel. (falls down his hole) Waaaaahhh!! |
Gopher: | Well, I can't shhhh-tand around lollygaggin' all day. I've got a tight shhhh-cheduel. [falls down his hole] Waaaaahhh!! |
Owl: | Blast it all! |
Gopher: | Good idea! We'll use dynamite, to shhh-ave time. |
Gopher: | (examines Pooh, stuck in Rabbit's hole) Hmm... first thing to be done is get rid of that bear. He's gummin' up the whole project. |
Gopher: | [examines Pooh, stuck in Rabbit's hole] Hmm... first thing to be done is get rid of that bear. He's gummin' up the whole project. |
Owl: | Dash it all, he IS the project! |
Owl: | This mission calls for an expert. |
Gopher: | (comes out of the ground) Did shhhhh-ombody call for an ex-shhhhh-pedition expert? I'm not in the book, but I'm at your sh-ervi-sh. |
Gopher: | [comes out of the ground] Did shhhhh-ombody call for an ex-shhhhh-pedition expert? I'm not in the book, but I'm at your sh-ervi-sh. |