Howard K. Smith was born on May 12, 1914 in Ferriday, Louisiana, USA as Howard Kingsbury Smith. He was a writer and actor, known for Howard K. Smith (1962), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953). He was married to Benedicte Traberg. He died on February 15, 2002 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Track athlete at Tulane University, specializing in hurdle events.
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Inducted into the Tulane University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1983.
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Named one of the NCAA's 100 most influential student-athletes in 2006.
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Recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award from the International Platform Association in 1976 as outstanding electronic journalist of the year.
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His commentary on the Vietnam War on the July 16, 1966 broadcast of ABC Scope, called "One Man's Opinion," was later published in book form.
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Won numerous awards during his long career in broadcasting, including seven Overseas Press Club Awards (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1961, 1966, 1975); the Peabody Award in 1960; the Emmy Award in 1961; the Paul White Memorial Award in 1961; the DuPont Commentator Award in 1962; and in 1976 he was a special Congressional honoree for his contribution to journalism.
Attended Oxford University in 1937 as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Served as moderator for the first televised presidential debate in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
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Was a foreign press correspondant in Germany during the 1930s. Howard Smith was a friend to William Shirer and one of the few American reporters to have ever been admitted to the Berchtesgaden resort at Obersalzburg. There, Smith had the rare oppurtunity to meet and interview such figures as Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Adolf Hitler. In later years, Smith was best known for his portrayal as the newscaster on the series "V" and also narratored several films including "Escape from Sobibor".
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Winston Churchill: In Memory
1965
TV Movie written by
Howard K. Smith
TV Series written by - 66 episodes, 1962 - 1963 writer - 1 episode, 1962
CBS Reports
1959
TV Series documentary written by - 1 episode
The Year Gone By
1958
TV Movie written by
The Ruble War
1958
TV Movie written by
Hungary: Return of the Terror
1958
TV Movie written by
The Black Star Rises
1957
TV Movie written by
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
V
1984-1985
TV Series
Howard K. Smith
V
1983
TV Mini-Series
Howard K. Smith
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1982
Howard K. Smith
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981
Howard K. Smith
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Howard K. Smith (uncredited)
The Bionic Woman
1976
TV Series
Howard K. Smith
Nashville
1975
Howard K. Smith (uncredited)
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
TV Movie
Howard K. Smith (uncredited)
The Man
1972
Howard K. Smith
The Candidate
1972
Howard K. Smith (ABC)
The Best Man
1964
Howard K. Smith
Escape from Sobibor
1987
TV Movie
Narrator (voice)
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
Video documentary
Himself
Television in America: An Autobiography
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Remarkable 20th Century
2000
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Host
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
Video documentary
Himself - Interviewee
Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War
1998
TV Series documentary
Himself - News Commentator / Author 'The Last Train From Berlin'
To the Contrary
1996
TV Series
Himself - Interviewee
This Reporter
1990
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
American Masters
1990
TV Series documentary
Himself
1980 Presidential Debates
1980
TV Series
Himself - Moderator
Nasty Habits
1977
Himself
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976
Himself (scenes deleted)
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir
1976
TV Series
Himself - Commentary
The Odd Couple
1974
TV Series
Himself
Trapped Beneath the Sea
1974
TV Movie
Himself - Narrator
Dinner at Howard K. Smith's
1970
TV Movie
Himself - Host
60 Minutes
1969
TV Series documentary
Himself - Guest
The View from the White House
1968
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Year Out: Year in 1967
1967
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Africa
1967
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Commentary
ABC Scope
1965-1967
TV Series documentary
Himself / Himself - Reporter / Himself - Narrator
Year End Review: Dinner at Howard K. Smith's
1966
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Issues and Answers
1963-1966
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Reporter / Himself - Host
Year Out: Year in 1965
1965
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Friends of Edward R. Murrow
1965
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Winston Churchill: In Memory
1965
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Year Out: Year in 1964
1964
TV Movie
Himself - Host
ABC News Reports
1963-1964
TV Series documentary
Himself - Reporter / Himself / Himself - Host
Discovery
1964
TV Series documentary
Himself
Politics '64
1964
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Howard K. Smith
1962-1963
TV Series
Himself - Host / Himself - Anchor
New Year and the Nation
1963
TV Movie
Himself - Host
The Year of Confrontation
1962
TV Movie
Himself - Host
ABC Close-Up!
1962
TV Series documentary
Himself - Narrator
The Other Walls
1962
TV Movie
Himself - Host
CBS Reports
1959-1962
TV Series documentary
Himself - Reporter / Himself - Narrator / Interviewer
Eyewitness to History
1960-1961
TV Series documentary
Himself
Face the Nation
1960-1961
TV Series
Himself - Host
Years of Crisis
1950-1960
TV Series
Himself
General Electric Theater
1960
TV Series
Himself - Host
1960 Presidential Debates
1960
TV Series
Himself - Moderator
Kennedy-Nixon Debate
1960
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Moderator
The Great Challenge
1960
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Behind the News with Howard K. Smith
1959
TV Series
Himself
Section 315
1959
TV Movie
Himself - Host
The Geneva Conference
1959
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Where We Stand: 1959
1959
TV Movie
Himself
The Year Gone By
1958
TV Movie
Himself - Host
The Ruble War
1958
TV Movie
Himself - Host
Hungary: Return of the Terror
1958
TV Movie
Himself - Host
The Twentieth Century
1957-1958
TV Series documentary
Himself - Reporter
The Black Star Rises
1957
TV Movie
Himself - Host
World in Crisis
1956
TV Movie
Himself - Host
You Are There
1956
TV Series
Himself
See It Now
1951-1956
TV Series documentary
Himself - Reporter / Himself
Adventure
1954
TV Series
Himself - Reporter
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Seventies
2015
TV Series documentary
Himself - ABC News
The Sixties
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - CBS News / Himself - ABC News
Khrushchev Does America
2013
Documentary
Himself - Correspondent, CBS
Gloria: In Her Own Words
2011
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Sputnik Fever
2007
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Inside Deep Throat
2005
Documentary
Himself - ABC News Anchor (uncredited)
Dark Days at the White House: The Watergate Scandal and the Resignation of President Richard M. Nixon
1989
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Slaying the Dragon
1988
TV Movie documentary
Himself (ABC News, reports on Vietnam War) (uncredited)
Network
1976
Himself (uncredited)
The Movie Orgy
1968
Documentary
Himself - Special Newscast (uncredited)
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1960
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field
CBS Reports (1959)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1969
Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Achievement within Regularly Scheduled News