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name: "Howard Smith"
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born: "10 December 1936"
died: "1 May 2014"
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# Howard Smith

Actor. Born 10 December 1936 in Brooklyn. Died 1 May 2014.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 December 1936, Brooklyn
- **Died:** 1 May 2014

## Biography

Howard Smith was an American journalist, film director and producer. Born in Brooklyn on 10 December 1936, he began his career as a photographer before becoming a columnist for The Village Voice and a radio broadcaster.

Smith directed the 1972 documentary *Marjoe*, which he co-produced with Sarah Kernochan and which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. He followed this with *Gizmo!* (1977), a documentary compiled from archival footage of unusual inventions.

He appeared as a TV commentator in George A. Romero's *Dawn of the Dead* (1978). Smith died in Manhattan on 1 May 2014.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dawn of the Dead* (1978), Fi1m 86, as TV Commentator — [page](https://film.one/film/dawn-of-the-dead.md)

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