American actor
He alternated with actor/game show host Jack Bailey as the voice of Walt Disney s Goofy after the original voice artist, Pinto Colvig , died in 1967.
Provided the voice of the much beloved "Mr. Whittaker" in the very popular radio kids program Adventure in Odyssey.
Hal Smiths character, "Mr. Whittaker", from the radio program "Adventures In Odyssey" was brought back with Paul Herlinger handling his voice.
Reprised his role of Otis Campbell, Mayberrys town drunk on the "The Andy Griffith Show" in country singer Alan Jackson s 1991 video, "Dont Rock the Jukebox."
One of the most prolific cartoon voicepersons in entertainment history, most of his work having been done for Hanna-Barbera. Related to this, Smith played the character "Cartoon King" on a 1970 episode of "The Brady Bunch."
Is interred in the mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetary, in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Only child Terry Jay Smith died on October 11, 1998.
Worked as a disc jockey in Utica, New York, from 1936 to 1943. Hal then moved to Hollywood working as an announcer for the Warner Brothers radio station KFWB; while there he was an announcer for "The Jimmie Jackson Show" and "Jimmie Jacksons Memory Lane" Show. Later on Hal was able to lampoon Jimmie on one of the Andy Griffith shows "Goodbye, Sheriff Taylor" The tongue-in-cheek one liner occurred when "Otis" was complaining to Barney Fife about a young upstart by the name of "Little Jimmie Jackson!" Six months before Hal died while he was starring in the "Adventures of Odyssey" program he did a couple of those shows with his old friend Jimmie Jacksons son, J.P. Sloane.
Served in the Special Services during World War II.
Even though he played Otis Campbell, the town drunk, in the Andy Griffith Show, Hal Smith never drank in real life.
Hal Smith in later years used he Otis Campbell character in Mothers Against Drunk Driving spot ads.
Appeared as host of a local Los Angeles area-kids TV show titled, "The Pancake Man." The show was sponsored by The International House of Pancakes.
Godfather to Jessica Gee-George.
Provided the voice of the "story reader" on many Disney Read-Along records in the late 70s.
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1949. Major League Baseball debut in 1955 with the Baltimore Orioles. Later played for the Kansas City Athletics, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Houston Colt 45s, finishing with the Cincinnati Reds in 1964.
Uncle of Tim Flannery.
In 2012 Smith lived with his second wife in Columbus, Texas, and enjoyed golfing and fishing. In 2010 he had heart bypass surgery, which forced him to miss the 50th-anniversary reunion of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates.
Not to be confused with Hal R. Smith (born 1931). Major League Baseballs two Hal Smths were always being confused for one another. It didnt help clarity much that they played ball in the same era and, worse, that they played the same position and both batted right-handed.
