Hal Smith Biography

Fast Facts

• Served during World War II in the U․S․ Air Force
• Graduated from Massena High School in New York in 1936
• Was married to his wife Vivian M․ Angstadt, with whom he had one child, from 1939 until she passed away on July 6th, 1992
• From 1936 to 1943, he spent time working as a disc jockey in Utica, N․Y
• Best known as Otis Campbell, the loveable town drunk on "The Andy Griffith Show," even though in real life, he was a teetotaler
• In country musician Alan Jackson's 1991 music video "Don't Rock the Jukebox," he reprised his role of Otis Campbell from "The Andy Griffith Show․"
• Following the death of the original voice actor of Goofy, Pinto Colvig, he was one of the actors to take over voicing the iconic Walt Disney character