Olin Howland
Acting
- Born:
- 1886-02-09
- Died:
- 1959-09-20
- Place of birth:
- Denver, Colorado, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Olin Ross Howland (February 10, 1886 – September 20, 1959) was an American film and theatre actor. Howland was born in Denver, Colorado, to Joby A. Howland, one of the youngest enlisted participants in the Civil War, and Mary C. Bunting. His older sister was the famous stage actress Jobyna Howland. From 1909 to 1927, Howland appeared on Broadway in musicals, occasionally performing in silent films. The musicals include Leave It to Jane (1917), Two Little Girls in Blue (1921) and Wildflower (1923). He was in the film Janice Meredith (1924) with Marion Davies. With the advent of sound films, his theatre background proved an asset, and he concentrated mostly on films thereafter, appearing in nearly two hundred movies between 1918 and 1958. Howland often played eccentric and rural roles in Hollywood. His parts were often small and uncredited, and he never got a leading role. He was a personal favorite of David O. Selznick, who cast him in his movies Nothing Sacred (1937) as a strange luggage man, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938, as the teacher Mr. Dobbins) and Gone with the Wind (1939) as a carpetbagger businessman. He also played in numerous westerns from Republic Pictures, including the John Wayne films In Old California (1942) and Angel and the Badman (1947). As a young man, Howland learned to fly at the Wright Flying School and soloed on a Wright Model B. This lent special sentiment in his scenes with James Stewart in the film The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), as Stewart was also a pilot in real life. The Spirit of St. Louis and Them (1954),where he played a drunken old man, and The Blob (1958) were his last films. He also played in telelevision shows during the 1950s. In 1958 and 1959, he was cast as Charley Perkins in five episodes of ABC's sitcom The Real McCoys, starring Walter Brennan. Howland never married and had no children. He worked until his death in Hollywood, California, at the age of 73.
Known For
Filmography
Complicated Women
Creepy Classics
The Blob
Bombers B-52
The Real McCoys
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Storm Rider
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The McConnell Story
A Star Is Born
Them!
So This Is Love
Mr. & Mrs. North
Hopalong Cassidy
The Fabulous Senorita
I Love Lucy
Fighting Coast Guard
Santa Fe
Lux Video Theatre
Charlie's Haunt
Never a Dull Moment
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Rock Island Trail
Father Makes Good
The Nevadan
Mr. Soft Touch
Leave It to Henry
Hellfire
Grand Canyon
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Little Women
Bad Men of Tombstone
Last of the Wild Horses
The Paleface
Station West
Relentless
The Dude Goes West
The Return of the Whistler
I Walk Alone
Living in a Big Way
Easy Come, Easy Go
Angel and the Badman
Apache Rose
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
Home Sweet Homicide
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Dakota
Fallen Angel
Sing Your Way Home
Senorita from the West
Captain Eddie
Santa Fe Saddlemates
Sheriff of Cimarron
Her Lucky Night
Grissly's Millions
She Gets Her Man
Can't Help Singing
I'll Be Seeing You
The Town Went Wild
Nothing But Trouble
In the Meantime, Darling
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
Man from Frisco
Bermuda Mystery
Twilight on the Prairie
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
The Good Fellows
The Sky's the Limit
Dixie
A Stranger in Town
The Falcon Strikes Back
Ridin' Down the Canyon
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Secrets of the Underground
You Can't Escape Forever
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Henry and Dizzy
In Old California
Almost Married
Dr. Broadway
Home in Wyomin'
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
This Gun for Hire
Blondie's Blessed Event
Sappy Birthday
Two-Faced Woman
You're in the Army Now
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
One Foot in Heaven
Buy Me That Town
Belle Starr
The Shepherd of the Hills
Chad Hanna
Just a Cute Kid
Young People
Comin' Round the Mountain
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Young Tom Edison
Four Wives
Days of Jesse James
Gone with the Wind
The Return of Doctor X
One Hour to Live
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Zenobia
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Made for Each Other
Sweethearts
Brother Rat
The Mad Miss Manton
Little Tough Guy
When Were You Born
Kentucky Moonshine
Mr. Moto's Gamble
The Girl of the Golden West
Merrily We Live
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Nothing Sacred
Stand-In
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Marry the Girl
Mountain Music
Men in Exile
Gold Diggers of 1937
Country Gentlemen
The Longest Night
Earthworm Tractors
Satan Met a Lady
The Case of the Velvet Claws
The Big Noise
I Married a Doctor
Snowed Under
Road Gang
Man Hunt
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Dr. Socrates
The Case of the Lucky Legs
Little Big Shot
Love Me Forever
The Case of the Curious Bride
Naughty Marietta
Folies Bergère de Paris
Wagon Wheels
Treasure Island
Little Women
Golden Harvest
Blondie Johnson
So Big!
Cheaters at Play
Over the Hill
Zander the Great
Janice Meredith
Danse macabre
Independence, B'Gosh
Romance and Brass Tacks
Hick Manhattan