Olin Howland

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

140

Movies

152

Born: February 9, 1886 – September 20, 1959
From: 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.

Works

152 films

Gone with the Wind

19397.9

The Blob

19586.2

Little Women

19497.4

Them!

19546.8

Bombers B-52

19575.8

A Star Is Born

19547.1

Fallen Angel

19456.6

Treasure Island

19346.5

Angel and the Badman

19476.4

In Old California

19425.3

Little Women

19336.8

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

19467.1

Blondie Johnson

19335.9

Belle Starr

19415.9

The Paleface

19486.1

I Walk Alone

19476.6

Naughty Marietta

19355.5

The Spirit of St. Louis

19576.7

Young People

19405.3

Complicated Women

20036.9

The Return of Doctor X

19396.0

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

19386.6

Nothing Sacred

19376.3

Fighting Coast Guard

19516.7

A Ticket to Tomahawk

19506.0

The Shepherd of the Hills

19416.6

Made for Each Other

19396.1

This Gun for Hire

19427.0

Dakota

19455.2

Dixie

19435.0

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

19496.3

Road Gang

19367.0

Zenobia

19395.0

Grissly's Millions

19456.5

Satan Met a Lady

19365.8

Folies Bergère de Paris

19356.0

Santa Fe

19516.8

The Bad Man of Brimstone

19376.7

Relentless

19486.4

Station West

19486.4

The Mad Miss Manton

19386.4

Young Tom Edison

19405.9

Two-Faced Woman

19416.4

Dr. Broadway

19426.0

One Foot in Heaven

19416.9

The Nevadan

19505.9

So Big!

19325.7

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

19426.4

Buy Me That Town

19416.3

Bermuda Mystery

19448.0

I'll Be Seeing You

19446.9

So This Is Love

19534.3

Mr. Soft Touch

19496.8

The Girl of the Golden West

19385.3

Mr. Moto's Gamble

19386.4

Sing Your Way Home

19455.6

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

19415.6

Rock Island Trail

19506.3

Nancy Drew... Reporter

19396.0

The Dude Goes West

19485.9

Merrily We Live

19386.9

Earthworm Tractors

19365.4

The Doctor Takes a Wife

19406.8

Dr. Socrates

19356.6

You Can't Escape Forever

19426.0

Love Me Forever

19355.5

Four Wives

19395.5

Her Lucky Night

19456.3

Never a Dull Moment

19506.1

The McConnell Story

19556.8

Days of Jesse James

19395.1

Man Hunt

193610.0

Santa Fe Saddlemates

19456.7

Little Big Shot

19357.3

Can't Help Singing

19446.0

Stand-In

19376.5

Living in a Big Way

19476.0

Hick Manhattan

191810.0

Cheaters at Play

19327.0

Nothing But Trouble

19446.3

The Case of the Velvet Claws

19367.2

When Were You Born

19385.3

One Hour to Live

19396.5

The Sky's the Limit

19436.3

Charlie's Haunt

1950

Blondie Brings Up Baby

19396.9

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

19428.0

Chad Hanna

19407.3

Mountain Music

19376.0

The Good Fellows

19438.0

Last of the Wild Horses

19483.3

The Town Went Wild

19447.0

Gold Diggers of 1937

19366.1

The Falcon and the Co-Eds

19436.7

Marry the Girl

19376.5

A Stranger in Town

19436.3

Wagon Wheels

19345.1

Golden Harvest

19336.5

Almost Married

19427.0

The Case of the Curious Bride

19356.0

Man from Frisco

19446.5

The Fabulous Senorita

19526.5

She Gets Her Man

19455.3

Home Sweet Homicide

19464.5

Over the Hill

19318.5

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

19426.5

The Falcon Strikes Back

19435.6

You're in the Army Now

19414.4

Kentucky Moonshine

19385.2

The Widow from Monte Carlo

19355.8

In the Meantime, Darling

19446.8

Hellfire

19496.4

Home in Wyomin'

19428.5

Bad Men of Tombstone

19496.5

I Married a Doctor

19365.3

Captain Eddie

19457.2

The Case of the Lucky Legs

19356.0

Men in Exile

19375.0

Sweethearts

19385.8

Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

19466.6

Apache Rose

19476.4

The Return of the Whistler

19486.0

Henry and Dizzy

19429.0

Country Gentlemen

19365.5

Sappy Birthday

194210.0

Easy Come, Easy Go

19477.0

Blondie's Blessed Event

19427.0

Sheriff of Cimarron

19458.0

Secrets of the Underground

19427.0

Brother Rat

19386.0

Romance and Brass Tacks

1918

Father Makes Good

19506.5

Senorita from the West

19456.0

Zander the Great

19256.2

Creepy Classics

19876.4

Independence, B'Gosh

19184.0

Ridin' Down the Canyon

19427.5

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

19427.0

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

19377.0

Little Tough Guy

19385.7

Comin' Round the Mountain

19409.0

Grand Canyon

194910.0

The Big Noise

19367.5

Just a Cute Kid

19407.0

Twilight on the Prairie

19448.0

Snowed Under

19367.4

The Storm Rider

19577.0

The Longest Night

19366.3

Leave It to Henry

19497.5

Janice Meredith

19247.0

Sing, Neighbor, Sing

19448.0

Danse macabre

19226.2