Olin Howland

Acting · 1.0 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

Little Women

19497.4

The Blob

19586.2

Them!

19546.8

A Star Is Born

19547.1

Treasure Island

19346.5

Bombers B-52

19575.8

Little Women

19336.8

Fallen Angel

19456.6

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

19467.1

In Old California

19425.3

Blondie Johnson

19335.9

The Paleface

19486.1

Angel and the Badman

19476.4

I Walk Alone

19476.6

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

19386.6

Belle Starr

19415.9

The Spirit of St. Louis

19576.7

The Shepherd of the Hills

19416.6

Dixie

19435.0

Complicated Women

20036.9

Young People

19405.3

Nothing Sacred

19376.3

Naughty Marietta

19355.5

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

19496.3

Station West

19486.4

This Gun for Hire

19427.0

The Return of Doctor X

19396.0

Fighting Coast Guard

19516.7

Dakota

19455.2

A Ticket to Tomahawk

19506.0

Satan Met a Lady

19365.8

Made for Each Other

19396.1

Folies Bergère de Paris

19356.0

Santa Fe

19516.8

Zenobia

19395.0

Grissly's Millions

19456.5

Mr. Moto's Gamble

19386.4

Dr. Broadway

19426.0

Relentless

19486.4

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

19426.4

Mr. Soft Touch

19496.8

The Bad Man of Brimstone

19376.7

Road Gang

19367.0

The Mad Miss Manton

19386.4

Gold Diggers of 1937

19366.1

Young Tom Edison

19405.9

Two-Faced Woman

19416.4

Sing Your Way Home

19455.6

One Foot in Heaven

19416.9

So Big!

19325.7

The Girl of the Golden West

19385.3

Nancy Drew... Reporter

19396.0

Buy Me That Town

19416.3

I'll Be Seeing You

19446.9

Bermuda Mystery

19448.0

So This Is Love

19534.3

Charlie's Haunt

1950

The Nevadan

19505.9

Can't Help Singing

19446.0

Rock Island Trail

19506.3

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

19415.6

Earthworm Tractors

19365.4

The Dude Goes West

19485.9

Merrily We Live

19386.9

When Were You Born

19385.3

Creepy Classics

19876.4

The Doctor Takes a Wife

19406.8

Never a Dull Moment

19506.1

Love Me Forever

19355.5

Golden Harvest

19336.5

Dr. Socrates

19356.6

Four Wives

19395.5

Nothing But Trouble

19446.3

Her Lucky Night

19456.3

The McConnell Story

19556.8

Man Hunt

193610.0

The Return of the Whistler

19486.0

Santa Fe Saddlemates

19456.7

Last of the Wild Horses

19483.3

Hellfire

19496.4

Snowed Under

19367.4

Little Big Shot

19357.3

The Sky's the Limit

19436.3

Stand-In

19376.5

Living in a Big Way

19476.0

Bad Men of Tombstone

19496.5

Days of Jesse James

19395.1

Hick Manhattan

191810.0

Cheaters at Play

19327.0

Blondie's Blessed Event

19427.0

You Can't Escape Forever

19426.0

One Hour to Live

19396.5

Blondie Brings Up Baby

19396.9

Captain Eddie

19457.2

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

19428.0

Chad Hanna

19407.3

Mountain Music

19376.0

A Stranger in Town

19436.3

The Good Fellows

19438.0

The Town Went Wild

19447.0

Sweethearts

19385.8

Wagon Wheels

19345.1

The Falcon and the Co-Eds

19436.7

Almost Married

19427.0

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

19377.0

The Falcon Strikes Back

19435.6

The Case of the Curious Bride

19356.0

Marry the Girl

19376.5

The Fabulous Senorita

19526.5

Home Sweet Homicide

19464.5

Over the Hill

19318.5

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

19426.5

You're in the Army Now

19414.4

Kentucky Moonshine

19385.2

The Widow from Monte Carlo

19355.8

The Case of the Lucky Legs

19356.0

In the Meantime, Darling

19446.8

Little Tough Guy

19385.7

She Gets Her Man

19455.3

Home in Wyomin'

19428.5

I Married a Doctor

19365.3

Man from Frisco

19446.5

Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

19466.6

The Case of the Velvet Claws

19367.2

Country Gentlemen

19365.5

Henry and Dizzy

19429.0

Sappy Birthday

194210.0

Easy Come, Easy Go

19477.0

Senorita from the West

19456.0

Secrets of the Underground

19427.0

Brother Rat

19386.0

Grand Canyon

194910.0

Romance and Brass Tacks

1918

Father Makes Good

19506.5

Men in Exile

19375.0

The Longest Night

19366.3

Apache Rose

19476.4

Sing, Neighbor, Sing

19448.0

Independence, B'Gosh

19184.0

Ridin' Down the Canyon

19427.5

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

19427.0

Sheriff of Cimarron

19458.0

Zander the Great

19256.2

The Big Noise

19367.5

The Storm Rider

19577.0

Danse macabre

19226.2

Just a Cute Kid

19407.0

Comin' Round the Mountain

19409.0

Twilight on the Prairie

19448.0

Leave It to Henry

19497.5

Janice Meredith

19247.0