Olin Howland
Acting
Born February 9, 1886 · Denver, Colorado, USA
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.
Films (151)
Complicated Women
2003
Creepy Classics
1987
The Blob
1958
Bombers B-52
1957
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
The Storm Rider
1957
The McConnell Story
1955
A Star Is Born
1954
Them!
1954
So This Is Love
1953
The Fabulous Senorita
1952
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
Santa Fe
1951
Charlie's Haunt
1950
Never a Dull Moment
1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950
Rock Island Trail
1950
Father Makes Good
1950
The Nevadan
1950
Mr. Soft Touch
1949
Leave It to Henry
1949
Hellfire
1949
Grand Canyon
1949
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
Little Women
1949
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
Last of the Wild Horses
1948
The Paleface
1948
Station West
1948
Relentless
1948
The Dude Goes West
1948
The Return of the Whistler
1948
I Walk Alone
1947
Living in a Big Way
1947
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
Angel and the Badman
1947
Apache Rose
1947
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
1946
Home Sweet Homicide
1946
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
Dakota
1945
Fallen Angel
1945
Sing Your Way Home
1945
Senorita from the West
1945
Captain Eddie
1945
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945
Sheriff of Cimarron
1945
Her Lucky Night
1945
Grissly's Millions
1945
She Gets Her Man
1945
I'll Be Seeing You
1944
Can't Help Singing
1944
The Town Went Wild
1944
Nothing But Trouble
1944
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
1944
Man from Frisco
1944
Bermuda Mystery
1944
Twilight on the Prairie
1944
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
1943
The Good Fellows
1943
The Sky's the Limit
1943
Dixie
1943
A Stranger in Town
1943
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
Secrets of the Underground
1942
You Can't Escape Forever
1942
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
Henry and Dizzy
1942
In Old California
1942
Almost Married
1942
Dr. Broadway
1942
Home in Wyomin'
1942
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942
This Gun for Hire
1942
Blondie's Blessed Event
1942
Sappy Birthday
1942
Two-Faced Woman
1941
You're in the Army Now
1941
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941
One Foot in Heaven
1941
Buy Me That Town
1941
Belle Starr
1941
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
Chad Hanna
1940
Just a Cute Kid
1940
Young People
1940
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
Young Tom Edison
1940
Four Wives
1939
Days of Jesse James
1939
Gone with the Wind
1939
The Return of Doctor X
1939
One Hour To Live
1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
Zenobia
1939
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
Made for Each Other
1939
Sweethearts
1938
Brother Rat
1938
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
Little Tough Guy
1938
When Were You Born
1938
Kentucky Moonshine
1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938
The Girl of the Golden West
1938
Merrily We Live
1938
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937
Nothing Sacred
1937
Stand-In
1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
Marry the Girl
1937
Mountain Music
1937
Men in Exile
1937
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936
Country Gentlemen
1936
The Longest Night
1936
Earthworm Tractors
1936
Satan Met a Lady
1936
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
The Big Noise
1936
I Married a Doctor
1936
Snowed Under
1936
Road Gang
1936
Man Hunt
1936
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935
Dr. Socrates
1935
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
Little Big Shot
1935
Love Me Forever
1935
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935
Naughty Marietta
1935
Folies Bergère de Paris
1935
Wagon Wheels
1934
Treasure Island
1934
Little Women
1933
Golden Harvest
1933
Blondie Johnson
1933
So Big!
1932
Cheaters at Play
1932
Over the Hill
1931
Zander the Great
1925
Janice Meredith
1924
Danse macabre
1922
Independence, B'Gosh
1918
Romance and Brass Tacks
1918
Hick Manhattan
1918