Name
Howard Da Silva
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1909-05-04
Deathday
1986-02-16 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
Howard da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt, May 4, 1909 – February 16, 1986) was an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio. He was cast in dozens of productions on the New York stage, appeared in more than two dozen television programs, and acted in more than fifty feature films. Adept at both drama and musicals on the stage, he originated the role of Jud Fry in the original 1943 run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, and also portrayed the prosecuting attorney in the 1957 stage production of Compulsion. Da Silva was nominated for a 1960 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in Fiorello!, a musical about New York City mayor LaGuardia. In 1961, da Silva directed Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis.
Known For
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A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not ...
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England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agre...
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Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physic...
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Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by...
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Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst...
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Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensif...
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Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist....
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At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- ...
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Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-bus...
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Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy...
- 1966 Nevada Smith as Warden
- 1943 Keeper of the Flame as Jason Rickards
- 1949 Border Incident as Owen Parkson
- 1943 Tonight We Raid Calais as Sgt. Block
- 1941 The Sea Wolf as Harrison
- 1945 The Lost Weekend as Nat the Bartender
- 1950 The Underworld Story as Carl Durham
- 1951 M as Inspector Carney
- 1972 1776 as Dr. Benjamin Franklin
- 1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Jack Armstrong
- 1981 Mommie Dearest as L.B. Mayer
- 1946 The Blue Dahlia as Eddie Harwood
- 1949 They Live by Night as Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley
- 1981 The Greatest Man in the World as Conkin
- 1941 Sergeant York as Lem
- 1942 The Big Shot as Sandor
- 1949 The Great Gatsby as Wilson
- 1947 Unconquered as Garth
- 1951 Fourteen Hours as Deputy Police Chief Moskar
- 1974 Smile Jenny, You're Dead as Lt. Humphrey Kenner
- 1964 The Outrage as Prospector
- 1941 Nine Lives Are Not Enough as City Editor
- 1974 The Missiles of October as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
- 1942 Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Ringo
- 1942 Juke Girl as Cully
- 1950 Wyoming Mail as Cavanaugh
- 1962 David and Lisa as Dr. Swinford
- 1984 Garbo Talks as Angelo Dakakis
- 1947 Variety Girl as Howard Da Silva
- 1975 I'm a Stranger Here Myself as Narrator (voice)
- 1942 Bullet Scars as Frank Dillon
- 1947 Blaze of Noon as Mike Gafferty
- 1950 Tripoli as Capt. Demetrios
- 1946 Two Years Before the Mast as Captain Francis A. Thompson
- 1935 Once in a Blue Moon
- 1940 I'm Still Alive as Red Garvey
- 1941 Strange Alibi as Prison Guard Monson
- 1977 The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover as Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1974 The Great Gatsby as Meyer Wolfsheim
- 1941 Steel Against the Sky as Bugs
- 1942 The Omaha Trail as Ben Santley
- 1941 Blues in the Night as Sam Paryas
- 1978 Verna: USO Girl as Eddie
- 1941 At the Stroke of Twelve as Angie the Ox
- 1941 Bad Men of Missouri as Greg Bilson
- 1945 Duffy's Tavern as Tough Guy
- 1950 Three Husbands as Dan McCabe
- 1942 Reunion in France as Anton Stregel
- 1938 Marie Antoinette as Toulon (uncredited)
- 1942 Native Land as Jim
- 1981 The New Deal for Artists as Self
- 1964 Hamlet as Claudius
- 1972 Kung Fu ( 1 episode ) as Otto Schultz
- 1967 Mannix ( 1 episode )
- 1979 Archie Bunker's Place ( 1 episode )
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 1 episode ) as Pete Dawes
- 1965 The Loner ( 1 episode )
- 1961 Ben Casey ( 2 episodes )
- 1961 The Defenders ( 1 episode ) as Peter Cole
- 1963 The Outer Limits ( 1 episode ) as Thurman Cutler (as Howard da Silva)
- 1961 The Defenders ( 1 episode ) as Arnold Fermuller
- 1965 For the People ( 13 episodes )
- 1983 Masquerade ( 1 episode ) as General Breznin
- 1974 The Missiles of October ( 2 episodes ) as Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet Premier
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Eddie
- 1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ( 1 episode ) as Captain Basil Calhoun
- 1980 Power ( 2 episodes ) as Jack Eisenstadt
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Critic
