Olin Howland
Biography
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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.
Acting (149 movies)
Gone with the Wind
1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
Blondie's Blessed Event
1942
Blondie Johnson
1933
Them!
1954
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938
The Town Went Wild
1944
I'll Be Seeing You
1944
The Good Fellows
1943
Angel and the Badman
1947
Almost Married
1942
The Blob
1958
Fallen Angel
1945
Nothing But Trouble
1944
Satan Met a Lady
1936
Station West
1948
Nothing Sacred
1937
The Girl of the Golden West
1938
Earthworm Tractors
1936
This Gun for Hire
1942
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
1943
Little Women
1933
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941
Can't Help Singing
1944
Belle Starr
1941
Creepy Classics
1987
Hick Manhattan
1918
Romance and Brass Tacks
1918
Independence, B'Gosh
1918
The Nevadan
1950
Young People
1940
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942
Hellfire
1949
Zenobia
1939
Love Me Forever
1935
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
The McConnell Story
1955
Santa Fe
1951
Stand-In
1937
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
A Stranger in Town
1943
Men in Exile
1937
The Storm Rider
1957
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
Marry the Girl
1937
Road Gang
1936
Country Gentlemen
1936
Dr. Socrates
1935
Kentucky Moonshine
1938
When Were You Born
1938
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
So This Is Love
1953
The Sky's the Limit
1943
Merrily We Live
1938
Over the Hill
1931
Little Tough Guy
1938
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
The Dude Goes West
1948
Chad Hanna
1940
Charlie's Haunt
1950
Folies Bergère
1935
Treasure Island
1934
Little Big Shot
1935
Two-Faced Woman
1941
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
1944
I Walk Alone
1947
Brother Rat
1938
Dixie
1943
Zander the Great
1925
Last of the Wild Horses
1948
A Star Is Born
1954
The Big Noise
1936
Henry and Dizzy
1942
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
Made for Each Other
1939
Cheaters at Play
1932
Days of Jesse James
1939
Four Wives
1939
The Return of Doctor X
1939
Sheriff of Cimarron
1945
Apache Rose
1947
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
Janice Meredith
1924
Danse macabre
1922
Bermuda Mystery
1944
Young Tom Edison
1940
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
Dakota
1945
Man Hunt
1936
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938
Just a Cute Kid
1940
Buy Me That Town
1941
Secrets of the Underground
1942
The Return of the Whistler
1948
She Gets Her Man
1945
I Married a Doctor
1936
Man from Frisco
1944
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