
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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