Howard Da Silva
Birthday
1909/05/04
Day of death
1986/02/16 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Also know as
Howard Silverblatt, Howard DaSilva, Howard DaSylva
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 t...Read more
Acting
(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
as ---
(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
(1980) Power
as Jack Eisenstadt
(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 ---
(1972) Kung Fu
as ---
(1967) Mannix
as ---
(1979) Archie Bunker's Place
as ---
(1963) The Fugitive
as Pete Dawes
(1965) The Loner
as ---
(1961) Ben Casey
as ---
(1961) The Defenders
as Peter Cole
(1963) The Outer Limits
as Thurman Cutler (as Howard da Silva)
(1961) The Defenders
as Arnold Fermuller
(1965) For the People
as ---
(1983) Masquerade
as General Breznin
(1974) The Missiles of October
as Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet Premier
(1971) Great Performances
as Eddie