Olin Howland
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.
157 acting credits
Acting · 157
I Love Lucy
1951
The Real McCoys
1957
Gone with the Wind
1939
Lux Video Theatre
1950
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
Little Women
1949
The Blob
1958
Them!
1954
Angel and the Badman
1947
A Star Is Born
1954
Dakota
1945
Fallen Angel
1945
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
This Gun for Hire
1942
Little Women
1933
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
Treasure Island
1934
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
Nothing Sacred
1937
I Walk Alone
1947
Relentless
1948
Belle Starr
1941
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
Complicated Women
2003
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936
Made for Each Other
1939
Bombers B-52
1957
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938
The Nevadan
1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950
Stand-In
1937
Hellfire
1949
Golden Harvest
1933
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
Station West
1948
The Return of Doctor X
1939
Mr. Soft Touch
1949
Can't Help Singing
1944
Never a Dull Moment
1950
Young Tom Edison
1940
Creepy Classics
1987
Santa Fe
1951
Dr. Socrates
1935
Satan Met a Lady
1936
The Sky's the Limit
1943
Chad Hanna
1940
The Paleface
1948
Four Wives
1939
Marry the Girl
1937
When Were You Born
1938
The McConnell Story
1955
Young People
1940
Merrily We Live
1938
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
In Old California
1942
Home Sweet Homicide
1946
Zenobia
1939
The Dude Goes West
1948
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
1943
Grand Canyon
1949
Grissly's Millions
1945
I'll Be Seeing You
1944
Two-Faced Woman
1941
Naughty Marietta
1935
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
Sweethearts
1938
So Big!
1932
Road Gang
1936
Rock Island Trail
1950
Buy Me That Town
1941
So This Is Love
1953
Little Big Shot
1935
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935
You Can't Escape Forever
1942
The Town Went Wild
1944
Earthworm Tractors
1936
Living in a Big Way
1947
Days of Jesse James
1939
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
Brother Rat
1938
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937
Dr. Broadway
1942
Senorita from the West
1945
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
Snowed Under
1936
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935
Apache Rose
1947
Wagon Wheels
1934
Over the Hill
1931
The Girl of the Golden West
1938
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
Dixie
1943
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
Love Me Forever
1935
Last of the Wild Horses
1948
The Big Noise
1936
Man Hunt
1936
Nothing But Trouble
1944
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
Henry and Dizzy
1942
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941
The Storm Rider
1957
Zander the Great
1925
Captain Eddie
1945
Little Tough Guy
1938
Man from Frisco
1944
Kentucky Moonshine
1938
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940
Home in Wyomin'
1942
Blondie's Blessed Event
1942
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
You're in the Army Now
1941
The Return of the Whistler
1948
One Hour to Live
1939
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
Her Lucky Night
1945
Mountain Music
1937
I Married a Doctor
1936
Twilight on the Prairie
1944
Leave It to Henry
1949
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945
The Good Fellows
1943
Country Gentlemen
1936
The Longest Night
1936
One Foot in Heaven
1941
Blondie Johnson
1933
A Stranger in Town
1943
Father Makes Good
1950
Folies Bergère de Paris
1935
Just a Cute Kid
1940
Sheriff of Cimarron
1945
She Gets Her Man
1945
Secrets of the Underground
1942
The Fabulous Senorita
1952
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
1944
Danse macabre
1922
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
1946
Janice Meredith
1924
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
Sing Your Way Home
1945
Men in Exile
1937
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
Bermuda Mystery
1944
Cheaters at Play
1932
Almost Married
1942
Charlie's Haunt
1950
Sappy Birthday
1942
Hick Manhattan
1918
Independence, B'Gosh
1918
Romance and Brass Tacks
1918