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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1886-02-09
Place of birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
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Cast
Gone with the Wind
1939
7.90
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
6.50
Blondie's Blessed Event
1942
7.30
Blondie Johnson
1933
5.75
Them!
1954
6.80
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938
6.60
The Town Went Wild
1944
5.00
I'll Be Seeing You
1944
6.90
The Good Fellows
1943
0.00
Angel and the Badman
1947
6.40
Almost Married
1942
0.00
The Blob
1958
6.21
Fallen Angel
1945
6.50
Nothing But Trouble
1944
6.00
Satan Met a Lady
1936
5.70
Station West
1948
6.10
Nothing Sacred
1937
6.30
The Girl of the Golden West
1938
4.60
Earthworm Tractors
1936
5.00
This Gun for Hire
1942
6.96
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
1943
6.61
Little Women
1933
6.77
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941
5.70
Can't Help Singing
1944
5.40
Belle Starr
1941
5.60
Creepy Classics
1987
6.30
Hick Manhattan
1918
0.00
Independence, B'Gosh
1918
4.00
Romance and Brass Tacks
1918
0.00
Sappy Birthday
1942
0.00
The Nevadan
1950
5.80
Young People
1940
4.60
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942
6.40
Hellfire
1949
6.10
Zenobia
1939
4.60
Love Me Forever
1935
4.86
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
7.00
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
5.64
The McConnell Story
1955
6.30
Santa Fe
1951
6.80
Stand-In
1937
6.30
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936
6.80
A Stranger in Town
1943
6.10
Men in Exile
1937
4.17
The Storm Rider
1957
0.00
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
7.06
Marry the Girl
1937
5.00
Road Gang
1936
6.50
Country Gentlemen
1936
4.70
Dr. Socrates
1935
6.40
Kentucky Moonshine
1938
4.75
When Were You Born
1938
5.00
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
0.00
So This Is Love
1953
3.80
The Sky's the Limit
1943
6.20
Over the Hill
1931
8.20
Merrily We Live
1938
6.90
Little Tough Guy
1938
5.60
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
0.00
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
6.30
The Dude Goes West
1948
5.20
Chad Hanna
1940
6.00
Charlie's Haunt
1950
0.00
Folies Bergère
1935
5.60
Treasure Island
1934
6.50
Little Big Shot
1935
6.00
Two-Faced Woman
1941
6.40
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
1944
0.00
I Walk Alone
1947
6.50
Brother Rat
1938
5.00
Dixie
1943
3.00
Zander the Great
1925
5.80
Last of the Wild Horses
1948
2.60
A Star Is Born
1954
7.10
The Big Noise
1936
5.00
Henry and Dizzy
1942
0.00
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
6.00
Made for Each Other
1939
6.13
Cheaters at Play
1932
0.00
Days of Jesse James
1939
4.70
Four Wives
1939
5.30
The Return of Doctor X
1939
5.94
Sheriff of Cimarron
1945
6.00
Apache Rose
1947
6.20
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945
5.00
Janice Meredith
1924
5.00
Danse macabre
1922
6.10
Bermuda Mystery
1944
6.00
Young Tom Edison
1940
5.78
In the Meantime, Darling
1944
5.67
Dakota
1945
5.10
Man Hunt
1936
0.00
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938
6.28
Just a Cute Kid
1940
0.00
Buy Me That Town
1941
6.00
Secrets of the Underground
1942
0.00
The Return of the Whistler
1948
5.90
She Gets Her Man
1945
3.70
I Married a Doctor
1936
4.70
Man from Frisco
1944
6.00
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
6.40
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
6.00
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
6.67
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935
5.97
Rock Island Trail
1950
6.00
Grissly's Millions
1945
6.00
Home in Wyomin'
1942
8.00
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
6.50
Senorita from the West
1945
5.00
Twilight on the Prairie
1944
0.00
Golden Harvest
1933
5.00
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
6.30
In Old California
1942
5.10
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
5.80
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936
5.78
Bombers B-52
1957
5.60
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935
5.00
Complicated Women
2003
6.70
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937
6.00
Relentless
1948
6.20
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
6.50
So Big!
1932
5.60
The Paleface
1948
6.04
Living in a Big Way
1947
5.00
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
1946
5.80
Sweethearts
1938
5.70
Father Makes Good
1950
6.00
Dr. Broadway
1942
5.60
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
5.50
Wagon Wheels
1934
4.80
Leave It to Henry
1949
6.00
Home Sweet Homicide
1946
3.75
Captain Eddie
1945
6.00
One Hour To Live
1939
0.00
Her Lucky Night
1945
4.50
Mr. Soft Touch
1949
6.80
Naughty Marietta
1935
5.40
Mountain Music
1937
5.33
You're in the Army Now
1941
4.00
You Can't Escape Forever
1942
5.40
The Fabulous Senorita
1952
6.00
Snowed Under
1936
7.00
The Longest Night
1936
5.70
One Foot in Heaven
1941
6.60
Grand Canyon
1949
0.00
Sing Your Way Home
1945
5.20
Never a Dull Moment
1950
5.40
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940
0.00
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950
5.80