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Olin Howland

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

February 8, 1886 (139 years old)

Place of Birth

Denver, Colorado, USA

Olin Howland

Biography

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.

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Gone with the Wind

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Blondie Brings Up Baby

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Blondie's Blessed Event

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Blondie Johnson

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Them!

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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The Town Went Wild

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I'll Be Seeing You

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The Good Fellows

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Angel and the Badman

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Almost Married

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The Blob

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Fallen Angel

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Nothing But Trouble

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Satan Met a Lady

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Station West

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Nothing Sacred

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The Girl of the Golden West

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Earthworm Tractors

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This Gun for Hire

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The Falcon and the Co-Eds

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Little Women

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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

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Can't Help Singing

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Belle Starr

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Creepy Classics

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Hick Manhattan

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Romance and Brass Tacks

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Independence, B'Gosh

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Sappy Birthday

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The Nevadan

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Young People

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The Man Who Wouldn't Die

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Hellfire

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Zenobia

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Love Me Forever

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Ridin' Down the Canyon

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The Case of the Lucky Legs

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The McConnell Story

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Santa Fe

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Stand-In

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The Case of the Velvet Claws

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A Stranger in Town

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Men in Exile

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The Storm Rider

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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

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Marry the Girl

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Road Gang

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Country Gentlemen

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Dr. Socrates

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Kentucky Moonshine

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When Were You Born

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Easy Come, Easy Go

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So This Is Love

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The Sky's the Limit

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Merrily We Live

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Over the Hill

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Little Tough Guy

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

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The Mad Miss Manton

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The Dude Goes West

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Chad Hanna

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Charlie's Haunt

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Folies Bergère

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Treasure Island

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Little Big Shot

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Two-Faced Woman

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Sing, Neighbor, Sing

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I Walk Alone

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Brother Rat

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Dixie

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Zander the Great

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Last of the Wild Horses

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A Star Is Born

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The Big Noise

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Henry and Dizzy

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Nancy Drew... Reporter

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Made for Each Other

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Cheaters at Play

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Dr. Broadway

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Days of Jesse James

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Four Wives

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The Return of Doctor X

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Sheriff of Cimarron

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Apache Rose

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Santa Fe Saddlemates

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Janice Meredith

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Danse macabre

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Bermuda Mystery

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Young Tom Edison

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In the Meantime, Darling

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Dakota

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Man Hunt

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Mr. Moto's Gamble

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Just a Cute Kid

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Buy Me That Town

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Secrets of the Underground

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The Return of the Whistler

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She Gets Her Man

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I Married a Doctor

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Man from Frisco

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The Doctor Takes a Wife

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Wife, Doctor and Nurse

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The Spirit of St. Louis

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The Case of the Curious Bride

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Rock Island Trail

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Grissly's Millions

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Home in Wyomin'

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The Shepherd of the Hills

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Senorita from the West

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Twilight on the Prairie

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Golden Harvest

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Bad Men of Tombstone

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In Old California

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Ten Gentlemen from West Point

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Gold Diggers of 1937

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Bombers B-52

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The Widow from Monte Carlo

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Complicated Women

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The Bad Man of Brimstone

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Relentless

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Fighting Coast Guard

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So Big!

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The Paleface

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Living in a Big Way

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Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

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Sweethearts

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Father Makes Good

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Dr. Broadway

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The Falcon Strikes Back

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Wagon Wheels

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Leave It to Henry

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Home Sweet Homicide

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Captain Eddie

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One Hour To Live

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Her Lucky Night

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Mr. Soft Touch

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Naughty Marietta

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Mountain Music

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You're in the Army Now

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You Can't Escape Forever

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The Fabulous Senorita

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Snowed Under

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The Longest Night

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One Foot in Heaven

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Grand Canyon

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Sing Your Way Home

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Never a Dull Moment

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Comin' Round the Mountain

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I Love Lucy

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Lux Video Theatre

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The Real McCoys

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The Adventures of Jim Bowie

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Hopalong Cassidy

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Mr. & Mrs. North

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Lux Video Theatre

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Lux Video Theatre

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