Acting
GenderMale
BirthdayFebruary 8, 1886 (139 years old)
Place of BirthDenver, Colorado, USA
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.
Gone with the Wind
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Blondie's Blessed Event
Blondie Johnson
Them!
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Town Went Wild
I'll Be Seeing You
The Good Fellows
Angel and the Badman
Almost Married
The Blob
Fallen Angel
Nothing But Trouble
Satan Met a Lady
Station West
Nothing Sacred
The Girl of the Golden West
Earthworm Tractors
This Gun for Hire
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Little Women
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Can't Help Singing
Belle Starr
Creepy Classics
Hick Manhattan
Romance and Brass Tacks
Independence, B'Gosh
Sappy Birthday
The Nevadan
Young People
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Hellfire
Zenobia
Love Me Forever
Ridin' Down the Canyon
The Case of the Lucky Legs
The McConnell Story
Santa Fe
Stand-In
The Case of the Velvet Claws
A Stranger in Town
Men in Exile
The Storm Rider
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Marry the Girl
Road Gang
Country Gentlemen
Dr. Socrates
Kentucky Moonshine
When Were You Born
Easy Come, Easy Go
So This Is Love
The Sky's the Limit
Merrily We Live
Over the Hill
Little Tough Guy
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
The Mad Miss Manton
The Dude Goes West
Chad Hanna
Charlie's Haunt
Folies Bergère
Treasure Island
Little Big Shot
Two-Faced Woman
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
I Walk Alone
Brother Rat
Dixie
Zander the Great
Last of the Wild Horses
A Star Is Born
The Big Noise
Henry and Dizzy
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Made for Each Other
Cheaters at Play
Dr. Broadway
Days of Jesse James
Four Wives
The Return of Doctor X
Sheriff of Cimarron
Apache Rose
Santa Fe Saddlemates
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Janice Meredith
Danse macabre
Bermuda Mystery
Young Tom Edison
In the Meantime, Darling
Dakota
Man Hunt
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Just a Cute Kid
Buy Me That Town
Secrets of the Underground
The Return of the Whistler
She Gets Her Man
I Married a Doctor
Man from Frisco
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Case of the Curious Bride
Rock Island Trail
Grissly's Millions
Home in Wyomin'
The Shepherd of the Hills
Senorita from the West
Twilight on the Prairie
Golden Harvest
Bad Men of Tombstone
In Old California
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Gold Diggers of 1937
Bombers B-52
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Complicated Women
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Relentless
Fighting Coast Guard
So Big!
The Paleface
Living in a Big Way
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
Sweethearts
Father Makes Good
Dr. Broadway
The Falcon Strikes Back
Wagon Wheels
Leave It to Henry
Home Sweet Homicide
Captain Eddie
One Hour To Live
Her Lucky Night
Mr. Soft Touch
Naughty Marietta
Mountain Music
You're in the Army Now
You Can't Escape Forever
The Fabulous Senorita
Snowed Under
The Longest Night
One Foot in Heaven
Grand Canyon
Sing Your Way Home
Never a Dull Moment
Comin' Round the Mountain
I Love Lucy
Lux Video Theatre
The Real McCoys
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Hopalong Cassidy
Mr. & Mrs. North
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre