Olin Howland

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Howland in Angel and the Badman (1947)

Olin Ross Howland (born February 10, 1886 in Denver , Colorado , † September 20, 1959 in Hollywood , California ) was an American film and stage actor.

life and career

Howland followed his sister Jobyna (photo) into the acting business, who was a popular stage actress in her day.

Olin Howland was born to Mary Ann Bunting and her husband Joby A. "Happy" Howland (1849-1939), who is considered one of the youngest participants in the Civil War . Olin followed his older sister, Jobyna Howland (1880-1936), a well-known theater actress, into the acting business. Howland was best known on Broadway for comedic roles in musicals. In total, he played in a dozen plays on Broadway between 1909 and 1928. Howland made his film debut in 1918 and played a few leading roles, although he was only to start working regularly in the film business when the talkies began.

In 1931 Howland came to Hollywood , where, because of his idiosyncratic facial features, he embodied mostly weird or rustic characters, both good-natured and vicious. In the early years Howland played mainly for Warner Brothers . He rarely got beyond minor supporting roles and many of his roles did not receive credits in the credits. Occasionally he was also featured in films under the pseudonym Olin Howlin . Olin Howland was one of the favorite actors of the film producer David O. Selznick , who gave him several of the best roles in his film career: In Denen ist nothing sacred (1937) he played a laconic porter , in Tom's Adventure (1938) the beating schoolmaster Mr. Dobbins and in Gone with the Wind a carpet excavator businessman.

In the 1940s Howland played both minor and major supporting roles in numerous Westerns from Republic Pictures . He starred, for example, in The Daredevil of Boston and The Black Rider alongside John Wayne . In 1952 he made his first television appearance on the series Hopalong Cassidy and starred in over a dozen television series in the years that followed. He played the role of Charley Perkins in five episodes of the popular series The Real McCoys . Howland had his best-known film roles in the 1950s in the sci-fi films Formicula and Blob, both of which featured him as a drunken old man. In Blob , he is attacked and eaten up by a gelatinous substance; it was his last of around 200 film roles.

In his private life, Howland was enthusiastic about flying. He attended the Wright Flying School of the famous Wright brothers in the 1910s and flew a Wright Model B among others . Howland's penultimate film Lindbergh - My Flight Over the Ocean by Billy Wilder was also about flying. He worked as an actor until his death and died in 1959 at the age of 73.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joby Howland in the Find a Grave database . Accessed March 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Olin Howland at the New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Howland, Olin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howland, Olin Ross (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1959
Place of death Hollywood , California