Howard Da Silva
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Howard da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt, May 4, 1909 – February 16, 1986) was an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio. He was cast in dozens of productions on the New York stage, appeared in more than two dozen television programs, and acted in more than fifty feature films. Adept at both drama and musicals on the stage, he originated the role of Jud Fry in the original 1943 run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, and also portrayed the prosecuting attorney in the 1957 stage production of Compulsion. Da Silva was nominated for a 1960 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in Fiorello!, a musical about New York City mayor LaGuardia. In 1961, da Silva directed Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis.
Known for
Credits
The Great Gatsby (1974)
as Meyer Wolfsheim
Sergeant York (1941)
as Lem
Mommie Dearest (1981)
as L.B. Mayer
Unconquered (1947)
as Garth
Nevada Smith (1966)
as Warden
The Lost Weekend (1945)
as Nat the Bartender
They Live by Night (1949)
as Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley
The Outrage (1964)
as Prospector
Fourteen Hours (1951)
as Deputy Police Chief Moskar
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
as Eddie Harwood
The Great Gatsby (1949)
as Wilson
Border Incident (1949)
as Owen Parkson
1776 (1972)
as Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Variety Girl (1947)
as Howard Da Silva
The Sea Wolf (1941)
as Harrison
Juke Girl (1942)
as Cully
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Toulon (uncredited)
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
as Captain Francis A. Thompson
Keeper of the Flame (1943)
as Jason Rickards
David and Lisa (1962)
as Dr. Swinford
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
as Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
as Lt. Humphrey Kenner
The Underworld Story (1950)
as Carl Durham
Garbo Talks (1984)
as Angelo Dakakis
Reunion in France (1942)
as Anton Stregel
Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
as Sgt. Block
Wyoming Mail (1950)
as Cavanaugh
The Big Shot (1942)
as Sandor
The Missiles of October (1974)
as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Strange Alibi (1941)
as Prison Guard Monson
Three Husbands (1950)
as Dan McCabe
M (1951)
as Inspector Carney
Tripoli (1950)
as Capt. Demetrios
Blues in the Night (1941)
as Sam Paryas
Bullet Scars (1942)
as Frank Dillon
Blaze of Noon (1947)
as Mike Gafferty
Steel Against the Sky (1941)
as Bugs
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
as Ringo
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
as Jack Armstrong
Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
as Greg Bilson
Verna: USO Girl (1978)
as Eddie
Duffy's Tavern (1945)
as Tough Guy
The New Deal for Artists (1981)
as Self
Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)
as City Editor
Native Land (1942)
as Jim
I'm Still Alive (1940)
as Red Garvey
The Omaha Trail (1942)
as Ben Santley
At the Stroke of Twelve (1941)
as Angie the Ox
The Greatest Man in the World (1981)
as Conkin
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975)
as Narrator (voice)
Once in a Blue Moon (1935)
Actor
Hamlet (1964)
as Claudius