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
1776 (1972)
as Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Sergeant York (1941)
as Lem
Mommie Dearest (1981)
as L.B. Mayer
Nevada Smith (1966)
as Warden
Unconquered (1947)
as Garth
The Lost Weekend (1945)
as Nat the Bartender
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
as Eddie Harwood
They Live by Night (1949)
as Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley
Variety Girl (1947)
as Howard Da Silva
The Sea Wolf (1941)
as Harrison
The Outrage (1964)
as Prospector
Garbo Talks (1984)
as Angelo Dakakis
Fourteen Hours (1951)
as Deputy Police Chief Moskar
Wyoming Mail (1950)
as Cavanaugh
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Toulon (uncredited)
Blues in the Night (1941)
as Sam Paryas
The Great Gatsby (1949)
as Wilson
David and Lisa (1962)
as Dr. Swinford
M (1951)
as Inspector Carney
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
as Captain Francis A. Thompson
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
as Jack Armstrong
Reunion in France (1942)
as Anton Stregel
Bullet Scars (1942)
as Frank Dillon
Native Land (1942)
as Jim
Juke Girl (1942)
as Cully
Three Husbands (1950)
as Dan McCabe
Keeper of the Flame (1943)
as Jason Rickards
Border Incident (1949)
as Owen Parkson
Blaze of Noon (1947)
as Mike Gafferty
The Big Shot (1942)
as Sandor
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
as Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Strange Alibi (1941)
as Prison Guard Monson
Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
as Lt. Humphrey Kenner
Duffy's Tavern (1945)
as Tough Guy
At the Stroke of Twelve (1941)
as Angie the Ox
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
as Ringo
The Omaha Trail (1942)
as Ben Santley
The Missiles of October (1974)
as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)
as City Editor
Tripoli (1950)
as Capt. Demetrios
Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
as Sgt. Block
Hamlet (1964)
as Claudius
Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
as Greg Bilson
The Underworld Story (1950)
as Carl Durham
I'm Still Alive (1940)
as Red Garvey
Verna: USO Girl (1978)
as Eddie
The Greatest Man in the World (1981)
as Conkin
Steel Against the Sky (1941)
as Bugs
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975)
as Narrator (voice)
Once in a Blue Moon (1935)
Actor
The New Deal for Artists (1981)
as Self