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
Unconquered (1947)
as Garth
They Live by Night (1949)
as Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley
Fourteen Hours (1951)
as Deputy Police Chief Moskar
1776 (1972)
as Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Sergeant York (1941)
as Lem
The Lost Weekend (1945)
as Nat the Bartender
Mommie Dearest (1981)
as L.B. Mayer
Nevada Smith (1966)
as Warden
The Outrage (1964)
as Prospector
Juke Girl (1942)
as Cully
M (1951)
as Inspector Carney
David and Lisa (1962)
as Dr. Swinford
The Sea Wolf (1941)
as Harrison
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Toulon (uncredited)
The Great Gatsby (1949)
as Wilson
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
as Captain Francis A. Thompson
Reunion in France (1942)
as Anton Stregel
Border Incident (1949)
as Owen Parkson
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
as Eddie Harwood
Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
as Sgt. Block
The Underworld Story (1950)
as Carl Durham
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
as Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm Still Alive (1940)
as Red Garvey
Keeper of the Flame (1943)
as Jason Rickards
Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
as Greg Bilson
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
as Jack Armstrong
The Big Shot (1942)
as Sandor
Garbo Talks (1984)
as Angelo Dakakis
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
as Ringo
Three Husbands (1950)
as Dan McCabe
The New Deal for Artists (1976)
as Self
The Missiles of October (1974)
as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Variety Girl (1947)
as Howard Da Silva
Wyoming Mail (1950)
as Cavanaugh
Steel Against the Sky (1941)
as Bugs
Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
as Lt. Humphrey Kenner
Blues in the Night (1941)
as Sam Paryas
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975)
as Narrator (voice)
Tripoli (1950)
as Capt. Demetrios
The Greatest Man in the World (1981)
as Conkin
Bullet Scars (1942)
as Frank Dillon
Native Land (1942)
as Jim
At the Stroke of Twelve (1941)
as Angie the Ox
Blaze of Noon (1947)
as Mike Gafferty
Once in a Blue Moon (1935)
Actor
Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)
as City Editor
Strange Alibi (1941)
as Prison Guard Monson
Hamlet (1964)
as Claudius
The Omaha Trail (1942)
as Ben Santley
Verna: USO Girl (1978)
as Eddie
Duffy's Tavern (1945)
as Tough Guy