Howard Da Silva

Actor May 4 (died age 76) Cleveland, Ohio, USA 1935–1984 (49 year career)

6.1 avg rating

Biography

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 t…

Known For

Film

The Lost Weekend

Nat the Bartender

Film

The Great Gatsby

Meyer Wolfsheim

Film

Sergeant York

Lem

Film

They Live by Night

Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley

Film

Nevada Smith

Warden

Film

Mommie Dearest

L.B. Mayer

Film

The Blue Dahlia

Eddie Harwood

Film

The Sea Wolf

Harrison

Filmography

Acting (66)

Movies (53)

Garbo Talks

as Angelo Dakakis

Mommie Dearest

as L.B. Mayer

The Greatest Man in the World

1981

as Conkin

4.0

The New Deal for Artists

1981

as Self

Power

1980

as Jack Eisenstadt

2.0

Verna: USO Girl

1978

as Eddie

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

1977

as Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt

4.9

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

as Narrator (voice)

The Great Gatsby

as Meyer Wolfsheim

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

1974

as Lt. Humphrey Kenner

6.4

The Missiles of October

1974

as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev

7.5

1776

1972

as Dr. Benjamin Franklin

Nevada Smith

as Warden

The Outrage

as Prospector

Hamlet

as Claudius

David and Lisa

as Dr. Swinford

as Inspector Carney

Fourteen Hours

as Deputy Police Chief Moskar

The Underworld Story

as Carl Durham

Tripoli

as Capt. Demetrios

Wyoming Mail

as Cavanaugh

Three Husbands

as Dan McCabe

The Great Gatsby

as Wilson

They Live by Night

as Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley

Border Incident

as Owen Parkson

Blaze of Noon

as Mike Gafferty

Unconquered

as Garth

Variety Girl

as Howard Da Silva

The Blue Dahlia

as Eddie Harwood

Two Years Before the Mast

1946

as Captain Francis A. Thompson

The Lost Weekend

as Nat the Bartender

Duffy's Tavern

as Tough Guy

Keeper of the Flame

as Jason Rickards

Tonight We Raid Calais

as Sgt. Block

The Big Shot

as Sandor

The Omaha Trail

as Ben Santley

Reunion in France

as Anton Stregel

Juke Girl

as Cully

Bullet Scars

as Frank Dillon

Native Land

as Jim

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

as Ringo

Sergeant York

as Lem

Nine Lives Are Not Enough

as City Editor

The Sea Wolf

as Harrison

Bad Men of Missouri

as Greg Bilson

Blues in the Night

as Sam Paryas

Steel Against the Sky

1941

as Bugs

5.0

Strange Alibi

1941

as Prison Guard Monson

6.6

At the Stroke of Twelve

as Angie the Ox

I'm Still Alive

as Red Garvey

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1940

as Jack Armstrong

6.8

Marie Antoinette

1938

as Toulon (uncredited)

6.5

Once in a Blue Moon

1935

Television (13)

Masquerade

1983

as General Breznin

5.0

Archie Bunker's Place

1979

6.5

The Missiles of October

1974

as Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet Premier

Kung Fu

as Otto Schultz

Great Performances

as Eddie

Mannix

The Loner

For the People

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

as Captain Basil Calhoun

The Fugitive

as Pete Dawes

The Outer Limits

as Thurman Cutler (as Howard da Silva)

The Defenders

as Peter Cole

Ben Casey