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