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