Howard Da Silva
Born: 1909-05-04 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died: 1986-02-16
Known For: Acting
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 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.
Filmography
1984
- Garbo Talks as Angelo Dakakis
1983
- Masquerade as General Breznin
1982
- American Playhouse as Critic
1981
- Mommie Dearest as L.B. Mayer
- The Greatest Man in the World as Conkin
- The New Deal for Artists as Self
1980
- Power as Jack Eisenstadt
1978
- Verna: USO Girl as Eddie
1977
- The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover as Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
1975
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself as Narrator (voice)
1974
- The Great Gatsby as Meyer Wolfsheim
- The Missiles of October as Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet Premier
- The Missiles of October as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
- Smile Jenny, You're Dead as Lt. Humphrey Kenner
1971
- Great Performances as Eddie
1967
1966
- Nevada Smith as Warden
1965
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Captain Basil Calhoun
- The Outrage as Prospector
- Hamlet as Claudius
1963
- The Fugitive as Pete Dawes
- The Outer Limits as Thurman Cutler (as Howard da Silva)
1962
- David and Lisa as Dr. Swinford
1961
- Ben Casey
- The Defenders as Peter Cole
1951
- Fourteen Hours as Deputy Police Chief Moskar
- M as Inspector Carney
1950
- Wyoming Mail as Cavanaugh
- Three Husbands as Dan McCabe
- The Underworld Story as Carl Durham
- Tripoli as Capt. Demetrios
1949
- They Live by Night as Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley
- Border Incident as Owen Parkson
- The Great Gatsby as Wilson
1947
- Unconquered as Garth
- Variety Girl as Howard Da Silva
- Blaze of Noon as Mike Gafferty
1946
- The Blue Dahlia as Eddie Harwood
- Two Years Before the Mast as Captain Francis A. Thompson
1945
- The Lost Weekend as Nat the Bartender
- Duffy's Tavern as Tough Guy
1943
- Tonight We Raid Calais as Sgt. Block
- Keeper of the Flame as Jason Rickards
1942
- Reunion in France as Anton Stregel
- Juke Girl as Cully
- The Big Shot as Sandor
- Bullet Scars as Frank Dillon
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Ringo
- Native Land as Jim
- The Omaha Trail as Ben Santley
1941
- Sergeant York as Lem
- The Sea Wolf as Harrison
- Strange Alibi as Prison Guard Monson
- Bad Men of Missouri as Greg Bilson
- Steel Against the Sky as Bugs
- Nine Lives Are Not Enough as City Editor
- Blues in the Night as Sam Paryas
- At the Stroke of Twelve as Angie the Ox
1940
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Jack Armstrong
- I'm Still Alive as Red Garvey
1938
- Marie Antoinette as Toulon (uncredited)