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 New Deal for Artists as Self
- The Greatest Man in the World as Conkin
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
- The Defenders as Peter Cole
- Ben Casey
1951
- Fourteen Hours as Deputy Police Chief Moskar
- M as Inspector Carney
1950
- Wyoming Mail as Cavanaugh
- The Underworld Story as Carl Durham
- Tripoli as Capt. Demetrios
- Three Husbands as Dan McCabe
1949
- They Live by Night as Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley
- The Great Gatsby as Wilson
- Border Incident as Owen Parkson
1947
- Unconquered as Garth
- Variety Girl as Howard Da Silva
- Blaze of Noon as Mike Gafferty
1946
- Two Years Before the Mast as Captain Francis A. Thompson
- The Blue Dahlia as Eddie Harwood
1945
- The Lost Weekend as Nat the Bartender
- Duffy's Tavern as Tough Guy
1943
- Keeper of the Flame as Jason Rickards
- Tonight We Raid Calais as Sgt. Block
1942
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Ringo
- Juke Girl as Cully
- Reunion in France as Anton Stregel
- The Big Shot as Sandor
- Native Land as Jim
- The Omaha Trail as Ben Santley
- Bullet Scars as Frank Dillon
1941
- Sergeant York as Lem
- At the Stroke of Twelve as Angie the Ox
- The Sea Wolf as Harrison
- Steel Against the Sky as Bugs
- Blues in the Night as Sam Paryas
- Bad Men of Missouri as Greg Bilson
- Nine Lives Are Not Enough as City Editor
- Strange Alibi as Prison Guard Monson
1940
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Jack Armstrong
- I'm Still Alive as Red Garvey
1938
- Marie Antoinette as Toulon (uncredited)