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Howard Da Silva

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: Acting

Born: Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1909-05-04

Died: 1986-02-16

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1935	Once in a Blue Moon		0
2	1938	Marie Antoinette	Toulon (uncredited)	66
3	1940	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Jack Armstrong	70
4	1940	I'm Still Alive	Red Garvey	60
5	1941	The Sea Wolf	Harrison	71
6	1941	Strange Alibi	Prison Guard Monson	66
7	1941	Bad Men of Missouri	Greg Bilson	56
8	1941	Nine Lives Are Not Enough	City Editor	50
9	1941	Sergeant York	Lem	72
10	1941	Blues in the Night	Sam Paryas	63
11	1941	At the Stroke of Twelve	Angie the Ox	50
12	1941	Steel Against the Sky	Bugs	50
13	1942	Wild Bill Hickok Rides	Ringo	47
14	1942	Bullet Scars	Frank Dillon	62
15	1942	Native Land	Jim	62
16	1942	Juke Girl	Cully	65
17	1942	The Big Shot	Sandor	63
18	1942	The Omaha Trail	Ben Santley	70
19	1942	Reunion in France	Anton Stregel	64
20	1943	Keeper of the Flame	Jason Rickards	66
21	1943	Tonight We Raid Calais	Sgt. Block	54
22	1945	Duffy's Tavern	Tough Guy	61
23	1945	The Lost Weekend	Nat the Bartender	76
24	1946	The Blue Dahlia	Eddie Harwood	67
25	1946	Two Years Before the Mast	Captain Francis A. Thompson	62
26	1947	Blaze of Noon	Mike Gafferty	40
27	1947	Variety Girl	Howard Da Silva	61
28	1947	Unconquered	Garth	62
29	1949	The Great Gatsby	Wilson	55
30	1949	Border Incident	Owen Parkson	69
31	1949	They Live by Night	Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley	69
32	1950	The Underworld Story	Carl Durham	61
33	1950	Wyoming Mail	Cavanaugh	44
34	1950	Tripoli	Capt. Demetrios	56
35	1950	Three Husbands	Dan McCabe	50
36	1951	M	Inspector Carney	63
37	1951	Fourteen Hours	Deputy Police Chief Moskar	72
38	1962	David and Lisa	Dr. Swinford	73
39	1964	Hamlet	Claudius	0
40	1964	The Outrage	Prospector	60
41	1966	Nevada Smith	Warden	68
42	1972	1776	Dr. Benjamin Franklin	68
43	1974	Smile Jenny, You're Dead	Lt. Humphrey Kenner	61
44	1974	The Great Gatsby	Meyer Wolfsheim	63
45	1974	The Missiles of October	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev	75
46	1975	I'm a Stranger Here Myself	Narrator (voice)	64
47	1977	The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt	50
48	1978	Verna: USO Girl	Eddie	0
49	1980	Power	Jack Eisenstadt	20
50	1981	The Greatest Man in the World	Conkin	0
51	1981	The New Deal for Artists		0
52	1981	Mommie Dearest	L.B. Mayer	64
53	1984	Garbo Talks	Angelo Dakakis	62

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	The Defenders	Peter Cole	62
2	1961	The Defenders	Arnold Fermuller	62
3	1961	Ben Casey		56
4	1963	The Outer Limits	Thurman Cutler (as Howard da Silva)	78
5	1963	The Fugitive	Pete Dawes	72
6	1965	For the People		50
7	1965	The Loner		57
8	1967	Mannix		67
9	1971	Great Performances	Eddie	53
10	1972	Kung Fu	Otto Schultz	77
11	1974	The Missiles of October	Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet Premier	88
12	1979	Archie Bunker's Place		65
13	1983	Masquerade	General Breznin	50