Olin Howland
Acting • Born 1886-02-09 – Died 1959-09-20
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Olin Ross Howland (February 10, 1886 – September 20, 1959) was an American film and theatre actor. Howland was born in Denver, Colorado, to Joby A. Howland, one of the youngest enlisted participants in the Civil War, and Mary C. Bunting. His older sister was the famous stage actress Jobyna Howland. From 1909 to 1927, Howland appeared on Broadway in musicals, occasionally performing in silent films. The musicals include Leave It to Jane (1917), Two Little Girls in Blue (1921) and Wildflower (1923). He was in the film Janice Meredith (1924) with Marion Davies. With the advent of sound films, his theatre background proved an asset, and he concentrated mostly on films thereafter, appearing in nearly two hundred movies between 1918 and 1958. Howland often played eccentric and rural roles in Hollywood. His parts were often small and uncredited, and he never got a leading role. He was a personal favorite of David O. Selznick, who cast him in his movies Nothing Sacred (1937) as a strange luggage man, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938, as the teacher Mr. Dobbins) and Gone with the Wind (1939) as a carpetbagger businessman. He also played in numerous westerns from Republic Pictures, including the John Wayne films In Old California (1942) and Angel and the Badman (1947). As a young man, Howland learned to fly at the Wright Flying School and soloed on a Wright Model B. This lent special sentiment in his scenes with James Stewart in the film The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), as Stewart was also a pilot in real life. The Spirit of St. Louis and Them (1954),where he played a drunken old man, and The Blob (1958) were his last films. He also played in telelevision shows during the 1950s. In 1958 and 1959, he was cast as Charley Perkins in five episodes of ABC's sitcom The Real McCoys, starring Walter Brennan. Howland never married and had no children. He worked until his death in Hollywood, California, at the age of 73.
Filmography
159 credits
Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1939
A Carpetbagger Businessman
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Movie • 1939
Encyclopedia Salesman
Blondie's Blessed Event
Movie • 1942
Office Worker (uncredited)
Blondie Johnson
Movie • 1933
Eddie
Them!
Movie • 1954
Jensen
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Movie • 1938
Mr. Dobbins - Schoolmaster
The Town Went Wild
Movie • 1944
Bit Part
I'll Be Seeing You
Movie • 1944
Train Vendor (uncredited)
The Good Fellows
Movie • 1943
Reynolds
Angel and the Badman
Movie • 1947
Bradley
Almost Married
Movie • 1942
Bright
The Blob
Movie • 1958
The Old Man
Fallen Angel
Movie • 1945
Joe Ellis (uncredited)
Nothing But Trouble
Movie • 1944
Painter's Foreman (uncredited)
Satan Met a Lady
Movie • 1936
Detective Dunhill
Station West
Movie • 1948
Cook
Nothing Sacred
Movie • 1937
Baggage Man
The Girl of the Golden West
Movie • 1938
Trinidad Joe
Earthworm Tractors
Movie • 1936
Mr. Blair
This Gun for Hire
Movie • 1942
Blair Fletcher
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Movie • 1943
Goodwillie, Bluecliff Driver
Little Women
Movie • 1933
Mr. Davis (uncredited)
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Movie • 1941
Dr. Williams
Can't Help Singing
Movie • 1944
Bigelow (as Olin Howlin)
Belle Starr
Movie • 1941
Jasper Trench
Creepy Classics
Movie • 1987
Old Man - (archive footage)
Hick Manhattan
Movie • 1918
Hugh Columbus McGinty
Independence, B'Gosh
Movie • 1918
Horation Whiffle
Romance and Brass Tacks
Movie • 1918
Sappy Birthday
Movie • 1942
The Nevadan
Movie • 1950
Rusty (uncredited)
Young People
Movie • 1940
Station Master
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Movie • 1942
Jonathan Meek
Hellfire
Movie • 1949
Zenobia
Movie • 1939
Attorney Culpepper
Love Me Forever
Movie • 1935
Carlton
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Movie • 1942
Jailer
The Case of the Lucky Legs
Movie • 1935
Dr. Croker
The McConnell Story
Movie • 1955
Sam
Santa Fe
Movie • 1951
Dan Dugan
Stand-In
Movie • 1937
Hotel Manager
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Movie • 1936
Wilbur Strong
A Stranger in Town
Movie • 1943
Homer Todds
Men in Exile
Movie • 1937
Jones
The Storm Rider
Movie • 1957
Will Collins
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Movie • 1946
Newspaper Clerk (uncredited)
Marry the Girl
Movie • 1937
Southern sales manager
Road Gang
Movie • 1936
Prison Farm Doctor
Country Gentlemen
Movie • 1936
Lawyer
Dr. Socrates
Movie • 1935
Bob Catlett
Kentucky Moonshine
Movie • 1938
Tom Slack
When Were You Born
Movie • 1938
Peter Finlay
Easy Come, Easy Go
Movie • 1947
Gas Man
So This Is Love
Movie • 1953
Mailman
The Sky's the Limit
Movie • 1943
Driver (uncredited)
Over the Hill
Movie • 1931
Isaac as an Adult
Merrily We Live
Movie • 1938
Jed Smith
Little Tough Guy
Movie • 1938
Baxter
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Movie • 1942
Jacob Diezel
The Mad Miss Manton
Movie • 1938
Mr. X, the Safecracker
The Dude Goes West
Movie • 1948
Finnegan
Chad Hanna
Movie • 1940
Cisco Tridd
Charlie's Haunt
Movie • 1950
Storyteller on Bench
Folies Bergère de Paris
Movie • 1935
Stage Manager
Treasure Island
Movie • 1934
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Little Big Shot
Movie • 1935
Doc (uncredited)
Two-Faced Woman
Movie • 1941
Frank (uncredited)
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
Movie • 1944
Joe the Barber
I Walk Alone
Movie • 1947
Ed the Watchman (uncredited)
Brother Rat
Movie • 1938
Slim
Dixie
Movie • 1943
Mr. Deveraux
Zander the Great
Movie • 1925
Elmer Lovejoy
Last of the Wild Horses
Movie • 1948
Remedy Williams
A Star Is Born
Movie • 1954
Charley (uncredited)
The Big Noise
Movie • 1936
Harrison
Henry and Dizzy
Movie • 1942
Frank Stevens
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Movie • 1939
Police Sergeant Entwhistle
Made for Each Other
Movie • 1939
Farmer (uncredited)
Cheaters at Play
Movie • 1932
Secretary
Days of Jesse James
Movie • 1939
Muncie Undersheriff
Four Wives
Movie • 1939
Joe - a Policeman (uncredited)
The Return of Doctor X
Movie • 1939
Undertaker
Sheriff of Cimarron
Movie • 1945
Pinky Snyder
Apache Rose
Movie • 1947
Alkali
Santa Fe Saddlemates
Movie • 1945
Dead Eye
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Movie • 1949
Sam - Connecticut Postman (uncredited)
Janice Meredith
Movie • 1924
Philemon
Danse macabre
Movie • 1922
Death
Bermuda Mystery
Movie • 1944
Gas Station Owner
Young Tom Edison
Movie • 1940
Telegrapher (Indian Attack)
In the Meantime, Darling
Movie • 1944
Moorehousse
Dakota
Movie • 1945
Devlin's Driver
Man Hunt
Movie • 1936
Court Starrett
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Movie • 1938
Deputy Sheriff Burt (Uncredited)
Just a Cute Kid
Movie • 1940
Dr. Clump
Buy Me That Town
Movie • 1941
Constable Sam Smedley (as Olin Howlin)
Secrets of the Underground
Movie • 1942
Oscar Mayberry
The Return of the Whistler
Movie • 1948
Jeff Anderson
She Gets Her Man
Movie • 1945
Hank (uncredited)
I Married a Doctor
Movie • 1936
Dave Dyer
Man from Frisco
Movie • 1944
Eben Whelock
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Movie • 1940
Clerk at Lakewood Lodge (uncredited)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Movie • 1937
Doorman
The Spirit of St. Louis
Movie • 1957
Surplus Dealer (uncredited)
The Case of the Curious Bride
Movie • 1935
Wilbur Strong
Rock Island Trail
Movie • 1950
Saloonkeeper
Grissly's Millions
Movie • 1945
Andrews
Home in Wyomin'
Movie • 1942
Sunrise (as Olin Howlin)
The Shepherd of the Hills
Movie • 1941
Corky
Senorita from the West
Movie • 1945
Justice of Peace
Twilight on the Prairie
Movie • 1944
Jed (as Olin Howlin)
Golden Harvest
Movie • 1933
Wheat Farmer (uncredited)
Bad Men of Tombstone
Movie • 1949
Store Proprietor (as Olin Howlin)
In Old California
Movie • 1942
Undetermined Minor Role
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Movie • 1942
Carpenter (uncredited)
Gold Diggers of 1937
Movie • 1936
Dr. MacDuffy
Bombers B-52
Movie • 1957
Joe (uncredited)
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Movie • 1935
Eaves
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Movie • 1937
Stagecoach Driver
Relentless
Movie • 1948
Veterinarian (uncredited)
Fighting Coast Guard
Movie • 1951
Desk Clerk (as Olin Howlin)
So Big!
Movie • 1932
Jacob Dogadunk (uncredited)
The Paleface
Movie • 1948
Jonathan Sloane, undertaker
Living in a Big Way
Movie • 1947
Gardener
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
Movie • 1946
Marcus Le Blaine
Sweethearts
Movie • 1938
Appleby
Father Makes Good
Movie • 1950
Milo Williams
Dr. Broadway
Movie • 1942
The Professor
The Falcon Strikes Back
Movie • 1943
Sheriff (uncredited)
Wagon Wheels
Movie • 1934
Bill O'Leary
Leave It to Henry
Movie • 1949
Milo Williams
Home Sweet Homicide
Movie • 1946
Luke
Captain Eddie
Movie • 1945
Census Taker
One Hour To Live
Movie • 1939
Clerk
Her Lucky Night
Movie • 1945
Prince de la Mour
Mr. Soft Touch
Movie • 1949
Skinny Santa Claus (Uncredited)
Naughty Marietta
Movie • 1935
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Mountain Music
Movie • 1937
Pappy Burnside
You're in the Army Now
Movie • 1941
Farmer
You Can't Escape Forever
Movie • 1942
Cemetery Organist (uncredited)
The Fabulous Senorita
Movie • 1952
Justice of the Peace (as Olin Howlin)
Snowed Under
Movie • 1936
Bridgeport Sheriff (uncredited)
The Longest Night
Movie • 1936
Smythe, Floorwalker
One Foot in Heaven
Movie • 1941
Train Station Master (uncredited)
Grand Canyon
Movie • 1949
Windy
Sing Your Way Home
Movie • 1945
Steward
Never a Dull Moment
Movie • 1950
Hunter (uncredited)
Comin' Round the Mountain
Movie • 1940
Pa Blower
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Movie • 1950
Little Women
Movie • 1949
Mr. Davis - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
I Love Lucy
TV • 1951
Mr. Skinner
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Sheriff
The Real McCoys
TV • 1957
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Hopalong Cassidy
TV • 1952
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Pete Walters
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Bartender