Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 09, 1886
Died
Sep 20, 1959
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Credits
158 titles
Olin Howland
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.
Known For
Filmography
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
Creepy Classics
Old Man - (archive footage)
The Blob
The Old Man
Bombers B-52
Joe (uncredited)
The Real McCoys
The Spirit of St. Louis
Surplus Dealer (uncredited)
The Storm Rider
Will Collins
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The McConnell Story
Sam
A Star Is Born
Charley (uncredited)
Them!
Jensen
So This Is Love
Mailman
Mr. & Mrs. North
Hopalong Cassidy
The Fabulous Senorita
Justice of the Peace (as Olin Howlin)
I Love Lucy
Mr. Skinner
Fighting Coast Guard
Desk Clerk (as Olin Howlin)
Santa Fe
Dan Dugan
Lux Video Theatre
Sheriff
Charlie's Haunt
Storyteller on Bench
Never a Dull Moment
Hunter (uncredited)
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Rock Island Trail
Saloonkeeper
Father Makes Good
Milo Williams
The Nevadan
Rusty (uncredited)
Mr. Soft Touch
Skinny Santa Claus (Uncredited)
Leave It to Henry
Milo Williams
Hellfire
Bartender (uncredited)
Grand Canyon
Windy
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Sam - Connecticut Postman (uncredited)
Little Women
Mr. Davis - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Bad Men of Tombstone
Store Proprietor (as Olin Howlin)
Last of the Wild Horses
Remedy Williams
The Paleface
Jonathan Sloane, undertaker
Station West
Cook
Relentless
Veterinarian (uncredited)
The Dude Goes West
Finnegan
The Return of the Whistler
Jeff Anderson
I Walk Alone
Ed the Watchman (uncredited)
Living in a Big Way
Gardener
Easy Come, Easy Go
Gas Man
Angel and the Badman
Bradley
Apache Rose
Alkali
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
Marcus Le Blaine
Home Sweet Homicide
Luke
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Newspaper Clerk (uncredited)
Dakota
Devlin's Driver
Fallen Angel
Joe Ellis (uncredited)
Sing Your Way Home
Steward (uncredited)
Senorita from the West
Justice of Peace