Olin Howland
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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
I Love Lucy
Mr. Skinner
Gone with the Wind
A Carpetbagger Businessman
The Real McCoys
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Them!
Jensen
Dakota
Devlin's Driver
Fallen Angel
Joe Ellis (uncredited)
Treasure Island
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Belle Starr
Jasper Trench
Young People
Station Master
Brother Rat
Slim
Relentless
Veterinarian (uncredited)
Captain Eddie
Census Taker
Nothing Sacred
Baggage Man
Mr. & Mrs. North
The Paleface
Jonathan Sloane, undertaker
Apache Rose
Alkali
Lux Video Theatre
Sheriff
Lux Video Theatre
Pete Walters
Lux Video Theatre
Bartender
Dr. Broadway
The Professor
Golden Harvest
Wheat Farmer (uncredited)
Hellfire
Snowed Under
Bridgeport Sheriff (uncredited)
Road Gang
Prison Farm Doctor
Country Gentlemen
Lawyer
Kentucky Moonshine
Tom Slack
Zenobia
Attorney Culpepper
Mountain Music
Pappy Burnside
Buy Me That Town
Constable Sam Smedley (as Olin Howlin)
Grand Canyon
Windy
Naughty Marietta
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Creepy Classics
Old Man - (archive footage)
Santa Fe
Dan Dugan
Folies Bergère
Stage Manager
Bermuda Mystery
Gas Station Owner
So Big!
Jacob Dogadunk (uncredited)
The Blob
The Old Man
Blondie Johnson
Eddie
Sappy Birthday
Hopalong Cassidy
Dixie
Mr. Deveraux
The Nevadan
Rusty (uncredited)
Danse macabre
Death
Merrily We Live
Jed Smith
Her Lucky Night
Prince de la Mour
Earthworm Tractors
Mr. Blair
Chad Hanna
Cisco Tridd
I Walk Alone
Ed the Watchman (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
Charley (uncredited)
Grissly's Millions
Andrews
Fighting Coast Guard
Desk Clerk (as Olin Howlin)
So This Is Love
Mailman
I Married a Doctor
Dave Dyer
The Shepherd of the Hills
Corky
Angel and the Badman
Bradley
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mr. Dobbins - Schoolmaster
Sing Your Way Home
Steward
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Deputy Sheriff Burt (Uncredited)
Little Women
Mr. Davis (uncredited)
The Spirit of St. Louis
Surplus Dealer (uncredited)
Hick Manhattan
Hugh Columbus McGinty
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Newspaper Clerk (uncredited)
Love Me Forever
Carlton
Young Tom Edison
Telegrapher (Indian Attack)
In the Meantime, Darling
Moorehousse
Made for Each Other
Farmer (uncredited)
The Longest Night
Smythe, Floorwalker
This Gun for Hire
Blair Fletcher
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Sam - Connecticut Postman (uncredited)
Mr. Soft Touch
Skinny Santa Claus (Uncredited)
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
Joe the Barber
Satan Met a Lady
Detective Dunhill
Henry and Dizzy
Frank Stevens
Santa Fe Saddlemates
Dead Eye
The Return of Doctor X
Undertaker
Home Sweet Homicide
Luke
Station West
Cook
Four Wives
Joe - a Policeman (uncredited)
In Old California
Undetermined Minor Role
Nothing But Trouble
Painter's Foreman (uncredited)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Carpenter (uncredited)
Rock Island Trail
Saloonkeeper
I'll Be Seeing You
Train Vendor (uncredited)
Two-Faced Woman
Frank (uncredited)
Bombers B-52
Joe (uncredited)
The Dude Goes West
Finnegan
When Were You Born
Peter Finlay
Cheaters at Play
Secretary
The Mad Miss Manton
Mr. X, the Safecracker
The Sky's the Limit
Driver (uncredited)
Over the Hill
Isaac as an Adult
Last of the Wild Horses
Remedy Williams
Wagon Wheels
Bill O'Leary
The Big Noise
Harrison
Stand-In
Hotel Manager
One Foot in Heaven
Train Station Master (uncredited)
The McConnell Story
Sam
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Jonathan Meek
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Stagecoach Driver
The Case of the Curious Bride
Wilbur Strong
The Storm Rider
Will Collins
Sweethearts
Appleby
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Goodwillie, Bluecliff Driver
Never a Dull Moment
Hunter (uncredited)
A Stranger in Town
Homer Todds
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Police Sergeant Entwhistle
The Falcon Strikes Back
Sheriff (uncredited)
Home in Wyomin'
Sunrise (as Olin Howlin)
Living in a Big Way
Gardener
Gold Diggers of 1937
Dr. MacDuffy
The Good Fellows
Reynolds
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
Man Hunt
Court Starrett
Days of Jesse James
Muncie Undersheriff
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Dr. Williams
Zander the Great
Elmer Lovejoy
Dr. Socrates
Bob Catlett
Can't Help Singing
Bigelow (as Olin Howlin)
You're in the Army Now
Farmer
Marry the Girl
Southern sales manager
Men in Exile
Jones
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Wilbur Strong
Just a Cute Kid
Dr. Clump
Little Big Shot
Doc (uncredited)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Clerk at Lakewood Lodge (uncredited)
One Hour To Live
Clerk
Senorita from the West
Justice of Peace
The Case of the Lucky Legs
Dr. Croker
The Town Went Wild
Bit Part
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Eaves
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
Marcus Le Blaine
You Can't Escape Forever
Cemetery Organist (uncredited)
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Jailer
The Return of the Whistler
Jeff Anderson
Blondie's Blessed Event
Office Worker (uncredited)
The Girl of the Golden West
Trinidad Joe
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Jacob Diezel
Secrets of the Underground
Oscar Mayberry
Almost Married
Bright
She Gets Her Man
Hank (uncredited)
Romance and Brass Tacks
Comin' Round the Mountain
Pa Blower
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Doorman
Leave It to Henry
Milo Williams
Janice Meredith
Philemon
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Encyclopedia Salesman
Man from Frisco
Eben Whelock
Bad Men of Tombstone
Store Proprietor (as Olin Howlin)
The Fabulous Senorita
Justice of the Peace (as Olin Howlin)
Charlie's Haunt
Storyteller on Bench
Little Tough Guy
Baxter
Twilight on the Prairie
Jed (as Olin Howlin)
Independence, B'Gosh
Horation Whiffle
Father Makes Good
Milo Williams
Easy Come, Easy Go
Gas Man
Sheriff of Cimarron
Pinky Snyder