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.
152 movies · 6 shows
Complicated Women
2003·6.9
Creepy Classics
1987·6.4
The Blob
1958·6.2
Bombers B-52
1957·5.8
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957·6.7
The Storm Rider
1957·7.0
The McConnell Story
1955·6.8
A Star Is Born
1954·7.1
Them!
1954·6.8
So This Is Love
1953·4.3
The Fabulous Senorita
1952·6.5
Fighting Coast Guard
1951·6.7
Santa Fe
1951·6.8
Charlie's Haunt
1950·0.0
Never a Dull Moment
1950·6.1
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950·6.0
Rock Island Trail
1950·6.3
Father Makes Good
1950·6.5
The Nevadan
1950·5.9
Mr. Soft Touch
1949·6.8
Leave It to Henry
1949·7.5
Hellfire
1949·6.4
Grand Canyon
1949·10.0
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949·6.3
Little Women
1949·7.4
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949·6.5
Last of the Wild Horses
1948·3.3
The Paleface
1948·6.1
Station West
1948·6.4
Relentless
1948·6.4
The Dude Goes West
1948·5.9
The Return of the Whistler
1948·6.0
I Walk Alone
1947·6.6
Living in a Big Way
1947·6.0
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947·7.0
Angel and the Badman
1947·6.4
Apache Rose
1947·6.4
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
1946·6.6
Home Sweet Homicide
1946·4.5
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946·7.1
Dakota
1945·5.2
Fallen Angel
1945·6.6
Sing Your Way Home
1945·5.6
Senorita from the West
1945·6.0
Captain Eddie
1945·7.2
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945·6.7
Sheriff of Cimarron
1945·8.0
Her Lucky Night
1945·6.3
Grissly's Millions
1945·6.5
She Gets Her Man
1945·5.3
I'll Be Seeing You
1944·6.9
Can't Help Singing
1944·6.0
The Town Went Wild
1944·7.0
Nothing But Trouble
1944·6.3
In the Meantime, Darling
1944·6.8
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
1944·8.0
Man from Frisco
1944·6.5
Bermuda Mystery
1944·8.0
Twilight on the Prairie
1944·8.0
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
1943·6.7
The Good Fellows
1943·8.0
The Sky's the Limit
1943·6.3
Dixie
1943·5.0
A Stranger in Town
1943·6.3
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943·5.6
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942·7.5
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
1942·7.0
Secrets of the Underground
1942·7.0
You Can't Escape Forever
1942·6.0
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942·8.0
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942·6.4
Henry and Dizzy
1942·9.0
In Old California
1942·5.3
Almost Married
1942·7.0
Dr. Broadway
1942·6.0
Home in Wyomin'
1942·8.5
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942·6.5
This Gun for Hire
1942·7.0
Blondie's Blessed Event
1942·7.0
Sappy Birthday
1942·10.0
Two-Faced Woman
1941·6.4
You're in the Army Now
1941·4.4
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941·5.6
One Foot in Heaven
1941·6.9
Buy Me That Town
1941·6.3
Belle Starr
1941·5.9
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941·6.6
Chad Hanna
1940·7.3
Just a Cute Kid
1940·7.0
Young People
1940·5.3
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940·9.0
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940·6.8
Young Tom Edison
1940·5.9
Four Wives
1939·5.5
Days of Jesse James
1939·5.1
Gone with the Wind
1939·7.9
The Return of Doctor X
1939·6.0
One Hour to Live
1939·6.5
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939·6.9
Zenobia
1939·5.0
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939·6.0
Made for Each Other
1939·6.1
Sweethearts
1938·5.8
Brother Rat
1938·6.0
The Mad Miss Manton
1938·6.4
Little Tough Guy
1938·5.7
When Were You Born
1938·5.3
Kentucky Moonshine
1938·5.2
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938·6.4
The Girl of the Golden West
1938·5.3
Merrily We Live
1938·6.9
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938·6.6
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937·6.7
Nothing Sacred
1937·6.3
Stand-In
1937·6.5
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937·7.0
Marry the Girl
1937·6.5
Mountain Music
1937·6.0
Men in Exile
1937·5.0
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936·6.1
Country Gentlemen
1936·5.5
The Longest Night
1936·6.3
Earthworm Tractors
1936·5.4
Satan Met a Lady
1936·5.8
The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936·7.2
The Big Noise
1936·7.5
I Married a Doctor
1936·5.3
Snowed Under
1936·7.4
Road Gang
1936·7.0
Man Hunt
1936·10.0
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935·5.8
Dr. Socrates
1935·6.6
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935·6.0
Little Big Shot
1935·7.3
Love Me Forever
1935·5.5
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935·6.0
Naughty Marietta
1935·5.5
Folies Bergère de Paris
1935·6.0
Wagon Wheels
1934·5.1
Treasure Island
1934·6.5
Little Women
1933·6.8
Golden Harvest
1933·6.5
Blondie Johnson
1933·5.9
So Big!
1932·5.7
Cheaters at Play
1932·7.0
Over the Hill
1931·8.5
Zander the Great
1925·6.2
Janice Meredith
1924·7.0
Danse macabre
1922·6.2
Independence, B'Gosh
1918·4.0
Romance and Brass Tacks
1918·0.0
Hick Manhattan
1918·10.0