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Howard Da Silva 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.
Birth Name
Howard Silverblatt
Born
Tuesday, 04 May 1909
Died
Sunday, 16 February 1986
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Garbo Talks | Angelo Dokakis / Angelo Dakakis | 1984 |
Masquerade | General Brezhnin | 1983 |
American Playhouse | Critic | 1982 |
Mommie Dearest | L.B. Mayer | 1981 |
The New Deal for Artists | Self | 1981 |
Power | Jack Eisenstadt | 1980 |
The Greatest Man in the World | Conklin | 1980 |
Archie Bunker's Place | Abe Rabinowitz | 1979 |
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1977 |
Song by Song | Self - Music Performer | 1977 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Garbo Talks | Angelo Dokakis / Angelo Dakakis | 1984 |
Masquerade | General Brezhnin | 1983 |
American Playhouse | Critic | 1982 |
Mommie Dearest | L.B. Mayer | 1981 |
The New Deal for Artists | Self | 1981 |
Power | Jack Eisenstadt | 1980 |
The Greatest Man in the World | Conklin | 1980 |
Archie Bunker's Place | Abe Rabinowitz | 1979 |
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1977 |
Song by Song | Self - Music Performer | 1977 |
Hollywood on Trial | Self - Interviewee | 1976 |
I'm a Stranger Here Myself | Narrator / Himself - Narrator | 1975 |
The Missiles of October | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev / Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet Premier | 1974 |
Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
The Great Gatsby | Meyer Wolfsheim | 1974 |
The American Parade | Boss Tweed | 1974 |
Smile Jenny, You're Dead | Lt. Humphrey Kenner | 1974 |
1776 | Dr. Benjamin Franklin (PA) / Dr. Benjamin Franklin | 1972 |
Kung Fu | Otto Schultz | 1972 |
Great Performances | Eddie | 1971 |
Love, American Style | Doctor Wazanskyi (segment "Love and the End of the Line") | 1969 |
Mannix | Aram Karmalis | 1967 |
Gentle Ben | Phillip Garrett | 1967 |
N.Y.P.D. | Dimitchik | 1967 |
Nevada Smith | Warden | 1966 |
The Loner | Kyle Merrick | 1965 |
For the People | Anthony Celese | 1965 |
The Outrage | Prospector | 1964 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Captain Basil Calhoun | 1964 |
East Side/West Side | Wallace Mapes | 1963 |
The Fugitive | Pete Dawes | 1963 |
The Outer Limits | Thurman Cutler | 1963 |
David and Lisa | Dr. Alan Swinford / Dr. Swinford | 1962 |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself - Guest | 1962 |
The Doctors and the Nurses | Dr. McClendon | 1962 |
Ben Casey | Ulysses Pagoras / Cantor Nathan Birnbaum | 1961 |
The Defenders | Peter Cole / Arnold Fermuller | 1961 |
Play of the Week | Dupont-Dufour Sr. | 1959 |
Camera Three | Self | 1956 |
M | Inspector Carney | 1951 |
Fourteen Hours | Deputy Police Chief Moskar | 1951 |
Three Husbands | Dan McCabe | 1950 |
Tripoli | Capt. Demetrios | 1950 |
Wyoming Mail | Cavanaugh | 1950 |
The Underworld Story | Carl Durham | 1950 |
Border Incident | Owen Parkson | 1949 |
Movietown USA | Self | 1949 |
The Great Gatsby | Wilson | 1949 |
They Live by Night | Chickamaw / Chicamaw One-Eye Mobley | 1948 |
Unconquered | Garth | 1947 |
Variety Girl | Howard Da Silva | 1947 |
Blaze of Noon | Mike Gafferty | 1947 |
The Blue Dahlia | Eddie Harwood | 1946 |
Two Years Before the Mast | Captain Francis A. Thompson | 1946 |
The Lost Weekend | Nat / Nat the Bartender | 1945 |
Duffy's Tavern | Tough Guy | 1945 |
Five Were Chosen | 1944 | |
Tonight We Raid Calais | Sgt. Block / Sergeant Block | 1943 |
Keeper of the Flame | Jason Rickards | 1943 |
Reunion in France | Anton Stregel | 1942 |
The Omaha Trail | Ben Santley | 1942 |
The Big Shot | Sandor | 1942 |
Juke Girl | Cully | 1942 |
Native Land | Jim - informant / Jim | 1942 |
Bullet Scars | Frank Dillon | 1942 |
Wild Bill Hickok Rides | Ringo - the Prosecutor / Ringo | 1942 |
Steel Against the Sky | Bugs | 1941 |
Blues in the Night | Sam Paryas | 1941 |
Sergeant York | Lem | 1941 |
Nine Lives Are Not Enough | J.B. Murray - City Editor / City Editor | 1941 |
Navy Blues | Last Shore Patrolman | 1941 |
Three Sons o' Guns | Radio Announcer | 1941 |
Bad Men of Missouri | Greg Bilson | 1941 |
Strange Alibi | Monson / Prison Guard Monson | 1941 |
The Sea Wolf | Harrison | 1941 |
I'm Still Alive | Red Garvey | 1940 |
Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Jack Armstrong | 1940 |
Marie Antoinette | Toulon | 1938 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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For the People | 1965 |