Howard da Silva
American actor (1909–1986)
Howard da Silva
Born Howard Silverblatt
(1909-05-04 ) May 4, 1909Died February 16, 1986(1986-02-16) (aged 76) Occupations Years active 1930–1984 Spouses
Evelyn Horowitz
(
m. 1930, divorced)
Jane Taylor
(
m. 1941;
div. 1948)
Children 5
Howard da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt , May 4, 1909 – February 16, 1986) 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 .[1] In 1961, da Silva directed Purlie Victorious , by Ossie Davis .
Many of his early feature films were of the noir genre in which he often played villains, such as Eddie Harwood in The Blue Dahlia and the sadistic Captain Francis Thompson in Two Years Before the Mast (both 1946). Da Silva's characterization of historic figures are among some of his most notable work: he was Lincoln's brawling friend Jack Armstrong in both play (1939) and film (1940) versions of Abe Lincoln in Illinois written by Robert Sherwood ; Benjamin Franklin in the 1969–1972 stage musical 1776 and a reprisal of the role for the 1972 film version of the production; Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in The Missiles of October (1974); Franklin D. Roosevelt in The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); and Louis B. Mayer in Mommie Dearest (1981).
Da Silva's American television character work included the defense attorney representing the robot in The Outer Limits episode "I, Robot " (1964), and district attorney Anthony Cleese in For the People (1965). For his performance as Eddie in the Great Performances production of Verna: USO Girl (1978), the actor received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special.[2]
In the 1970s, da Silva appeared in 26 episodes of the radio series the CBS Radio Mystery Theater .
Early life
Da Silva was born in Cleveland, Ohio , the son of Bertha (née Sen) and Benjamin Silverblatt, a dress cutter. His parents were both Yiddish -speaking Jews born in Russia. His mother was a women's-rights activist.[3] Before beginning his acting career on the stage , he was employed as a steelworker.[citation needed ]
Da Silva was a graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and studied acting with Eva Le Gallienne beginning in 1928 at the Civic Repertory Theatre.[3] He changed his surname to the Portuguese Da Silva (the name is sometimes misspelled Howard De Silva ).[4]
Career
Marc Blitzstein , Howard Da Silva and Olive Stanton in the Mercury Theatre production of The Cradle Will Rock (1938)
Da Silva appeared in a number of Broadway musicals , including the role of Larry Foreman in the legendary first production of Marc Blitzstein 's musical, The Cradle Will Rock (1938).[5] Later, he costarred in the original 1943 stage production of Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Oklahoma! , playing the role of the psychopathic Jud Fry. He was the easygoing Ben Marino who opposed Tammany Hall in the Pulitzer winning musical Fiorello! .
Da Silva and other cast members of 1776 with Richard Nixon following a performance of the Tony Award-winning musical in the East Room of the White House (1971)
In 1969, da Silva originated the role of Benjamin Franklin in the musical 1776 . Four days before the show opened on Broadway, he suffered a minor heart attack but refused to seek medical assistance because he wanted to make sure critics saw his performance. After the four official critic performances were over, the cast left to go to the cast party and da Silva went to the hospital and immediately took a leave of absence from the production.[6] While da Silva recuperated, his understudy, Rex Everhart , took over the role[7] and performed on the cast recording . Da Silva was able to reprise his role in the 1972 film version and appeared on that soundtrack album.
Da Silva did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club , located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut , with the Group Theatre (New York) formed by Harold Clurman , Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg in the 1930s and early 1940s.[8] [9]
Da Silva appeared in over 60 motion pictures . Some of his memorable roles include a leading mutineer in The Sea Wolf (1941), Ray Milland 's bartender in The Lost Weekend (1945), and the half-blind criminal "Chicamaw 'One-Eye' Mobley" in They Live by Night (1949). He also released an album on Monitor Records (MP 595) of political songs and ballads entitled Politics and Poker .[10]
Da Silva returned to the stage, and he was nominated for the 1960 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as "Ben Marino" in Fiorello! (1959). After being blacklisted, da Silva and Nelson left Los Angeles for New York to perform in The World of Sholom Aleichem .[11]
Da Silva was nominated for the British BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor for his performance as Dr. Swinford in David and Lisa (1962).[12] Da Silva portrayed Soviet Premier Khrushchev in the television docudrama The Missiles of October (1974). He won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special for his role as Eddie in Verna: U.S.O. Girl (1978) with Sissy Spacek .
Da Silva's TV guest appearances, after the era in which blacklisting was strongest, include such programs as The Outer Limits , Ben Casey , The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , The Fugitive , Gentle Ben , Mannix , Love, American Style , Kung Fu , and Archie Bunker's Place .
Da Silva also played President Franklin D. Roosevelt in The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977), Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer in Mommie Dearest (1981), and American statesman Benjamin Franklin in both 1776 (1972) and a documentary depicting the life of Ben Franklin shown at Franklin's house in Philadelphia, as well as in a television commercial for Consolidated Edison . He appeared in two different film adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby . In the 1949 production with Alan Ladd as Gatsby, da Silva played garage owner George Wilson; in the 1974 film with Robert Redford , da Silva was Meyer Wolfsheim, the flamboyant gambler with the interesting cufflinks. In his final appearance on screen, da Silva played a New York photographer fascinated with the reclusive Greta Garbo in the film Garbo Talks (1984), directed by Sidney Lumet .
He also did voice acting in 26 episodes of the popular 1974–82 radio thriller series CBS Radio Mystery Theater (between July 1974 and February 1977).[13] In 1978, he recorded linking narration for episodes of the British television program Doctor Who broadcast in the United States.
Blacklisting
Da Silva became one of hundreds of artists blacklisted in the entertainment industry during the House Committee on Unamerican Activities investigation into alleged Communist influence in the industry. Following his March 1951 testimony, in which he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights,[14] his lead performance in the completed feature film Slaughter Trail was re-shot with actor Brian Donlevy .[15] Da Silva continued to find work on the New York stage, but did not work in feature films again until 1961 when he appeared in David and Lisa (a BAFTA -nominated performance).[12] [16] He was eventually cleared of any charges in 1960,[17] but not before his career in television had also stalled, with no work between 1951 and 1959 when he appeared in The Play of the Week . The brief respite was followed by another television career void until his appearance in a 1963 episode of The Defenders . That was the beginning of the end of da Silva's blacklist, and the show's producer Herb Brodkin paired da Silva with William Shatner when he created the television series For the People .[18]
Personal life and death
Da Silva's first wife was Evelyn Horowitz. They were married on August 13, 1930, in Manhattan , New York City.[19]
His second wife was stage actress Jane Louise Taylor, born in 1913 in New York.[20] They were married in January 1941 in Yuma , Arizona , and had one son.[21] [22] They were divorced on July 28, 1948 in Los Angeles , California .[23]
His third wife was actress Marjorie Nelson ; they were married on August 19, 1950, in Hollywood , California.[24] [25] Da Silva and Nelson had two daughters and were divorced on May 9, 1961, in Juárez , Mexico .[26]
His fourth wife was Nancy Nutter; they were married in May or June 1961 in Greenwich , England.[27]
Da Silva died of lymphoma , aged 76, in Ossining, New York .[3]
Acting credits
Stage
Opening date
Closing date
Title
Role
Theatre
Notes
Refs
Apr 21, 1930
May 1930
Romeo and Juliet
Apothecary
Civic Repertory Theatre
[28]
Oct 6, 1930
unknown
The Green Cockatoo
Scaevola
Civic Repertory Theatre
Written in 1899 by Arthur Schnitzler as Der grüne Kakadu
[29]
Oct 6, 1930
Nov 1930
Romeo and Juliet
Apothecary
Civic Repertory Theatre
[30]
Oct 20, 1930
Nov 1930
Siegfried
Mr. Patchkoffer, Schumann
Civic Repertory Theatre
Written by Jean Giraudoux ; adaptation by Philip Carr
[31]
Dec 1, 1930
Jan 1931
Alison's House
Hodges
Civic Repertory Theatre
Written by Susan Glaspell
[32]
Jan 26, 1931
Mar 1931
Camille
Guest
Civic Repertory Theatre
Written by Alexandre Dumas, fils ; translation by Henriette Metcalf
[33]
May 11, 1931
May 31, 1931
Alison's House
Hodges
Ritz Theatre
Written by Susan Glaspell
[34]
Oct 26, 1932
Oct 1932
Liliom
Wolf Beifeld
Civic Repertory Theatre
Written by Ferenc Molnár ; adaptation by Benjamin Glazer
[35]
Nov 14, 1932
Nov 1932
Dear Jane
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Civic Repertory Theatre
Written by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley
[36]
Dec 12, 1932
Dec 1933
Alice in Wonderland
Cook, White Knight
Civic Repertory Theatre
Based on the Lewis Carroll books; written by Florida Friebus and Eva Le Gallienne
[37]
March 6, 1933
April 1933
The Cherry Orchard
Stationmaster
New Amsterdam Theatre
Written by Anton Chekhov ; translation by Constance Garnett
[38]
Dec 10, 1934
Mar 1935
Sailors of Cattaro
Sepp Kriz
Civic Repertory Theatre
From the 1930 German work Die Matrosen von Cattaro by Friedrich Wolf ; translation by Keen Wallis; adaptation by Michael Blankfort
[39]
Mar 20, 1935
June 1935
Black Pitt
Hansy McCulloh
Civic Repertory Theatre
Written by Albert Maltz
[40]
Nov 4, 1937
June 1938
Golden Boy
Lewis
Belasco Theatre
Written by Clifford Odets
[41]
Jan 3, 1938
April 1938
The Cradle Will Rock
Larry Foreman
Windsor Theatre
Written by Marc Blitzstein
[5] [42]
Feb 19, 1938
May 1938
Casey Jones
Old Man
Fulton Theatre
Written by Robert Ardrey
[43]
Oct 15, 1938
Dec 1939
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Jack Armstrong
Plymouth Theatre
Written by Robert E. Sherwood
[44]
Nov 2, 1939
Nov 4, 1939
Summer Night
Speed
St. James Theatre
Written by Benjamin Glazer and Vicki Baum
[45]
Jan 22, 1940
Apr 13, 1940
Two On An Island
The Sightseeing Guide
Broadhurst Theatre
Written by Elmer Rice
[46]
Jan 22, May 31, 1943
May 29, 1948
Oklahoma!
Jud Fry
St. James Theatre
Written by Rodgers and Hammerstein
[47] [48]
April 9, 1946
Shootin' Star
Saloon proprietor, sheriff
Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia
Written by Walter Hart and Louis Jacobs
[49]
Dec 26, 1947
Feb 7, 1948
The Cradle Will Rock
(directed)
Mansfield Theatre , Broadway Theatre
Written by Marc Blitzstein
[5] [50]
Oct 18, 1950
Oct 28, 1950
Burning Bright
Friend Ed
Broadhurst Theatre
Written by John Steinbeck
[51]
Nov 23, 1954
Jan 2, 1955
Sandhog
(produced)
Phoenix Theatre
Written by Earl Robinson and Waldo Salt , based on St. Columbia and the River by Theodore Dreiser . Rachel Productions was owned by da Silva and Arnold Perl .
[52]
Nov 4, 1956
Nov 25, 1956
Diary of a Scoundrel
Neel Fedoseitch Mamaev
Phoenix Theatre
Written by Alexander Ostrovsky ; adapted by Rodney Ackland
[53]
Oct 24, 1957
Feb 22, 1958
Compulsion
Horn The Prosecuting Attorney
Ambassador Theatre
Based on the 1956 Meyer Levin novel of the same name; later produced as the 1959 film Compulsion .
[54]
Nov 23, 1959
Oct 28, 1961
Fiorello!
Ben Marino
Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway Theatre
Based on the book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott ; da Silva nominated for 1960 Tony Award Best Featured Actor in a Musical
[55] [56]
Sept 28, 1961
May 13, 1962
Purlie Victorious
(directed)
Cort Theatre , Longacre Theatre
Written by Ossie Davis
[57] [58]
Jan 10, 1962
Mar 10, 1962
Romulus
Ottaker
Music Box Theatre
Written by Friedrich Duerrenmatt ; adapted by Gore Vidal
[59]
Dec 12, 1962
Dec 15, 1962
In the Counting House
Max Hartman
Biltmore Theater
Written by Leslie Weiner
[60]
Feb 28, 1963
Jul 10, 1963
Dear Me, The Sky is Falling
Paul Hirsch
Music Box Theatre
Written by Leonard Spigelgass , based on the book by Gertrude Berg and James Yaffe
[61]
Oct 14, 1963
Oct 19, 1963
The Advocate
(directed)
ANTA Playhouse
Written by Robert Noah
[62]
Nov 8, 1964
Jan 7, 1965
The Cradle Will Rock
(directed)
Theatre Four
Written by Marc Blitzstein
[5] [63]
Nov 10, 1965
Apr 16, 1966
The Zulu and the Zayda
(writer)
Cort Theatre
Original story by Dan Jacobson ; book adaptation by Howard da Silva and Felix Leon
[64] [65]
Dec 06, 1966
Dec 31, 1966
My Sweet Charlie
(directed)
Longacre Theatre
Written by David Westheimer
[66]
May 5, 1966
May 29, 1966
Galileo Galilei
(guest directed)
Goodman Theater
Written by Bertolt Brecht Featuring Morris Carnovsky
[67]
Jul 06, 1967
Nov 12, 1967
The Unknown Soldier and His Wife
Archbishop
Vivian Beaumont Theater , George Abbott Theater
Written by Peter Ustinov
[68]
Mar 16, 1969
Feb 13, 1972
1776
Benjamin Franklin
46th Street Theatre , St. James Theatre, Majestic Theatre
Based on a book by Peter Stone ; adapted by Sherman Edwards
[69] [70]
Feb 11, 1982
Feb 28, 1982
The World of Sholom Aleichem
(conceived)
Rialto Theatre
Conceived by Howard da Silva and Arnold Perl; written by Perl.
[71] [72]
Film
Year
Title
Role
Director
Other cast members
Notes
Refs.
1935
Once in a Blue Moon
Ben Hecht , Charles MacArthur
Jimmy Savo
Uncredited
[73]
1938
Marie Antoinette
Toulon
W. S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer , John Barrymore
Uncredited
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Jack Armstrong
John Cromwell
Raymond Massey , Ruth Gordon
[74]
I'm Still Alive
Red Garvey
Irving Reis
Kent Taylor , Linda Hayes
[75]
1941
The Dog in the Orchard
Foster
Jean Negulesco
Barbara Pepper
Short film
The Sea Wolf
Harrison
Michael Curtiz
Edward G. Robinson , Ida Lupino , John Garfield
[76]
Strange Alibi
Monson
D. Ross Lederman
Arthur Kennedy , Joan Perry
[77]
Sergeant York
Lem
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper
[78]
Bad Men of Missouri
Greg Bilson
Ray Enright
Dennis Morgan , Jane Wyman
[79]
Three Sons o' Guns
Radio announcer
Benjamin Stoloff
Wayne Morris
Uncredited
Navy Blues
Petty Officer
Lloyd Bacon
Ann Sheridan , Jack Oakie , Martha Raye , Jack Haley
Uncredited
[80]
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
J.B. Murray – City Editor
A. Edward Sutherland
Ronald Reagan
[81]
Blues in the Night
Sam Paryas
Anatole Litvak
Richard Whorf , Priscilla Lane , Betty Field
[82]
At the Stroke of Twelve
Angie the Ox
Jean Negulesco
Craig Stevens
Short film
Steel Against the Sky
Bugs Little
A. Edward Sutherland
Alexis Smith , Lloyd Nolan
[83]
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Ringo
Ray Enright
Constance Bennett , Bruce Cabot
[84]
Bullet Scars
Frank Dillon
D. Ross Lederman
Regis Toomey
[85]
Juke Girl
Cully
Curtis Bernhardt
Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan
[86]
The Big Shot
Sandor
Lewis Seiler
Humphrey Bogart
[87]
The Omaha Trail
Ben Santley
Edward Buzzell
James Craig
[88]
Reunion in France
Anton Stregel
Jules Dassin
Joan Crawford , John Wayne
[89]
Native Land
Jim
Leo Hurwitz , Paul Strand
Paul Robeson
Documentary
[90]
1943
Keeper of the Flame
Jason Rickards
George Cukor
Spencer Tracy , Katharine Hepburn
[91]
Tonight We Raid Calais
Sgt. Block
John Brahm
Lee J. Cobb , Beulah Bondi
[92]
1945
Duffy's Tavern
Tough guy
Hal Walker
Ed Gardner , Bing Crosby
[93]
The Lost Weekend
Nat
Billy Wilder
Ray Milland
[94]
1946
The Blue Dahlia
Eddie Harwood
George Marshall
Alan Ladd , Veronica Lake
[95]
Two Years Before the Mast
Captain Francis A. Thompson
John Farrow
Brian Donlevy , Barry Fitzgerald
[96]
1947
Blaze of Noon
Mike Gafferty
John Farrow
Anne Baxter , William Holden
[97]
Variety Girl
Himself
George Marshall
DeForest Kelley , Olga San Juan
[98]
Unconquered
Martin Garth
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper , Paulette Goddard
[99]
1948
They Live by Night
Chickamaw
Nicholas Ray
Farley Granger
[100]
1949
The Great Gatsby
Wilson
Elliott Nugent
Alan Ladd
[101]
Border Incident
Owen Parkson
Anthony Mann
Ricardo Montalbán , George Murphy
[102]
1950
The Underworld Story
Carl Durham
Cy Endfield
Dan Duryea , Gale Storm
[103]
Wyoming Mail
Cavanaugh
Reginald LeBorg
Stephen McNally
[104]
Tripoli
Capt. Demetrios
Will Price
Maureen O'Hara
[105]
Three Husbands
Dan McCabe
Irving Reis
Eve Arden
[106]
1951
Fourteen Hours
Deputy Police Chief Moskar
Henry Hathaway
Richard Basehart
[107]
Slaughter Trail
Capt. Dempster
Irving Allen
Gig Young , Virginia Grey
his footage reshot w/ different actor
[15]
M
Inspector Carney
Joseph Losey
David Wayne
[108]
1962
David and Lisa
Dr. Alan Swinford
Frank Perry
Keir Dullea , Janet Margolin
[109]
1964
The Outrage
Prospector
Martin Ritt
Paul Newman , Laurence Harvey , Claire Bloom
[110]
Hamlet
Claudius
Bruce Minnix, Joseph Papp
Michael Alaimo
[111]
1966
Nevada Smith
Warden
Henry Hathaway
Steve McQueen
[112]
1972
1776
Dr. Benjamin Franklin (PA)
Peter H. Hunt
William Daniels , Blythe Danner , Ken Howard
[113]
1974
The Great Gatsby
Meyer Wolfsheim
Jack Clayton
Robert Redford , Mia Farrow
[114]
1975
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Narrator
David Halpern
John Houseman
[115]
1976
Hollywood on Trial
Himself
David Helpern
Dalton Trumbo , Ring Lardner Jr. , Walter Bernstein
[116]
1977
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Larry Cohen
Broderick Crawford , Celeste Holm , José Ferrer
[117]
1981
Mommie Dearest
Louis B. Mayer
Frank Perry
Faye Dunaway
[118]
1984
Garbo Talks
Angelo Dokakis
Sidney Lumet
Greta Garbo , Anne Bancroft , Ron Silver
[119]
Television
Doctor Who
Howard da Silva provided linking narration for North American broadcasts of Doctor Who , providing continuity announcements for episodes from season 12 through season 15, ostensibly to help North American audiences get acclimatized to the nature of serial storytelling, which was then uncommon on non-soap-operatic television in the United States and Canada. His narration accompanied the earliest runs of Doctor Who as broadcast on American PBS stations and Canadian broadcasters like TVOntario during the 1970s and early 1980s. Typically, after Doctor Who had been run on a station for a while, the linking narration was removed as unnecessary.[134] Nevertheless, the announcements were so familiar a part of some viewers' experience of Doctor Who that they became a standard extra feature on BBC DVD releases of early Tom Baker serials.[135]
Radio
From 1974 to 1977, da Silva was a regular player on CBS Radio Mystery Theater .[136]
Year
Date
Title
Ep. No.
1974
July 31
"The Only Blood"
125
Dec 5
"The Body Snatchers"
183
Dec 24
"A Very Private Miracle"
191
1975
Jan 14
"Faith and the Faker"
205
Feb 14
"The Shadow of the Past"
223
Mar 20
"The Doppelganger"
242
Apr 18
"A Challenge for the Dead"
259
May 8
"Taken for Granite"
270
June 6
"The Transformer"
287
July 2
"Come Back with Me"
301
Aug 5
"Hung Jury"
321
Aug 19
"Welcome for a Dead Man"
329
Sept 18
"The Coffin with the Golden Nails"
346
Sept 28
"The Other Self "
354
Oct 23
"The Sealed Room Murder"
366
Nov 17
"The Moonlighter"
380
Nov 28
"The Frammis"
387
Dec 15
"Burn, Witch, Burn"
396
1976
Jan 19
"There's No Business Like"
418
Feb 19
"Goodbye, Benjamin Flack"
434
Apr 24
"The Prince of Evil"
475
Aug 30
"The Night Shift"
511
Oct 22
"Somebody Help Me!"
540
Dec 14
"The Smoking Pistol"
565
1977
Jan 4
"This Breed Is Doomed"
577
Feb 25
"Legend of Phoenix Hill"
607
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^ "Character Actor Sues for Divorce" article gives marriage date as January 10, 1941; however license date is January 18, 1941.
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^ "Sailors of Cattaro" . IBDB . The Broadway League. Retrieved February 20, 2015 .
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^ "The Cradle Will Rock" . IBDB . The Broadway League. Retrieved February 20, 2015 .
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