Howard Da Silva
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Howard Da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt, 1909 – February 16, 1986) was an American actor, producer, and singer on stage, film, television, and radio.
He appeared in more than a dozen television shows, appeared in more than two dozen television shows, and appeared in more than 50 feature films.
He portrayed Jud Fry in the original 1943 run of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma!, as well as the prosecuting attorney in Compulsion's 1957 stage version.
Da Silva was nominated for the Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1960 for his role in Fiorello!, a tribute to New York City Mayor LaGuardia.
Da Silva narrated Purlie Victorious by Ossie Davis in 1961. Many of Eddie Harwood's early feature films were of the noir genre in which he often portrayed villains, such as Eddie Harwood in The Blue Dahlia and sadistic Captain Francis Thompson in Two Years Before the Mast (both 1946).
Da Silva's portrayal of historical figures in Illinois in both play (1939) and film (1940) by Robert Sherwood; Benjamin Franklin in 1959-1976; and Jean N. Khrushchev in The Missiles of October (1976), and Louis B. Mayer in Mommie Dearest (1981). The defense attorney representing the robot in The Outer Limits' episode "I, Robot" (1964), and district attorney Anthony Cleese in For the People (1965).
Da Silva received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special in the 1970s.
Early life
Da Silva was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Bertha (née Sen) and Benjamin Silverblatt, a dress cutter. Both of his parents, Yiddish-speaking Jews, were born in Russia. His mother was a women's-rights activist. He was working as a steelworker before beginning his acting career on the stage.
Da Silva, a graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, studied with Eva Le Gallienne at the Civic Repertory Theatre in 1928. He shortened his surname to Da Silva (the word is often misspelled Howard De Silva).
Personal life and death
Evelyn Horowitz, Da Silva's first wife, was a member of the American Legion. Howard was married in Manhattan, New York City, on August 13, 1930, while Howard was a member of Eva LeGallienne's Civic Repertory Company. His marriage was kept a secret for a while as Le Gallienne did not want her employees of her company to be distracted by marriage entanglements. Howard and Evelyn were politically active and instrumental in the campaign to help the loyalists in Spain, among other reasons. They were later divorced.
Jane Louise Taylor, a stage actress who was born in 1913 in New York, was his second wife. They were married in January 1941 in Yuma, Arizona, and they had one son. They were divorced in Los Angeles, California, on July 28, 1948.
Marjorie Nelson, actor Marjorie Nelson's third wife, was married in Hollywood, California, on August 19, 1950. In Juárez, Mexico, Da Silva and Nelson had two children and were divorced on May 9, 1961.
Nancy Nutter, his fourth wife, was married in Greenwich, England, in May or June 1961. They had one son and one daughter.
Da Silva, 76, died of lymphoma in Ossining, New York.
Career
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). 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!.
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. While Da Silva recuperated, his understudy, Rex Everhart, took over the role 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.
Da Silva appeared in over 60 motion pictures. Some of his memorable roles include a leading mutineer in The Sea Wolf (1941), playing 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.
Da Silva returned to the stage, and 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.
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). 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 1776 (1972), as well as a documentary depicting the life of Ben Franklin shown at Franklin's house in Philadelphia. 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). In 1978, he recorded linking narration for episodes of the British television program Doctor Who broadcast in the United States.