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Howard Da Silva
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Actor Born: May 4, 1909 in Cleveland, OH Death: February 16, 1986 in Ossining, NY Biography:Howard Da Silva worked the steel mills of Pennsylvania to pay his way through Carnegie Institute. After finishing his acting training, Da Silva went to work for Eva Le Galliene's theatrical troupe. He brought attention to himself by staging a one-man show, Ten Million Ghosts, which led to several years' work with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. On Broadway, the stocky, booming-voiced Da Silva created the roles of Jack Armstrong in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" (a part he re-created in the 1940 film version) and Jud Frye in Oklahoma. His earliest movie appearance was in the Manhattan-filmed Jimmy Savo vehicle "Once in a Blue Moon" (1934), but Da Silva didn't gain cinematic prominence until signed by Paramount in the 1940s, where among many other choice assignments he was cast as the bartender in the Oscar-winning "The Lost Weekend" (1945). As one of most vocal and demonstrative of Hollywood's Left Wing, Da... Full Biography
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