Howard Da Silva
Howard Da Silva ( born May 4, 1909 in Cleveland, Ohio, † February 16, 1986 in Ossining, New York; actually Howard Silverblatt ) was an American actor.
Life
Howard Silverblatt was the child of Russian -born Jews who spoke only Yiddish. Before he became an actor, he worked in steel mills in Cleveland. When he got roles like he was called in to Howard Da Silva. First we went to Broadway, where he made himself a good name. He has played in Marc Blitzstein's musical The Cradle Will Rock (1937 ) and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1943 ), in which he gave more than 2,000 performances.
His film debut was in 1935 with a not mentioned uncredited supporting role. It was not until 1940 he was also mentioned in the cast information. Until the beginning of the 50s he worked with renowned directors such as Cecil B. DeMille and Nicholas Ray and increased his reputation in Hollywood steadily, his stage work, he did not give up. 1947 has been the House Committee on Un - American Activities ( HUAC ) attention to Da Silva after him his fellow actor Robert Taylor had denounced as possible Communists. Da Silva was put on the black list and could therefore not in film, television or radio to find work. His last film to date, Slaughter Trail, in which he would have been first mentioned as the main actor in the first place of the leader and who was also already been filmed, was not released by Howard Hughes and filmed his scenes with Brian Donlevy again. Da Silva instead went back to the theater and there was a very great success. His last for a long time, actually published, film was a remake of the classic German film M, in which he played the police inspector Lohmann corresponding to the Commissioner Carney.
After the end of the McCarthy era, he was able to resume filming again at the beginning of the 1960s. Here towered above all his depictions of historical figures produced. Da Silva embodied the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin ( he played the role earlier in the eponymous Broadway play ) and the film producer Louis B. Mayer, founder of Metro - Goldwyn -Mayer ( MGM).
For the U.S. television he presented the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He also starred in many television series, such as The Outer Limits, Kung Fu, On the run and Others Between 1974 and 1977 he worked also as a speaker of 26 episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater radio play.
With 76 years Howard Da Silva died of complications from malignant lymphoma, a severe disease of the lymphatic system.