Olin Ross Howland was an American film and theatre actor.
Howland was born in Denver, Colorado. His parents were Joby A. Howland, one of the youngest enlisted participants in the Civil War and Mary C. Bunting. His older sister was the famous stage actress Jobyna Howland. From 1909 to 1927 Howland appeared on Broadway in musicals while he occasionally played in silent films. The musicals included Leave It to Jane , Two Little Girls in Blue and Wildflower . He was in the film Janice Meredith with Marion Davies. With the advent of sound films, his theatre background proved an asset, and he concentrated his career mostly on films thereafter to appear in about two hundred movies between 1918 and 1958.
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