- Films
- 33
- Avg rating
- 6.96
- Peak run
- 1945’49
- 7+ run
- 2 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Howard by the numbers
Average
6.96
20 rated films
Vote weighted
6.98
bigger films count more
Median
7.0
half are better
Consistency
±0.43
rating spread
Career
45y
1940 to 1984
Total votes
175K
across every film
Best
7.8
The Lost Weekend
Worst
6.4
The Great Gatsby
Newest first
Filmography
| 1984 | Garbo Talks | Angelo Dokakis | 6.4 | 2,103 |
| 1981 |  Mommie Dearest | L.B. Mayer | 6.7 | 20,343 |
| 1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt | · | 919 |
| 1974 |  The Great Gatsby | Meyer Wolfsheim | 6.4 | 29,256 |
| 1972 |  1776 | Dr. Benjamin Franklin (PA) | 7.6 | 10,357 |
| 1966 |  Nevada Smith | Warden | 6.9 | 10,029 |
| 1964 | The Outrage | Prospector | 6.2 | 2,757 |
| 1962 | David and Lisa | Dr. Alan Swinford | 7.2 | 3,697 |
| 1951 | Fourteen Hours | Deputy Police Chief Moskar | 7.1 | 3,420 |
| 1951 | M | Inspector Carney | 6.8 | 2,677 |
| 1950 | Three Husbands | Dan McCabe | · | 385 |
| 1950 | Tripoli | Capt. Demetrios | · | 569 |
| 1950 | The Underworld Story | Carl Durham | 7.0 | 1,507 |
| 1950 | Wyoming Mail | Cavanaugh | · | 318 |
| 1949 | Border Incident | Owen Parkson | 7.0 | 3,114 |
| 1949 | The Great Gatsby | Wilson | 6.5 | 1,089 |
| 1948 |  They Live by Night | Chickamaw | 7.4 | 10,562 |
| 1947 | Unconquered | Garth | 6.9 | 3,349 |
| 1946 |  The Blue Dahlia | Eddie Harwood | 7.1 | 10,734 |
| 1946 | Two Years Before the Mast | Captain Francis A. Thompson | · | 607 |
Better together?
Howard Da Silva's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.
Takes
On Howard Da Silva
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