John Howard(1913-1995)
- Actor
A native Ohioan, John Howard (born John R. Cox, Jr.) had no interest in
working in theater until schoolmates at Cleveland's Western Reserve
University turned him on to acting. After some work on his college
stage, he made his movie debut in a bit part in Paramount's One Hour Late (1934)
before moving up the Hollywood ladder to featured parts and ultimately
landing his own series, the Bulldog Drummond mysteries. Decades later,
when offers of work began to slow down, Howard went into teaching.
Best-known for his role as Ronald Colman's brother in director Frank Capra's classic Horizons perdus (1937), Howard later said he felt he did a bad job of playing the character: "Damn it, I thought I was too brash, too uncontrolled, too unbelievable. And I've wished always that I could go back and do it again."
Best-known for his role as Ronald Colman's brother in director Frank Capra's classic Horizons perdus (1937), Howard later said he felt he did a bad job of playing the character: "Damn it, I thought I was too brash, too uncontrolled, too unbelievable. And I've wished always that I could go back and do it again."
