Talk:Howard da Silva

"Just Name Me."

Mr. Da Silva was an unabashed leftist and told other actors who were summoned before HUAC investigators and asked to 'name names', "Just name me!" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.199.15.56 (talk) 20:37, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

AFI Catalog of Feature Films

I have reverted This Edit which removed It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, because the editor did not see him among the cast list on AFI Catalog listing of the film. Please be advised that by default AFI only lists the top two or three cast members of any film. In order to see the entire cast, you must click "Display movie detail" in the upper right hand. You will then see Da Silva listed as "Airport officer". He is indeed in the film. — Maile (talk) 23:58, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

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Requested move 26 February 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 21:59, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

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Howard Da Silva → Howard da Silva – Howard da Silva's surname name is miscapitalized. He printed and signed his name "Howard da Silva" on the World War II draft card he completed in 1940; that signature is now in the infobox. His name is spelled with a lower-case D in his obituary in The New York Times (February 18, 1986); in theatre programs including those for the original productions of The Cradle Will Rock and Oklahoma!; and in books including This Is Orson Welles (pp. 337, 340), Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Mark Blitzstein (p. 137) by Eric A. Gordon; Run-Through (p. 261) by John Houseman; and Blitzstein's published playscript for The Cradle Will Rock (p. 17). A handful of his credits at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films also spell his last name with a lower-case D. Most of the film titles at AFI credit "Howard Da Silva", together with books including Young Orson by Patrick McGilligan, and Mark Blitzstein: His Life and Work by Howard Pollack; but I believe "Howard da Silva" is correct. This change would overwrite a redirect created without discussion in December 2005. — WFinch (talk) 18:56, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

• Support, per nom, and just looked at many of his autographs and all I've seen have the lowercased 'da'. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:49, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Speedy move as the proposed name is what his name actually is. BhamBoi (talk) 05:56, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

• Speedy support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 16:44, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

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