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Reed Howes(1900-1964)

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Reed Howes
Just as John travels to visit his father, he witnesses his death and suffers a gun wound - a beautiful woman is kind enough to help him bring the killers to justice, but jealousy from another man may cause problems.
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American silent-era leading man who became a familiar heavy in B-Westerns of the talkie period. Born Hermon (not Herman) Reed Howes in Washington, D.C., in 1900, he served as an apprentice seaman in the U.S. Navy during the last year of the First World War. After the war he graduated from the University of Utah and attended Harvard Graduate School, then appeared in small parts in stock and vaudeville shows. A strikingly handsome man, he was chosen to be a model for artist J.C. Leyendecker's famous Arrow Collar ads. Howes was only one of several models for the ads (others include John Barrymore, Fredric March, Brian Donlevy and Jack Mulhall), but alone of all the future actors who modeled for Leyendecker, he has been remembered as "the former Arrow Collar Man" (some sources have also claimed that Howes was Leyendecker's lover, but they have confused Howes with the original Arrow Collar model, Charles Beach). Actor-director-producer Ben F. Wilson noticed the handsome model and signed him up to appear in films. Howes quickly became a popular leading man and played opposite many of the most famous actresses of the day. With the coming of sound, it was apparent that neither Howes' voice nor his dramatic ability were as well suited to the new demands on a leading man, and he soon drifted into supporting roles, often as villains, in action films and B-Westerns. He continued in these roles throughout the 1940s and 1950s before retiring due to ill health. His health declined further, and he died in 1964 at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital, where he had been confined for months. He was 64. His final appearance was in an episode of the TV series Mister Ed (1961). He is buried in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California.
BornJuly 5, 1900
DiedAugust 6, 1964(64)
BornJuly 5, 1900
DiedAugust 6, 1964(64)
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Clara Bow and Reed Howes in Rough House Rosie (1927)
Reed Howes and May McAvoy in Stolen Kisses (1929)
Clara Bow and Reed Howes in Rough House Rosie (1927)
Noah Beery, Jack Anthony, James Bradbury Jr., Dorothy Davenport, and Reed Howes in Hellship Bronson (1928)
Mason Alan Dinehart, Reed Howes, and Hugh O'Brian in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)
Ellen Hall, Reed Howes, Charles King, James Newill, Dave O'Brien, and Guy Wilkerson in Brand of the Devil (1944)
Reed Howes, Tom Keene, Charles King, and Frank Yaconelli in Lone Star Law Men (1941)
Reed Howes, Charles King, Stanley Price, and Frank Yaconelli in Lone Star Law Men (1941)
Curley Dresden, Frank Ellis, George Houston, Reed Howes, and Al St. John in The Lone Rider in Ghost Town (1941)
Reed Howes and Kermit Maynard in Brand of the Devil (1944)
Henry Brandon, Buster Crabbe, Reed Howes, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall, and Wheeler Oakman in Buck Rogers (1939)
Buster Crabbe, Reed Howes, Wheeler Oakman, and Carleton Young in Buck Rogers (1939)

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Mildred Harris and Reed Howes in Super Speed (1925)
Super Speed
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  • Pat O'Farrell
  • 1925
Crack o' Dawn (1925)
Crack o' Dawn
5.9
  • Earle Thorpe Jr
  • 1925
Terry of the 'Times'
  • Terry Macy
  • 1930
The High Flyer
  • Jim
  • 1926

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  • Allan Lane, Alan Young, and Mister Ed in Mister Ed (1961)
    Mister Ed
    • ...
  • One Man's Way (1964)
    One Man's Way
    • (uncredited)
  • Harp McGuire, Jacklyn O'Donnell, and Chris Warfield in Incident in an Alley (1962)
    Incident in an Alley
    • (uncredited)
  • Abel Fernandez, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, and Robert Stack in The Untouchables (1959)
    The Untouchables
    • (uncredited)
  • Perry Mason (1957)
    Perry Mason
    • (uncredited)
  • Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift, Maximilian Schell, and Richard Widmark in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
    Judgment at Nuremberg
    • (uncredited)
  • Robert Mitchum, Martha Hyer, France Nuyen, Louis Nye, and Jack Webb in The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
    The Last Time I Saw Archie
    • (uncredited)
  • John McIntire in Wagon Train (1957)
    Wagon Train
    • (uncredited)
  • Clu Gulager and Barry Sullivan in The Tall Man (1960)
    The Tall Man
    • (uncredited)
  • Dino Fantini in The Sinister Urge (1960)
    The Sinister Urge
  • The Dalton That Got Away (1960)
    The Dalton That Got Away
  • The Betty Hutton Show (1959)
    The Betty Hutton Show
  • The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)
    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
    • (uncredited) ...
  • Rachel Ames and Buster Crabbe in Gunfighters of Abilene (1959)
    Gunfighters of Abilene
    • (uncredited)
  • Robert Culp in Trackdown (1957)
    Trackdown
    • (uncredited)

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    • July 5, 1900
    • Washington, District of Columbia, USA
    • August 6, 1964
    • Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • June 18, 1937 - ?
  • Other works
    (1920s) Print ads: Arrow Shirts.

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    Served in the US Navy during World War I.

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