Howard JohnRichard

American actor who was on screen from 1939 as a leading man, and who eventually became a handsome character actor in his 60s, mostly doing TV. His films include six of the Bulldog Drummond series, "Lost Horizon," "The Philadelphia Story" and "The High and The Mighty." After doing supporting roles in numerous TV shows, he was finally cast as a regular in NBCs popular soap "Days of Our Lives." Howard was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Ohio’s Western Reserve University and started appearing on stage before his 1935 screen debut. He was awarded the NAVY Cross and the Croix de Guerre for valor during WW II. He married Eva Ralf, a former soloist with the Berlin State Opera Ballet, and they had four kids. He died February 19,1995 in Santa Rosa, CA, age 81. The cause was heart failure. Read less