Edward Howard

Edward Mills Howard was born Friday, September 2, 1910 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, the eighth of ten children born to James Robert Howard (1853-1937) and Lula Monica Mills (1871-1952). Edward's father began as a farmer, moved into being a carpentry foreman for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and later became a building contractor. Edward had six brothers and three sisters. Following his sophomore year at Tuscaloosa Senior High School the 1930 U. S. Census identifies his occupation as a bricklayer. He married Bernyce Eva Bell (October 26, 1915 - December 16, 2009), a legal secretary, in Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1935. They were living in Santa Monica in 1940 and Edward was working as a route man for a laundry. They divorced in the early 1940's. His acting career began with six minor uncredited roles in 1942, 1943 and 1944. In 1945 he had a variety of roles in fifteen B-westerns. In his three final movies in 1946 his most prominent role was as Dunc Rankin in Thunder Town in his nex