Villain of the Month: Edward M Howard
Edward M Howard racked up an impressive number of credits in B-Westerns and serials during his short lived career. His films included Tuscan Raiders (1944), Bad Men of the Border (1945), Three in the Saddle (1945), Rustlers of the Badlands (1945), Texas Panhandle (1945) and Thunder Trail (1946).
During this time Howard was becoming a reguar in Universal’s serials. After a bit part as a henchman in Raiders of Ghost Town (1944), he played a minor gangster teamed with Gene Roth in The Master Key (1945). A more subtantial part came in Secret Agent X-9 (1945), with Howard playing a hood who is the key to what the Japanese are after in the early chapters of the serials, before his killed so he can’t talk. His biggest role came the next year with The Scarlet Horseman (1946), as Zero Quick, a minor villain doing work for the villains, who decides he deserves a bigger cut and muscles his way into the main villain’s plans and even takes over the gang for a brief period.
Sadly, Howard’s career was cut premeturely short due to a cerebral hemorrhage in 1946.
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Edward Howard was my great uncle. I never knew him but my dad used to tell us stories about going to to movie theatre and sneaking in to see his movies. I would love to find some of his movies to watch.