Howard St. John (October 9, 1905 – March 13, 1974[1]) was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles.

[1] St. John's most high-profile role was that of General Bullmoose in the hit musical Li'l Abner.

[citation needed] St. John began film work in the early 1930s and made an impression in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train in 1951.

[5] He continued in stuffy, rigid or authoritarian roles for most of his career, including memorable ones in The Tender Trap and Born Yesterday.

[6] St. John portrayed Lloyd Prior on the NBC crime drama The Investigator (1958).