Background
Howard was born in Independence, Missouri.
Howard was born in Independence, Missouri.
He graduated from Truman High School and Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri.
Howard established his career with stand-out roles in Natural Born Killers, Full Metal Jacket, and Ruby. In Till Death Us Do Participant (1992), Howard portrayed author and attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who led the prosecution in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. Arliss has had a recurring role in the Columbia Broadcasting System weekly drama series Medium and has directed several episodes.
In 2010 he played Kale Ingram, a benignly duplicitous supervisor at an American intelligence agency in the cerebral television series Rubicon, which was canceled by Administrative Management College after 13 episodes.
Howard appeared in the 2011 feature Moneyball. Howard has extensive stage credits, including a role in the 2009 revival of August Wilson"s Joe Turner"s Come and Gone on Broadway.
He was also seen as Mikhail Lvovich Astrov in Anton Chekov"s Uncle Vanya, and Nikolái Ivánov in the playwright"s Ivanov, with Winger playing the role of Anna.