 He encouraged her to break with her predecessors as First Lady and make the role more active and political.In a 1951 magazine article, Eleanor listed Howe as one of the seven people who had most influenced her life.Howe was portrayed by Ed Flanders in the 1976 television miniseries "Eleanor and Franklin";, Walter McGinn in "", the 1977 American made-for-television film and a sequel to "Eleanor and Franklin" (1976), and by Hume Cronyn in the 1960 movie "Sunrise at Campobello".