Harry Allen
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Harry Allen (July 10, 1883 – December 4, 1951) was an Australian-born American character actor of the silent and sound film eras.
He began his acting career on stage with the J. C. Williamson organisation, performing around Australia. In 1910 he married fellow actor Marjorie Josephine née Condon in Brisbane. The union was not a success and in 1912 he left Australia for North America. In the United States, Allen was a member of a touring theater company, known for their popular rendition of The Better 'Ole. He appeared on Broadway in the early 1920s.
His first film role was in the 1923 silent film, The Last Moment, in a supporting role. In his career Allen appeared in over 100 films, mostly in supporting and smaller roles. Some of the more notable films he appeared in include: Of Human Bondage (1934), starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard; the Marx Brothers' classic, A Night at the Opera; the original Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable; William Wyler's 1942 Academy Award-winning film, Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright; Jane Eyre (1944), starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine; the Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor version of National Velvet (1945); and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), starring George Sanders. His final appearance on film was in the 1949 film, Challenge to Lassie, starring Edmund Gwenn.
Allen died on December 4, 1951, and was buried in Glen Abbey Memorial Park.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.617 |
Birthday | 1883-07-09 |
Place of Birth | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Also Known As | Harry R. Allen, |
1923
The Last Moment
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The Last Moment is a silent film now considered lost.
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The Last Moment
1930
Hell's Island
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In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her when one of them announces...
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Hell's Island
1930
Headin' North
2/1
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Headin' North
1941
A Man Betrayed
5.5/10
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is ac...
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A Man Betrayed
1927
The Silent Hero
2.5/2
Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade Burton...
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The Silent Hero
1943
Buckskin Frontier
6/2
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
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Buckskin Frontier
1942
Mrs. Miniver
7/251
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charm...
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Mrs. Miniver
1930
Hell Harbor
6/8
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Hell Harbor
1931
Chances
7/3
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Chances
1936
White Legion
4.5/1
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White Legion
1928
The Adorable Cheat
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The Adorable Cheat
1930
Second Honeymoon
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A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
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Second Honeymoon
1940
Moon Over Burma
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The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
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Moon Over Burma
1938
Outside of Paradise
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Outside of Paradise
1947
Moss Rose
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Moss Rose
1926
Ella Cinders
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Ella Cinders
1931
The Sunrise Trail
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The Sunrise Trail
1938
Blond Cheat
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Blond Cheat
1930
Sunny
4/1
A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.
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Sunny
1936
The White Angel
8/4
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The White Angel
1939
Stand Up and Fight
5.8/4
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Stand Up and Fight
1939
The Little Princess
6.69/105
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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The Little Princess
1939
We Are Not Alone
6.2/3
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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We Are Not Alone
1938
The Ship That Died
5.8/3
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The Ship That Died
1933
Cavalcade
5.5/108
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst even...
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Cavalcade
1936
The Girl from Mandalay
3/1
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their e...
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The Girl from Mandalay
1945
Hangover Square
6.8/62
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Hangover Square
1936
Libeled Lady
7.323/113
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Libeled Lady
1940
The Earl of Chicago
5.6/5
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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The Earl of Chicago
1941
They Met in Bombay
7.4/15
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
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They Met in Bombay
1944
The Lodger
6.4/87
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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The Lodger
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.3/329
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1944
The Scarlet Claw
6.9/89
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the ca...
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The Scarlet Claw
1944
Ministry of Fear
6.8/170
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Ministry of Fear
1940
Waterloo Bridge
7.5/146
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young...
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Waterloo Bridge
1943
Forever and a Day
7.2/8
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1934
Bombay Mail
6/1
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
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Bombay Mail
1934
Fugitive Road
0/0
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
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Fugitive Road
1924
The Enchanted Cottage
6.5/4
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The Enchanted Cottage
1926
Corporal Kate
0/0
Frequently cited as one of the first war films to feature the female angle, “Corporate Kate” is the story of a pair of Brooklyn manicurists who go to...
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Corporal Kate
1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
6.7/21
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The White Cliffs of Dover
1942
Eagle Squadron
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An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Eagle Squadron
1931
Rich Man's Folly
4/2
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly...
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Rich Man's Folly
1929
Strange Cargo
6/1
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sou...
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Strange Cargo
1943
Jane Eyre
6.9/128
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Jane Eyre
1935
The Great Impersonation
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The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...
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The Great Impersonation
1945
Murder, He Says
6.6/30
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visitin...
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Murder, He Says
1935
A Feather in Her Hat
6.8/4
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney...
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A Feather in Her Hat
1939
Rulers of the Sea
6.5/2
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Rulers of the Sea
1933
The Kennel Murder Case
6.1/46
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broke...
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The Kennel Murder Case
1934
Of Human Bondage
6.4/122
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
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Of Human Bondage
1930
The Dawn Patrol
6.5/22
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons a...
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The Dawn Patrol
1935
Anna Karenina
6.6/82
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
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Anna Karenina
1942
This Above All
6.6/17
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This Above All
1928
Two Lovers
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Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise...
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Two Lovers
1933
Captured!
5.6/7
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and...
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Captured!
1937
California Straight Ahead
4.5/2
A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.
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California Straight Ahead
1932
Texas Pioneers
0/0
In order to find out who is smuggling guns to the Indians, an army officer pretends to have been demoted and hold a grudge against the army, hoping th...
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