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Harry Allen
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harry Allen (July 10, 1883 – December 4, 1951) was an Australian-born American character actor of the silent and sound film eras. He began…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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1948
Julia Misbehaves
Movie Bill Collector
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1947
Moss Rose
Movie Threadbare Little Man (uncredited)
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1946
The Green Years
Movie Purser Teeler
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1945
Murder, He Says
Movie Old Deaf Townsman (uncredited)
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1945
Hangover Square
Movie
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1944
Ministry of Fear
Movie Tailor's Delivery Man (uncredited)
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1944
The Scarlet Claw
Movie
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1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
Movie English Cabbie (uncredited)
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1944
The Lodger
Movie
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1943
Jane Eyre
Movie Guard
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1943
Buckskin Frontier
Movie McWhinny
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1943
Forever and a Day
Movie First Cockney Air Raid Watcher
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1942
Mrs. Miniver
Movie William (uncredited)
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1942
Eagle Squadron
Movie Cockney
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1942
This Above All
Movie Hubert
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1941
They Met in Bombay
Movie
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1941
A Man Betrayed
Movie Beggar Outside Club Inferno (uncredited)
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1940
Moon Over Burma
Movie Sunshine
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1940
Waterloo Bridge
Movie Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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1940
The Earl of Chicago
Movie Mayor (uncredited)
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1939
We Are Not Alone
Movie Doorkeeper
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1939
Rulers of the Sea
Movie Murdock
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1939
The Little Princess
Movie Groom
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1939
Stand Up and Fight
Movie Baltimore & Ohio Engineer
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1938
Blond Cheat
Movie Carriage Driver (uncredited)
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1938
The Ship That Died
Movie Bos'n of Rescue Ship
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1938
Outside of Paradise
Movie Old Man
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1937
California Straight Ahead
Movie 'Fish' McCorkle
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1936
Camille
Movie Minor role (uncredited)
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1936
White Legion
Movie McKenzie
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1936
Libeled Lady
Movie Jacques (uncredited)
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1936
The White Angel
Movie Soldier Bothered By Rats (uncredited)
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1936
The Girl from Mandalay
Movie Ship Captain
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1935
The Great Impersonation
Movie Perkins
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1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
Movie Wherryman (uncredited)
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1935
A Feather in Her Hat
Movie Alf (uncredited)
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1935
Anna Karenina
Movie Cord
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1935
Murder on a Honeymoon
Movie Hotel Gardener (uncredited)
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1934
Fugitive Road
Movie Herbert Smythe - Ambulance Driver
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1934
Of Human Bondage
Movie Taxi Driver (uncredited)
