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Harry Holman is a Actor American born on 15 march 1872

Harry Holman

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Birth name Harry James Holman
Nationality USA
Birth 15 march 1872
Death 3 may 1947 (at 75 years)

Harry Holman (March 15, 1862 – May 3, 1947) was an American character actor. He appeared in approximately 130 films between 1923 and 1947.

Born in Conway, Missouri, Holman dropped out of school in the ninth grade and began seeking work as an actor. In films from at least 1930, he played countless hapless judges, politicians, and businessmen. He is best known to modern audiences as the desperate Professor Richmond who tries to transform the uncouth Three Stooges into gentlemen in the film Hoi Polloi (1935). He also played frequently in the films of director Frank Capra, for example as the mayor in Meet John Doe (1941) and as the befuddeled high school teacher Mr. Partridge in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Holman died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California in 1947.

Biography

Harry Holman débute au théâtre, où il est surtout actif dans le répertoire du vaudeville (notons qu'il joue à Broadway dans une pièce représentée en 1903-1904).

Au cinéma, il apparaît pour la première fois — un petit rôle non crédité — dans Notre-Dame de Paris de Wallace Worsley (1923, avec Lon Chaney et Patsy Ruth Miller), son unique film muet. Suivent cent-trente-quatre films parlants américains sortis entre 1929 (un court métrage) et 1947 (Magic Town de William A. Wellman, avec James Stewart et Jane Wyman), année de sa mort à 75 ans.

Il contribue entre autres à six réalisations de Frank Capra, depuis Amour défendu (1932, avec Barbara Stanwyck et Adolphe Menjou) jusqu'à La vie est belle (1946, avec James Stewart et Donna Reed), en passant par L'Homme de la rue (1941, avec Gary Cooper et Barbara Stanwyck).

Mentionnons également Docteur X de Michael Curtiz (1932, avec Lionel Atwill et Fay Wray), In Caliente de Lloyd Bacon (1935, avec Dolores del Río et Pat O'Brien), le western Ville sans loi d'Howard Hawks (1935, avec Miriam Hopkins et Edward G. Robinson), ou encore Fiancée contre remboursement de William Keighley (1941, avec James Cagney et Bette Davis).

Usually with

Frank Capra
Frank Capra
(6 films)
Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(10 films)
Arthur Hoyt
Arthur Hoyt
(9 films)
Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Harry Holman (82 films)

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Magic Town
Magic Town (1947)
, 1h43
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith, Ned Sparks, Wallace Ford, Ann Doran
Roles Mayor
Rating64% 3.2001953.2001953.2001953.2001953.200195
Lawrence "Rip" Smith (James Stewart) is a former basketball player and ex-military who now runs a company that perform polls and consumer surveys. Lately he has started obsessing about being able to find a perfect mathematical "miracle" formula to perform the perfect survey, and compete for real with his rival companies. Because he lacks funds, he is far behind his number one rival George Stringer.
It's a Wonderful Life, 2h10
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Alternate history films
Actors James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Mr. Partridge (uncredited)
Rating85% 4.2986854.2986854.2986854.2986854.298685
In Bedford Falls, New York, on Christmas Eve 1945, George Bailey is suicidal. Prayers for him reach Heaven. Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George in order to earn his angel wings. To prepare Clarence, his superior Joseph shows flashbacks of George's life.
Without Reservations, 1h47
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Anne Triola, Phil Brown, Frank Puglia
Roles Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.198323.198323.198323.198323.19832
Successful author Christopher "Kit" Madden (Claudette Colbert) travels to Los Angeles to work on the film adaptation of her best-selling book Here is Tomorrow. It is supposed to star Cary Grant as the hero Mark Winston and Lana Turner, but Grant has just dropped out and the producer thinks they need an unknown actor to play Winston. On a train to Hollywood Kit meets two Marines, Captain "Rusty" Thomas (John Wayne) and 1st Lieutenant "Dink" Watson (Don DeFore). She considers Rusty the best choice to play Mark Winston, but he is dismissive of her book: she wrote a political allegory and he does not believe Cary Grant would refuse Lana Turner for 400 pages. Unsure how he will react if he discovers she is a famous writer, she keeps her identity secret (saying her name is "Kitty Kloch"). During their journey across the country on trains, the trio end up in various comedic and dramatic situations. When Rusty finally learns the truth, he thinks that she has been using him just so he would be in the motion picture. Nonetheless, after a number of missteps, the couple eventually are able to resolve their differences.
My Dog Shep, 1h9
Directed by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Tom Neal, William Farnum, Russell Simpson, Sarah Padden, Craig Reynolds, Al St. John
Roles The Judge
Rating60% 3.004783.004783.004783.004783.00478
Badman's Territory
Directed by Tim Whelan
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, George "Gabby" Hayes, Ann Richards, Ray Collins, Morgan Conway, Virginia Sale
Roles Hodge
Rating61% 3.097913.097913.097913.097913.09791
Just north of Texas and west of the Oklahoma border is "Badman's Territory," a region not yet governed by statehood. This is where Jesse James and brother Frank head after a train robbery, along with their partner, Coyote.
And Now Tomorrow, 1h26
Directed by Irving Pichel, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward, Barry Sullivan, Beulah Bondi, Grant Mitchell
Roles le Père Noël
Rating67% 3.389773.389773.389773.389773.38977
Emily Blair (Loretta Young), who stems from a very wealthy family, is deaf ever since she had meningitis several years ago. She has been away trying in vain to find a cure for her deafness, but is now returning to the town where she was born and raised, Blairtown. Before she went she was engaged to a man named Jeff Stoddard (Barry Sullivan), but put the wedding on hold because of her illness and the following hearing disability.
The Adventures of Mark Twain, 2h10
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure
Themes Films about writers
Actors Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine
Roles un invité ivre
Rating70% 3.5436253.5436253.5436253.5436253.543625
A group of people are watching Halley's Comet overhead when Judge Clemens is called away for the birth of his son, Samuel Clemens. The film proceeds to mix in elements of many of Clemens' best-known stories as if they actually occurred. Thus, as he grows up, Sam plays with his friends Huck, Tom, and the slave boy Jim on a raft on the Mississippi, providing a fictitious "real–life" basis for the novels Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Swing Hostess, 1h16
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Iris Adrian, Charles Collins, Harry Holman, Emmett Lynn, Paul Porcasi, Philip Van Zandt
Roles Fralick
Rating59% 2.955262.955262.955262.955262.95526
A down-on-her-luck would-be singer keeps encountering roadblocks on her way to stardom. Judy Alvin (Martha Tilton) has a fine voice but is no match for the politics of a musical producer pushing his girlfriend, the amazingly untalented Phoebe (Betty Brodel, the sister of Joan Leslie) who has obtained employment by using a record of Judy's voice rather than hers.
Captive Wild Woman, 1h1
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about apes
Actors John Carradine, Milburn Stone, Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, Lloyd Corrigan, Martha Vickers
Roles Dock Ticket Office Clerk
Rating54% 2.7028652.7028652.7028652.7028652.702865
The film begins with animal trainer Fred Mason (Milburn Stone) returning from his latest safari with a horde of animals for his employer John Whipple (Lloyd Corrigan), owner of the Whipple Circus. Among them is Cheela (Ray Corrigan), a gorilla with remarkably human characteristics. Mason relates that she is the most affectionate jungle animal he has ever encountered.
Idaho
Idaho (1943)
, 1h10
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Grey, Bob Nolan, Ona Munson, Harry Shannon
Roles Man Leaving Church
Rating59% 2.954352.954352.954352.954352.95435
Judge John Grey decides to close down Belle Bonner's saloon. It turns out, though, that Grey is actually a former outlaw named Tom Allison, and this information is used by Belle and her crony Duke Springer to blackmail the judge. It's up to Roy Rogers to ride into town and save the day.
Keep 'Em Slugging, 1h6
Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Huntz Hall, Shemp Howard, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, Norman Abbott, Evelyn Ankers
Roles Fat Man
Rating62% 3.123583.123583.123583.123583.12358
Teenage gang leader Tommy Banning is preparing for the Summer vacation by telling his members about the importance of doing their share to help out during the war. The best way to do this, according to Tommy's advice, is to end the gang activities and instead take legitimate useful jobs. But this seems to be a greater task than they could imagine, since most gang members have criminal records for juvenile delinquency, and they fail getting regular jobs. When Tommy's sister Sheila asks her boss, Frank Moulton, at the Carruthers' department store where she works, he agrees to hire Tommy only if she goes on a date with him. Sheila has a boyfriend and won't do that, but her boyfriend Jerry Brady instead gets Tommy the job at the department store. Upon starting his new job, Tommy is smitten by a slaes girl, Suzanne Booker, and they go on a movie date together. At the cinema, some of Tommy's gang, Albert "Pig" Gum, String and Ape, turn up and ruin the date. Soon enough Pig, String and Ape all have jobs, the latter two in the same store as Tommy.
Young Ideas, 1h17
Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Susan Peters, Herbert Marshall, Mary Astor, Elliott Reid, Richard Carlson, Allyn Joslyn
Roles Harry, employé du tribunal
Rating56% 2.8078052.8078052.8078052.8078052.807805
Josephine Evans (Mary Astor) and Professor Michael Kingsley (Herbert Marshall) are in a romantic relationship, something not approved of by Evan's two children. They try to disrupt the relationship with salacious incidents taken from their mother's fiction books, presenting them as true things their mother has done, hoping Kingsley would be displeased.
Hers to Hold, 1h34
Directed by Frank Ryan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Deanna Durbin, Joseph Cotten, Charles Winninger, Ludwig Stössel, Nella Walker, Gus Schilling
Roles Docteur
Rating62% 3.146373.146373.146373.146373.14637
Penny Craig, jeune chanteuse localement célèbre, vient faire un don de sang à l’hôpital de la Croix Rouge. Dans ce même hôpital se trouve Bill Morley, un pilote qui travaille dans une fabrique d'avions, venu lui aussi donner son sang. Afin d'approcher la jeune femme, il se fait passer pour un médecin, réussit à obtenir son numéro de téléphone, puis la drague. Penny est furieuse quand elle apprend l'imposture. Plus tard, Bill téléphone à son domicile mais Penny a averti le majordome de ne pas lui répondre.
Tennessee Johnson, 1h43
Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main, Regis Toomey, J. Edward Bromberg
Roles Morley
Rating64% 3.2448553.2448553.2448553.2448553.244855
Runaway tailor's apprentice Andrew Johnson (Van Heflin) wanders into the Tennessee town of Greeneville. He is persuaded to settle there. He barters his services to the librarian, Eliza McCardle (Ruth Hussey), in return for her teaching him to read and write and eventually marries her.