Harry Shannon

🎂 Data nașterii: 1890-06-12 (Saginaw, Michigan, USA)

Born and raised on a farm in Michigan in 1890, Irish-American character actor Harry Shannon had the credentials for becoming a staple player in westerns. He started off his career traveling around with repertory and stock companies and developed his musical abilities in tent shows, burlesque houses and such tuneful Broadway shows as "Oh, Kay!" (1926), "Hold Everything" (1928), "Simple Simon" (1931), and "Pardon My English" (1933). A company member of Joseph Schildkraut's Hollywood Theater Guild, Shannon broke into films at the advent of sound and started things off in comedy film shorts opposite such celebrated players as Bert Lahr, Shemp Howard, and Leon Errol. In the 1940s Shannon established himself in feature-length movies and although he remained a minor, second-string player, he proved himself a durable presence in westerns usually remaining on the good side of the law as sheriffs and bucolic dads. In lighthearted entertainment he could be found as a friendly Irish cop or bartender. He made a slight but memorable impression as Kane's alcoholic father in the classic Citizen Kane (1941), while his last role would be as the grandfather in the musical Gypsy (1962). In between were small parts in such notable films as The Fighting Sullivans (1944), The Jolson Story (1946), High Noon (1952), Touch of Evil (1958), and The Buccaneer (1958). 1950s TV westerns such as Cheyenne (1955), Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Rawhide (1959), and Gunsmoke (1955) made consistent use of his rustic demeanor. Shannon died in 1964 at age 74.

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Harry Shannon

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Cetățeanul Kane

La amiază

Atingerea răului

My Girl Tisa

Doamna din Shanghai

Where Danger Lives

The Red House

The Lemon Drop Kid

The Killer That Stalked New York

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Nora Prentiss

Cry of the Hunted

Night Editor

A Peach of a Pair

The Underworld Story

Crime, Inc.

The Scarf

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

The Lonely Man

The Jackie Robinson Story

The Farmer's Daughter

Witness to Murder

City of Chance

This Gun for Hire

Hunt the Man Down

The Invisible Wall

Gypsy

Kansas Pacific

Written on the Wind

Mr. Soft Touch

The Last Crooked Mile

Yellowstone Kelly

San Quentin

The Saint In Palm Springs

Man or Gun

Flesh and Fury

Tulsa

Exposed

At Gunpoint

Mary Ryan, Detective

20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang

Alibi Mark

When the Lights Go On Again

The Yellow Rose of Texas

Song of Texas

Singing Guns

Hell's Crossroads

Smoked Hams

Idaho

Duel at Apache Wells

The Marauders

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

Rails Into Laramie

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

Jack Slade

The Flying Missile

True to Life

Lure of the Wilderness

The Violent Men

Come Next Spring

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

Three Little Words

Wild in the Country

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Time Out of Mind

Fighting Father Dunne

Heads Up

The Powers Girl

Summer and Smoke

Anii periculoși

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Alaska Highway

Sailor's Lady

The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair

I Ring Doorbells

Shake, Mr. Shakespeare

Phantom Stallion