People
Harry Shannon
- Name: Harry Shannon
- Birthday: 1890-06-12
- Place of birth: Saginaw, Michigan, USA
- Popularity: 3.538
Biography:
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... Read More
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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| The World of Tomorrow as Pop Middleton (archive footage) | 1984-12-31 |
| The Mummy's Ghost as The Sheriff (archive footage) | 1968-01-01 |
| Gypsy as Grandpa | 1962-11-01 |
| Summer and Smoke as Dr. Burke (uncredited) | 1961-11-16 |
| Wild in the Country as Sam Tyler (uncredited) | 1961-06-15 |
| Yellowstone Kelly as Captain of the Far West (uncredited) | 1959-11-11 |
| The Buccaneer as Tom Carruthers - Captain of the Corinthian | 1958-12-11 |
| Man or Gun as Justin Corley | 1958-05-30 |
| Touch of Evil as Chief Gould | 1958-03-30 |
| The Lonely Man as Dr. Fisher | 1957-06-21 |
| Hell's Crossroads as Clay Ford | 1957-03-08 |
| Duel at Apache Wells as Wayne Shattuck | 1957-01-25 |
| The Peacemaker as Drunken Cowpuncher | 1956-11-01 |
| Written on the Wind as Hoak Wayne | 1956-10-04 |
| Come Next Spring as Mr. Totter | 1956-03-09 |
| At Gunpoint as Marshal Pete MacKay | 1955-12-25 |
| The Marauders as John Rutherford | 1955-09-26 |
| The Tall Men as Sam | 1955-09-22 |
| The Violent Men as Purdue | 1955-01-26 |
| Executive Suite as Ed Benedeck | 1954-04-30 |
| Witness to Murder as Captain Donnelly | 1954-04-15 |
| Rails Into Laramie as Judge Pierce | 1954-04-14 |
| Phantom Stallion as Michael Reilly | 1954-02-10 |
| Jack Slade as Tom Carter | 1953-11-08 |
| Roar of the Crowd as Sam 'Pop' Tracy | 1953-05-31 |
| Cry of the Hunted as Sheriff Brown | 1953-05-08 |
| Kansas Pacific as Smokestack the Train Engineer | 1953-02-22 |
| Lure of the Wilderness as Pat McGowan | 1952-07-16 |
| Flesh and Fury as Mike Callan | 1952-06-26 |
| High Noon as Cooper | 1952-06-09 |
| The Scarf as Asylum Warden Anderson | 1951-04-06 |
| The Lemon Drop Kid as John (Policeman) | 1951-04-02 |
| Blue Blood as Mr. Buchanan | 1951-01-28 |
| Al Jennings of Oklahoma as Fred Salter | 1951-01-17 |
| Hunt the Man Down as Wallace Bennett | 1950-12-26 |
| The Flying Missile as Vice Admiral Williams | 1950-12-24 |
| The Sound of Fury as Mr. Yaeger | 1950-12-12 |
| Where Danger Lives as Dr. Maynard | 1950-11-16 |
| The Killer That Stalked New York as Police Officer Houlihan | 1950-10-06 |
| The Underworld Story as George Parker | 1950-07-26 |
| Three Little Words as Clanahan | 1950-07-12 |
| The Gunfighter as Chuck (uncredited) | 1950-06-23 |
| Curtain Call at Cactus Creek as Clay | 1950-05-25 |
| Cow Town as Sandy Reeves | 1950-05-19 |
| The Jackie Robinson Story as Charlie | 1950-05-16 |
| Tarnished as Kelsey Bunker | 1950-02-28 |
| Singing Guns as Judge Waller | 1950-02-28 |
| Mary Ryan, Detective as Sawyer | 1949-11-03 |
| Mr. Soft Touch as Police Sergeant Garrett | 1949-07-28 |
| Tulsa as Nelse Lansing | 1949-04-13 |
| Champion as Lew | 1949-04-09 |
| Rustlers as Sheriff Harmon | 1949-03-03 |
| Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' as Chauncey | 1948-06-01 |
| Big Town Scandal as Police Captain Henry (uncredited) | 1948-05-27 |
| Fighting Father Dunne as Thomas Lee | 1948-05-12 |
| Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Tesander | 1948-03-25 |
| My Girl Tisa | 1948-02-07 |
| The Lady from Shanghai as Cab Driver | 1947-12-24 |
| Dangerous Years as Judge Raymond | 1947-12-07 |
| The Invisible Wall as Det. Capt. R.W. Davis | 1947-10-15 |
| Exposed as Severance | 1947-09-08 |
| Time Out of Mind as Capt. Rogers | 1947-05-03 |
| The Farmer's Daughter as Mr. Holstrom | 1947-03-26 |
| Nora Prentiss as San Francisco Homicide Lieutenant | 1947-02-22 |
| The Devil Thumbs a Ride as Detective Owens, San Diego Police | 1947-02-20 |
| The Red House as Dr. Jonathan Byrne | 1947-02-04 |
| San Quentin as Warden Kelly | 1946-12-16 |
| Crack-Up as Cop (Uncredited) | 1946-09-06 |
| The Last Crooked Mile as Police Lieutenant Blake | 1946-08-09 |
| Canyon Passage as Henry McLane (uncredited) | 1946-07-17 |
| Night Editor as Capt. Lawrence | 1946-03-29 |
| I Ring Doorbells as Shannon | 1946-02-28 |
| Pride of the Marines as Uncle Ralph | 1945-08-24 |
| Captain Eddie as Simmons | 1945-06-18 |
| Crime, Inc. as Police Commissioner Collins | 1945-04-15 |
| When the Lights Go On Again as Tom Cary | 1944-10-22 |
| The Mummy's Ghost as Sheriff Elwood | 1944-07-07 |
| The Yellow Rose of Texas as Sam Weston | 1944-06-24 |
| True to Life as Mr. Mason | 1943-12-24 |
| In Old Oklahoma as Charlie Witherspoon | 1943-12-06 |
| Headin' for God's Country as Albert Ness | 1943-08-26 |
| Someone to Remember as Tom Gibbons | 1943-08-21 |
| Alaska Highway as John 'Pop' Ormsby | 1943-06-24 |
| Song of Texas as Sam Bennett | 1943-06-14 |
| Idaho as Judge John Grey | 1943-03-10 |
| The Powers Girl as Mr. Hendricks | 1943-01-15 |
| Once Upon a Honeymoon as Ed Cumberland | 1942-11-27 |
| Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Mr. Tim Wiggs | 1942-10-01 |
| The Big Street as Florida Doctor (Uncredited) | 1942-08-13 |
| In Old California as Mr. Carlin | 1942-05-31 |
| The Falcon Takes Over as Detective Grimes (Uncredited) | 1942-05-29 |
| The Mad Martindales as Policeman | 1942-05-15 |
| This Gun for Hire as Steve Finnerty | 1942-04-24 |
| The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Pinky Dolan | 1942-03-27 |
| The Lady Is Willing as Barnes | 1942-02-12 |
| Hold Back the Dawn as American Immigration Official (uncredited) | 1941-09-26 |
| Citizen Kane as Jim Kane | 1941-04-17 |
| The Saint In Palm Springs as Chief R.L. Graves | 1941-01-24 |
| Tugboat Annie Sails Again as Capt. Mahoney | 1940-10-26 |
| Too Many Girls as Mr. Casey | 1940-10-08 |
| One Crowded Night as McDermott | 1940-08-09 |
| The Girl from Avenue A as Timson | 1940-08-09 |
| Sailor's Lady as Father McGann | 1940-07-05 |
| Gambling on the High Seas as Ed, Chief of Police | 1940-06-22 |
| Tear Gas Squad as Lieutenant Sullivan | 1940-05-04 |
| Young Tom Edison as Army Captain Brackett | 1940-03-15 |
| Parole Fixer as Randall | 1940-02-02 |
| City of Chance as Passline | 1940-01-13 |
| The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair as Father | 1939-04-30 |
| Alibi Mark as Railroad Detective | 1937-12-25 |
| Shake, Mr. Shakespeare as Macbeth | 1936-08-21 |
| A Peach of a Pair | 1934-12-29 |
| Smoked Hams as The Landlord | 1934-10-20 |
| No More West as Bank Robber | 1934-03-29 |
| Take a Chance as Bartender | 1933-11-25 |
| Close Relations as Harry Wart | 1933-09-30 |
| 20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang | 1933-08-12 |
| Wrongorilla as Grogan | 1933-03-04 |
| Heads Up as Capt. Denny | 1930-10-10 |
| Faint Heart as Dynamite Dan | 1929-12-21 |
| Sympathy as Larry | 1929-08-29 |
