Birthday
1890/06/12
Day of death
1964/07/27 (74 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Also know as
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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...Read more
(1941) Citizen Kane
as Jim Kane
(1952) High Noon
as Cooper
(1958) Touch of Evil
as Chief Gould
(1948) My Girl Tisa
as ---
(1947) The Lady from Shanghai
as Cab Driver
(1950) Where Danger Lives
as Dr. Maynard
(1947) The Red House
as Dr. Jonathan Byrne
(1951) The Lemon Drop Kid
as John (Policeman)
(1950) The Killer That Stalked New York
as Police Officer Houlihan
(1948) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Tesander
(1947) Nora Prentiss
as Police Lieutenant
(1953) Cry of the Hunted
as Sheriff Brown
(1946) Night Editor
as Capt. Lawrence
(1934) A Peach of a Pair
as ---
(1950) The Underworld Story
as George Parker
(1945) Crime, Inc.
as Police Commissioner Collins
(1951) The Scarf
as Asylum Warden Anderson
(1947) The Devil Thumbs a Ride
as Detective Owens, San Diego Police
(1957) The Lonely Man
as Dr. Fisher
(1950) The Jackie Robinson Story
as Charlie
(1947) The Farmer's Daughter
as Mr. Holstrom
(1954) Witness to Murder
as Captain Donnelly
(1940) City of Chance
as Passline
(1942) This Gun for Hire
as Steve Finnerty
(1950) Hunt the Man Down
as Wallace Bennett
(1947) The Invisible Wall
as Det. Capt. R.W. Davis
(1962) Gypsy
as Grandpa
(1953) Kansas Pacific
as Smokestack the Train Engineer
(1956) Written on the Wind
as Hoak Wayne
(1949) Mr. Soft Touch
as Police Sergeant Garrett
(1946) The Last Crooked Mile
as Police Lieutenant Blake
(1959) Yellowstone Kelly
as Captain of the Far West (uncredited)
(1946) San Quentin
as Warden Kelly
(1941) The Saint In Palm Springs
as Chief R.L. Graves
(1958) Man or Gun
as Justin Corley
(1952) Flesh and Fury
as Mike Callan
(1949) Tulsa
as Nelse Lansing
(1947) Exposed
as Severance
(1955) At Gunpoint
as Marshal Pete MacKay
(1949) Mary Ryan, Detective
as Sawyer
(1933) 20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang
as ---
(1937) Alibi Mark
as Railroad Detective
(1944) When the Lights Go On Again
as Tom Cary
(1944) The Yellow Rose of Texas
as Sam Weston
(1943) Song of Texas
as Sam Bennett
(1950) Singing Guns
as Judge Waller
(1957) Hell's Crossroads
as Clay Ford
(1934) Smoked Hams
as The Landlord
(1943) Idaho
as Judge John Grey
(1957) Duel at Apache Wells
as Wayne Shattuck
(1955) The Marauders
as John Rutherford
(1950) Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
as Clay
(1940) Tugboat Annie Sails Again
as Capt. Mahoney
(1954) Rails Into Laramie
as Judge Pierce
(1942) The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Pinky Dolan
(1953) Jack Slade
as Tom Carter
(1950) The Flying Missile
as Vice Admiral Williams
(1943) True to Life
as Mr. Mason
(1952) Lure of the Wilderness
as Pat McGowan
(1955) The Violent Men
as Purdue
(1956) Come Next Spring
as Mr. Totter
(1951) Al Jennings of Oklahoma
as Fred Salter
(1950) Three Little Words
as Clanahan
(1961) Wild in the Country
as Sam Tyler (uncredited)
(1942) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Mr. Tim Wiggs
(1947) Time Out of Mind
as Capt. Rogers
(1948) Fighting Father Dunne
as Thomas Lee
(1930) Heads Up
as Capt. Denny
(1943) The Powers Girl
as Mr. Hendricks
(1961) Summer and Smoke
as Dr. Burke (uncredited)
(1947) Dangerous Years
as Judge Raymond
(1942) Once Upon a Honeymoon
as Ed Cumberland
(1943) Alaska Highway
as John 'Pop' Ormsby
(1940) Sailor's Lady
as Father McGann
(1939) The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
as Father
(1946) I Ring Doorbells
as Shannon
(1936) Shake, Mr. Shakespeare
as Macbeth
(1954) Phantom Stallion
as Michael Reilly
(1948) Big Town Scandal
as Police Captain Henry (uncredited)
(1940) Parole Fixer
as Randall
(1984) The World of Tomorrow
as Pop Middleton (archive footage)
(1940) Young Tom Edison
as Army Captain Brackett
(1941) Hold Back the Dawn
as American Immigration Official (uncredited)
(1948) Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
as Chauncey
(1950) The Gunfighter
as Chuck (uncredited)
(1949) Rustlers
as Sheriff Harmon
(1942) In Old California
as Mr. Carlin
(1940) Too Many Girls
as Mr. Casey
(1949) Champion
as Lew
(1933) Wrongorilla
as Grogan
(1943) Someone to Remember
as Tom Gibbons
(1950) Cow Town
as Sandy Reeves
(1933) Take a Chance
as Bartender
(1929) Sympathy
as Larry
(1933) Close Relations
as Harry Wart
(1929) Faint Heart
as Dynamite Dan
(1944) The Mummy's Ghost
as Sheriff Elwood
(1955) The Tall Men
as Sam
(1956) The Peacemaker
as Drunken Cowpuncher
(1940) Gambling on the High Seas
as Ed, Chief of Police
(1934) No More West
as Bank Robber
(1940) Tear Gas Squad
as Lieutenant Sullivan
(1940) One Crowded Night
as McDermott
(1943) In Old Oklahoma
as Charlie Witherspoon
(1943) Headin' for God's Country
as Albert Ness
(1942) The Falcon Takes Over
as Detective Grimes (Uncredited)
(1951) Blue Blood
as Mr. Buchanan
(1945) Captain Eddie
as Simmons
(1942) The Lady Is Willing
as Barnes
(1950) The Sound of Fury
as Mr. Yaeger
(1953) Roar of the Crowd
as Sam 'Pop' Tracy
(1950) Tarnished
as Kelsey Bunker
(1954) Executive Suite
as Ed Benedeck
(1942) The Big Street
as Florida Doctor (Uncredited)
(1946) Crack-Up
as Cop (Uncredited)
(1940) The Girl from Avenue A
as Timson
(1942) The Mad Martindales
as Policeman
(1958) The Buccaneer
as Tom Carruthers - Captain of the Corinthian
(1945) Pride of the Marines
as Uncle Ralph
(1946) Canyon Passage
as Henry McLane (uncredited)
(1955) Cheyenne
as ---
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Bowers
(1954) Lassie
as ---
(1960) Angel
as ---
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Dr. Harner
(1959) Rawhide
as Claggert
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as Jesse
(1955) The Millionaire
as Judge William Jennings Westholme
(1962) The Virginian
as Uncle Josh
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Big Jim Heywood
(1957) The Thin Man
as ---
(1957) The Real McCoys
as ---
(1955) Navy Log
as ---
(1959) Lock-Up
as ---
(1963) The Dakotas
as ---
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Henry Shipman
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Jobe Crail
(1958) The Texan
as ---
(1956) Wire Service
as Harris Ellerby
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as ---
(1956) State Trooper
as ---
(1957) 26 Men
as ---
(1953) The Man Behind the Badge
as ---
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Tom
(1959) Rawhide
as Kilo
(1959) Rawhide
as Sheriff Blanton
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Samuel Morse