John Harron
Birthday: 1903-03-31
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: John Harron (March 31, 1904 – November 24, 1939) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1918 and 1940. Born in New York City, he was the brother of actor Robert Harron and of actress Mary Harron. Harron graduated from Santa Clara University. His film debut came in Through the Back Door (1921). After acting for Universal, he was under contract to Warner Bros. Harron "achieved great success on the silent screen but was reduced to minor roles or minor films with the coming of sound." Harron died in Seattle, Washington from spinal meningitis. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles
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Finders Keepers
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress....
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Pop's Pal
A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers...
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White Zombie
A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away fr...
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The Grim Comedian
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
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The Fox
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
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Through The Back Door
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and tr...
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Street Girl
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The Crowd Roars
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discoverin...
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Quiet, Please
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production....
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Kid Galahad
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Midnight Warning
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The Murder in the Museum
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Bride of the Storm
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The Little Irish Girl
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City Park
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Sister to Judas
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Indianapolis Speedway
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Big Boy
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Beauty Parlor
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Stolen Sweets
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The Czar of Broadway
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular...
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Below the Line
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The Night Cry
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The Patient in Room 18
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warn...
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Out Where the Stars Begin
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The Invisible Menace
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Boy Meets Girl
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Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket....
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Going Places
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargain...
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Code of the Secret Service
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates....
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Angels Wash Their Faces
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending ...
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Gold Diggers in Paris
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite th...
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Naughty But Nice
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-to...
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Secret Service of the Air
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Public Wedding
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fak...
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Smashing the Money Ring
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That Man's Here Again
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in...
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He Couldn't Say No
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marr...
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King of the Underworld
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her i...
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They Made Me a Criminal
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk....
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The Oklahoma Kid
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw ...
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Women in the Wind
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women....
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund....
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Dark Victory
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few...
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Each Dawn I Die
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of h...
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The Daredevil Drivers
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her r...
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Kid Nightingale
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees t...
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Lincoln in the White House
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Get...
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The Return of Doctor X
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to c...
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Espionage Agent
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The Roaring Twenties
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Heart of the North
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound fre...
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Missing Witnesses
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City....
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Blazing Sixes
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent seri...
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Varsity Show
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played ...
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The Fighting 69th
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the ...
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Calling Philo Vance
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The Law of the Tong
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The Beloved Brat
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club ...
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform can...
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Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll....
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f...
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Virginia City
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in ...
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Prairie Thunder
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Jezebel
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Carnival Day
It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the sing...
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Her Husband's Secretary
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary....
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Over the Wall
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
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The Cowboy Quarterback
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Hollywood Trouble
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Men in Exile
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The Gold Diggers
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Penrod
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name o...
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The Bill of Rights
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American ...
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Hearts of the World
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Once and Forever
Silent romantic drama starring Patsy Ruth Miller who suffers along with her beloved after he loses h...
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A Fugitive from Justice
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the ru...
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The Easiest Way
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Penrod's Double Trouble
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical...
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On Dress Parade
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a mil...
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The Adventurous Blonde
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) i...
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Blondes at Work
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a...
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Torchy Gets Her Man
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwi...
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from Ne...
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The Man Without a Country
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his...
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The Declaration of Independence
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the d...
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Slapsie Maxie's
In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Ma...
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Old Shoes
A widowed woman marries her husband's brother, who soon proves to be a tyrant stepfather to his adop...
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The Gilded Highway
After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years,...
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The Woman Hater
A famous international actress wants to marry the love of her life, a millionaire but is blocked by ...
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Hard to Get
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill...
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Boots and Saddles
Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real wester...
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Marked Woman
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste...
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Laugh and Get Rich
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've be...
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The West~Bound Limited
The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, Davi...
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My Wife and I
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both...
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Hell-Bent for Heaven
Sid Hunt and Jude Lowery are Carolina sweethearts but hired-hand Rufe Pryer also has his eyes on her...
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Satan in Sables
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not giv...
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Fly Away Baby
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight....
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Behind the Curtain
When a brutal murder occurs, all the evidence points to a phony spiritualist, who is eventually conv...
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Hollywood Halfbacks
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides tha...
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Love in the Dark
"I hope people see me as an artist, not a blind artist." Tou suffered a severe eye injury in an acc...
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen ...
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The Painted Flapper
A socially-ambitious mother is pushing her younger daughter into a life-style that will satisfy the ...
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Silk Stockings
Sam and Molly Thornhill, a married couple very much in love, are nevertheless continually quarreling...
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Night Life
In post-World War I Vienna, a confidence trickster falls in love with a struggling waitress....
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The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted is a lost 1925 American drama film directed by James Flood and written by...
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The Ragged Heiress
Facing a prison term, James Moreton makes provision for the care of his motherless daughter, Lucia, ...
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The False Alarm
The False Alarm is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Ralph L...
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Rose of the Tenements
Rose Rosetti, the orphaned daughter of a New York gangster, and Danny Lewis, another orphan, have be...
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