Harry Holman

Harry Holman

Born: March 15, 1872
Died: May 3, 1947
in Conway, Missouri, USA

Movies for Harry Holman...

Magic Town
Title: Magic Town
Character: Mayor
Released: October 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Mr. Partridge (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Hodge
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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Swing Hostess
Title: Swing Hostess
Character: Fralick
Released: September 8, 1944
Type: Movie
An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.
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What a Man!
Title: What a Man!
Character: Harold D. Prewitt
Released: January 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
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Captive Wild Woman
Title: Captive Wild Woman
Character: Dock Ticket Office Clerk
Released: June 4, 1943
Type: Movie
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
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Idaho
Title: Idaho
Character: Man Leaving Church
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Fat Man
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Shadows on the Sage
Title: Shadows on the Sage
Character: Lippy
Released: August 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shadows on the Sage is a 1942 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Lester Orlebeck. The Three Mesquiteers, Tucson, Stony, and Lullaby arrive to help Sheriff Lippy fight the outlaws. But when the gang leader Curly Joe captures Tucson and notices the resemblance, he assumes Tucson's identity.
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The Silver Bullet
Title: The Silver Bullet
Character: Doc Winslow
Released: August 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.
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Inside the Law
Title: Inside the Law
Character: Judge Mortimer Gibbs
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks wrestles with the temptation to rob the bank that they now manage.
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Title: Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Character: Joshua Baldwin
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
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Too Many Women
Title: Too Many Women
Character: John Cartwright
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds himself engaged to three different women and pursued by a fourth, a gangster's sister.
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I Killed That Man
Title: I Killed That Man
Character: Lanning
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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The Bride Came C.O.D.
Title: The Bride Came C.O.D.
Character: Judge Sobler
Released: July 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
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Lady from Louisiana
Title: Lady from Louisiana
Character: Mayor of New orleans
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: Mayor Hawkins
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Burgomeister (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Businessman Juror - J. B. (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Engineer (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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I Demand Payment
Title: I Demand Payment
Character: Justice of the Peace
Released: December 13, 1938
Type: Movie
A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion racket, then finds herself becoming involved with the doctor who has saved her life and become attracted to her.
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Western Jamboree
Title: Western Jamboree
Character: Doc Trimble
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay a hidden pipeline to snag the gas.
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The Arkansas Traveler
Title: The Arkansas Traveler
Character: Telegrapher
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Man Shaving on Boat
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Nation Aflame
Title: Nation Aflame
Character: Roland Adams
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Sgt. Berkovitch (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Gentle Julia
Title: Gentle Julia
Character: Grandpa Atwater
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
Title: Hitch Hike To Heaven
Character: Philmore Tubbs
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
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Murder at Glen Athol
Title: Murder at Glen Athol
Character: Campbell Snowden
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Title: Things You Never See on the Screen
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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To Beat the Band
Title: To Beat the Band
Character: Chubby Diner
Released: November 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
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Here Comes Cookie
Title: Here Comes Cookie
Character: Stuffy
Released: September 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
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Hoi Polloi
Title: Hoi Polloi
Character: Prof. Richmond (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as gentlemen.
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Jalna
Title: Jalna
Character: Mr. Cory
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: Flink
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
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Cheers of the Crowd
Title: Cheers of the Crowd
Character: Honest John Brady
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
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Every Night at Eight
Title: Every Night at Eight
Character: Col. Ratchfield (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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In Caliente
Title: In Caliente
Character: Biggs
Released: May 25, 1935
Type: Movie
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
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Traveling Saleslady
Title: Traveling Saleslady
Character: Pat O'Connor's Uncle
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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Calling All Cars
Title: Calling All Cars
Character: Judge Marlowe
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Uncle Ed
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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Million Dollar Baby
Title: Million Dollar Baby
Character: J.D. Pemberton
Released: December 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
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Night Alarm
Title: Night Alarm
Character: Mayor Wilson
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
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Dames
Title: Dames
Character: Druggist #3 (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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Fugitive Road
Title: Fugitive Road
Character: Burgomaster
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
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The Lost Jungle
Title: The Lost Jungle
Character: Maitland
Released: June 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Clyde Beatty, an animal trainer and circus star, leads a search for his missing girlfriend and her father who were on an expedition looking for a lost tropical island. Using a dirigible as his mode of transportation, Beatty and his band head off in search of the missing explorers only to crash their airship on the same island their friends are located. Battling wild animals and a gang of greedy men searching for gold, Beatty and his party must rescue his girlfriend and father all the while trying to escape their jungle island. Feature version of the same-title serial of the same year, with refilmed sequences substantially altering the plot and characters of the original chapterplay.
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Diner Counterman
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: Fat Man
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Last Auto Camp Manager (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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My Woman
Title: My Woman
Character: Lou
Released: October 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Mr. Rumley
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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The Solitaire Man
Title: The Solitaire Man
Character: Mr. Elmer Hopkins
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
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One Year Later
Title: One Year Later
Character: Man Shaving on Train
Released: August 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her.
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The Devil's Mate
Title: The Devil's Mate
Character: McGee
Released: August 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
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The Stranger's Return
Title: The Stranger's Return
Character: Minor Role
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
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Lucky Dog
Title: Lucky Dog
Character: The Business Man
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.
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The Circus Queen Murder
Title: The Circus Queen Murder
Character: Jim Dugan
Released: April 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
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State Fair
Title: State Fair
Character: Professor Tyler Cramp (Uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Colonel's Associate (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Silver Dollar
Title: Silver Dollar
Character: Adams
Released: December 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
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Central Park
Title: Central Park
Character: Police Captain (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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The Conquerors
Title: The Conquerors
Character: Stubby
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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American Madness
Title: American Madness
Character: Loan-Seeker (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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Doctor X
Title: Doctor X
Character: Mike, Waterfront Policeman
Released: August 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
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The Dark Horse
Title: The Dark Horse
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: June 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
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So Big!
Title: So Big!
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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Beauty and the Boss
Title: Beauty and the Boss
Character: Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1932
Type: Movie
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Wilson Supporter (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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That Rascal
Title: That Rascal
Released: February 21, 1932
Type: Movie
Harry Barris and Audrey Ferris want to get married, and her father, Harry Holman, likes Barris' piano playing. However, he hates it when Barris sings songs like "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You".
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Character: Victor Albert Adolph Jules Hugo Louis Dupont (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
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Give Me Action
Title: Give Me Action
Character: James Stanton
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
James Stanton and John Lane meet 30 years after graduating from Yale to decide the winner of a bet as to who is the more successful.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Fat Man (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.