Acting
Community Rating
6.0
TMDB estimate
Born
July 10, 1877
Died
December 4, 1951 (age 74)
Born in
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harry Allen (July 10, 1883 – December 4, 1951) was an Australian-born American character actor of the silent and sound film eras. He began his acting career on stage with the J. C. Williamson organisation, performing around Australia. In 1910 he married fellow actor Marjorie Josephine née Condon in Brisbane. The union was not a success and in 1912 he left Australia for North America. In the United States, Allen was a member of a touring theater company, known for their popular rendition of The Better 'Ole. He appeared on Broadway in the early 1920s. His first film role was in the 1923 silent film, The Last Moment, in a supporting role. In his career Allen appeared in over 100 films, mostly in supporting and smaller roles. Some of the more notable films he appeared in include: Of Human Bondage (1934), starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard; the Marx Brothers' classic, A Night at the Opera; the original Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable; William Wyler's 1942 Academy Award-winning film, Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright; Jane Eyre (1944), starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine; the Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor version of National Velvet (1945); and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), starring George Sanders. His final appearance on film was in the 1949 film, Challenge to Lassie, starring Edmund Gwenn. Allen died on December 4, 1951, and was buried in Glen Abbey Memorial Park.

Julia Misbehaves
as Bill Collector
1948

Moss Rose
as Threadbare Little Man (uncredited)
1947

The Green Years
as Purser Teeler
1946

Murder, He Says
as Old Deaf Townsman (uncredited)
1945

Hangover Square
1945

Ministry of Fear
as Tailor's Delivery Man (uncredited)
1944

The Scarlet Claw
1944

The White Cliffs of Dover
as English Cabbie (uncredited)
1944

The Lodger
1944

Jane Eyre
as Guard
1943

Buckskin Frontier
as McWhinny
1943

Forever and a Day
as First Cockney Air Raid Watcher
1943

Mrs. Miniver
as William (uncredited)
1942

Eagle Squadron
as Cockney
1942

This Above All
as Hubert
1942

They Met in Bombay
1941

A Man Betrayed
as Beggar Outside Club Inferno (uncredited)
1941

Moon Over Burma
as Sunshine
1940

Waterloo Bridge
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1940

The Earl of Chicago
as Mayor (uncredited)
1940