Acting
George Harris
Born October 6, 1892 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died April 16, 1954 · aged 61
No biography available.
Known For
Pawnshop Politics · 1926Pawnshop Politics
1926
MovieComedy
After several amusing gags, including one in which a tough character seems to be holding up the pawnshop but is only selling his gun, Abie sees Kitty Dolan, whose father is running for alderman, and it is love at first sight. A rival candidate makes trouble and plants a bomb in the shop but Abie turns the tables on him. Election day finds Dolan's followers too lazy to vote. Abie stirs them up by offering to lick them and then running to the polling place with the mob at his heels. Dolan wins and so does Abie.
Sweepstakes · 1931Sweepstakes
★ 5.71931
MovieDrama
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
The Johnstown Flood · 1926The Johnstown Flood
★ 7.01926
MovieDrama
A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
The Floating College · 1928The Floating College
★ 8.01928
MovieComedy
College Life - Love - and the big things of life under the light-heartedness of youth.
Seas Beneath · 1931Seas Beneath
★ 5.31931
MovieActionDrama
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.
The Shamrock Handicap · 1926The Shamrock Handicap
★ 5.51926
MovieRomanceDrama
Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate. He is forced to sell off part of his racing stable to a wealthy American, who takes along Gaffney's jockey Neil Ross as part of the bargain. When Neil is crippled in a racing accident, Sir Miles and his daughter Sheila sail to America with their prize horse "Dark Rosaleen" in tow. The first film having an Irish motif that John Ford directed, a six reel delight set in Eire's County Kildare and in the United States, with a steeplechase background, mixing charged elements of comedy and sentimental drama.
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies · 1925Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
★ 8.01925
MovieComedy
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
Lights of Old Broadway · 1925Lights of Old Broadway
★ 6.81925
MovieRomanceDrama
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
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The Johnstown Flood · 1926The Johnstown Flood
★ 7.01926
MovieDrama
A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
Young Sidney Mandel