Harry Shannon

Harry Shannon

Birthday: 1890-06-12

Deathday: 1964-07-27

Place of birth: Saginaw, Michigan, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0788288

Biography:

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, Shannon broke into films at the advent of sound and started things off in comedy film shorts opposite such celebrated players as Bert Lahr, Shemp Howard, and Leon Errol. In the 1940s Shannon established himself in feature-length movies and although he remained a minor, second-string player, he proved himself a durable presence in westerns usually remaining on the good side of the law as sheriffs and bucolic dads. In lighthearted entertainment he could be found as a friendly Irish cop or bartender. He made a slight but memorable impression as Kane's alcoholic father in the classic Citizen Kane (1941), while his last role would be as the grandfather in the musical Gypsy (1962). In between were small parts in such notable films as The Fighting Sullivans (1944), The Jolson Story (1946), High Noon (1952), Touch of Evil (1958), and The Buccaneer (1958). 1950s TV westerns such as Cheyenne (1955), Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Rawhide (1959), and Gunsmoke (1955) made consistent use of his rustic demeanor. Shannon died in 1964 at age 74.

Played in movies:

Citizen Kane

Score: 8.0

Touch of Evil

Score: 7.8

High Noon

Score: 7.7

The Lady from Shanghai

Score: 7.4

The Gunfighter

Score: 7.3

Executive Suite

Score: 7.0

Someone to Remember

Score: 7.0

Smoked Hams

Score: 7.0

20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang

Score: 7.0

A Peach of a Pair

Score: 7.0

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Score: 7.0

Written on the Wind

Score: 7.0

This Gun for Hire

Score: 6.9

The Farmer's Daughter

Score: 6.9

Mr. Soft Touch

Score: 6.8

Hold Back the Dawn

Score: 6.7

Summer and Smoke

Score: 6.7

Canyon Passage

Score: 6.6

Champion

Score: 6.6

Pride of the Marines

Score: 6.5

The Sound of Fury

Score: 6.5

Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'

Score: 6.5

The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair

Score: 6.5

The Powers Girl

Score: 6.5

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

Score: 6.5

The Lemon Drop Kid

Score: 6.5

The Violent Men

Score: 6.5

The Buccaneer

Score: 6.4

Dangerous Years

Score: 6.4

Jack Slade

Score: 6.4

Gypsy

Score: 6.4

The Tall Men

Score: 6.4

The Lady Is Willing

Score: 6.4

Where Danger Lives

Score: 6.4

Wild in the Country

Score: 6.3

Rails Into Laramie

Score: 6.3

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

Score: 6.3

At Gunpoint

Score: 6.3

San Quentin

Score: 6.3

The Jackie Robinson Story

Score: 6.3

In Old Oklahoma

Score: 6.2

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Score: 6.2

Hunt the Man Down

Score: 6.2

Witness to Murder

Score: 6.2

The Red House

Score: 6.2

The Underworld Story

Score: 6.1

Flesh and Fury

Score: 6.1

Tulsa

Score: 6.1

Yellowstone Kelly

Score: 6.1

The Lonely Man

Score: 6.1

Nora Prentiss

Score: 6.1

The Killer That Stalked New York

Score: 6.1

The Falcon Takes Over

Score: 6.1

Captain Eddie

Score: 6.0

Fighting Father Dunne

Score: 6.0

Come Next Spring

Score: 6.0

Lure of the Wilderness

Score: 6.0

True to Life

Score: 6.0

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

Score: 6.0

Singing Guns

Score: 6.0

Three Little Words

Score: 5.9

The Big Street

Score: 5.8

Tarnished

Score: 5.8

Exposed

Score: 5.8

Cry of the Hunted

Score: 5.7

Too Many Girls

Score: 5.7

Idaho

Score: 5.7

The Saint In Palm Springs

Score: 5.7

The Scarf

Score: 5.7

The Mummy's Ghost

Score: 5.7

Crack-Up

Score: 5.6

Young Tom Edison

Score: 5.6

Night Editor

Score: 5.6

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

Score: 5.5

The Yellow Rose of Texas

Score: 5.5

When the Lights Go On Again

Score: 5.5

Mary Ryan, Detective

Score: 5.5

Hell's Crossroads

Score: 5.4

The Invisible Wall

Score: 5.4

Rustlers

Score: 5.3

Time Out of Mind

Score: 5.3

The Marauders

Score: 5.3

City of Chance

Score: 5.2

The Last Crooked Mile

Score: 5.1

In Old California

Score: 5.1

The Mad Martindales

Score: 5.0

Gambling on the High Seas

Score: 5.0

Big Town Scandal

Score: 5.0

Shake, Mr. Shakespeare

Score: 5.0

Alaska Highway

Score: 5.0

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

Score: 5.0

Song of Texas

Score: 5.0

The Flying Missile

Score: 4.9

Tear Gas Squad

Score: 4.8

Kansas Pacific

Score: 4.8

Crime, Inc.

Score: 4.2

One Crowded Night

Score: 4.0

Take a Chance

Score: 4.0

Cow Town

Score: 4.0

Sailor's Lady

Score: 4.0

Duel at Apache Wells

Score: 4.0

The Peacemaker

Score: 3.7

Man or Gun

Score: 2.5

Sympathy

Score: 1.0

The World of Tomorrow

Score: 1.0

The Campus Mystery

Score: 0.0

The Girl from Avenue A

Score: 0.0

Roar of the Crowd

Score: 0.0

Blue Blood

Score: 0.0

Headin' for God's Country

Score: 0.0

No More West

Score: 0.0

Faint Heart

Score: 0.0

Close Relations

Score: 0.0

Wrongorilla

Score: 0.0

Parole Fixer

Score: 0.0

Phantom Stallion

Score: 0.0

I Ring Doorbells

Score: 0.0

Heads Up

Score: 0.0

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Score: 0.0

Alibi Mark

Score: 0.0

My Girl Tisa

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

The Ford Television Theatre

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

The Thin Man

Score: 7.1

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Lock-Up

Score: 6.2

Lassie

Score: 6.1

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

The Dakotas

Score: 5.7

The Real McCoys

Score: 5.6

The Man Behind the Badge

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

State Trooper

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

Navy Log

Score: 4.5

26 Men

Score: 4.2

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Angel

Score: 2.8

Wire Service

Score: 0.0