Harold Huber
Biography
Harold Huber was an American actor whose career ran across film, radio and television. Born in the Bronx, he studied at New York University and took his first acting job in 1930, changing his name from Harold Huberman for a Broadway staging of A Farewell to Arms. He made his screen debut in Central Park in late 1932 and went on to appear in close to 100 films over the 1930s and 1940s, among them 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, The Thin Man (1934) and Beau Geste (1939). He often played characters with accents, such as a Japanese American in Little Tokyo, U.S.A., and he was a police officer in several Charlie Chan films. On radio he starred as Hercule Poirot in a weekly series and later played Fu Manchu. His television work included starring in and producing I Cover Times Square from 1950. He died in 1959.
49years old at death
- Born The Bronx
- Died New York City
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 18
- Career span
- 8 years1932 to 1940
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About the name
Huber's first acting job was a Broadway adaptation of A Farewell to Arms in 1930, and it was then that Harold Huberman became Harold Huber.
First role
Huber made his television debut in 1950, starring as Johnny Warren in I Cover Times Square, a weekly half-hour ABC drama. He produced the New York-made show too, and it ran for just one season.
Beyond film
In October 1946, Huber started a year on radio playing Poirot. The daily fifteen-minute CBS show was Mystery of the Week, and Alfred Bester wrote its scripts.
Harold Huber movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
W.S. Van Dyke directed four of these films, William A. Wellman three and William Keighley two. Edward Brophy appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Edward Brophy's page
Ward Bond's page
George E. Stone's page
Lyle Talbot's page
Edwin Maxwell's page
Warren Hymer's page
W.S. Van DykeDirector, 4 films, 1934 to 1936
All films by W.S. Van Dyke
All films by William A. Wellman
William KeighleyDirector, 2 films, 1933 to 1935
All films by William Keighley
Box office
What Harold Huber's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$14.5 million
5 of the 18 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 18 films: 5 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 12 figure not found.
- 5Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 12Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The five biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$5.3M36.3% of the total
- 2$3.6M24.5% of the total
- 3$2.2M15.2% of the total
- 4$2.1M14.2% of the total
- 5$1.4M9.8% of the total
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Official profiles and reference pages.