Harry Stubbs
Biography
Harry Stubbs was a character actor of English birth who performed on Broadway and in Hollywood films. He was born in Southampton, England, and came to the United States when he was 16. At 31 he made his Broadway debut in The Bad Samaritan, a 1905 production at the Garden Theatre that lasted only fifteen performances. Over the following 23 years he took part in eight plays, ending with The Big Fight in 1928. He moved to Hollywood in 1929 and for the first fifteen years of talking pictures made more than 50 films. His first movie, Alibi (1929), gave him a leading part, but he was usually cast in smaller character roles. In 1933 he also acted at the Beverly Hills Little Theatre for Professionals, a Harold Lloyd venue, using stage work to gain notice in the film industry. He died in 1950.
75years old at death
- Born Southampton
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Also credited as Harry Oakes Stubbs
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 14 years1929 to 1943
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First role
At 31, Stubbs first appeared on Broadway in The Bad Samaritan, which ran for fifteen performances at the Garden Theatre in September 1905.
Beyond film
Stubbs also performed on stage in 1933 at Harold Lloyd's Beverly Hills Little Theatre for Professionals, a venue where his stage talent could get him noticed by more people in the film industry.
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Films together
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James WhaleDirector, 1 film, 1933
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Roy William NeillDirector, 1 film, 1943
All films by Roy William Neill
All films by Christy Cabanne
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