Harry Behn
Harry Behn was an American former screenwriter.
He was involved in writing scenes and continuities for a number of screenplays, including the war film The Big Parade in 1925, and Hell's Angels. He graduated from Harvard University in 1922. Behn retired from screenwriting in the 1930s; he worked as a creative writing professor at the University of Arizona from 1938 to 1947 and co-founded the University of Arizona Press; he would later move to Connecticut and transition to children's literature. He died in Seville in 1973 during a trip. His son, Peter Behn was cast as young Thumper in the film Bambi.
Filmography
- The Big Parade
- Proud Flesh, with Agnes Christine Johnson
- La Bohème, with Ray Doyle
- The Crowd, with King Vidor and John V.A. Weaver
- The Racket, with Del Andrews
- Frozen River
- Sin Sister, with Andrew Bennison
- Hell's Angels, with Howard Estabrook
- Secret of the Chateau, with Richard Thorpe