Harry L. Decker


Harry L. Decker was an American film producer associated with Columbia Pictures where he mainly oversaw production on western films. As an editor he was active in Hollywood from the 1910s through the 1930s. As a producer, he primarily worked on B-movie Westerns.
He also produced the 1937 ice hockey-themed mystery The Game That Kills starring Rita Hayworth. He began his career in the silent era as a film editor, working at a variety of studios.

Biography

Harry Decker was born in California to Zachary Decker and Alice Burbank. As a young child, he lost an eye in an accident. After working as an editor at Thomas Ince pictures, Charles Ray studios, and Columbia Pictures — where he often worked on films by director Hunt Stromberg — he transitioned into a new role as a producer.

Selected filmography

Editor

Mary's Ankle Homer Comes Home 45 Minutes from Broadway The Woman in the Suitcase What's Your Husband Doing? The Old Swimmin' Hole A Midnight Bell R.S.V.P. Alias Julius Caesar The Deuce of Spades A Tailor-Made Man The Barnstormer Smudge The Girl I Loved A Cafe in Cairo Soft Shoes Silent Sanderson

Producer

The Gate Crasher The Kid's Clever Scandal Girl Overboard Gallant Defender Law Beyond the Range Dangerous Intrigue Code of the Range The Cowboy Star Shakedown Motor Madness Two-Fisted Sheriff One Man Justice The Game That Kills Outlaws of the Prairie Two Gun Law Trapped Westbound Mail Cattle Raiders West of the [Santa Fe] Call of the Rockies Law of the Plains The [Colorado Trail (film)|The Colorado Trail] West of Cheyenne South of Arizona Spoilers of the Range Riders of Black River Outpost of the Mounties The Thundering West The Man from Sundown Western Caravans The Stranger from Texas Texas Stampede