Harry Shannon (actor)
Harry Shannon was an American character actor. He often appeared in Western films.
Biography
Shannon was born on a farm in Saginaw, Michigan. After beginning his career in live theater and vaudeville, be switched to the film industry in the 1930s.
His Broadway credits included Mrs. O'Brien Entertains, Washington Jitters, Under Glass, Pardon My English, Free For All, Simple Simon, Jonica, Hold Everything, and Oh, Kay!.
Although he appeared most frequently in Westerns in the last decade of his career, his best-known film role was perhaps as Charles Foster Kane's rough father in Citizen Kane. Among his other films were Someone to Remember, Alaska Highway, San Quentin, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and Witness to Murder.
In 1956 he appeared as Matt Crowley in the "Johnny Bravo" episode of the TV Western Cheyenne. In 1960, he was cast as outlaw Clay Hooper in the "Showdown at Goldtown" episode of the ABC/Warner Brothers Western television series, Colt.45. He appeared as the villain cowboy Dad "Jobe Craig" in S3E27's "Meeting at Mimbres" in the 1961 Western Bat Masterson. He appeared in several other TV Westerns in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Sheriff of Cochise, ''Have Gun - Will Travel, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Texan and Laramie.''
Shannon died in Hollywood on July 27, 1964, at age 74.
Selected filmography
Heads Up – Captain DennyTake a Chance – BartenderThe Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair – FatherCity of Chance – PasslineParole Fixer – RandallYoung Tom Edison – Army Captain Brackett Young as You Feel – GillespieTear Gas Squad – Lieutenant SullivanGambling on the High Seas – Chief of PoliceSailor's Lady – Father McGannOne Crowded Night – McDermottGirl from Avenue A – TimsonToo Many Girls – Mr. CaseyTugboat Annie Sails Again – Captain MahoneyThe Saint in Palm Springs – Chief R.L. GravesCitizen Kane – Jim Kane, Kane's FatherHold Back the Dawn – American Immigration Official The Lady Is Willing – Detective Sergeant BarnesThe Affairs of Jimmy Valentine – PinkyThis Gun for Hire – Steve FinnertyThe Mad Martindales – PolicemanThe Falcon Takes Over – Detective Grimes In Old California – Mr. CarlinThe Big Street – Florida Doctor Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch – Mr. Wiggs Once Upon a Honeymoon – Ed CumberlandRandom Harvest – Badgeley – Melbridge Works The Powers Girl – Mr. HendricksIdaho – Judge John Grey – aka Tom AllisonSong of Texas – Sam BennettAlaska Highway – John 'Pop' OrmsbySomeone to Remember – Tom GibbonsHeadin' for God's Country – Albert NessDoughboys in Ireland – Michael CallahanGovernment Girl – Mr. Gibon The Heat's On – Police Captain In Old Oklahoma – Charlie Witherspoon True to Life – Mr. MasonThe Fighting Sullivans – Chief Petty Officer The Eve of St. Mark – Chaplain Ladies of Washington – Police Lieutenant Lake The Yellow Rose of Texas – Sam WestonThe Mummy's Ghost – SheriffBabes on Swing Street – Lieutenant Casey Barbary Coast Gent – San Francisco Police Chief When the Lights Go On Again – Tom CaryCrime, Inc. – Commissioner CollinsNob Hill – Policeman in China Town Captain Eddie – SimmonsWithin These Walls – Head Guard 'Mac' McCaffertyIncendiary Blonde – George – Police Detective Pride of the Marines – Uncle Ralph I Ring Doorbells – ShannonNight Editor – Police Captain LawrenceCanyon Passage – Henry McLane The Last Crooked Mile – Police Lieutenant BlakeCrack-Up – First Cop The Jolson Story – Policeman Reilly San Quentin – Warden KellyNora Prentiss – San Francisco Homicide LieutenantThe Devil Thumbs a Ride – Detective Owens, San Diego PoliceThe Red House – Dr. ByrneThe Farmer's Daughter – Mr. HolstromTime Out of Mind – Captain RogersExposed – SeveranceThe Invisible Wall – Detective Captain R.W. DavisDangerous Years – Judge RaymondThe Lady from Shanghai – Cab DriverMy Girl Tisa – Judge Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House – TesanderApril Showers – Policeman Fighting Father Dunne – Thomas Lee, LawyerBig Town Scandal – Police Captain Henry Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' – ChaunceyReturn of the Bad Men – Wade Templeton Northwest Stampede – Sam Bennett Rustlers – Sheriff HarmonChampion – LewTulsa – Nelse LansingMr. Soft Touch – Police Sergeant GarrettThe Devil's Henchman – CaptainMary Ryan, Detective – SawyerTarnished – Kelsey BunkerSinging Guns – Judge WallerThe Jackie Robinson Story – Frank ShaughnessyCow Town – Sandy ReevesCurtain Call at Cactus Creek – U.S. Marshal ClayThe Gunfighter – Chuck Three Little Words – ClanahanThe Underworld Story – George 'Parky' ParkerThe Killer That Stalked New York – Police Officer HoulihanRight Cross – Haggerty Where Danger Lives – Dr. MaynardThe Sound of Fury – Mr. YaegerThe Flying Missile – Vice-Admiral WilliamsHunt the Man Down – Wallace BennettAl Jennings of Oklahoma – Fred SalterPride of Maryland – Walter ShannonBlue Blood – Mr. BuchananThe Lemon Drop Kid – John The Scarf – Warden Anderson As Young as You Feel – Detective Kleinbaum Behave Yourself! – Police Officer O'Hara Boots Malone – Colonel Summers Flesh and Fury – Mike Callan – Paul's FatherHigh Noon – CooperThe Outcasts of Poker Flat – Bearded Miner Lure of the Wilderness – Pat McGowanKansas Pacific – SmokestackCry of the Hunted – Sheriff BrownRoar of the Crowd – Sam 'Pop' TracyJack Slade – Tom CarterPhantom Stallion – Michael ReillyExecutive Suite – Ed BenedeckRails Into Laramie – Judge PierceWitness to Murder – Captain DonnellyThe Violent Men – PurdueNot as a Stranger – Ed – 67 Year Old Patient The Tall Men – SamThe Marauders – John RutherfordAt Gunpoint – Marshal MacKayCome Next Spring – Mr. TotterThe Peacemaker – Drunken CowpuncherWritten on the Wind – Hoak WayneDuel at Apache Wells – Wayne ShattuckHell's Crossroads – Clay FordThe Lonely Man – Dr. FisherThe Travellers Touch of Evil – Chief GouldMan or Gun – Justin CorleyThe Buccaneer – Tom Carruthers – Captain of the Corinthian The Real McCoys – My Favorite Uncle – Uncle DaveYellowstone Kelly – Captain of the Far West Wild in the Country – Sam Tyler Summer and Smoke – Dr. Burke Gypsy – Grandpa