Harry Myers

Acting

Harry Myers

Born — Died

1882-09-04 — 1938-12-25

Place of birth

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Harry C. Myers (5 September 1882 – 25 December 1938), sometimes credited as Henry Myers, was an American film actor and director. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and died in Hollywood, California from pneumonia. He was married to the actress Rosemary Theby. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry C. Myers   licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

City Lights poster
8.2

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

City Lights

1931

The Oklahoma Kid poster
6.0

McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.

The Oklahoma Kid

1939

Mary Stevens, M.D. poster
6.2

Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together. While Mary struggles to earn respect because of her gender, Don gets caught up in his ambitions for a bigger life.

Mary Stevens, M.D.

1933

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 poster
5.5

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938

1937

The Marriage Circle poster
6.3

An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.

The Marriage Circle

1924

Zenobia poster
5.0

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Zenobia

1939

Film credits

1930s · 28 titles

City Lights poster
8.2

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

City Lights

1931

The Oklahoma Kid poster
6.0

McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.

The Oklahoma Kid

1939

Mary Stevens, M.D. poster
6.2

Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together. While Mary struggles to earn respect because of her gender, Don gets caught up in his ambitions for a bigger life.

Mary Stevens, M.D.

1933

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 poster
5.5

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938

1937

Zenobia poster
5.0

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Zenobia

1939

A Slight Case of Murder poster
6.4

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

A Slight Case of Murder

1938

Parnell poster
4.6

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.

Parnell

1937

Hollywood Boulevard poster
4.5

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.

Hollywood Boulevard

1936

Dangerously Yours poster
5.8

A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.

Dangerously Yours

1937

One Rainy Afternoon poster
5.0

Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.

One Rainy Afternoon

1936

We Live Again poster
6.8

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.

We Live Again

1934

The Calling of Dan Matthews poster
4.7

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.

The Calling of Dan Matthews

1935

Kentucky poster
6.1

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.

Kentucky

1938

Racket Busters poster
5.6

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Racket Busters

1938

Mississippi poster
6.8

A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.

Mississippi

1935

Dangerous to Know poster
6.6

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.

Dangerous to Know

1938

Merrily Yours poster
5.7

Sonny falls for the pretty new girl next door and decides to take her to a part. First, however, he has to get his sister Mary Lou to go to sleep, which is proving to be a harder task than he anticipated.

Merrily Yours

1933

Damaged Lives poster
4.7

An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

Damaged Lives

1933

A Strange Adventure poster
6.5

A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.

A Strange Adventure

1932

Allez Oop poster
6.4

When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.

Allez Oop

1934

The Great Pie Mystery poster
9.0

A kidnapped girl thrown off a bridge. A mother's kiss. A father's kiss--and plenty of pies in the face. Who threw those pies?

The Great Pie Mystery

1931

What's to Do? poster
6.5

Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his rival, Harry Vanderpool, he and his whole family are going to have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.

What's to Do?

1933

The Important Witness poster
7.5

A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.

The Important Witness

1933

The Savage Girl poster
3.9

An intoxicated millionaire commissions an expedition to Africa. A white jungle goddess falls in love with the millionaire's daring consort, incurring the wrath of the jungle itself.

The Savage Girl

1932

Pardon My Pups poster
6.0

Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead, mainly because he himself wants to have a dog that he can take hunting. After a dispute with his father, Sonny leaves home. As he walks along a railroad track, he finds a frightened lost dog, and soon he begins to feel differently about dogs.

Pardon My Pups

1934

Police Call poster
10.0

A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister has gotten mixed up with gangsters.

Police Call

1933

Lady Be Careful poster
5.5

Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.

Lady Be Careful

1936

Easy to Get poster
3.7

In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.

Easy to Get

1931

1920s · 28 titles

The Marriage Circle poster
6.3

An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.

The Marriage Circle

1924

The Beautiful and Damned poster
7.0

Gloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging themselves. Tony's wealthy grandfather Adam Patch dies, but to their surprise he leaves Tony nothing. The couple try their hands at actually working for a living, but they don't like it and return to their spendthrift ways. Something has to give, and it soon does.

The Beautiful and Damned

1922

Wonder of Women poster
4.0

The artistic temperament of a German concert pianist renders him chronically unfaithful to his devoted wife. This film is believed lost.

Wonder of Women

1929

Peaceful Valley poster
10.0

Hosiah Howe struggles to earn his living on a farm that lies in the shadow of a wealthy summer resort. Visiting the resort are Dr. Rand, his daughter Virginia, and a scoundrel named Ward Andrews. One day Andrews stops at the Howe farm and discovers that the land contains water with a highly-exploitable medicinal value. Smelling money, Andrews convinces Dr. Rand to buy an option on the farm, then runs away to the city with Hosiah's innocent sister Martha.

Peaceful Valley

1920

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court poster
7.0

In 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himself travels to King Arthur's court, where he has similar adventures and outwits his foes by means of very modern inventions including motorcycles and nitroglycerine.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1921

The Notorious Mrs. Sands poster
8.0

Member of a socially prominent but impoverished family, Mary Ware, is in love with the equally poor Ronald Cliffe, but Mary's mother convinces her to save the family from debt by marrying the wealthy Grey Sands. Ronald is sent to work in the oil fields out West, and Mary, married to a man she doesn't love, is cold to her husband, who then vows revenge.

The Notorious Mrs. Sands

1920

Listen Lester poster
5.0

Widower Colonel Dodge enjoys being single, but when Arbutus Quilty, his former sweetheart, threatens to sue him for breach of promise, he decides its time for him and his daughter Mary to take themselves a little vacation trip to Florida.

Listen Lester

1924

The Street of Illusion poster
10.0

Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Virginia Valli, Ian Keith, Harry Myers, Kenneth Thomson.

The Street of Illusion

1928

Why Trust Your Husband? poster
8.0

Elmer Day and his wife, Eunice, are visiting Gilbert and Maud Stone, and the two husbands, wishing to attend a masquerade, plead business engagements to escape from their wives. But the wives, discovering the invitation, also attend, and matters are complicated by changes and substitutions of costumes and the appearance of Mrs. Day's aunt and uncle. After a police raid there are general explanations and reconciliations at the police court.

Why Trust Your Husband?

1921

The Common Law poster
7.0

Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his aristocratic family doesn't approve of the relationship and persuades Valerie to promise that she won't marry him. She does, however, tell Louis that she will become his common-law wife on a certain date the following summer. Complications ensue.

The Common Law

1923

The Brass Bottle poster
10.0

Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom. Horace accepts the genie's offer but finds out that things aren't working out quite as well as he thought they would.

The Brass Bottle

1923

Daddies poster
6.0

A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for adopted orphans when six orphaned children are suddenly foisted on them.

Daddies

1924

Turn to the Right poster
10.0

Joe is the son of a poor widow and in love with the daughter of the town’s richest and meanest man. The couple is determined to marry and plan their “dream house.”

Turn to the Right

1922

Getting Gertie's Garter poster
8.0

Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.

Getting Gertie's Garter

1927

In the Days of Buffalo Bill poster
7.0

18 episode Western adventure serial. 1. Bonds of Steel 2. In the Enemy's Hands 3. The Spy 4. The Sword of Grant and Lee 5. The Man of the Ages 6. Prisoners of the Sioux 7. Shackles of Fate 8. The Last Shot 9. From Tailor to President 10. Empire Builders 11. Perils of the Plains 12. The Hand of Justice 13. Trails of Peril 14. The Scarlet Doom 15. Men of Steel 16. The Brink of Eternity 17. A Race to the Finish 18. Driving the Golden Spike.

In the Days of Buffalo Bill

1922

Up in Mabel's Room poster
7.2

Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.

Up in Mabel's Room

1926

Exit Smiling poster
7.9

The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.

Exit Smiling

1926

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe poster
7.0

An 18-part silent American adventure film serial now considered to be lost. Chapter Titles: 1. The Sea Raiders 2. Shipwrecked 3. The Cannibals' Captives 4. Hidden Gold 5. The Ship of Despair 6. Friday's Faith 7. The Swamp of Terror 8. Marooned 9. The Jaguar Trap 10. A Prisoner of the Sun 11. No Greater Love 12. The Island of Happiness 13. The Sword of Courage 14. The Buccaneers 15. The Jolly Roger 16. The Idol's Bride 17. When the Heart Calls 18. Back to the Primitive

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

1922

The Girl in the Pullman poster
10.0

Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother they all take the train, including Irene and her lawyer, who will try to prevent him from committing bigamy, as the divorce won't be effective until midnight.

The Girl in the Pullman

1927

The Bad Man poster
7.0

Infamous Mexican bandit Pancho López recognizes Gilbert Jones as the man who once saved his life; therefore, when Jones is in danger of losing his ranch for default of mortgage payment, López determines to help him. At the same time, Morgan Pell, intending to cheat Jones out of his potentially oil-rich property, offers him a sum of money, which Jones conditionally accepts.

The Bad Man

1923

Zander the Great poster
6.2

Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.

Zander the Great

1925

The Bachelor's Baby poster
7.0

Directed by Frank R. Strayer. With Helene Chadwick, Harry Myers, Midget Gustav, Edith Murgatroyd.

The Bachelor's Baby

1927

Tarnish poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tarnish

1924

The Nut-Cracker poster
7.0

A man flees his frustrating home and work life and is injured by a streetcar.

The Nut-Cracker

1926

The Beautiful Cheat poster
10.0

A motion picture producer has press agent Jimmy Austin take Mary Callahan, a pretty shopgirl, to Europe. After an extensive publicity campaign, Mary returns to the United States as Maritza Callahansky, a Russian actress owning the crown jewels. To add support to her newly established identity, Maritza gives a party in a Long Island mansion in the rightful owner's absence. The owners return to find their home taken over by strangers and are about to call the police when it is discovered that they are the parents of one of the extras in the company.

The Beautiful Cheat

1926

The Dove poster
6.8

Norma Talmadge plays a Mexican saloon singer, known as 'The Dove.' She is romanced by a young caballero and menaced by a Villa-like brute of a dictator, played by Noah Beery.

The Dove

1927

Brass poster
5.0

With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.

Brass

1923

Grounds for Divorce poster
8.0

Divorce lawyer Maurice (Matt Moore) does not pay much attention to his wife Alice (Florence Vidor). When he spends their anniversary with famous actress Marianne (Louise Fadenza) Alice decides to seek a divorce herself.

Grounds for Divorce

1925

1910s · 4 titles

Cocaine Traffic; Or, The Drug Terror poster
NR

Andrews, a former shipping clerk, has amassed a fortune in cocaine and therefore discourages his daughter May's romance with Joe, a policeman. Andrews prefers socialite Roger Hastings, whom May marries but soon discovers is a drug addict. While May is recovering from a nervous breakdown precipitated by the knowledge of Roger's addiction, he slips cocaine into her medication. Soon she also is addicted, a fact which Roger delightedly reports to Andrews. Andrews then commits May to a sanitarium and Roger becomes a procurer for a gang of white slavers. When the gang abducts his sister Julia and takes her to Roger's brothel, he turns against them. Julia is released, and after many complications, Roger returns to Andrews' house and, during a struggle, sets the house on fire, killing them both.

Cocaine Traffic; Or, The Drug Terror

1914

When the Earth Trembled poster
4.3

A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.

When the Earth Trembled

1913

Out of the Night poster
NR

Rosalie Lane's sister dies from overwork at the Treadwell mills. Asking the company for enough money to bury her sister she is denied leading to desperate measures on her part. After many struggles she can save herself from a life of squalor and find happiness.

Out of the Night

1918

The Trail's End poster
10.0

Young Harry Kenyon returns home to Tondo City after graduating college so he can help his rancher father drive a herd of cattle to the annual market, but a pair of outlaws - Cactus Ben and Tondo Bill - are planning to steal the herd for themselves.

The Trail's End

1919

Behind the camera

Cocaine Traffic; Or, The Drug Terror poster
NR

Andrews, a former shipping clerk, has amassed a fortune in cocaine and therefore discourages his daughter May's romance with Joe, a policeman. Andrews prefers socialite Roger Hastings, whom May marries but soon discovers is a drug addict. While May is recovering from a nervous breakdown precipitated by the knowledge of Roger's addiction, he slips cocaine into her medication. Soon she also is addicted, a fact which Roger delightedly reports to Andrews. Andrews then commits May to a sanitarium and Roger becomes a procurer for a gang of white slavers. When the gang abducts his sister Julia and takes her to Roger's brothel, he turns against them. Julia is released, and after many complications, Roger returns to Andrews' house and, during a struggle, sets the house on fire, killing them both.

Cocaine Traffic; Or, The Drug Terror

1914

The Chalk Line poster
NR

A misplaced love note results in Mrs. Love dividing the house with a chalk line.

The Chalk Line

1916

No artwork available
6.5

Mr. Cherub is considered by all tne world to be a model husband. Housewives hold him up as a shining example to their husbands. In truth, however, Mr. Cherub is anything but a virtuous husband.

A Model Husband

1916

No artwork available
NR

After Roger Laroque maims Louversan, his look-alike, in an honorable duel during the Franco-Prussian War, Louversan swears revenge on his better. In Paris, Roger falls in love with Julia, who he later discovers is married to Lucien, his close army friend. Out of duty to Lucien, Roger ends the affair and leaves for the country where he meets and marries Marie Greville, his uncle's ward. Furious at Roger's desertion, Julia vows revenge and joins forces with Louversan.

The Man of Shame

1915

No artwork available
NR

New Yorker Harriet Putnam divorces Montgomery Putnam of London and goes with her father Fordyce to Europe. In London, Harriet's apartment curtains catch fire and her screams disturb the bath of her neighbor, Lord Cardington, Earl of Pawtucket. While dousing the fire with glasses full of water, the foolish earl falls in love.

The Earl of Pawtucket

1915

His Strenuous Visit poster
NR

A case of mistaken identity not once or twice but three times leads to much merriment!

His Strenuous Visit

1916