Harry Bellaver

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Harry Bellaver (born February 12, 1905 in Hillsboro , Illinois , † August 8, 1993 in Nyack , New York ) was an American actor .

Life

Harry Bellaver was born into a simple family of coal miners of Italian descent. After leaving school after sixth grade, he worked in various lower-paying jobs, but was eventually given the opportunity to study at Brookwood Labor College, a socialist college founded by the labor movement . It was there that he developed his interest in acting and played for a local theater company in Pennsylvania for eight years before making the leap to Broadway in 1931 . There he played in a total of over 25 productions up to 1974, including the American first production of Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper in the role of Weeping Willow Walters.

Bellaver's first major film was the crime comedy Thin Man, Case 3 in 1939 , but it wasn't until the dawn of the 1950s that he was a regular guest in feature films and television series. As a supporting actor, he more often played characters with a New York background, often working-class characters such as policemen, taxi drivers or bouncers, and occasionally petty criminals. Bellaver became known to a broad audience primarily through his impersonation of Detective Frank Acaro in the crime series Gnadenlose Stadt (Naked City) , which was first broadcast between 1958 and 1963 and was also shown on German television. In the cinema, however, he was always denied leading roles. Bellaver ended his cinema career in 1985 with a small role as an old miner in Stuff .

Harry Bellaver was married to Gertrude Dudley Vaughan Smith from 1932 until her death in October 1992, and the couple had two children. Bellaver died of pneumonia less than a year after his wife, aged 88.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Grimes: Harry Bellaver, 88; Had Character Parts On TV and the Stage . In: The New York Times . August 11, 1993, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 24, 2019]).
  2. ↑ William Grimes: Harry Bellaver, 88; Had Character Parts On TV and the Stage . In: The New York Times . August 11, 1993, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 24, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Harry Bellaver | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved May 24, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ William Grimes: Harry Bellaver, 88; Had Character Parts On TV and the Stage . In: The New York Times . August 11, 1993, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 24, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Bellaver, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Hillsboro , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1993
Place of death Nyack , New York