Harry Bernard

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Harry Bernard (born January 13, 1878 in San Francisco , California - † November 4, 1940 in Hollywood , California) was an American actor.

life and career

Harry Bernard spent the first part of his acting career as a theater and vaudeville actor. He made his film debut in 1915 at the age of 37 and starred in several Keystone Studios short comedies that same year . But in the following year Bernard withdrew from the film business. It was not until the end of the 1920s, with the start of talkies , that he returned to the film business, although his film roles were mostly very small. It has been used in numerous comedies by Hal Roach , including 25 films with Roach's famous comedian duo Laurel and Hardy . In the Laurel and Hardy films he was almost exclusively seen in his parade role as a policeman, for example as the astonished patrolman in The Sons of the Desert who discovered Stan and Ollie in the pouring rain in front of their house in pajamas. He had one of his best roles without a police uniform as Ollie's friend and boxing manager Harry in the movie Any Old Port! .

Bernard shot even more often than with Laurel and Hardy, however, with his good friend, the comedian Charley Chase , in a total of 33 films between 1915 and 1939. He made nine films with the little thugs , including as a burglar in the short film Bedtime Worries , which tells Spanky that he was Santa Claus. In addition to his appearances at Hal Roach, Bernard also took on minor assignments at other film studios such as Paramount Pictures and RKO Pictures . In total, Harry Bernard made over 150 films, his last role as chief of the port police in the Laurel-and-Hardy film On the High Seas from 1940. He died in November of this year at the age of 62 of cancer and was on the Hollywood Forever Cemetery buried. Harry Bernard was married to Jere Gerard Bernard (1886-1970) and had a daughter named Patricia.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Bernard at Find A Grave
  2. ^ Jose Gerard Bernard in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved October 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Bernard, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California
DATE OF DEATH November 4th 1940
Place of death Hollywood , California