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John Harron (March 31, 1904 – November 24, 1939) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1918 and 1940.
Born in New York City, he was the brother of actor Robert Harron and of actress Mary Harron.
Harron graduated from Santa Clara University. His film debut came in Through the Back Door (1921). After acting for Universal, he was under contract to Warner Bros. Harron "achieved great success on the silent screen but was reduced to minor roles or minor films with the coming of sound."
Harron died in Seattle, Washington from spinal meningitis. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles
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01 May 1934
The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B.
23 July 1938
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
12 July 1925
A famous international actress wants to marry the love of her life, a millionaire but is blocked by a renowned woman-hater who actually ants her for himself.
08 July 1938
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
16 April 1937
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm.
19 August 1939
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights.
02 April 1938
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
15 November 1932
Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective, who goes to the hotel to investigate the disappearance.
27 April 1930
Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.
10 September 1937
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad.
16 July 1938
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
11 December 1937
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
15 April 1939
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
23 March 1940
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers.
04 April 1937
An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.
23 December 1931
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen.
09 July 1938
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
25 May 1930
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him.
09 July 1937
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale.
14 April 1923
The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more importantly, to tie all the thrillingly on-the-spot railroad footage together.
15 June 1940
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run.
01 January 1935
An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
13 May 1939
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
26 August 1939
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life.
27 March 1931
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
11 January 1938
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder.
08 January 1938
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.
26 November 1938
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
05 August 1939
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
14 October 1925
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
11 February 1939
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
01 July 1939
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.
23 March 1939
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house.
30 August 1937
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
11 March 1918
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered.
04 November 1939
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees this and transforms him into "Kid Nightingale," marketing him as a boxer who sings.
12 February 1938
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
31 December 1938
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
04 September 1937
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show.
15 June 1932
Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
26 March 1938
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
15 December 1931
A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.
16 September 1939
In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's restaurant, Maxie arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ.
10 April 1937
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
20 February 1922
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors.
19 August 1939
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
28 May 1938
When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.
23 June 1939
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset.
19 June 1937
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
11 August 1937
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
28 July 1932
A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé.
28 October 1939
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver.
15 October 1924
A socially-ambitious mother is pushing her younger daughter into a life-style that will satisfy the desires of the mother but the older daughter, having tasted the consequences of such a life, determines to save her younger sister from the same mistakes.
12 November 1938
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
19 March 1938
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
06 May 1939
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
13 March 1926
After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marriage engagements.
24 January 1939
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
23 November 1939
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds.
