Harry Green (actor)

Harry Green (1892-1958) was an actor in vaudeville, films and television in the United States and Britain. He worked for Paramount Pictures and then Fox Film. He portrayed Jewish characters. He also performed as a magician and authored Harry Green Says You Are a Magician.

Born in New York as Henry Blitzer, he trained as a lawyer before working as an actor in vaudeville in the U.S., then films, and them in England. In the 1910s her performed as part of Ross & Green. Their repertoire included 'The Hebrew Jockey and the Sport'. He went solo performing the one-act satirical play The Cherry Tree as a character named George Washington Cohen.^[1]^[2]

His wife's name was Alva and they had two children, David and Roland.^[1] He was Jewish.^[3]

He corresponded with Paul Swan.^[4]

Filmography

Close Harmony (1929) as Max Mindel
Why Bring That Up? (1929) as Irving
The Man I Love (1929) as Curly Bloom
The Kibitzer (1930) as Ike Laxarus, a Paramount film
Honey (1930) as J. William Burnstein
Sea Legs (1930) as Gabriel Grabowski
Be Yourself! (1930) as Harry Field
The Spoilers (1930) as Herman
True to the Navy (1930) as Solomon Bimberg
Paramount on Parade (1930) as Isadore the Toreador
No Limit (1931) as Maxie Mindil
This Day and Age (1933) as Herman
Too Much Harmony (1933) as Max Merlin
Mr. Skitch (1933) as Sam Cohen
Wild Gold (1934) as J. 'Jake' Lorillard Pushkin
Bottoms Up (1934)
Born to Be Bad (1934) as Adolphe
She Learned About Sailors (1934) as Jose Pedro Alesandro Lopez Rubinstein
Love Time (1934) as Adam
Coming Out Party (1934) as Harry Gold
The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939) as Teasdale
Star Dust (1940) as Bird man^[5]
A King in New York (1957)^[5]

British

Marry Me (1932)
A Date with a Dream (1948) as Syd Marlish
Glad Tidings (1953) as Golfer
Joe MacBeth (1955) as Big Dutch
Isidor Comes To Town (1954)
Joe MacBeth (1955) as Big Dutch
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) as Irving J. Rosenbloom^[6]
A King in New York (1957) British film
Next to No Time (1958) as Saul Wiener
Three Tough Guys, a television series
Poet's Corner, television show, he died backstage during the shoot

Theater

Potash and Perlmutter as Perlmutter

References

^ ^a ^b "The Trouble with Harry: The premature exit of Harry Green - Comedy Chronicles". British Comedy Guide. 28 January 2024.
^ "S.A. Pictorical: Stage and Cinema". 1928.
^ Merwin, Ted (2006). In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3809-9.
^ Londraville, Janis; Londraville, Richard (January 2006). The Most Beautiful Man in the World: Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-2969-0.
^ ^a ^b "Harry Green".
^ "Harry Green". British Comedy Guide.

[com-1] "The Trouble with Harry: The premature exit of Harry Green - Comedy Chronicles". British Comedy Guide. 28 January 2024.

[2] "S.A. Pictorical: Stage and Cinema". 1928.

[3] Merwin, Ted (2006). In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3809-9.

[4] Londraville, Janis; Londraville, Richard (January 2006). The Most Beautiful Man in the World: Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-2969-0.

[tcm-5] "Harry Green".

[6] "Harry Green". British Comedy Guide.

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