Forrester Harvey
| Forrester Harvey | |
|---|---|
| Born |
27 June 1884 County Cork, Ireland |
| Died |
14 December 1945 (aged 61) Laguna Beach, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1922–1945 |
Forrester Harvey (27 June 1884 – 14 December 1945) was an Irish film actor.
From 1922 until his death year Harvey appeared in more than 115 films. He was credited for about two-thirds of his film appearances, but some of his roles were uncredited. The burly actor with a moustache mostly played comic supporting roles, often as an innkeeper. His best-known role was Beamish in the first two Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller. Together with Claude Rains he played in The Invisible Man, as a tavern owner and husband of a hysterical Una O'Connor, and in The Wolf Man. He appeared in two films for Alfred Hitchcock, first in his British silent film The Ring, than in Hitchcocks Hollywood debut Rebecca. A number of reference works incorrectly identify him as having played Little Maria's father in Frankenstein. Harvey's interment was in California.
Partial filmography
- The Lilac Sunbonnet (1922)
- If Youth But Knew (1926)
- The Flag Lieutenant (1926)
- Nell Gwyn (1926)
- The Ring (1927)
- Moulin Rouge (1928)
- Spangles (1928)
- Ringing the Changes (1929)
- Glorious Youth (1929)
- The Man in Possession (1931)
- Guilty Hands (1931)
- Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
- Those We Love (1932)
- Kongo (1932)
- Red Dust (1932)
- Blind Adventure (1933)
- The Invisible Man (1933)
- The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
- Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
- The Gilded Lily (1935)
- The Woman in Red (1935)
- The Imperfect Lady (1935)
- Love Before Breakfast (1936)
- Personal Property (1937)
- Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police' (1939)
- Rebecca (1940)
- A Chump at Oxford (1940)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
- Mercy Island (1941)
- The Wolf Man (1941)
- Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)
- Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)