Harold Goodwin (American actor)

Harold Goodwin (December 1, 1902 – July 12, 1987) was an American film actor who performed in over 225 films.

Biography

Born in Peoria, Illinois, Goodwin began his film career while still in his teens in the 1915 film short Mike's Elopement. He also appeared as Jeff Brown in the 1927 Buster Keaton comedy College. Goodwin followed up with a role in another Keaton film The Cameraman in 1928 opposite Keaton and actress Marceline Day. He worked steadily through the silent film era and transitioned into the talkie era as a character actor, often as a "tough guy" because of his athletic stature.^[1] He was seen in the role of Detering in the 1930 Lewis Milestone directed World War I drama All Quiet on the Western Front, afterwards his film roles were mostly small and uncredited.

In his later years, Goodwin mainly acted in the Western film genre and often worked as a stuntmen for film studios. In the 1960s, Goodwin made many guest appearances of the NBC television series Daniel Boone starring Fess Parker and Ed Ames. Goodwin made his last film appearance in the low-budget horror film The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973) before retiring from the film industry. He died in Woodland Hills, California, in 1987.

Selected filmography

• Old Heidelberg (1915)
• The Sawdust Ring (1917)
• Heart o' the Hills (1919)
• Suds (1920)
• Gentle Julia (1923)
• The Wanters (1923)
• Arizona Express (1924)
• Hit and Run (1924)
• In Love with Love (1924)
• Secret Orders (1926)
• The Honeymoon Express (1926)
• The Flaming Frontier (1926)
• Snowbound (1927)
• College (1927)
• The Cameraman (1928)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• Jesse James (1939)
• The Comedy Man (1964)
• The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)

References

Bibliography

• John Holmstrom, The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p.20.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Harold Goodwin (American actor).

• Harold Goodwin at the Internet Movie Database