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Kenneth Harlan
Boston, Massachusetts, USA · b. Jul 26, 1895
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71
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Kenneth Harlan was an American screen and stage actor, his film career spanning the years 1917 to 1943. During the Silent era he was a romantic leading man.
KNOWN FOR
The Walking Dead
1936
Marked Woman
1937
Dick Tracy's G-Men
1939
Topper
1937
The Dawn Express
1942
Kid Galahad
1937
Movie Maniacs
1936
Air Police
1931
Murder in the Air
1940
Hideaway Girl
1936
San Francisco
1936
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941
FILMOGRAPHY
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Movies
TV
Acting
170
1943
The Masked Marvel
as Gas Works Policeman
1943
Wild Horse Stampede
as Borman
1943
You Can't Beat the Law
as First Warden
1943
The Law Rides Again
as John Hampton, Indian Agent
1943
Daredevils of the West
as Territorial Commissioner
1943
Nearly Eighteen
as Sammy Klein
1943
The Underdog
as Eddie Mohr
1943
Melody Parade
as Jedson
1942
The Corpse Vanishes
as Editor Keenan
1942
The Dawn Express
as Agent Brown
1942
Bandit Ranger
as Mark Kenyon
1942
Deep in the Heart of Texas
as Captain Sneed
1942
Klondike Fury
as Flight Dispatcher
1942
Foreign Agent
as George "Mack" McColl
1942
Don Winslow of the Navy
as Capt. Holding [Ch. 1]
1942
Phantom Killer
as Police Lt. Jim Brady
1942
Black Dragons
as FBI Chief Colton
1942
Hitler- Dead or Alive
as Cutler
1942
You Can't Escape Forever
as Fingerprint Division Lieutenant (uncredited)
1941
Gangs Inc.
as Jim Adams
1941
The Case of the Black Parrot
as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
1941
Secret Evidence
as Frank Billings
1941
Desperate Cargo
as Capt. Hank MacFarland
1941
Wide Open Town
as Tom Wilson
1941
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
as Police Lt. Cosgrove
1941
Fighting Bill Fargo
as Sheriff Hackett
1941
King of Dodge City
as Banker Carruthers
1941
Bullets for O'Hara
as Jim
1941
Dangerous Lady
as Detective Dunlap
1941
Million Dollar Baby
1940
Mysterious Doctor Satan
as Capt. Lathrop
1940
Prairie Schooners
as Dalton Stull
1940
Pride of the Bowery
as Captain
1940
The Green Hornet
as Charles Roberts (uncredited)
1940
Doomed to Die
as Ludlow
1940
Santa Fe Marshal
as Blake
1940
Millionaires in Prison
as Jerry Connell (uncredited)
1940
Junior G-Men
as Dyer, Factory Gate Guard (uncredited)
1940
Murder in the Air
as Commander Wayne
1939
The Night of Nights
as Actor (uncredited)
1939
Dick Tracy's G-Men
as FBI Chief Clive Anderson [Chs. 13-15]
1939
Buck Rogers
as Reporter at Wade's Lab
1939
The Oregon Trail
as General Terry
1939
The Flying Irishman
as Man at New York Airport
1939
Heroes in Blue
as Miller
1939
Port of Hate
as Bob Randall
1939
Sunset Trail
as John Marsh
1939
Torchy Runs for Mayor
as Stan - Star Advertising Manager (uncredited)
1939
Range War
as Chas. Higgins
1939
On Trial
as Mr. John Trumbell - Juror #3
1938
Law of the Texan
as Allen Spencer
1938
Whirlwind Horseman
as John Harper
1938
Saleslady
as Bigelow
1938
Held For Ransom
as McBride
1938
Under Western Stars
as Mr. Richards
1938
Merrily We Live
as Mr. Remington
1938
Swing It, Sailor!
as First Officer
1938
Smashing the Rackets
as Angry Businessman
1938
The Wages of Sin
as Laundry Owner
1938
Pride of the West
as Caldwell
1938
Accidents Will Happen
as Elmer Ross
1938
Blondes at Work
as Marvin Spencer
1938
The Duke of West Point
as Varsity Football Coach
1938
The Headleys at Home
as Smooth Adair
1937
Gunsmoke Ranch
as Phineas T. Flagg
1937
The Shadow Strikes
as Captain Breen
1937
Kid Galahad
as Reporter (uncredited)
1937
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
as Roger 'Angel' Carroll
1937
Wallaby Jim of the Islands
as [scenes deleted]
1937
The Mysterious Pilot
as Carter Snowden
1937
Wine, Women and Horses
as Mr. Bright
1937
Blazing Sixes
as Major Taylor
1937
Topper
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
1937
Tim Tyler's Luck
as Spencer, Trader
1937
Penrod and Sam
as Real G-Man
1937
Marked Woman
as Eddie
1936
Hideaway Girl
as Lead steward
1936
The Walking Dead
as Stephen Martin
1936
Movie Maniacs
as Leading man
1936
The Case of the Velvet Claws
as Peter Milnor
1936
Public Enemy's Wife
as G-Man
1936
They Met in a Taxi
as Mr. Andrews
1936
Trail Dust
as Bowman
1936
A Million to One
as William Stevens
1936
Man Hunt
as Jim Davis
1936
Song of the Saddle
as Marshal Bill Graves
1936
Flying Hostess
as 1st Detective
1936
San Francisco
as 'Chick'
1936
The Accusing Finger
as Police Surgeon
1936
China Clipper
as Department of Commerce Inspector
1935
Cappy Ricks Returns
as Matt Peasley
1935
Wanderer of the Wasteland
as Bob
1932
The Shadow of the Eagle
as Ward
1932
The Widow in Scarlet
as Peter Lawton-Bond
1931
Danger Island
as Captain Harry Drake
1931
Air Police
as Lt. Jerry Doyle
1930
Paradise Island
as Jim Thorne
1930
Under Montana Skies
as Clay Conning
1929
Man, Woman and Wife
as Bill / Jack Mason
1928
Code of the Air
as Blair Thompson
1928
Midnight Rose
as Tim Regan
1928
United States Smith
as Cpl. Jim Sharkey
1927
Cheating Cheaters
as Tom Palmer
1927
Easy Pickings
as Peter Van Horne
1927
Streets of Shanghai
as Sergeant Lee
1927
Life in Hollywood No. 2
as Himself
1927
Wilful Youth
as Jack Compton
1926
The Ice Flood
1926
Twinkletoes
as Chuck Lightfoot
1926
The King of the Turf
as John Doe Smith
1926
The Fighting Edge
1926
The Sap
as Barry Weston
1925
The Marriage Whirl
as Arthur Carleton
1925
Learning to Love
as (uncredited)
1925
Bobbed Hair
as David Lacy
1925
The Crowded Hour
as Billy Laidlaw
1925
The Golden Strain
as Milt Mulford Jr
1925
Drusilla with a Million
as Colin Arnold
1925
Ranger of the Big Pines
as Ross Cavanagh
1925
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
as Brian Kent
1925
Soiled
as Jimmie York
1924
Poisoned Paradise
as Hugh Kildair / Gilbert Kildair
1924
The Man Without a Heart
as Rufus Asher
1924
On the Stroke of Three
as Judson Forrest
1924
White Man
as White Man
1924
The Virgin
as David Kent
1924
Butterfly
as Craig Spaulding
1924
For Another Woman
as Stephen Winthrop
1924
Two Shall Be Born
as Brian Kelly
1923
The Toll of the Sea
as Allen Carver
1923
The Virginian
as The Virginian
1923
East Side - West Side
as Duncan Van Norman
1923
Little Church Around the Corner
as David Graham
1923
The Broken Wing
as Philip Marvin
1923
April Showers
as Danny O'Rourke
1923
Temporary Marriage
as Robert Belmar
1923
The Girl Who Came Back
as Martin Norries
1922
I Am the Law
as Cpl. Bob Fitzgerald
1922
Polly of the Follies
as Bob Jones
1922
The Primitive Lover
as Donald Wales
1922
The World's a Stage
as Wallace Foster
1922
Thorns and Orange Blossoms
as Alan Randolph
1922
The Beautiful and Damned
1922
The Married Flapper
as Bill Billings
1921
Dawn of the East
as Roger Strong
1921
Lessons in Love
as John Warren
1921
Mama's Affair
as Dr. Harmon
1921
Woman's Place
as Jim Bradley
1921
Nobody
as Tom Smith
1920
The Penalty
as Dr. Wilmot Allen
1920
Dollars and Sense
as David Rogers
1920
Dangerous Business
as Clarence Brooks
1920
Going Some
as Donald Keap
1919
The Hoodlum
as John Graham
1919
The Microbe
as DeWitt Spense
1918
The Law That Divides
as Howard Murray
1918
Midnight Madness
as Prentice Tiller
1918
Bread
as Dick Frothingham
1918
A Model's Confession
as Billy Ravensworth
1918
My Unmarried Wife
as Phillip Smith
1918
Her Body in Bond
as Joe Blondin / Pierrot
1918
The Wife He Bought
as Steele Valiant
1918
The Marriage Lie
as Douglas Seward
1918
The Wine Girl
as Frank Harris
1917
The Flame of the Yukon
as George Fowler
1917
Cheerful Givers
as Horace Gray
1917
Betsy's Burglar
as Harry Brent
1917
The Price of a Good Time
as Preston Winfield
1917
The Lash of Power
as John Rand
1917
A Man's Man
as Billy Geary