SAM HARRIS
Information from IMDb
Date of Birth
Jan. 11, 1877
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death
Oct. 22, 1969
Los Angeles County, California, USA
Mini- Biography
One of four people to have appeared in a record five Best Picture Oscar winners: All the King's Men, Around the World in Eighty Days, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, and You Can't Take It with You. The other actors are Franklyn Farnum, Bess Flowers, and Wallis Clark.
He served in an Australian Light Horse regiment (probably WWI), and at least once was credited as Major.
Appeared in at least three Perry Mason episodes. His last appearance in film was in the Disney classic _The_Ugly_Dachsund_. Lived to be 92.
Sam Harris, was a regular with the John Ford Stock Company
but would you believe made over over 560 movies
from the silent days onwards 1928-1966.
He made 10 with Ford, and 9 that starred Duke
although not all were directed by Ford
I Cover the War (1937)...Colonel Hugh Armitage (as Major Harris)
Big Jim McLain (1952)...Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
The Quiet Man (1952)...General (uncredited)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)...Patient (uncredited)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)...The Major - Newton Townsman (uncredited)
North to Alaska (1960)...Townsman (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)...Convention Committee Member (uncredited)
Hatari! (1962)...Man in Store (uncredited)
Donovan's Reef (1963)...Family Council Member (uncredited)
