Harry Holman
- Birthday
- Mar 15, 1872
Bio: Rotund, squeaky-voiced American actor Harry Holman forsook vaudeville and the legitimate stage for films in 1929. For the next 18 years, Holman played a vast array of mayors, justices of the peace, attorneys, millionaires and sugar daddies. Sometimes he had no professional designation at all, and was simply a "Jolly Fat Man" (as he was billed in 1935's Dante's… More Bio: Rotund, squeaky-voiced American actor Harry Holman forsook vaudeville and the legitimate stage for films in 1929. For the next 18 years, Holman played a vast array of mayors, justices of the peace, attorneys, millionaires and sugar daddies. Sometimes he had no professional designation at all, and was simply a "Jolly Fat Man" (as he was billed in 1935's Dante's Inferno). Equally busy in short subjects as in features, Holman is best remembered by Three Stooges fans as the first of many wealthy professors who tried to turn the Stooges into gentlemen in Hoi Polloi (1935). A fixture of Frank Capra films, Harry Holman showed up as the high school principal in Capra's Yuletide perennial It's a Wonderful Life. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Harry Holman Videos
It's A Wonderful Life
Meet John Doe
Public Enemies
Badman's Territory
The Gorgeous Hussy
Filmography
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Public Enemies (1995)
- Fat Reporter
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Magic Town (1947)
- Mayor
- 50%
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Without Reservations (Thanks God, I'll Take It from Here) (1946)
- Gas Station Attendant
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- High School Principal
- 95%
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Badman's Territory (1946)
- Hodge
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