Harry Semels
- Birthday
- Nov 20, 1887
Bio: In films from 1918, dark, mustachioed Harry Semels was a reliable serial villain for Pathe and other studios. Semels spent the 1920s menacing the heroes and heroines of such chapter plays as Hurricane Hutch, Pirate Gold, Plunder, and Play Ball; he even found time to spoof his screen image in the serial parody Bound and Gagged (1919). Active in talkies until his… More Bio: In films from 1918, dark, mustachioed Harry Semels was a reliable serial villain for Pathe and other studios. Semels spent the 1920s menacing the heroes and heroines of such chapter plays as Hurricane Hutch, Pirate Gold, Plunder, and Play Ball; he even found time to spoof his screen image in the serial parody Bound and Gagged (1919). Active in talkies until his death in 1946, Semels played mostly bit roles, usually as excitable foreigners. During this period, Harry Semels was also a fixture of Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedy unit, in support of such funmakers as Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton, Monty Collins, Tom Kennedy, Gus Schilling, Dick Lane, and especially the Three Stooges: He made seven appearances with the last-named team, most memorably as the prosecuting attorney ("Whooo killed Kirk Robin?") in Disorder in the Court (1936). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Harry Semels Videos
Foreign Correspondent
Ninotchka
You Can't Take It With You
Honky Tonk
Rosalie
Filmography
-
San Antonio (1945)
- Mexican
-
The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
- Egypt Hines
-
Pilot #5 (1943)
- Barber
-
Honky Tonk (1941)
- Pallbearer
-
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
- Comrade
- See all 54 films
In Theaters This Week
Born Today
-
Chelsea Field55 years old -
Paul Bettany41 years old -
Adam Carolla48 years old
