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
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Filmography
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San Antonio (1945)
- Mexican
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The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
- Egypt Hines
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Pilot #5 (1943)
- Barber
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Honky Tonk (1941)
- Pallbearer
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He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
- Comrade
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Harry Semels Videos
Foreign Correspondent
2 minutes 21 seconds
Ninotchka
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You Can't Take It With You
2 minutes 54 seconds
Honky Tonk
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Rosalie
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