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Harry Green (1892-1958) was an actor in vaudeville, films and television in the United States and Britain. He worked for Paramount Pictures and then Fox Film. He portrayed Jewish characters. He also performed as a magician and authored Harry Green Says You Are a Magician.

Born in New York as Henry Blitzer, he trained as a lawyer before working as an actor in vaudeville in the U.S., then films, and them in England. In the 1910s her performed as part of Ross & Green. Their repertoire included 'The Hebrew Jockey and the Sport'. He went solo performing the one-act satirical play The Cherry Tree as a character named George Washington Cohen.

His wife's name was Alva and they had two children, David and Roland. He was Jewish.

He corresponded with Paul Swan.

Filmography

• Close Harmony (1929) as Max Mindel
• Why Bring That Up? (1929) as Irving
• The Man I Love (1929) as Curly Bloom
• The Kibitzer (1930) as Ike Laxarus, a Paramount film
• Honey (1930) as J. William Burnstein
• Sea Legs (1930) as Gabriel Grabowski
• Be Yourself! (1930) as Harry Field
• The Spoilers (1930) as Herman
• True to the Navy (1930) as Solomon Bimberg
• Paramount on Parade (1930) as Isadore the Toreador
• No Limit (1931) as Maxie Mindil
• This Day and Age (1933) as Herman
• Too Much Harmony (1933) as Max Merlin
• Mr. Skitch (1933) as Sam Cohen
• Wild Gold (1934) as J. 'Jake' Lorillard Pushkin
• Bottoms Up (1934)
• Born to Be Bad (1934) as Adolphe
• She Learned About Sailors (1934) as Jose Pedro Alesandro Lopez Rubinstein
• Love Time (1934) as Adam
• Coming Out Party (1934) as Harry Gold
• The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939) as Teasdale
• Star Dust (1940) as Bird man
• A King in New York (1957)

British

• Marry Me (1932)
• A Date with a Dream (1948) as Syd Marlish
• Glad Tidings (1953) as Golfer
• Joe MacBeth (1955) as Big Dutch
• Isidor Comes To Town (1954)
• Joe MacBeth (1955) as Big Dutch
• An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) as Irving J. Rosenbloom
• A King in New York (1957) British film
• Next to No Time (1958) as Saul Wiener
• Three Tough Guys, a television series
• Poet's Corner, television show, he died backstage during the shoot

Theater

• Potash and Perlmutter as Perlmutter

References

1. ^ "The Trouble with Harry: The premature exit of Harry Green - Comedy Chronicles". British Comedy Guide. 28 January 2024.
2. "S.A. Pictorical: Stage and Cinema". 1928.
3. Merwin, Ted (2006). In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3809-9.
4. Londraville, Janis; Londraville, Richard (January 2006). The Most Beautiful Man in the World: Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-2969-0.
5. ^ "Harry Green".
6. "Harry Green". British Comedy Guide.

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• 1892 births
• 1958 deaths
• American male actors