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John Harron (March 31, 1904 – November 24, 1939) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1918 and 1940.
Born in New York City, he was the brother of actor Robert Harron and of actress Mary Harron.
Harron graduated from Santa Clara University. His film debut came in Through the Back Door (1921). After acting for Universal, he was under contract to Warner Bros. Harron "achieved great success on the silent screen but was reduced to minor roles or minor films with the coming of sound."
Harron died in Seattle, Washington from spinal meningitis. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles
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20 April 1939
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her.
04 March 1939
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
04 September 1937
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show.
21 January 1939
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
02 April 1938
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
15 April 1939
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
19 June 1937
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
28 July 1932
In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.
17 June 1939
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
13 May 1939
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
20 July 1938
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself.
23 November 1939
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds.
13 January 1940
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
11 December 1937
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
13 November 1937
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish.
19 August 1939
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
27 January 1940
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
05 February 1938
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det.
30 September 1939
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
18 November 1939
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
03 February 1940
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers.
11 August 1937
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
27 May 1939
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
08 July 1938
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
05 May 1921
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
12 August 1939
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
11 March 1939
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord.
05 August 1939
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
14 January 1939
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license.
22 May 1937
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
27 November 1937
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
10 December 1938
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
01 May 1934
The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B.
15 June 1940
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run.
12 June 1937
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen.
26 November 1938
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
11 January 1938
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder.
19 August 1939
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights.
21 August 1929
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
24 July 1937
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
20 September 1925
Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The dog is regenerated by Donald's love.
10 April 1937
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
12 November 1938
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
29 July 1939
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner.
14 October 1925
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
11 February 1939
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
09 July 1938
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
15 November 1932
Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective, who goes to the hotel to investigate the disappearance.
18 February 1928
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
21 October 1939
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
01 July 1939
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.
23 March 1939
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house.
29 May 1937
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
11 March 1918
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered.
04 May 1940
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
23 June 1939
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset.
16 July 1938
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
09 July 1937
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale.
08 January 1938
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.
12 February 1938
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
