Biography
Harry Shannon (June 13, 1890 β July 27, 1964) was an American character actor. He often appeared in Western films. Shannon was born on a farm in Saginaw, Michigan. After beginning his career in live theater and vaudeville, be switched to the film industry in the 1930s.
His Broadway credits included Mrs. O'Brien Entertains (1939), Washington Jitters (1938), Under Glass (1933), Pardon My English (1933), Free For All (1931), Simple Simon (1931), Jonica (1930), Hold Everything (1928), and Oh, Kay! (1926).Although he appeared most frequently in westerns in the last decade of his career, his best-known film role was perhaps as Charles Foster Kane's rough father in Citizen Kane (1941). Among his other films were Someone to Remember (1943), Alaska Highway (1943), San Quentin (1946), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) and Witness to Murder (1954).In 1956 he appeared as Matt Crowley in the "Johnny Bravo" episode of the TV western Cheyenne. In 1960, he was cast as outlaw Clay Hooper in the "Showdown at Goldtown" episode of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Colt .45. He appeared as the villain cowboy Dad "Jobe Craig" in S3E27's "Meeting at Mimbres" in the 1961 western Bat Masterson,He appeared in several other TV westerns in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Sheriff of Cochise, Have Gun - Will Travel, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Texan and Laramie.
Shannon died in Hollywood on July 27, 1964, at age 74.
Filmography
all 142
Movies 117
TV Shows 25
The World of Tomorrow (1984)
The Dakotas (1963)
Gypsy (1962)
The Virginian (1962)
Summer and Smoke (1961)
Wild in the Country (1961)
Angel (1960)
Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
Lock Up (1959)
Rawhide (1959)
Bat Masterson (1958)
The Texan (1958)
Man or Gun (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
26 Men (1957)
The Real McCoys (1957)
The Thin Man (1957)
Sugarfoot (1957)
Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
The Lonely Man (1957)
Hell's Crossroads (1957)
Duel at Apache Wells (1957)
The Peacemaker (1956)
Wire Service (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)
State Trooper (1956)
U.S. Marshall (1956)
Come Next Spring (1956)
At Gunpoint (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
The Marauders (1955)
The Tall Men (1955)
Navy Log (1955)
Cheyenne (1955)
Gunsmoke (1955)
The Violent Men (1955)
The Millionaire (1955)
Lassie (1954)
Executive Suite (1954)
Witness to Murder (1954)
Rails Into Laramie (1954)
Phantom Stallion (1954)
Jack Slade (1953)
The Man Behind the Badge (1953)
Letter to Loretta (1953)
Roar of the Crowd (1953)
Cry of the Hunted (1953)
Kansas Pacific (1953)
Cavalcade of America (1952)
Lure of the Wilderness (1952)
Flesh and Fury (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
The Scarf (1951)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Blue Blood (1951)
Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)
Hunt the Man Down (1950)
The Flying Missile (1950)
The Sound of Fury (1950)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
The Underworld Story (1950)
Three Little Words (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)
Cow Town (1950)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Tarnished (1950)
Singing Guns (1950)
Mary Ryan, Detective (1949)
Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
Tulsa (1949)
Champion (1949)
Rustlers (1949)
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948)
Big Town Scandal (1948)
Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
My Girl Tisa (1948)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Dangerous Years (1947)
The Invisible Wall (1947)
Exposed (1947)
Time Out of Mind (1947)
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
Nora Prentiss (1947)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
The Red House (1947)
San Quentin (1946)
Crack-Up (1946)
The Last Crooked Mile (1946)
Night Editor (1946)
I Ring Doorbells (1946)
Captain Eddie (1945)
Crime, Inc. (1945)
When the Lights Go On Again (1944)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
The Yellow Rose of Texas (1944)
True to Life (1943)
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
Headin' for God's Country (1943)
Someone to Remember (1943)
Alaska Highway (1943)
Song of Texas (1943)
Idaho (1943)
The Powers Girl (1943)
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
The Big Street (1942)
In Old California (1942)
The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
The Mad Martindales (1942)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Saint In Palm Springs (1941)
Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
Too Many Girls (1940)
The Girl from Avenue A (1940)
One Crowded Night (1940)
Sailor's Lady (1940)
Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
Tear Gas Squad (1940)
Young Tom Edison (1940)
Parole Fixer (1940)
City of Chance (1940)
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
Alibi Mark (1937)
Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936)
A Peach of a Pair (1934)
Smoked Hams (1934)
No More West (1934)
Take a Chance (1933)
Close Relations (1933)
20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang (1933)
Wrongorilla (1933)
Heads Up (1930)
Faint Heart (1929)
Sympathy (1929)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1890-06-13
Deathday1964-07-27 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceSaginaw, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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