Lew Harvey

Lew Harvey

Birth : 1887-10-06,

Death : 1953-12-19

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Lew Harvey

Movies

The File on Thelma Jordon
Reporter (Uncredited)
Cleve Marshall is an assistant district attorney who falls for the shadowy Thelma Jordon. With her sordid past -- and her relationship with thief Tony Laredo kept secret from the married attorney, Jordon seduces the easily swayed Marshall, and uses him to cover up her misdeeds. When Jordon becomes the prime suspect for the murder of her wealthy aunt, she turns to Marshall, who goes to great lengths to clear her name.
Johnny Belinda
Man Reciting Lord's Prayer (uncredited)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Return of the Bad Men
Arkansas Kid
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.
Gilda
Gambler (uncredited)
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Bennie
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
The Hard Way
Working Man at Theater (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Gentleman Jim
Reporter (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Harlan
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Honky Tonk
Blackie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Billy the Kid
The Duke (uncredited)
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
Citizen Kane
Newspaperman (uncredited)
Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Go West
Card Player
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
Junior G-Men
Woods - Farraday's Pilot
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Dance, Girl, Dance
Reporter at Taxi (uncredited)
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
City of Chance
Bodyguard
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Invisible Stripes
Betting Room Door Guard (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Allegheny Uprising
Settler at McDowell's Mill
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
The Roaring Twenties
3rd Ex-Con (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Dust Be My Destiny
Truckman (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
The Oklahoma Kid
Curley
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. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
Blackwell's Island
Guard (uncredited)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
King of the Underworld
Chic - a Gangster (uncredited)
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
Girls on Probation
Cab Driver
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Garden of the Moon
Mr. Brown - Fulton's Henchman (uncredited)
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Racket Busters
Truck Driver (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
One Mile From Heaven
Prisoner
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
The Great Hospital Mystery
Henchman
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
Marked Woman
2nd Court Clerk (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
36 Hours to Kill
Gangster Driving Truck
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Bullets or Ballots
Gangster Muscling in on Lee (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Robin Hood of El Dorado
Bill Young
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
Frisco Kid
Card Dealer (uncredited)
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Little Big Shot
Kell's Henchman
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
Here Comes the Band
Simmons' Burly (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
No More Ladies
Cascade Club Second Bartender (uncredited)
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Mary Jane's Pa
Roughneck
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
The Gay Bride
Local Gangster (uncredited)
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Manhattan Melodrama
Craps Dealer (uncredited)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Dark Hazard
Mr. Stein's Assistant
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
Female
Man Trying to Pick Up Alison (Uncredited)
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
A Successful Calamity
Photographer at Train (uncredited)
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Blessed Event
Joe
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
The Mouthpiece
One of J.B.'s Henchmen (Uncredited)
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
Side Show
Masher
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
Blonde Crazy
Driver (uncredited)
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
The Finger Points
Henchman in 'Number One's' Office (uncredited)
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital.
Man Trouble
Chris
A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.
Sweet Mama
Gangster
A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she loves.
Big Boy
Doc Wilbur
Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.
Show Girl in Hollywood
Actor in Scene
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
Hold Everything
Dan Larkin
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
Broadway Babies
Joe - One of the Poker Players
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.
Frozen River
Pierre
Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic fashion, Rinty braves the elements to rescue heroine Jane from the villains, a gang of cutthroats and thieves.
The Greyhound Limited
The Rat
A train engineer and his fireman are best friends until the engineer breaks up a romance between his pal and a trampy girl he knows is no good for him, which also breaks up their friendship.
Horseman of the Plains
Flash Evan
Tom Mix plays a cowboy coming to the aid of a rancher who's on the verge of foreclosure. Falling in love with Sally Blane, the rancher's pretty daughter, our hero vows to win an important cross-country race.
Finger Prints
Secret Service Man
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
Pretty Ladies
Will Rogers
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
Ranger of the Big Pines
Joe Gregg
A college graduate returns West after ten years in the East to her home in Sulfur Springs. Virginia's mother, the owner of a rooming house has turned hard and uncaring in her absence and the girl finds comfort in her friendship with Ross Cavanagh, a forest ranger. The latter runs afoul of cattle baron Sam Gregg, who resents a new tax on cattle grazing on government land.
Eve's Lover
The Agitator
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.
Lady of the Night
Molly's Father Chris Helmer
The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity, but worlds apart in life: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daughter of the judge who would send Molly's father to prison. The girls' lives come together as young women at eighteen as Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life free from reform school.
The Lighthouse by the Sea
Shifty Eye
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
Find Your Man
Half-Breed
Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Blair, missing.
The Half Breed
The Snake
Delmar Spavinaw, an educated "half-breed," loves Evelyn Huntington, daughter of a racist judge. Evelyn's other suitor is Ross Kennion, a widower with one child, and owner of a vast tract of land which Spavinaw insists belongs to his Indian mother. Spavinaw seeks revenge when Judge Huntington decides to evict the squaw. Assisted by Juan Del Rey, a cattle rustler, Spavinaw steals the title to the land, wounds Kennion, stages a raid on the judge's cattle, and attempts to kidnap Kennion's son and Evelyn. The arrival of the sheriff forces him into flight across the border without his hostages. En route he meets Doll Pardeau, a school friend of Evelyn's, and together they ride for the Mexican border. Caught between a cattle stampede and a sheriff's posse, the couple catch a passing freight train, leaving calamity behind as the train slowly passes.
Heap Big Chief
Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
At the Old Stage Door
Our hero visits the opera, is mistaken for the manager and is treated like royalty until the deception is uncovered.
The Marathon
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
Before Breakfast
A young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He becomes a waiter in a restaurant, and has some funny adventures.
Si, Senor
Our hero is a barber in a small Mexican town, wooing a local senorita, against the wishes of her mother.
Crack Your Heels
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Young Mr. Jazz
(uncredited)
While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.
Next Aisle Over
(uncredited)
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
The Dutiful Dub
Harold is a henpecked husband who suddenly makes a change of front and asserts himself, much to his wife's astonishment.
Look Out Below
A story of a love sick youth and a pretty maiden and their adventure, which includes riding around on pieces of steel to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Los Angeles streets.
I'm on My Way
Harold Lloyd's character loves Bebe Daniels' character and is about to marry her. But then he meets the clan of Snub Pollard where it's a riot all the time.
Take a Chance
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
Bride and Gloom
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
An Ozark Romance
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
Hey There
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
Pipe the Whiskers
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
Let's Go
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Look Pleasant, Please
(uncredited)
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
Hit Him Again
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.