Harry Bowen

Harry Bowen

Рождение : 1888-10-04, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Смерть : 1941-12-05

Профиль

Harry Bowen

Фильмы

The Day the Bookies Wept
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
The Dummy Owner
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
She's Got Everything
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
Living on Love
Taxi Driver with Gorilla
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Should Wives Work?
Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections.
Давайте потанцуем
Johnson (uncredited)
Танцовщик Пит Питере — гениальный мастер своего жанра. Его импресарио и продюсер Джеффри, чтобы заинтриговать публику, выдает его за русского по фамилии Петров. Однако «Петрова» все время тянет танцевать что-то «несерьезное», в основном степ. К тому же он неравнодушен к танцовщице и актрисе Линде Кин, которая успешно выступает с танцевальными номерами. И он решает, что девушка должна танцевать только с ним. Чтобы познакомиться и завоевать сердце красавицы, танцор идет на различные ухищрения, порой очень комичные…
We Who Are About to Die
Agitated Citizen in Mob (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Grandma's Buoys
Harry
Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barflies in the waterfront saloon they go to. They are aided by an elderly lady and her knitting needles.
The Big Game
Gambler Betting $500
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Missing Girls
Willie
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Who's Looney Now
Brother
Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned.
The Gentleman from Louisiana
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
Dummy Ache
Cabbie
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
Ярость
Baggage Clerk (uncredited)
По рассказу "Правило толпы" Нормана Красны. Фильм основан на реальных событиях, происшедших в окрестностях Сан-Франциско в 1930-е годы. Спровоцированная толпа обывателей провинциального городка осаждает и поджигает тюрьму, где заключен подозреваемый в похищении детей совершенно невиновный человек.
Hill-Tillies
Joe
The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.
The Harvester
Carl
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
At Sea Ashore
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's trousers in the donut machine as he's leaving to pick his niece who's arriving from the old country, so he gives Patsy cab fare and sends her. She forgets her purse, so when she arrives at the immigration office, she can't pay the cabbie, who tells her he'll wait while the meter runs. Inside, Patsy finally finds the high-spirited Lyda, but by then, Patsy has sneaked into the holding area and may need a passport to get out. She hides in Lyda's trunk, but with the cabbie, a suspicious immigration officer, and a traffic cop buzzing around will uncle and niece ever connect?
Vamp Till Ready
Man
Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
Neighborhood House
Irate Movie Patron
Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
Sutter's Gold
San Francisco Mob Leader
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Pan Handlers
Man in Bathtub (uncredited)
The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
Strike Me Pink
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Two in the Dark
Taxi Driver
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Heir to Trouble
Cowhand Hank
Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
Manhattan Monkey Business
Taxi Driver
When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter.
The Rainmakers
Switchman
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
The Timid Young Man
Milton's Valet
Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears after the two have set up camp. He starts putting the moves on the woman, but when Milton's ex-girlfriend shows up, she gets into a fight with the interloper and gives Milton and his new pal the chance to slip away.
Slightly Static
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
In Love at 40
Motel Desk Clerk
Edgar falls in love with another woman.
Hot Tip
Racetrack Spectator
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
The Headline Woman
Ernie
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
Hit and Rum
Waiter (uncredited)
Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew gets trapped in the middle. Leon and Eddie finally come to terms and leave Lew amidst the wreckage. The next day, Leon answers a court summons, only to find that Lew is the presiding judge, after sneaking in and taking over the job as the regular judge is absent.
The Misses Stooge
Mr. Schmidt - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
Sing Sister Sing
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing?
The Dancing Millionaire
Crusher's Manager
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
You Said a Hatful!
Train Clerk
When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
Gridiron Flash
Convict With Smith
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Something Simple
Desk Clerk
Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
Blind Date
Milkman
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
It Happened One Day
Salesman
Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
Another Wild Idea
Vegetable Man
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
I'll Take Vanilla
Cop
Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
Bedlam of Beards
Biff's Partner (uncredited)
A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.
The Cracked Ice Man
Ice Man
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
Going Hollywood
Bartender
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
Chance at Heaven
First Reporter (uncredited)
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
Golden Harvest
Wheat Farmer (uncredited)
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Rainbow Ranch
Train Passenger
An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside.
Crashing Broadway
Freddie Storm
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
Too Many Highballs
2nd Traffic Cop
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
Goldie Gets Along
Fred - Casting Director
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
The Dentist
Joe
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
Red Haired Alibi
Travers' Henchman (uncredited)
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
The Giddy Age
Moses - the Butler
A quirky short about Love and Liars.
Beyond the Rockies
Man at Slot Machine (uncredited)
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
The Nickel Nurser
Messenger (uncredited)
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
Hasty Marriage
Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.
The Tip-Off
Vatelli Henchman
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
Sweepstakes
Cantina Waiter
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Lime Juice Nights
Irving's friend
Karl Dane & George K. Arthur trading places while dining.
Fifty Million Husbands
Magazine Salesman
An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of their visit.
Red Hot Rhythm
Whiffle
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
Crazy Feet
Actor (uncredited)
Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
Славное четвёртое
Pedestrian
Сегодня Четвертое июля, и мать члена «Нашей банды» Джо Кобба занята делами у своего киоска с фейерверками. Ненадолго оставшись ответственным за стенд, Джо изо всех сил старается не взорвать себя или своих друзей, но плохо нацеленная ракета, принадлежащая Аллену «Фарина» Хоскинсу, вызывает несколько преждевременное, но, несомненно, впечатляющее представление пиротехники.
Грозные блошки
Watcher of flea circus
Дети из «Нашей банды» должны присутствовать на свадьбе, и они приносят с собой свою коллекцию блох, которая вырывается на свободу.
Mighty Like a Moose
Harp Player
After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
Charley My Boy!
Applicant
A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.