Harry Myers
actor, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Harry Clifford Myers
- Born:
- 1882-09-05, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Died:
- 1938-12-25, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
Harry Myers entered the world on 5 September 1882 in New Haven, Connecticut, and spent the next fifty-six years turning celluloid into daydreams. Between directing duties he slipped in front of the camera, leaving behind a trio of time-capsule performances: the bumbling millionaire who befriends Charlie Chaplin in City Lights (1931), the playful noble of The Catch of the Season (1914), and the modern-day Yankee rattling King Arthur’s court in the 1921 adaptation of Twain’s tale. Off-screen he shared his life with two leading ladies—first Nellie Campbell, later Rosemary Theby—before the final curtain fell on Christmas Day 1938 in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
