Harold Goodwin
actor, miscellaneous, writer
- Birth name:
- Harold Russell Goodwin
- Born:
- 1902-12-01, Peoria, Illinois, USA
- Died:
- 1987-07-12, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, miscellaneous, writer
Biography
Peoria, Illinois, 1 December 1902: the curtain rose on Harold Goodwin, a kid who would swap Midwest quiet for flickering Hollywood lights. By the mid-’20s he was already sprinting across the screen—first as a wisecracking Tommy in The Better ’Ole (1926), then dodging shells in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and stumbling through Harold Lloyd’s chaotic set-ups in Movie Crazy (1932). Between takes he traded his actor’s cap for a writer’s pen, crafting gags and dialogue that kept the laughter rolling. Six decades after that first close-up, the final reel ran on 12 July 1987 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, closing a career that spanned silent pratfalls, talkie battlefields, and everything in between.
