Harry Shannon (actor)

For the novelist, see Harry Shannon.

Harry Shannon
Harry Shannon in 1950
Born	(1890-06-13)June 13, 1890 Saginaw, Michigan, U.S.
Died	July 27, 1964(1964-07-27) (aged 74) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1929–1963

Harry Shannon (June 13, 1890 – July 27, 1964) was an American character actor. He often appeared in Western films.

Biography

Harry Shannon was born on a farm in Saginaw, Michigan. He began his career in live theatre and vaudeville, and switched to the film industry in the 1930s. Although he played most frequently in Westerns, 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), and Witness to Murder (1954).

In 1960, he was cast as the outlaw Clay Hooper in the episode "Showdown at Goldtown" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Colt .45. The guest cast included Robert Colbert, Ruta Lee, and Dan Sheridan.

Shannon died at the age of seventy-four in Hollywood, California.

Selected filmography

• The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Doughboys in Ireland (1943)
• Time Out of Mind (1947)
• Hunt the Man Down (1950)
• Roar of the Crowd (1953)
• Phantom Stallion (1954)
• The Violent Men (1955)
• Touch of Evil (1958)

External links

• Works by or about Harry Shannon at the Internet Archive
• Harry Shannon at IMDb