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Forrester Harvey was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, Harvey appeared in such films as the foreign "The Ring" (1927) with Carl Brisson, "The White Sheik" (1929) and "Guilty Hands" (1931). He also appeared in "Devotion" (1931), "The Man in Possession" (1931) and "Sky Devils" (1932) with Spencer Tracy. He continued to act in productions like...

Filmography

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Devotion (1946)

The Green Years (1946)

Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)

None But the Lonely Heart (1944)

Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)

The Man in Half Moon Street (1944)

Harris, a cabby

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Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Suck Lemons

Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Seen Such An Adonis?

Biography

Forrester Harvey was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, Harvey appeared in such films as the foreign "The Ring" (1927) with Carl Brisson, "The White Sheik" (1929) and "Guilty Hands" (1931). He also appeared in "Devotion" (1931), "The Man in Possession" (1931) and "Sky Devils" (1932) with Spencer Tracy. He continued to act in productions like "The Invisible Man" (1933), "The Mystery of Mr. X" (1934) and "Limehouse Blues" (1934). He also appeared in "The Painted Veil" (1934). Nearing the end of his career, he continued to act in the Jean Harlow comedy adaptation "Personal Property" (1937), the crime picture "The Man Who Cried Wolf" (1937) with Lewis Stone and the dramatic sports film "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" (1937) with Judy Garland. He also appeared in the Warner Baxter adventure "Kidnapped" (1938) and "Mysterious Mr. Moto" (1938). Harvey last acted in the horror flick "The Man in Half Moon Street" (1944) with Nils Asther. Harvey passed away in December 1945 at the age of 61.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Devotion (1946)

The Green Years (1946)

Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)

None But the Lonely Heart (1944)

Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)

The Man in Half Moon Street (1944)

Harris, a cabby

The Lodger (1944)

The Mysterious Doctor (1943)

Random Harvest (1942)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

This Above All (1942)

Meet John Doe (1941)

Scotland Yard (1941)

Albert Herbert Higgins

The Wolf Man (1941)

Free and Easy (1941)

Briggs [the landlord]

Mercy Island (1941)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

On Their Own (1940)

Tom Brown's School Days (1940)

Earl of Puddlestone (1940)

Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

A Chump at Oxford (1940)

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)

Professor Downie

The Lady's from Kentucky (1939)

The Witness Vanishes (1939)

Alistair Mac Nab

I'm from Missouri (1939)

Customs inspector

Let Us Live (1939)

Sweethearts (1938)

Tailor's assistant

Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Constable Jenkins

A Christmas Carol (1938)

Kidnapped (1938)

Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)

Constable Severn

Souls at Sea (1937)

Publicist proprietor

Personal Property (1937)

Bailiff [Herbert Jenkins]

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)

Barman-Landlord

The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)

"Jocko" [Jenkins]

Fight for Your Lady (1937)

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

Lloyd's of London (1936)

Three Live Ghosts (1936)

White Hunter (1936)

Love Before Breakfast (1936)

Petticoat Fever (1936)

The Return of Sophie Lang (1936)

Captain Blood (1935)

Honesty Nuttall

Captain Hurricane (1935)

The Gilded Lily (1935)

Proprietor, English Inn

Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

Without Regret (1935)

The Perfect Gentleman (1935)

Vagabond Lady (1935)

The Best Man Wins (1935)

The Right to Live (1935)

China Seas (1935)

Broadway Bill (1934)

Limehouse Blues (1934)

The Painted Veil (1934)

Great Expectations (1934)

Man of Two Worlds (1934)

The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)

[Joseph Horatio] Palmer

Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

You Can't Buy Everything (1934)

Blind Adventure (1933)

Coffee shop owner

Midnight Club (1933)

The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)

The Invisible Man (1933)

Destination Unknown (1933)

The Menace (1932)

But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)

Smilin' Through (1932)

Those We Love (1932)

Sky Devils (1932)

Red Dust (1932)

Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)

Mystery Ranch (1932)

A Tailor Made Man (1931)

[Arthur] Pomeroy

The Man in Possession (1931)

Guilty Hands (1931)

Devotion (1931)

The White Sheik (1929)

The Ring (1927)

Life Events

Videos

Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Suck Lemons Joining the first conversation between crippled vengeful African ivory trader-bandit Flint (Walter Huston) and drunken/addicted doctor Kingsland (Conrad Nagel), joined by his crony Cookie (Forrester Harvey), and his mistress (Lupe Velez), hatching a plot, in MGM’s Kongo, 1932.

Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Seen Such An Adonis? Opening MGM’s pre-Code dark jungle revenge-exploitation drama, Walter Huston is Flint, with aides Cookie and Hogan (Forrester Harvey, Mitchell Lewis) Lupe Velez his mistress Tula, his motives not yet clear but his character well-drawn, William Cowen directing, in Kongo, 1932.

Invisible Man, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) A Room And A Fire Opening scenes, rollicking and foreboding from director James Whale, as not-yet-named Jack (Claude Rains) arrives at Iping, where innkeeper Hall (Forrester Harvey) and wife (Una O'Connor) nervously take him in, from The Invisible Man, 1933.

Invisible Man, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) He's Homicidal! Scene snatching by the village bobby (E.E. Clive), following a skirmish between the innkeepers (Forrester Harvey, frazzled wife Una O'Connor) and the spooky tenant (Claude Rains, title character), "revealed" for the first time, in James Whale's The Invisible Man, 1933.

Captain Blood (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Break Out Those Sails! Colonel Bishop (Lionel Atwill), coming aboard off Port Royal, is stunned to find that it's his own escaped slaves, led by Errol Flynn (title character) and Hagthorpe (Guy Kibbee), who've taken his ship back from Spanish invaders, Arabella (Olivia de Havilland) worrying ashore, in Captain Blood, 1935.

Christmas Carol, A (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Old Fezziwig Spirit of Christmas Past (flaxen Ann Rutherford) conducts Scrooge (Reginald Owen) to see his young self (Ronald Sinclair) and Jack (Harold Henson) with Fezziwig (Forester Harvey) in A Christmas Carol, 1938.

Mrs. Miniver (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Your Destination Is Dunkirk With neighbors in the local river patrol in south-eastern England, Clem Miniver (Walter Pidgeon) finds out that they’ve been summoned from their beds to take part in the evacuation of the trapped British force from Dunkirk, France, 1940, a rousing moment from MGM’s Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

Personal Property (1937) -- (Movie Clip) They've A Writ! Secretly impoverished widow Crystal (Jean Harlow) with a London policeman (William Stack), bill collector Jenkins (Forrester Harvey) and amorous Raymond (Robert Taylor), eager to get involved, in MGM's Personal Property, 1937.

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