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Robert Harron is a Actor, Director and Assistant Director American born on 12 april 1893 at New York City (USA)

Robert Harron

Robert Harron
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Birth name Robert Emmett Harron
Nationality USA
Birth 12 april 1893 at New York City (USA)
Death 5 september 1920 (at 27 years) at New York City (USA)

Robert Emmett "Bobby" Harron (April 12, 1893 – September 5, 1920) was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era. Although he acted in over 200 films, he is known for his roles in the D.W. Griffith directed films The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).

Harron was the older brother of film actors John Harron and Mary Harron.

Biography

Robert Harron est un adolescent lorsqu'il tourne ses premiers films. Il apparaît bientôt dans les premiers films de D. W. Griffith et va côtoyer les grandes stars du muet de l'époque, notamment Lillian Gish.

Retrouvé inconscient le 1er septembre 1920 dans sa chambre d'hôtel à New York, à la suite d'une grave blessure par arme à feu, il décède cinq jours plus tard des suites de cette blessure. Sa mort, d'abord imputée à un accident faute de témoins, est contredite par une enquête de police qui conclut à un suicide. Certains, dans l'entourage de Griffith, ont dit qu'il n'aurait pas supporté la préférence du réalisateur pour Richard Barthelmess pour le rôle principal de À travers l'orage. Ce n'est toutefois pas l'avis de la famille de Harron. De nombreuses versions sur les causes de son décès ont circulé à l'époque.

Robert Harron n'avait que vingt-sept ans, il avait tourné dans plus de 200 films.

Usually with

D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith
(110 films)
Alfred Paget
Alfred Paget
(42 films)
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett
(39 films)
Kate Bruce
Kate Bruce
(39 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Harron (119 films)

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Actor

Coincidence
Directed by Chester Withey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors June Walker, Robert Harron, Bradley Barker
Roles Billy Jenks

Billy Jenks (Harron) leaves his small town to find success in New York City, but he settles for a department store cashier job. He gets in a heated romance with secretary and aspiring pianist Phoebe Howard (Walker). Their romance leads to both of them being fired, and Billy is later arrested for burglary. Billy tries to borrow money from his wealthy aunt, who has died without his knowledge. Also without his knowledge, she left him $100,000, and her estate lawyers manage to find Billy through a coincidence. The money is then stolen by a con man who also tries to woo Phoebe, but Billy gets both back through a series of coincidences. He and Phoebe then get married.
True Heart Susie, 1h27
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, George Fawcett, Clarine Seymour, Mae Marsh, Kate Bruce
Roles William Jenkins
Rating68% 3.446283.446283.446283.446283.44628
As described in a film magazine, "True Heart Susie" (Gish) lives with her aunt (O'Connor) and loves stupid William Jenkins (Harron). Her love is so great that she sacrifices the family cow, a pet of hers, and other farm produce so that he can go to college, but the benefaction is a secret one, and he finishes his theological studies without suspecting that she aided him. He has impressed her that she must dress as plainly as possible, and she is so attired when she goes with him for a "sody" on his triumphant return from college, but his eyes wonder to girls giving a more attractive expression of themselves. After he becomes a minister, he cruelly consults Susie about the policy of taking a wife, and almost breaks her heart when he weds gay Bettina "Betty" Hopkins (Seymour), expecting his bride to adopt herself to his colorless life. The young wife fails to satisfy her husband with her cooking, with William finding the dishes Susie makes more to his taste. He begins to regret his marriage, and so does his wife, who escapes the monotony of her marriage by attending a dance at a neighboring house. After she loses her key and gets caught in the rain on the way home, Betty appeals to Susie, who shields her from the consequences as far as the minister is concerned. However, Betty's fright and her soaking bring on a fatal sickness, and it is after her death that her husband learns of her escapade. Although he swears never to marry again, he finds that True Heart Susie has given the one opportunity of his life, and he returns to her with the offering of his hand in marriage.
The Greatest Question, 1h20
Directed by D. W. Griffith, Stanner E. V. Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Ralph Graves, George Fawcett, Eugenie Besserer, Tom Wilson
Roles Jimmie Hilton
Rating60% 3.000333.000333.000333.000333.00033
Nellie Jarvis assiste quand elle est enfant au meurtre d'une femme par un couple, sans toutefois pouvoir se rappeler clairement la scène. Une fois adulte, elle revient s'installer dans la région de son enfance après la mort de ses parents et trouve un foyer accueillant chez les Hilton. Elle commence une histoire d'amour avec le cadet de la famille Jimmie, tandis que l’aîné John est mobilisé dans la marine lors de la Première Guerre mondiale et part combattre en Europe.
A Romance of Happy Valley, 1h16
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Kate Bruce, George Fawcett, George Nichols, Bertram Grassby
Roles John L. Logan Jr
Rating63% 3.154493.154493.154493.154493.15449
As described in a film magazine, the senior John L. Logan (Fawcett) and his wife (Bruce) are very religious, and are taken aback when John Jr. (Harron) announces that he plans to leave their Southern farm and go to New York City to get rich. They take him to church and pray until he accepts religion. His sweetheart Jennie Timberlake (Gish) is afraid that he will backslide, which he does when the lure of the city becomes too strong for him. He is gone seven years and returns a rich man, but is not recognized when he returns home, which is now taking in boarders. Meanwhile, his father has fallen on hard times and is trying to get money to pay the farm's mortgage, and plans to murder the stranger staying at his home, not realizing it is his son. In town, there is a bank robbery and the robber is chased to the Logan farm. The mother sees that her son has returned home, and the father's remorse ends only as the family is once more together. It is then revealed that it was the bank robber that had been shot by the father. The faithful Jennie and John Jr. end up together at the end.
Hearts of the World, 2h2
Directed by Erich von Stroheim, D. W. Griffith, Alfred Machin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Ben Alexander, Robert Harron, Josephine Crowell, Erich von Stroheim
Roles The Boy - Douglas Gordon Hamilton
Rating65% 3.2921353.2921353.2921353.2921353.292135
Two families live next to one another in a French village on the eve of World War I. The Boy in one of the families falls for the only daughter in the other family. As they make preparations for marriage, World War I breaks out, and, although the Boy is American, he feels he should fight for the country in which he lives.
The Bad Boy
Directed by Chester Withey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Robert Harron, Richard Cummings, Josephine Crowell, Mildred Harris, Colleen Moore, Elmo Lincoln
Roles Jimmie Bates
Rating56% 2.8010152.8010152.8010152.8010152.801015
Small town youth Jimmie Bates (Robert Harron) is a well-intentioned, but troubled youth. Jimmie is a rowdy boy who is always getting into trouble and playing pranks on his friends and neighbors. Although deeply in love with young Mary (Mildred Harris), he eventually spurns Mary's affection for the more outgoing and worldly young Ruth (Colleen Moore).
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, 2h43
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about capital punishment, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors Vera Lewis, Ralph Lewis, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Fred Turner, Gino Corrado
Roles The Boy (Modern Story)
Rating76% 3.843553.843553.843553.843553.84355
Quatre époques sont présentées en alternance pour dénoncer l'intolérance : la répression des grèves, le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy, la Passion du Christ et Babylone. De la Babylone antique au début du XX siècle, une illustration métaphorique de la cruauté et de la férocité de l'homme envers son prochain.
The Wharf Rat
Directed by Chester Withey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Spottiswoode Aitken, Josephine Crowell, Pauline Starke
Roles Eddie Douglas

Polly vit avec sa belle-mère, Mme McCracken, et son demi-frère, Roy. Lorsque ce dernier fait des avances indécentes à Polly, le grand-père de celle-ci le frappe à la tête. Le croyant mort, Polly et son grand-père s'enfuient dans une autre ville, dans le quartier des quais, et Polly se déguise en garçon.
Hoodoo Ann
Hoodoo Ann (1916)
, 1h4
Directed by Lloyd Ingraham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Wilbur Higby, Loyola O'Connor, Mildred Harris, Anna Dodge
Roles Jimmie Vance
Rating59% 2.950322.950322.950322.950322.95032
Ann (Mae Marsh) is a young girl who has been living in an orphanage since infancy. She is disliked and spurned by the other children, and treated coldly by the orphanage administrators—the reason for this, however, is unclear. She is told by the orphanage cook Black Cindy (Madame Sul-Te-Wan) during a palm-reading that she will be cursed until she is married. Ann's stay at the orphanage is an endless series of unhappy circumstances; she steals a doll belonging to a popular girl named Goldie (Mildred Harris), then accidentally breaks the doll, thereby adding to her loneliness and misery. One day, while the children are napping, a fire breaks out in the orphanage and Ann heroically saves Goldie from the flames.
Her Shattered Idol
Directed by John B. O'Brien
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Elmo Lincoln, Spottiswoode Aitken
Roles Robert

Mae Carter, la riche pupille du Colonel Nutt, se moque de Robert, le neveu du Colonel, mais finalement accepte sa bague de fiançailles. Plus tard Mae est impressionnée par le physique de Ben, le forgeron. Elle rêve qu'elle est la femme de Robert à l'époque des cavernes, qu'elle est enlevée par un géant mais est secourue par Ben, qui se bat avec Robert et gagne. Le lendemain matin, Mae rend sa bague à Robert et envisage de s'enfuir avec Ben. Le Colonel Nutt, à qui Robert s'est confié, se fiant à son expérience des femmes, dit à Mae d'inviter Ben à vivre avec eux pendant un mois. Pendant la fête des fiançailles, Mae est dégoûtée par la stupidité de Ben, ses manières rudes et sa mère fumeuse de pipe. Elle rompt les fiançailles et envisage de se marier à nouveau avec Robert, mais pendant la cérémonie, Ben l'enlève pour l'épouser dans une autre ville. Après de nombreuses péripéties, Robert sauve Mae et Ben des sables mouvants et finalement épouse Mae.
The Birth of a Nation, 2h37
Directed by Monte Blue, Jack Conway, Erich von Stroheim, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron, Joseph Henabery, George Siegmann, Donald Crisp, Allan Dwan, D. W. Griffith, W. S. Van Dyke, Raoul Walsh, Elmer Clifton, Christy Cabanne, Tom Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Horror, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about racism, Musical films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann
Roles Tod
Rating61% 3.098433.098433.098433.098433.09843
The film follows two juxtaposed families: the Northern Stonemans—abolitionist Congressman Austin Stoneman, based on the Reconstruction-era Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, his two sons and his daughter Elsie—and the Southern Camerons, a family including two daughters, Margaret and Flora, and three sons, most notably Ben.