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Harvey Braban

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Years active
  
1920-1938 (films)

Role
  
Film actor

Name
  
Harvey Braban

Died
  
1943

Born
  
19 May 1883
Brighton, Sussex United Kingdom

Movies
  
Blackmail, The Yellow Claw, The Romany

Similar People
  
Maurice Elvey, Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Edwards

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Devil's Foot (1921)


Harvey Braban (1883-1943) was a British stage and film actor.

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Braban performed regularly in West End plays and from 1920 began appearing in silent films made by the leading British studios Stoll Pictures and the Ideal Film Company. Braban played the Chief Inspector in Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail and thereafter often portrayed policemen or other official figures of authority on screen. One of his final roles was that of the Victorian Prime Minister Lord Salisbury in the 1938 film Sixty Glorious Years.

Selected filmography

  • The Yellow Claw (1921) - Gaston Max
  • Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills (1921) - Gwylim Rhys
  • The Prince and the Beggarmaid (1921) - King Hildred
  • Shirley (1922) - Nunnally
  • Bentley's Conscience (1922) - Richard Glym
  • Man and His Kingdom (1922)
  • Diana of the Crossways (1922) - Rodworth
  • The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923) - Ruthven
  • The Romany (1923)
  • The Great Well (1924)
  • A Girl of London (1925)
  • Blackmail (1929)
  • Alibi (1931) - Insp. Davis
  • The Girl in the Night (1931)
  • Easy Money (1934)
  • The Path of Glory (1934)
  • Bulldog Jack (1935)
  • Keep Your Seats, Please (1936)
  • Darby and Joan (1937)
  • Thank Evans (1938)
  • Sixty Glorious Years (1938)

    • References

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