Forrester Harvey

Forrester Harvey
Born	(1884-06-27)27 June 1884 County Cork, Ireland
Died	Laguna Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1922-1945

Forrester Harvey (27 June 1884 – 14 December 1945) was an Irish film actor.

From 1922 until his death year Harvey appeared in more than 115 films. He was credited for about two-thirds of his film appearances, but some of his roles were uncredited. The burly actor with a moustache mostly played comic supporting roles, often as an innkeeper. His best-known role was Beamish in the first two Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller. Together with Claude Rains he played in The Invisible Man, as a tavern owner and husband of a hysterical Una O'Connor, and in The Wolf Man. He appeared in two films for Alfred Hitchcock, first in his British silent film The Ring, than in Hitchcocks Hollywood debut Rebecca. A number of reference works incorrectly identify him as having played Little Maria's father in Frankenstein. Harvey's interment was in California.

Partial filmography

• The Lilac Sunbonnet (1922)
• If Youth But Knew (1926)
• Nell Gwyn (1926)
• The Ring (1927)
• Moulin Rouge (1928)
• Spangles (1928)
• Ringing the Changes (1929)
• Glorious Youth (1929)
• The Man in Possession (1931)
• Guilty Hands (1931)
• Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
• Those We Love (1932)
• Kongo (1932)
• Red Dust (1932)
• Blind Adventure (1933)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
• Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
• The Gilded Lily (1935)
• The Woman in Red (1935)
• The Imperfect Lady (1935)
• Love Before Breakfast (1936)
• Personal Property (1937)
• Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police' (1939)
• Rebecca (1940)
• A Chump at Oxford (1940)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
• Mercy Island (1941)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)
• Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)

External links

• Forrester Harvey at Find a Grave
• Forrester Harvey at the Internet Movie Database