Sam Hardy
Date of birth: 1883-03-21
Place of birth: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sam B. Hardy, Samuel B. Hardy, Samuel Hardy
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sam B. Hardy (March 21, 1883 – October 16, 1935) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in feature films during the silent and early sound eras. He died of intestinal problems. He was also known as Samuel Hardy. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Hardy attended Yale but left there to become an actor on stage. He entered the world of film with Biograph Studios. Hardy became ill while he was working in the film Shoot the Chutes, starring Eddie Cantor. He did not survive emergency surgery at a hospital.
Movie Credits
King Kong
1933-03-15
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has
Fast Company
1929-09-20
Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
1921-12-04
Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tac
The Phantom of Crestwood
1932-10-14
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
The Night Bird
1928-09-16
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
Little Miss Marker
1934-06-01
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of
Ann Vickers
1933-09-26
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. Sh
The Miracle Woman
1931-07-17
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a p
Little Old New York
1923-08-01
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has die
The Butter and Egg Man
1928-09-22
Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000
A Man's Man
1929-05-25
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
Three Cornered Moon
1933-08-04
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandl
A Texas Steer
1927-12-04
Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't rea
The Dark Horse
1932-06-16
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Z
Peach-o-Reno
1931-12-25
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other,
Outcast
1928-11-11
Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was dire
Break of Hearts
1935-05-31
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music t
Curtain at Eight
1933-10-01
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? Hi
Borrowed Wives
1930-08-20
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live
Mexicali Rose
1929-12-26
The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has
The Millionaire
1931-05-01
A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half int
The Champion
1931-02-25
Leather Pushers #10
The Gay Bride
1934-12-14
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectanc
Goldie Gets Along
1933-01-27
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934-11-02
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the
The Magnificent Lie
1931-07-25
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved bef
Face in the Sky
1933-01-15
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side.
Song of the West
1930-03-15
Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited fo
The Florodora Girl
1930-05-31
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is
Burning Up
1930-02-01
Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love
On With the Show!
1929-07-13
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters,
Give and Take
1928-12-23
The owner of a fruit cannery is facing financial ruin as a result of a strike. Unbeknownst to him, h
Big News
1929-09-06
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he did
Night Alarm
1934-12-10
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of a
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1933-07-13
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the
Annabelle's Affairs
1931-06-14
After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other trul
True to the Navy
1930-05-25
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stop
The Big Brain
1933-08-04
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As h
Make Me a Star
1932-07-01
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune.
Aunt Sally
1934-06-13
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job i
Rule 'Em and Weep
1932-05-02
King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
The Great Deception
1926-07-26
Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy
The Savage
1926-07-18
Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...
Broadway Nights
1927-05-15
Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producer
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934-10-04
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master
Reno
1930-09-30
A film by George Crone
The Big Noise
1928-03-25
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney I
Powdersmoke Range
1935-09-27
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
Diamond Handcuffs
1928-05-05
In South Africa, a worker in a diamond mine is sentenced to death for stealing a huge diamond he fou
June Moon
1931-03-21
An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
Bluebeard's Seven Wives
1926-01-13
Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must
When Love Grows Cold
1926-01-31
Margaret has given up her stage career to marry inventor Jerry Benson. Jerry fails to impress oil ex
The Prince of Tempters
1926-10-17
Francis, the result of a clandestine marriage between the Duke of Chatsfield and a peasant girl, aft
I Give My Love
1934-07-17
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her sma
Turn Back the Hours
1928-03-01
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring
Orchids and Ermine
1927-03-06
Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams
Mighty Lak' a Rose
1923-02-12
A blind orphan, Rose Duncan, who has a special talent with the violin. Jerome Trevor, a famed pianis
Rainbow Man
1929-05-16
The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.
Acquitted
1929-11-15
A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
At First Sight
1917-07-02
Famous romance writer Hartly Poole retreats to the country for inspiration. There he meets ardent ad
The Half-Way Girl
1925-08-16
When her traveling theatrical group goes broke, Poppy, an actress in the troupe, finds herself stran
The Perfect Sap
1927-01-23
Wealthy young Herbert Alden, a would-be detective, is practicing housebreaking with his valet, an ex
Almost Married
1919-06-02
Wealthy young American Carrington O'Connell is traveling Europe with a "social advisor" to become mo