John Harron
Date of birth: 1903-03-31
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: John Thomas Harron, Johnny Harron, Johnny Haron, Jack Harron
Biography
John Harron (March 31, 1904 – November 24, 1939) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1918 and 1940. Born in New York City, he was the brother of actor Robert Harron and of actress Mary Harron. Harron graduated from Santa Clara University. His film debut came in Through the Back Door (1921). After acting for Universal, he was under contract to Warner Bros. Harron "achieved great success on the silent screen but was reduced to minor roles or minor films with the coming of sound." Harron died in Seattle, Washington from spinal meningitis. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles
Movie Credits
Finders Keepers
1928-02-18
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
Pop's Pal
1933-12-21
A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers
White Zombie
1932-07-28
A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away fr
The Grim Comedian
1921-11-13
Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her d
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938-07-20
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o
The Fox
1921-07-24
Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sherif
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
1939-06-17
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by bo
Through the Back Door
1921-05-05
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and tr
Street Girl
1929-08-21
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love
The Crowd Roars
1932-04-16
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discoverin
Quiet, Please
1939-07-01
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.
Kid Galahad
1937-05-29
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid
Midnight Warning
1932-11-15
Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air."
The Murder in the Museum
1934-05-26
When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a some
Bride of the Storm
1926-02-20
An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and he
The Little Irish Girl
1926-03-06
Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionabl
City Park
1934-05-01
The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ra
Sister to Judas
1932-12-25
A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love a
Indianapolis Speedway
1939-08-05
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather
Big Boy
1930-04-27
Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Ken
Beauty Parlor
1932-06-15
Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by
Stolen Sweets
1934-03-15
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-lov
The Czar of Broadway
1930-05-25
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular
Below the Line
1925-09-20
Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The
The Night Cry
1926-02-27
A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.
The Boy Friend
1926-08-14
A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.
The Patient in Room 18
1938-01-08
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warn
The Fire Patrol
1924-08-14
Out Where the Stars Begin
1938-05-28
When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director
The Invisible Menace
1938-01-11
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night.
Boy Meets Girl
1938-08-27
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be
Racket Busters
1938-07-16
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Going Places
1938-12-31
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargain
Code of the Secret Service
1939-05-27
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939-08-26
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending
Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938-07-09
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Gold Diggers in Paris
1938-06-11
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite th
My Bill
1938-07-08
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Naughty But Nice
1939-06-23
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-to
Secret Service of the Air
1939-03-04
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercove
Public Wedding
1937-07-09
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fak
Smashing the Money Ring
1939-10-21
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in
That Man's Here Again
1937-04-16
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in
He Couldn't Say No
1938-03-19
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marr
King of the Underworld
1939-01-14
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her i
They Made Me a Criminal
1939-01-21
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Blackwell's Island
1939-01-24
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
The Oklahoma Kid
1939-03-11
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw
Women in the Wind
1939-04-15
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Dark Victory
1939-04-20
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few
Each Dawn I Die
1939-08-19
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of h
The Daredevil Drivers
1938-02-12
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her r
Kid Nightingale
1939-11-04
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees t
Lincoln in the White House
1939-02-11
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Get
The Return of Doctor X
1939-11-23
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to c
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo
The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally
Heart of the North
1938-12-10
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound fre
Missing Witnesses
1937-12-11
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Blazing Sixes
1937-06-12
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent seri
Varsity Show
1937-09-04
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played
The Fighting 69th
1940-01-27
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the
Calling Philo Vance
1940-02-03
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to
The Law of the Tong
1931-12-15
A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese
The Beloved Brat
1938-04-30
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939-02-02
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chine
Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939-05-13
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform can
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
1939-08-12
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940-01-13
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f
Talent Scout
1937-07-24
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Virginia City
1940-03-23
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in
Prairie Thunder
1937-09-10
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegr
Jezebel
1938-03-26
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car
Carnival Day
1936-01-11
It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the sing
Her Husband's Secretary
1937-02-26
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Over the Wall
1938-04-02
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfr
Yes, My Darling Daughter
1939-02-25
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year j
Learning to Love
1925-01-25
A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
The Cowboy Quarterback
1939-07-29
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runne
Hollywood Trouble
1935-01-01
An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
Men in Exile
1937-04-04
An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.
The Gold Diggers
1923-09-22
Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he beli
Penrod
1922-02-20
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name o
Tear Gas Squad
1940-05-04
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
The Go-Getter
1937-05-22
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
The Bill of Rights
1939-08-19
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American
Hearts of the World
1918-03-11
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is s
Once and Forever
1927-10-15
Silent romantic drama starring Patsy Ruth Miller who suffers along with her beloved after he loses h
A Fugitive from Justice
1940-06-15
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the ru
The Easiest Way
1931-02-07
A virtuous and innocent young woman uneasily gives in to the lavish attentions of a "sugar daddy" bu
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938-07-23
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical
On Dress Parade
1939-11-18
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a mil
The Adventurous Blonde
1937-11-13
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) i
Blondes at Work
1938-02-05
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938-11-12
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwi
Torchy Blane in Panama
1938-05-07
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from Ne
The Man Without a Country
1937-11-27
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his
The Declaration of Independence
1938-11-26
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the d
Slapsie Maxie's
1939-09-16
In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Ma
Old Shoes
1925-04-08
A widowed woman marries her husband's brother, who soon proves to be a tyrant stepfather to his adop
The Gilded Highway
1926-03-13
After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years,
The Woman Hater
1925-07-12
A famous international actress wants to marry the love of her life, a millionaire but is blocked by
Hard to Get
1938-11-05
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill
Boots and Saddles
1937-10-04
Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real wester
Marked Woman
1937-04-10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937-08-11
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
Laugh and Get Rich
1931-03-27
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've be
The West~Bound Limited
1923-04-14
The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, Davi
My Wife and I
1925-05-16
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both
Hell-Bent for Heaven
1926-05-01
Sid Hunt and Jude Lowery are Carolina sweethearts but hired-hand Rufe Pryer also has his eyes on her
Satan in Sables
1925-10-14
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not giv
Fly Away Baby
1937-06-19
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Behind the Curtain
1924-07-15
When a brutal murder occurs, all the evidence points to a phony spiritualist, who is eventually conv
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931-12-23
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides tha
Love in the Dark
1922-11-20
"I hope people see me as an artist, not a blind artist." Tou suffered a severe eye injury in an acc
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939-03-23
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen
The Hollywood Handicap
1932-08-10
1930s Thalians Club comedy.
That Certain Woman
1937-08-30
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
The Painted Flapper
1924-10-15
A socially-ambitious mother is pushing her younger daughter into a life-style that will satisfy the
Silk Stockings
1927-10-02
Sam and Molly Thornhill, a married couple very much in love, are nevertheless continually quarreling
Night Life
1927-11-01
In post-World War I Vienna, a confidence trickster falls in love with a struggling waitress.
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925-09-08
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted is a lost 1925 American drama film directed by James Flood and written by
The Ragged Heiress
1922-03-19
Facing a prison term, James Moreton makes provision for the care of his motherless daughter, Lucia,
The False Alarm
1926-09-20
The False Alarm is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Ralph L
Rose of the Tenements
1926-12-05
Rose Rosetti, the orphaned daughter of a New York gangster, and Danny Lewis, another orphan, have be
What Shall I Do?
1924-05-11
Under the name of Jack Nelson, Don McLean goes to work in his father's factory. He meets a restauran