Winifred Harris
Date of birth: 1880-03-15
Place of birth: Kew, Surrey, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Winifred Vera Emily Harris
Biography
Winifred Vera Emily Harris (17 March 1880 – 18 April 1972) was a British actress with a substantial career in America. She appeared in New York plays beginning in 1914 and acted in numerous plays up to 1934. She left Broadway plays for films though she had begun her film career during the silent era.
Movie Credits
Money To Burn
1939-12-31
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contes
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938-07-20
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o
The Love Doctor
1929-01-06
Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is witho
Mrs. Parkington
1944-10-12
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in fr
Fast and Loose
1930-11-08
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son
That Hagen Girl
1947-11-01
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has bee
Casablanca
1943-01-15
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un
The Crucible of Life
1918-02-01
After a brief and unhappy marriage, Gladys Dale finds work as the companion to Diana Dorset, the dau
A Child Is Born
1939-12-07
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
The Grand Dame
1931-05-02
Peggy is a gangster's moll from New Jersey, living a pampered life in Manhattan with three French ma
The Women Men Marry
1937-09-10
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
The Life of the Party
1937-09-03
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
A Daughter of Two Worlds
1920-01-05
Ouanga
1935-12-03
In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on
Vogues of 1938
1937-08-18
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reis
Live, Love and Learn
1937-10-29
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get mar
Zenobia
1939-04-21
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage
Kid Nightingale
1939-11-04
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Shakedown
1950-09-01
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the succes
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939-03-24
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until
Rose of Washington Square
1939-05-05
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de
The Women
1939-09-01
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Old Maid
1939-08-16
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo
Ninotchka
1939-11-23
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres
Vigil in the Night
1940-02-05
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
British Intelligence
1939-11-10
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the
The Lone Wolf in Mexico
1947-01-16
In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break u
Waterloo Bridge
1940-05-17
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he
New Moon
1940-06-28
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
Gentleman Jim
1942-11-14
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzli
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944-11-02
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts
Belonging
1922-03-01
In Paris a Count's enforced wife takes the blame when her ex-lover is killed by the diplomat she lov
Panthea
1917-01-07
A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.
The Gigolo Racket
1931-06-15
As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is
Woman of the Year
1942-02-05
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relation
The Purple Highway
1923-08-05
Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they
Night Must Fall
1937-04-30
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fianc
Claudia
1943-11-04
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand l
Honor Among Lovers
1931-03-21
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who
The Co-respondent
1917-10-06
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
The Racketeer
1929-11-09
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced s
Appointment for Love
1941-10-31
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymo
The Crucial Test
1916-07-03
Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vanc
The Woman of His Dream
1921-07-01
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941-08-12
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side,
Knock on Wood
1954-04-06
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship re
The Fan
1949-04-01
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
1948-08-11
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Car
Julia Misbehaves
1948-08-08
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years
My Wild Irish Rose
1947-12-24
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Song of Love
1947-10-09
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her
Down to Earth
1947-08-21
Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to eart
The Imperfect Lady
1946-11-29
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Centennial Summer
1946-07-10
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepar
Love Letters
1945-10-26
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always compli
Four Jills in a Jeep
1944-03-17
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
Standing Room Only
1944-01-07
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the
Mardi Gras
1943-10-01
The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramo
Random Harvest
1942-12-17
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star
Pittsburgh
1942-12-11
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his tre
Her Cardboard Lover
1942-07-16
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
I Married an Angel
1942-07-09
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven sh
Captains of the Clouds
1942-02-12
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and t
Down in San Diego
1941-08-01
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego,
Kisses for Breakfast
1941-07-05
A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.
Footsteps in the Dark
1941-03-08
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police att
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940-10-26
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Life with Henry
1941-01-23
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
The Kid from Kokomo
1939-05-23
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston
I'm from Missouri
1939-04-06
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the Br
The Buccaneer
1938-02-04
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Conquest
1937-10-22
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging
Stella Dallas
1937-08-06
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
Lloyd's of London
1936-11-25
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close f
The Silent Partner
1931-08-02
The Iron Hand
1916-05-29
After political boss Tim Noland adopts Roy, the infant son of a dead crony, he reluctantly gives the
The Crucible of Fate
1914-04-04
Jean, a young woman raised as a boy by her father who after his death is sent to a reformatory becau