Don Harvey (actor, born 1911)

Don Carlos Harvey (December 12, 1911 – April 23, 1963) was an American television and film actor.

Don Harvey
Harvey in The Fighting Stallion (1956)
Born
Don Carlos Harvey

(1911-12-12)December 12, 1911
Council Grove, Kansas, U.S.
DiedApril 23, 1963(1963-04-23) (aged 51)
Studio City, California, U.S.
Resting placeHollywood Forever Cemetery
Other namesDon Harvey
OccupationActor
Years active1945–1963
Spouse
Jean Harvey
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(m. 1934)​

Life

Born in Council Grove in Morris County in east central Kansas, Harvey began his acting career by performing on radio and in tent shows and repertory companies with his wife, the former Eugenia (Jean) Bartness (1900–1966), who was eleven years his senior.[1] In Hollywood, he co-starred on a radio program with Hedda Hopper. In 1949, he contracted with Columbia Pictures and played in the serials, The Adventures of Sir Galahad and Batman and Robin (both 1949), and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).[2]

Harvey appeared in 180 films and television programs between 1945 and 1963. During the late 1940s alone, he appeared in fifteen films and television programs. Harvey's second film and his first credited role were Dragnet (1947), starring Henry Wilcoxon and Robert Kent, and the exploitation film, She Shoulda Said No! (1949), respectively.

Death

Harvey died in 1963 at the age of fifty-one of a heart attack in Studio City, California and is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.[3]

Career

1950s

Harvey was cast as the besieged Lieutenant Gillespie in the 1957 episode, "California's Paul Revere" of the anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line. Alex Sharp as Juan Flaco, or John Brown, who conducts a four-day ride from Los Angeles to Stockton, and then San Francisco to obtain more troops sent by sea to relive Los Angeles.

1960s

Selected filmography

References
  1. Don Harvey's acting roles with Mae West at Mae West
  2. Don Harvey's roles in serials at The Files of Jerry Blake
  3. Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
  4. Don Harvey acting roles in Westerns at Western Clippings
  5. Don Harvey's work in Three Stooges films
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