American character actor specializing in villainous roles. Born in White Plains, New York to Herman E. and Franceska Lauter, he was raised in Denver, Colorado. Although it has been suggested that he appeared briefly in a couple of films during the Thirties, his real movie career began in 1946. He came to be a familiar presence in low-budget films, serials, and television programs in the 1950s, though he only once really came close to stardom, as one of the leads in the television series “Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955)”. Most of his career was spent as a serviceable second lead or heavy, though he continued to play bit parts in larger pictures. The son of an artist, he devoted much of his energy late in life to his own painting and running an art gallery. He died in 1990.
Harry Lauter Biography / Wiki
| Name | Harry Lauter |
| Also Know | Herman Arthur Lauter, Harry T. Lauter |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | White Plains, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1914-06-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
| Deathday | 1990-10-30 |
Harry Lauter Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Cry Baby Killer | Police Lt. Porter | 1958-08-15 | A teenage boy panics and takes hostages when he thinks he’s committed murder…. |
| Convict Stage | Ben Lattimore | 1965-01-01 | A cowboy whose sister has been murdered by a gang of vicious outlaws seeks his revenge. But a venerable old lawman is about to teach the vigilante a l… |
| King of the Carnival | Bert King | 1955-06-27 | Treasury agents go after a ring of counterfeiters operating out of a traveling carnival…. |
| Trader Tom of the China Seas | Tom Rogers | 1954-01-06 | In this 12 Chapter serial the UN enlists trader Tom Rogers and Vivian Wells, to lead the effort to prevent the natives from starting a revolution in B… |
| Superbeast | Stewart Victor | 1972-11-01 | A doctor finds a jungle laboratory, complete with mad scientist and genetic engineering experiments… |
| The Kid from Amarillo | Tom Mallory | 1951-10-29 | Charles “Durango” Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incognito across the Mexican border to beard the leader o… |
| The Steel Fist | Franz | 1952-01-06 | In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities…. |
| Sea Tiger | Randall, alias Jon Edmum | 1952-07-27 | Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ingots secretly hidden on a derelict and abandoned Ja… |
| A Date with Death | Lt. George Caddell | 1959-06-01 | A drifter riding the rails gets mistaken for the new sheriff of a small town. He takes the police job and is immediately pressured to crack down on lo… |
| Apache Country | Dave Kilrain | 1952-05-30 | A criminal gang provokes the local Apaches in order to divert the authorities’ attention from their own activities…. |
| The Badge of Marshal Brennan | Dr. Hale | 1957-04-14 | Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and rides… |
| Yukon Gold | Ace Morgan | 1952-08-30 | In this Yukon adventure, a gold mining community is rocked by a murder. A Mountie investigates and encounters a female gambler. Action ensues, but jus… |
| Fighting Lawman | Outlaw Al Clark – aka Al Deacons | 1953-09-20 | A US Marshal hunts down three bank robbers that are living under new identities…. |
| Timber Country Trouble | Webb, the lumberjack | 1955-01-01 | A short feature western comprising two episodes of the “Wild Bill Hickok” TV series, the episodes being “Lumber Camp Story” (4/21/1952) and “Boy And T… |
| The Crooked Web | Sgt. Mike Jancoweizc | 1955-11-30 | Undercover agents investigate a murderer in Chicago…. |
| Outlaw Treasure | Jesse James | 1955-05-15 | When two outlaw gangs team up to rob gold shipments, the U.s. Army sends their ace-troubleshooter, Dan Parker, to the area. Sam Casey, the mystery-man… |
| Return to Treasure Island | Parker | 1954-06-30 | There’s something to be said for finishing what you’ve started. That’s why the gentile Captain Long John Silver is heading back to Treasure Island to … |
| Whirlwind | Wade Trimble | 1951-04-16 | A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman’s (Gail Davis) estate from fraud…. |
| Incident | Bill Manning | 1948-10-30 | An innocent man — due to a case of mistaken identity — is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target — a gang… |
| Valley of Fire | Tod Rawlings | 1951-11-20 | An outcast gambler hijacks a wagon train of eligible women taken west by a mayor…. |
| Flying Disc Man from Mars | Drake | 1950-10-25 | Mota is a Martian representative, who has come to impose interplanetary law on the Earth (which has become too dangerous); opposing his authority is K… |
| Bandit King of Texas | Trem Turner | 1949-08-29 | The Jewel Land Company of Elko, Texas is selling Government land to settlers. Before any of the settlers can claim their land, they are being killed b… |
| The Louisiana Hussy | Clay Lanier | 1959-04-01 | Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater…. |
| Dig That Uranium | Ron Haskell | 1955-12-25 | The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it’s pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of … |
| Thunder in God’s Country | Marshal Tim Gallery | 1951-04-07 | Hidden Valley has managed to retain its Old Western atmosphere, free of modern-day corruption, until escaped convict Smitty arrives with plans of taki… |
| Missile Monsters | Drake | 1958-01-01 | A warlord from Mars recruits an Earth industrialist with a Nazi past to manufacture weapons by means of which Mars can take over the Earth. Feature v… |
| Prince of the Plains | Tom Owens | 1949-04-08 | Banker Ned Owens refuses to call in the many unpaid loans made to the local ranchers as he knows they are being terrorized by a gang of crooks and una… |
| Silver Needle in the Sky | Atlasan | 1954-01-01 | Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha…. |
| It Came from Beneath the Sea | Deputy Bill Nash | 1955-07-01 | A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coas… |
| Without Honor | Ambulance Attendant | 1949-10-26 | Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband’s brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her ma… |
| Death in Small Doses | Steve Hummel / Mr. Brown | 1957-09-15 | A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers…. |
| Prince of Pirates | Jan | 1953-03-07 | In a 16th century kingdom in the Netherlands, the newly crowned King Stephan concludes a secret treaty with the Spanish. This puts him at odds with hi… |
| The Toughest Gun in Tombstone | Joe Barger | 1958-05-14 | A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife…. |
| The Forty-Niners | Gambler | 1954-07-30 | 1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a trio of killers…. |
| Hellcats of the Navy | Lt. (j.g.) Wes Barton | 1957-05-01 | Future “first couple” Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commande… |
| The Werewolf | Deputy Ben Clovey | 1956-07-01 | The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and … |
| Ambush Bay | Cpl. Alvin Ross | 1966-05-10 | A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas…. |
| Raiders of Old California | Scott Johnson | 1957-11-01 | A villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner of a hacienda to give him his land when a courageous settler comes to the rescue…. |
| Fury River | 1961-09-14 | Rogers Rangers fight the French & Indians in Canada while searching for a waterway which will lead to this ocean…. | |
| Miami Exposé | 1956-09-01 | A police detective (Lee J. Cobb) baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades…. | |
| Buffalo Gun | Vin | 1961-07-01 | In this western, the Indians claim that their government rations are being stolen and they threaten to fight back. A pair of agents look into it and b… |
| Hills of Utah | Henchman Evan Fox | 1951-09-30 | A singing doctor (Gene Autry) on horseback heals a feud between cattlemen and copper miners…. |
| Girl on the Run | Drunk | 1958-10-10 | A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer…. |
| Crash of Moons | Atlasan | 1954-07-10 | A three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and released as a feature for 16mm rental only. Season 1 episodes 21… |
| Tarzan’s Fight for Life | Dr. Ken Warwick | 1958-08-15 | Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. His efforts are strongly opposed by Futa, the witch doctor, and Ramo, a native warr… |
| The Marshal’s Daughter | Russ Mason | 1953-06-25 | To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal’s Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1… |
| Topeka | Mack Wilson | 1953-08-09 | Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked elem… |
| Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders | Constable Clark | 1953-07-08 | A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatc… |
| The Gay Intruders | Male Secretary | 1948-09-02 | Psychiatrists move in with bickering stage spouses and start bickering too…. |
| Maybe I’ll Come Home in the Spring | House Party Guest (uncredited) | 1971-02-16 | Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions…. |
| Tarzan’s Jungle Rebellion | Josh Miller | 1967-09-06 | This jungle adventure is comprised of two episodes from the 1966-69 TV show…. |
| Fort Courageous | Joe | 1965-05-01 | In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an India… |
| The Great Dan Patch | Bud Ransome | 1949-07-22 | David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father’s Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father’s h… |
| More Dead than Alive | Doctor | 1969-01-15 | When the multiple murderer Cain is released from prison after 18 years, he wants to settle down as a rancher and never touch a gun again. But his form… |
| Blonde Bait | State Department Security Chief | 1956-04-01 | Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is cu… |
| The Wild Westerners | Jud Gotch | 1962-06-06 | Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers. Marshal McDowell and his men are looking for the… |
| Creature with the Atom Brain | Reporter #1 | 1955-07-01 | Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bu… |
| The Gunfight at Dodge City | City Marshal Ed Masterson | 1959-05-01 | Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is ki… |
| Alimony | Doctor | 1949-06-11 | A promising young composer is tempted away from his devoted wife by a fortune-seeking woman who cares more for his prospects than for him…. |
| Fort Utah | Britches | 1967-09-01 | An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself…. |
| Frontier Investigator | Rocky’s Brother | 1949-05-01 | Rocky Lane, out to find the murderer of his brother, runs into a battle between two stage lines for a mail contract…. |
| The Gypsy Moon | Atlasan | 1954-12-25 | Rocky Jones and his buddies happen upon two strange moons orbiting each other. They soon discover that both are inhabited by civilizations at war with… |
| Yankee Pasha | Dick Bailey | 1954-04-17 | Director Joseph Pevney’s 1954 swashbuckling adventure saga stars Jeff Chandler as an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates. The ca… |
| According to Mrs. Hoyle | Gordon Warren | 1951-05-20 | A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters…. |
| Silver City Bonanza | Pete Horne | 1951-03-01 | Blind Pete Horne knows the location of the Lost Spanish Silver Lode, but is knifed before he can tell anyone. His seeing eye dog, Duke, brings Rex All… |
| Roadblock | Saunders (uncredited) | 1951-09-17 | An insurance agent’s greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime…. |
| Lord of the Jungle | Pilot | 1955-06-12 | The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants…. |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes | General Winthrop | 1971-05-20 | The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans… |
| Tucson | George Reeves Jr. | 1949-04-27 | Jimmy Lydon plays Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo… |
| Blue Grass of Kentucky | Dick Wentworth | 1950-01-22 | The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named “Blue Grass”. and the training of the colt to win the Kentuck Derby. and how all of that a… |
| Manhunt in Space | Atlasan | 1956-01-01 | Rocky Jones, Space Ranger fights space pirates over an invisible spaceship…. |
| Barquero | Steele | 1970-07-29 | Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river–crossable only … |
| Experiment Alcatraz | Richard ‘Dick’ McKenna | 1950-11-21 | A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation…. |
| The Women of Pitcairn Island | Ben Fish | 1956-12-01 | The widows and children of survivors of the H.M.S. Bounty rule Pitcairn Island, fighting off sailors and intruders…. |
| The Satan Bug | Fake SDI Agent | 1965-03-26 | A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The b… |
| Twelve O’Clock High | Radio officer (uncredited) | 1949-12-21 | In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a ‘hard luck’ bomber group. Much of the story deal… |
| The Showdown | Cowhand (uncredited) | 1950-08-15 | Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money… |
| The Todd Killings | 1971-10-20 | Based on the true story of ’60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt (“The Pied Piper of Tucson”), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year ol… | |
| Silver Needle in the Sky | Atlasande | 1954-01-01 | Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha…. |
| Posse from Hell | Russell | 1961-03-01 | Murphy goes after bad guys who shot his friend the sheriff and abducted a local girl. In a plot reminiscent of High Noon, the posse of town blowhards … |
| The Magnificent Rogue | Boy Model | 1946-11-07 | A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy…. |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Lieutenant in Charge of Landing Site | 1951-09-28 | An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction…. |
| Talk About a Stranger | Clarence, Bookkeeper | 1952-04-18 | Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger…. |
| The Big Heat | Hank O’Connell (uncredited) | 1953-10-14 | Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate…. |
| Lonely Are the Brave | Deputy in Canyon | 1962-05-24 | A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the peni… |
| At Gunpoint | Federal Marshal | 1955-12-25 | A general-store keeper (Fred MacMurray) scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back…. |
| 711 Ocean Drive | Flirty Man at Bar (uncredited) | 1950-07-01 | The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the lad… |
| Bunco Squad | James Worth (uncredited) | 1950-09-01 | Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest m… |
| Flying Leathernecks | 1951-08-28 | Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds… | |
| They Rode West | 1954-12-04 | Dr. Allen Seward is assigned to a western cavalry post where his predecessors had been drunks and slackers. The post doesn’t take kindly to him either… | |
| This Woman Is Dangerous | Trooper (Uncredited) | 1952-02-09 | A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesi… |
| The Flying Missile | Army Base Information Desk Clerk | 1950-12-24 | A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines…. |
| White Heat | Man with Microphone in Car (uncredited) | 1949-09-02 | A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After th… |
| The Racket | Officer Mosley (uncredited) | 1951-10-25 | Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can’t seem to touch the incorruptib… |
| The Great Jewel Robber | Reporter (uncredited) | 1950-07-15 | Director Peter Godfrey’s 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as “The Hollywood Raffles”… |
| No Way Out | Orderly (uncredited) | 1950-08-16 | Robbers Ray Biddle and his brother are shot and taken to the local hospital. There, the two are treated by Dr. Brooks, the hospital’s only black docto… |
| Batman | Mr. Merrick (uncredited) | 1966-07-30 | The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people…. |
| The Last Hurrah | 1958-12-31 | In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Fr… | |
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