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Harry Shannon
13 June 1890
Harry Shannon played in 10 movies in the Drama, Music, Mystery, Film-Noir, Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Action, Biography, Sport, Western, Musical genres.
Harry Shannon got succeed with average imdb rating 6.8.
A stagestruck 15-year-old Michigan farm boy, Harry Shannon succumbed to the lure of greasepaint upon joining a traveling repertory troupe. Developing into a first-rate musical comedy performer, Shannon went on to work in virtually all branches of live entertainment, including tent shows, vaudeville, and Broadway. By the 1930s, Shannon was a member of Joseph Schildkraut's Hollywood Theater Guild, which led to film assignments.
Though he was busiest playing Irish cops and Western
... sheriffs, Harry Shannon is best remembered as Charles Foster Kane's alcoholic father ("What that kid needs is a good thrashin'!") in Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941).Read more Less