Harry Lauter

Acting • Born 1914-06-19 – Died 1990-10-30

Acting1White Plains, New York, USA

Biography

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.

Filmography

241 credits

Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion

Movie • 1967

Josh Miller

The Price of Freedom

Movie • 1949

Man in restaurant (uncredited)

Dragonfly Squadron

Movie • 1954

Capt. Vedders

The Satan Bug

Movie • 1965

Fake SDI Agent

Creature with the Atom Brain

Movie • 1955

Reporter #1

Experiment Alcatraz

Movie • 1950

Richard 'Dick' McKenna

It Came from Beneath the Sea

Movie • 1955

Deputy Bill Nash

Without Honor

Movie • 1949

Ambulance Attendant

Twelve O'Clock High

Movie • 1949

Radio officer

Rancho Notorious

Movie • 1952

Deputy at Gunsight (uncredited)

The Gay Intruders

Movie • 1948

Male Secretary

A Date with Death

Movie • 1959

Lt. George Caddell

The Crooked Web

Movie • 1955

Sgt. Mike Jancoweizc

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

Movie • 1979

Self

Death in Small Doses

Movie • 1957

Steve Hummel / Mr. Brown

Outlaw Treasure

Movie • 1955

Jesse James

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

Movie • 1971

House Party Guest (uncredited)

Zamba

Movie • 1949

Jim

The Gunfight at Dodge City

Movie • 1959

City Marshal Ed Masterson

Apache Country

Movie • 1952

Dave Kilrain

Superbeast

Movie • 1972

Stewart Victor

Valley of Fire

Movie • 1951

Tod Rawlings

Return to Treasure Island

Movie • 1954

Parker

Whirlwind

Movie • 1951

Wade Trimble

Hills of Utah

Movie • 1951

Henchman Evan Fox

Girl on the Run

Movie • 1958

Drunk

Moonrise

Movie • 1948

Cry Baby Killer

Movie • 1958

Police Lt. Porter

Convict Stage

Movie • 1965

Ben Lattimore

The Badge of Marshal Brennan

Movie • 1957

Dr. Hale

Alimony

Movie • 1949

Doctor

King of the Carnival

Movie • 1955

Bert King

A Foreign Affair

Movie • 1948

Corporal (uncredited)

Apache Ambush

Movie • 1955

Prince of Pirates

Movie • 1953

Jan

Flying Disc Man from Mars

Movie • 1950

Drake

Flying Leathernecks

Movie • 1951

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

Movie • 1958

Joe Barger

Dragnet

Movie • 1954

Officer Greeley

The Women of Pitcairn Island

Movie • 1956

Ben Fish

Manhunt in Space

Movie • 1954

Atlasan

Blue Grass of Kentucky

Movie • 1950

Dick Wentworth

Jungle Patrol

Movie • 1948

Lt. Derby

Posse from Hell

Movie • 1961

Russell

Fort Courageous

Movie • 1965

Joe

For Pete's Sake

Movie • 1966

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Movie • 1956

Cutting - Generator Technician (uncredited)

The Great Dan Patch

Movie • 1949

Bud Ransome

The Louisiana Hussy

Movie • 1959

Clay Lanier

According to Mrs. Hoyle

Movie • 1951

Gordon Warren

Incident

Movie • 1948

Bill Manning

More Dead than Alive

Movie • 1969

Doctor

The Steel Fist

Movie • 1952

Franz

When Willie Comes Marching Home

Movie • 1950

Aide (uncredited)

Crime Wave

Movie • 1953

Roadblock Officer (uncredited)

The Last Hurrah

Movie • 1958

Votes Tallyman (uncredited)

Yukon Gold

Movie • 1952

Ace Morgan

The Showdown

Movie • 1950

Cowhand (uncredited)

White Heat

Movie • 1949

Man with Microphone in Car (uncredited)

I Was a Male War Bride

Movie • 1949

Naval Lt. Perkins (uncredited)

Hellcats of the Navy

Movie • 1957

Lt. (j.g.) Wes Barton

Tucson

Movie • 1949

George Reeves Jr.

The Big Heat

Movie • 1953

Hank O'Connell (uncredited)

The Red Ball Express

Movie • 1952

Lt. Michaelson -- Sentry (uncredited)

Crash of Moons

Movie • 1954

Atlasan

The Werewolf

Movie • 1956

Deputy Ben Clovey

Tarzan's Fight for Life

Movie • 1958

Dr. Ken Warwick

Dig That Uranium

Movie • 1955

Haskell, the boss

Fort Utah

Movie • 1967

Britches

The Case Against Brooklyn

Movie • 1958

The Magnificent Rogue

Movie • 1946

Boy Model

The Flying Missile

Movie • 1950

Army Base Information Desk Clerk

The Mountains of the Moon

Movie • 1967

Whitehead

Silver City Bonanza

Movie • 1951

Pete Horne

Thunder in God's Country

Movie • 1951

Marshal Tim Gallery

The Kid from Amarillo

Movie • 1951

Tom Mallory

Missile Monsters

Movie • 1958

Drake

The Todd Killings

Movie • 1971

Ambush Bay

Movie • 1966

Cpl. Alvin Ross

Bandit King of Texas

Movie • 1949

Trem Turner

Frontier Investigator

Movie • 1949

Rocky's Brother

Prince of the Plains

Movie • 1949

Tom Owens

Fighting Lawman

Movie • 1953

Outlaw Al Clark - aka Al Deacons

The Marshal's Daughter

Movie • 1953

Russ Mason

Topeka

Movie • 1953

Mack Wilson

The Forty-Niners

Movie • 1954

Gambler

Blonde Bait

Movie • 1956

State Department Security Chief

Raiders of Old California

Movie • 1957

Scott Johnson

The Wild Westerners

Movie • 1962

Jud Gotch

Buffalo Gun

Movie • 1961

Vin

Silver Needle in the Sky

Movie • 1954

Atlasan

Lonely are the Brave

Movie • 1962

Deputy in Canyon (uncredited)

Timber Country Trouble

Movie • 1955

Webb, the lumberjack

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Movie • 1951

Lieutenant in Charge of Landing Site

711 Ocean Drive

Movie • 1950

Flirty Man at Bar (uncredited)

Roadblock

Movie • 1951

Saunders (uncredited)

Lord of the Jungle

Movie • 1955

Pilot

Batman

Movie • 1966

Mr. Merrick (uncredited)

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Movie • 1971

General Winthrop

Barquero

Movie • 1970

Steele

Bunco Squad

Movie • 1950

James Worth (uncredited)

The Great Jewel Robber

Movie • 1950

Reporter (uncredited)

No Way Out

Movie • 1950

Orderly (uncredited)

Talk About a Stranger

Movie • 1952

Clarence, Bookkeeper

Trader Tom of the China Seas

Movie • 1954

Tom Rogers

Sea Tiger

Movie • 1952

Randall, alias Jon Edmum

The Gypsy Moon

Movie • 1954

Atlasan

Silver Needle in the Sky

Movie • 1954

Atlasande

This Woman Is Dangerous

Movie • 1952

Trooper (Uncredited)

Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders

Movie • 1953

Constable Clark

Fury River

Movie • 1961

The Racket

Movie • 1951

Officer Mosley (uncredited)

Yankee Pasha

Movie • 1954

Dick Bailey

At Gunpoint

Movie • 1955

Federal Marshal

Miami Exposé

Movie • 1956

Det. Tim Grogan

Return of the Gunfighter

Movie • 1967

Frank Marlowe

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Movie • 1963

Police Dispatcher (uncredited)

This My Son

Movie • 1954

Don Caldwell

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

Movie • 1957

Briggs (uncredited)

Fighter Attack

Movie • 1953

Lt. Duncan

Come Fill the Cup

Movie • 1951

Cameron - Ives' Pilot (uncredited)

The Time Tunnel

TV • 1966

Wilson

77 Sunset Strip

TV • 1958

Burke's Law

TV • 1963

Dr. Kalmus

Cheyenne

TV • 1955

Trackdown

TV • 1957

The F.B.I.

TV • 1965

Judd Conners

Gilligan's Island

TV • 1964

The Beverly Hillbillies

TV • 1962

Motorcycle Officer

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

TV • 1964

Alias Smith and Jones

TV • 1971

Sheriff

Land of the Giants

TV • 1968

Policeman

Room 222

TV • 1969

Mannix

TV • 1967

The Lone Ranger

TV • 1949

Fred Vance

Gunsmoke

TV • 1955

Clay

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Chris Hearn

Cannon

TV • 1971

Ironside

TV • 1967

Sea Hunt

TV • 1958

Laredo

TV • 1965

Spence Gillis

Going My Way

TV • 1962

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Billy Grant

Cimarron Strip

TV • 1967

Daniel Boone

TV • 1964

Corbin

The Count of Monte Cristo

TV • 1956

The High Chaparral

TV • 1967

Mobley

The Millionaire

TV • 1955

Andrew Stevens

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Cat McGraw

The Life of Riley

TV • 1949

Yancy Derringer

TV • 1958

Francis Jordan

Peter Gunn

TV • 1958

The Gene Autry Show

TV • 1950

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

TV • 1955

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

TV • 1957

Charles Decker

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

TV • 1963

The Big Valley

TV • 1965

Ben Watson

Bronco

TV • 1958

Bill Mack

Wendy and Me

TV • 1964

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

TV • 1956

Tarzan

TV • 1966

Josh Miller

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

TV • 1951

Navy Log

TV • 1955

Branded

TV • 1965

The Rifleman

TV • 1958

Bat Masterson

TV • 1958

Sheriff Conners

Laramie

TV • 1959

The Guns of Will Sonnett

TV • 1967

Racket Squad

TV • 1951

Riverboat

TV • 1959

Col. Tryker

The Texan

TV • 1958

Wichita Town

TV • 1959

Buffalo Bill Jr.

TV • 1955

The Manhunter

TV • 1974

Cavalcade of America

TV • 1952

Ray Marshall

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

Maurie - Gunman

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

TV • 1955

City Detective

TV • 1953

State Trooper

TV • 1956

The Adventures of Kit Carson

TV • 1951

26 Men

TV • 1957

Official Detective

TV • 1957

Hopalong Cassidy

TV • 1952

Captain Midnight

TV • 1954

Letter to Loretta

TV • 1953

Bailey

Mr. & Mrs. North

TV • 1952

The Green Hornet

TV • 1966

Brannigan

Maverick

TV • 1957

Biff Baker U.S.A.

TV • 1952

George Carlton

Hey, Jeannie!

TV • 1956

Tierney

Matt Helm

TV • 1975

Dep. Sheriff Gibson

Tombstone Territory

TV • 1957

Henry Rucker

Gunsmoke

TV • 1955

TV • 1952

Lt. Stanton

Four Star Playhouse

TV • 1952

Bud

Playhouse 90

TV • 1956

Breed

The Invaders

TV • 1967

Alien

Tales of Wells Fargo

TV • 1957

Henry Wilson

The Time Tunnel

TV • 1966

Mr. Johnson

Death Valley Days

TV • 1952

Henry Schmidtlein

Screen Director's Playhouse

TV • 1955

Truck Driver

The Wild Wild West

TV • 1965

Marshall

Stagecoach West

TV • 1960

North

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

Crawford - Miner

Public Defender

TV • 1954

Deputy Sheriff Malden

Waterfront

TV • 1954

Jim Herrick

Cimarron Strip

TV • 1967

Youngston

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Wade

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

TV • 1952

Honor Guard Captain

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

TV • 1952

Harry

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

TV • 1952

Atkins

77 Sunset Strip

TV • 1958

Duke

Cheyenne

TV • 1955

Walt Taylor

The Investigators

TV • 1961

John Maitland