Harry Burns

AKA: Jacob Elman
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1882-07-20

Warsaw, Poland

Biography

Crew Roles

Just in Time
Director
A Small Town Hero
Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {27}

Big 'Sem' Semenoff

1941-09-26 5.1

Lady Scarface

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member ...
Genre :Crime

Jose Sanchez

1942-04-23 5.9

What's the Matador?

The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her hous ...
Genre :Comedy

1918-12-15 6

Take a Chance

It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Tony Mills [Ch. 4, 12-13]

1943-01-16 5

G-men vs. the Black Dragon

Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot. ...
Genre :Action

Train Engineer (uncredited)

1941-05-30 6.508

Blood and Sand

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Strangler Colombo

1939-11-04 5.5

Kid Nightingale

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Escarel

1936-07-31 6

Women Are Trouble

A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mike - the Nightclub Doorman (uncredited)

1939-05-19 6.4

It's a Wonderful World

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime, Mystery

Precinct Official Letting Henchmen In

1940-11-30 5.75

You, the People

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tact ...
Genre :Crime

Italian

1940-01-11 4

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Capt. Lugo (uncredited)

1940-02-03 5.875

Calling Philo Vance

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

1919-07-07 0

Monkey Stuff

Two-reel comedy, directed by William S. Campbell staring noted orangutan actor, Joe Martin ...
Genre :Comedy

Nicky Zackorackus

1937-02-15 0

Two Wise Maids

The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy theories of "progressive" education, Prudence and Ag ...
Genre :Drama

The Crow

1940-10-22 6.3

North West Mounted Police

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into th ...
Genre :Action, Western, Adventure, Romance

1919-03-23 0

The Dutiful Dub

Harold is a henpecked husband who suddenly makes a change of front and asserts himself, much to his wife's astonishment. ...
Genre :Comedy

Gardener

1930-09-05 4.3

Love in the Rough

When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

1918-05-25 5.5

Fireman Save My Child

In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground. ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1918-03-10 5

Look Pleasant, Please

A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues. ...
Genre :Comedy

Museum Guard

1937-05-29 6

Carnival in Paris

In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Joe the Café Owner

1943-04-09 5.5

King of the Cowboys

Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses. ...
Genre :Action, Western

Curio Dealer

1936-09-03 4.5

Lady Be Careful

Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorou ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Native (uncredited)

1944-12-01 5.433

Lost in a Harem

Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle. ...
Genre :Comedy

Torrelli

1942-05-21 5.4

Tortilla Flat

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Pasquale Romenetti

1936-07-18 4

Hot Money

Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished. ...
Genre :Comedy

Workman #1

1936-09-25 0

Old Hutch

Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash. ...
Genre :

1918-03-17 2

Here Come the Girls

Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfull ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-06-28 0

Fighter's Paradise

Genre :Drama, Romance