Harry Lauter
Born: 1914-06-19 in White Plains, New York, USA
Died: 1990-10-30
Known For: Acting
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
1979
1975
- Matt Helm as Dep. Sheriff Gibson
1974
1972
- Superbeast as Stewart Victor
1971
- Cannon
- Alias Smith and Jones as Sheriff
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes as General Winthrop
- The Todd Killings
- Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring as House Party Guest (uncredited)
1970
- Barquero as Steele
1969
- Room 222
- More Dead than Alive as Doctor
1968
- Adam-12 as Mike
- Land of the Giants as Policeman
1967
- Ironside
- Mannix
- The High Chaparral as Mobley
- The Invaders as Alien
- Cimarron Strip
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Return of the Gunfighter as Frank Marlowe
- Fort Utah as Britches
- Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion as Josh Miller
- The Mountains of the Moon as Whitehead
1966
- Tarzan as Josh Miller
- The Time Tunnel as Wilson
- The Green Hornet as Brannigan
- Batman as Mr. Merrick (uncredited)
- Ambush Bay as Cpl. Alvin Ross
- For Pete's Sake
1965
- Hogan's Heroes as Submarine Captain
- The Wild Wild West as Marshall
- The Big Valley as Ben Watson
- The F.B.I. as Judd Conners
- Branded
- Laredo as Spence Gillis
- The Satan Bug as Fake SDI Agent
- Convict Stage as Ben Lattimore
- Fort Courageous as Joe
1964
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- Burke's Law as Dr. Kalmus
1962
- The Virginian as Cat McGraw
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Motorcycle Officer
- Going My Way
- Lonely are the Brave as Deputy in Canyon (uncredited)
- The Wild Westerners as Jud Gotch
1961
- The Investigators as John Maitland
- Posse from Hell as Russell
- Fury River
- Buffalo Gun as Vin
1960
- Stagecoach West as North
1959
- Bonanza as Barrett
- Rawhide as Billy Grant
- Laramie
- Riverboat as Col. Tryker
- Wichita Town
- The Gunfight at Dodge City as City Marshal Ed Masterson
- A Date with Death as Lt. George Caddell
- The Louisiana Hussy as Clay Lanier
1958
- The Rifleman
- Peter Gunn
- Lawman as Compton Schaeffer
- Bat Masterson as Sheriff Conners
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Sea Hunt
- The Texan
- Bronco as Bill Mack
- Yancy Derringer as Francis Jordan
- The Last Hurrah as Votes Tallyman (uncredited)
- Girl on the Run as Drunk
- Tarzan's Fight for Life as Dr. Ken Warwick
- Cry Baby Killer as Police Lt. Porter
- The Toughest Gun in Tombstone as Joe Barger
- Missile Monsters as Drake
- The Case Against Brooklyn
1957
- Perry Mason as Chris Hearn
- Maverick
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Crawford - Miner
- Tales of Wells Fargo as Henry Wilson
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Charles Decker
- Tombstone Territory as Sgt. Shelton
- Trackdown
- Official Detective
- 26 Men
- Hellcats of the Navy as Lt. (j.g.) Wes Barton
- Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend as Briggs (uncredited)
- Raiders of Old California as Scott Johnson
- Death in Small Doses as Steve Hummel / Mr. Brown
- The Badge of Marshal Brennan as Dr. Hale
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Maurie
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Playhouse 90 as Breed
- State Trooper
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Miami Exposé as Det. Tim Grogan
- Hey, Jeannie! as Tierney
- Earth vs. the Flying Saucers as Cutting - Generator Technician (uncredited)
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit as Army Corporal on Leave (uncredited)
- The Werewolf as Deputy Ben Clovey
- The Women of Pitcairn Island as Ben Fish
- Blonde Bait as State Department Security Chief
1955
- Cheyenne
- Gunsmoke as Clay
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- The Millionaire as Andrew Stevens
- Navy Log
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Truck Driver
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
- Buffalo Bill Jr.
- It Came from Beneath the Sea as Deputy Bill Nash
- Apache Ambush
- At Gunpoint as Federal Marshal
- Outlaw Treasure as Jesse James
- Dig That Uranium as Haskell, the boss
- The Crooked Web as Sgt. Mike Jancoweizc
- Creature with the Atom Brain as Reporter #1
- King of the Carnival as Bert King
- Lord of the Jungle as Pilot
- Timber Country Trouble as Webb, the lumberjack
1954
- Public Defender as Deputy Sheriff Malden
- Captain Midnight
- Waterfront as Jim Herrick
- Yankee Pasha as Dick Bailey
- Dragonfly Squadron as Capt. Vedders
- Dragnet as Officer Greeley
- Trader Tom of the China Seas as Tom Rogers
- The Forty-Niners as Gambler
- Crash of Moons as Atlasan
- Return to Treasure Island as Parker
- Silver Needle in the Sky as Atlasan
- Manhunt in Space as Atlasan
- The Gypsy Moon as Atlasan
- This My Son as Don Caldwell
1953
- City Detective
- Letter to Loretta as Bailey
- The Big Heat as Hank O'Connell (uncredited)
- Fighting Lawman as Outlaw Al Clark - aka Al Deacons
- Crime Wave as Roadblock Officer (uncredited)
- Prince of Pirates as Jan
- Fighter Attack as Lt. Duncan
- Topeka as Mack Wilson
- Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders as Constable Clark
- The Marshal's Daughter as Russ Mason
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Bud
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as Honor Guard Captain
- Cavalcade of America as Ray Marshall
- Death Valley Days as Henry Schmidtlein
- Mr. & Mrs. North as Barry Weston
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Biff Baker U.S.A. as George Carlton
- Rancho Notorious as Deputy at Gunsight (uncredited)
- The Red Ball Express as Lt. Michaelson -- Sentry (uncredited)
- Talk About a Stranger as Clarence, Bookkeeper
- This Woman Is Dangerous as Trooper (Uncredited)
- Yukon Gold as Ace Morgan
- Apache Country as Dave Kilrain
- The Steel Fist as Franz
- Sea Tiger as Randall, alias Jon Edmum
1951
- The Adventures of Kit Carson
- The Roy Rogers Show as Ralph Colton
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Racket Squad
- The Day the Earth Stood Still as Lieutenant in Charge of Landing Site
- Flying Leathernecks
- The Racket as Officer Mosley (uncredited)
- Roadblock as Saunders (uncredited)
- Thunder in God's Country as Marshal Tim Gallery
- Come Fill the Cup as Cameron - Ives' Pilot (uncredited)
- Hills of Utah as Henchman Evan Fox
- According to Mrs. Hoyle as Gordon Warren
- Valley of Fire as Tod Rawlings
- Whirlwind as Wade Trimble
- Silver City Bonanza as Pete Horne
- The Kid from Amarillo as Tom Mallory
1950
- The Gene Autry Show
- When Willie Comes Marching Home as Aide (uncredited)
- 711 Ocean Drive as Flirty Man at Bar (uncredited)
- No Way Out as Orderly (uncredited)
- The Flying Missile as Army Base Information Desk Clerk
- Experiment Alcatraz as Richard 'Dick' McKenna
- Blue Grass of Kentucky as Dick Wentworth
- The Great Jewel Robber as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Showdown as Cowhand (uncredited)
- Bunco Squad as James Worth (uncredited)
- Flying Disc Man from Mars as Drake
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Fred Vance
- The Life of Riley
- White Heat as Man with Microphone in Car (uncredited)
- Twelve O'Clock High as Radio officer
- I Was a Male War Bride as Naval Lt. Perkins (uncredited)
- Tucson as George Reeves Jr.
- Without Honor as Ambulance Attendant
- Prince of the Plains as Tom Owens
- Frontier Investigator as Rocky's Brother
- The Great Dan Patch as Bud Ransome
- Bandit King of Texas as Trem Turner
- Zamba as Jim
- Alimony as Doctor
- The Price of Freedom as Man in restaurant (uncredited)
1948
- A Foreign Affair as Corporal (uncredited)
- Moonrise
- The Gay Intruders as Male Secretary
- Incident as Bill Manning
- Jungle Patrol as Lt. Derby
1946
- The Magnificent Rogue as Boy Model