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