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
- Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring as House Party Guest (uncredited)
- The Todd Killings
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
- Mannix
- Ironside
- The Invaders as Alien
- The High Chaparral as Mobley
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Cimarron Strip
- 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
- The Time Tunnel as Wilson
- Tarzan as Josh Miller
- 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 Big Valley as Ben Watson
- The Wild Wild West as Marshall
- The F.B.I. as Judd Conners
- Laredo as Spence Gillis
- Branded
- The Satan Bug as Fake SDI Agent
- Fort Courageous as Joe
- Convict Stage as Ben Lattimore
1964
1963
- Burke's Law as Dr. Kalmus
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
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
- Lawman as Compton Schaeffer
- Bat Masterson as Sheriff Conners
- Peter Gunn
- Sea Hunt
- 77 Sunset Strip
- The Texan
- Bronco as Bill Mack
- Yancy Derringer as Francis Jordan
- The Last Hurrah as Votes Tallyman (uncredited)
- Cry Baby Killer as Police Lt. Porter
- The Case Against Brooklyn
- Tarzan's Fight for Life as Dr. Ken Warwick
- The Toughest Gun in Tombstone as Joe Barger
- Missile Monsters as Drake
- Girl on the Run as Drunk
1957
- Perry Mason as Chris Hearn
- Maverick
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Crawford - Miner
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Charles Decker
- Trackdown
- Tombstone Territory as Sgt. Shelton
- Tales of Wells Fargo as Henry Wilson
- 26 Men
- Official Detective
- 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 - Gunman
- Playhouse 90 as Breed
- State Trooper
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Hey, Jeannie! as Tierney
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Earth vs. the Flying Saucers as Cutting - Generator Technician (uncredited)
- The Women of Pitcairn Island as Ben Fish
- The Werewolf as Deputy Ben Clovey
- Miami Exposé as Det. Tim Grogan
- Blonde Bait as State Department Security Chief
1955
- Cheyenne
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Gunsmoke as Clay
- Navy Log
- The Millionaire as Andrew Stevens
- 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
- At Gunpoint as Federal Marshal
- Creature with the Atom Brain as Reporter #1
- Apache Ambush
- Dig That Uranium as Haskell, the boss
- Outlaw Treasure as Jesse James
- The Crooked Web as Sgt. Mike Jancoweizc
- Timber Country Trouble as Webb, the lumberjack
- Lord of the Jungle as Pilot
- King of the Carnival as Bert King
1954
- Public Defender as Deputy Sheriff Malden
- Captain Midnight
- Waterfront as Jim Herrick
- Dragnet as Officer Greeley
- Yankee Pasha as Dick Bailey
- Dragonfly Squadron as Capt. Vedders
- Crash of Moons as Atlasan
- Trader Tom of the China Seas as Tom Rogers
- Return to Treasure Island as Parker
- Manhunt in Space as Atlasan
- The Gypsy Moon as Atlasan
- Silver Needle in the Sky as Atlasan
- The Forty-Niners as Gambler
- This My Son as Don Caldwell
1953
- City Detective
- Letter to Loretta as Bailey
- The Big Heat as Hank O'Connell (uncredited)
- Crime Wave as Roadblock Officer (uncredited)
- Prince of Pirates as Jan
- Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders as Constable Clark
- Fighter Attack as Lt. Duncan
- Topeka as Mack Wilson
- Fighting Lawman as Outlaw Al Clark - aka Al Deacons
- 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
- Mr. & Mrs. North
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Biff Baker U.S.A. as George Carlton
- Death Valley Days as Henry Schmidtlein
- The Red Ball Express as Lt. Michaelson -- Sentry (uncredited)
- Rancho Notorious as Deputy at Gunsight (uncredited)
- This Woman Is Dangerous as Trooper (Uncredited)
- Apache Country as Dave Kilrain
- Yukon Gold as Ace Morgan
- Sea Tiger as Randall, alias Jon Edmum
- Talk About a Stranger as Clarence, Bookkeeper
- The Steel Fist as Franz
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Racket Squad
- The Adventures of Kit Carson
- The Day the Earth Stood Still as Lieutenant in Charge of Landing Site
- The Racket as Officer Mosley (uncredited)
- Flying Leathernecks
- Roadblock as Saunders (uncredited)
- Come Fill the Cup as Cameron - Ives' Pilot (uncredited)
- According to Mrs. Hoyle as Gordon Warren
- Thunder in God's Country as Marshal Tim Gallery
- Whirlwind as Wade Trimble
- The Kid from Amarillo as Tom Mallory
- Silver City Bonanza as Pete Horne
- Hills of Utah as Henchman Evan Fox
- Valley of Fire as Tod Rawlings
1950
- The Gene Autry Show
- No Way Out as Orderly (uncredited)
- When Willie Comes Marching Home as Aide (uncredited)
- The Flying Missile as Army Base Information Desk Clerk
- Bunco Squad as James Worth (uncredited)
- Experiment Alcatraz as Richard 'Dick' McKenna
- The Great Jewel Robber as Reporter (uncredited)
- 711 Ocean Drive as Flirty Man at Bar (uncredited)
- The Showdown as Cowhand (uncredited)
- Flying Disc Man from Mars as Drake
- Blue Grass of Kentucky as Dick Wentworth
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Fred Vance
- The Life of Riley
- Twelve O'Clock High as Radio officer
- White Heat as Man with Microphone in Car (uncredited)
- Prince of the Plains as Tom Owens
- I Was a Male War Bride as Naval Lt. Perkins (uncredited)
- Zamba as Jim
- Without Honor as Ambulance Attendant
- Tucson as George Reeves Jr.
- Alimony as Doctor
- Frontier Investigator as Rocky's Brother
- Bandit King of Texas as Trem Turner
- The Great Dan Patch as Bud Ransome
- The Price of Freedom as Man in restaurant (uncredited)
1948
- A Foreign Affair as Corporal (uncredited)
- Moonrise
- Jungle Patrol as Lt. Derby
- The Gay Intruders as Male Secretary
- Incident as Bill Manning
1946
- The Magnificent Rogue as Boy Model