Harry Hilliard (actor)

Harry Hilliard
File:A scene from "Merely Mary Ann" Includes actress Vivian Martin (SAYRE 13739).jpg Niles Welch, Harry Hilliard, at piano, with Vivian Martin in Merely Mary Ann
Born	October 24, 1886 Cincinnati, Ohio
Died	April 21, 1966 St. Petersburg, Florida(Pinellas County)
Occupation	actor
Years active	1916-1944

Harry S. Hilliard (1886-1966) was an American silent film actor best remembered as one of Theda Bara's leading men, if not her most prominent one. He started at Fox Films and continued on at Metro Pictures. Other leading ladies were June Caprice, May Allison, Carmel Myers and Gladys Brockwell. His career was essentially over by the end of the silent era but he had an uncredited role in a 1944 film. He is not the son of nor is he related to stage actor Robert C. Hilliard despite the resemblance.

Hilliard could best be described as a cross between Francis X. Bushman and Harold Lockwood.

Hilliard died in April 1966 after complications from a fall.

Selected filmography

• Merely Mary Ann (1916)
• The Strength of the Weak (1916)
• Gold and the Woman (1916)
• The Little Fraud (1916)*short
• A Modern Thelma (1916)
• Caprice of the Mountains (1916)
• Little Miss Happiness (1916)
• The Ragged Princess (1916)
• Romeo and Juliet (1916)
• The New York Peacock (1917)
• Her Greatest Love (1917)
• Heart and Soul (1917)
• Patsy (1917)
• Every Girl's Dream (1917)
• A Successful Adventure (1918)
• Set Free (1918)
• The Little White Savage (1919)
• The Little Rowdy (1919)
• Destiny (1919)
• The Sneak (1919)
• Cheating Herself (1919)

External links

• Harry Hilliard at the Internet Movie Database
• Harry Hilliard at AllMovie
• Harry Hilliard at Find a Grave