Lillian Harmer
Actor
- Born
- September 7, 1883 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- May 15, 1946 (age 62)
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Lillian Harmer (September 8, 1883 – May 14, 1946) was an American character actress. Born in Philadelphia in 1883, Harmer had a brief film career during the 1930s. During her short career she would appear in over 60 films, mostly in uncredited roles. She would occasionally be cast in a featured supporting role, as in A Shriek in the Night (1933) and The Bowery (1933), in which she played the historical character of Carrie Nation.
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Other notable films in which she appeared include: Huckleberry Finn (1931), starring Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer; the 1933 version of Alice in Wonderland; William Wellman's 1937 version of A Star is Born, starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, and Adolphe Menjou; the Ronald Colman vehicle, The Prisoner of Zenda; and the 1938 Cecil B. DeMille historical drama, The Buccaneer, starring Fredric March. Her final film appearance would be in a small role in 1938's Gateway, starring Don Ameche and Arleen Whelan.
Harmer, who was married to Albert Frederick Kaeber, died on May 14, 1946, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Known for
A Star Is Born
April 20, 1937
Alice in Wonderland
December 18, 1933
If I Had a Million
November 18, 1932
No Man of Her Own
December 30, 1932
Hold Your Man
June 30, 1933
Millie
February 6, 1931
A Shriek in the Night
July 22, 1933
Riffraff
January 3, 1936
I Cover the Waterfront
May 19, 1933
Romance in Manhattan
December 21, 1934
Ann Vickers
September 26, 1933
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
May 28, 1932
Acting39
- 1938Gateway as Matron
- 1937Make a Wish as Clara
- 1937A Star Is Born as Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
- 1937The Great O'Malley as Miss Taylor
- 1936Rainbow on the River as Superintendent (uncredited)
- 1936Fugitive in the Sky as Martha Staeger
- 1936The Captain's Kid as Mrs. Pengast
- 1936Sworn Enemy as Mrs. Hirsch (uncredited)
- 1936Little Miss Nobody as Jessica Taggert
- 1936Don’t Get Personal