George Harris
Also Known As: George Albert Harris
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 06, 1892
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 16, 1954
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The Shamrock Handicap
Overview: Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate. He is forced to sell off part of his racing stable to a wealthy American, who takes along Gaffney's jockey Neil Ross as part of the bargain. When Neil is crippled in a racing accident, Sir Miles and his daughter Sheila sail to America with their prize horse "Dark Rosaleen" in tow. The first film having an Irish motif that John Ford directed, a six reel delight set in Eire's County Kildare and in the United States, with a steeplechase background, mixing charged elements of comedy and sentimental drama.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Overview: An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-14
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Sweepstakes
Overview: A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-10
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Lights of Old Broadway
Overview: Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-31
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Happy Days Are Here Again
Overview: A pair of sisters have ambitions to take to the stage when they realize that their parent's act is finished.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-10
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The Floating College
Overview: College Life - Love - and the big things of life under the light-heartedness of youth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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The Johnstown Flood
Overview: A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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Pawnshop Politics
Overview: After several amusing gags, including one in which a tough character seems to be holding up the pawnshop but is only selling his gun, Abie sees Kitty Dolan, whose father is running for alderman, and it is love at first sight. A rival candidate makes trouble and plants a bomb in the shop but Abie turns the tables on him. Election day finds Dolan's followers too lazy to vote. Abie stirs them up by offering to lick them and then running to the polling place with the mob at his heels. Dolan wins and so does Abie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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