George Harris
Acting
Biography
No biography available for George Harris.
Born: October 6, 1892
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
The Johnstown Flood
A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
Lights of Old Broadway
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.
The Shamrock Handicap
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.
Sweepstakes
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
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.
The Floating College
College Life - Love - and the big things of life under the light-heartedness of youth.
Pawnshop Politics
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.
Filmography
as Jewish Jockey
as Snug (as Georgie Harris)
as Jockey Ginsburg
as Abie
as Young Sidney Mandel
as Joe Weber
as Little Dancer (uncredited)