---
name: "Harry Crocker"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-crocker"
fi1m_id: "harry-crocker"
imdb_id: "nm0188357"
tmdb_id: 147963
wikidata_id: "Q5668145"
roles: ["Unit publicist"]
born: "1 July 1893"
died: "23 May 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:12:29.078249+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Harry Crocker

## Identity

Harry Crocker

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-crocker
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-crocker
- **IMDb ID:** nm0188357
- **TMDB ID:** 147963
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5668145
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Crocker, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5668145, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188357/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147963

Unit publicist. Born 1 July 1893 in San Francisco, California, USA. Died 23 May 1958.

## Details

- **Work:** Unit publicist
- **Born:** 1 July 1893, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Died:** 23 May 1958
- **Active:** 1925–1947
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 1 writing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 80 (1), 1930s 89 (1), 1940s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Crocker, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5668145, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188357/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147963

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*City Lights*](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md) (89)

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## Biography

Harry Crocker was an American actor, assistant director and uncredited screenwriter. Born in San Francisco, he worked as a journalist for the Los Angeles Examiner while appearing in films from the mid-1920s onwards.

He is known for playing Rex, a tightrope walker, in Charlie Chaplin's *The Circus* (1928), in which he also served as assistant director. Crocker contributed uncredited screenplay work, as well as assistant director and unit publicist duties, on Chaplin's *City Lights* (1931). He later appeared in small roles in films including *The Big Parade* (1925), *Gentleman Jim* (1942) and *Limelight* (1952).

Crocker was a member of the prominent Crocker family and maintained a long association with Chaplin, despite a temporary rift during the production of *City Lights*. He died in Beverly Hills in 1958.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, oscars.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Big Parade* (1925), Fi1m 80, as Doughboy — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *City Lights* (1931), Fi1m 89, Unit Publicist, Screenplay, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947), Fi1m 82, Unit Publicist — [page](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Limelight* (1952), as Music Hall Patron (uncredited) · Unit Publicist
- *The Great Jewel Robber* (1950), as Commentator (uncredited)
- *Dancing in the Dark* (1949), as Master of Ceremonies
- *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947), Unit Publicist — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md)
- *The Great John L.* (1945), as Arthur Brisbane
- *A Song for Miss Julie* (1945), as John Firbank
- *A Night for Crime* (1943), as Columnist
- *Gentleman Jim* (1942), as Charles Crocker (uncredited)
- *Jack of All Trades* (1936), Actor
- *City Lights* (1931), Screenplay, Assistant Director, Unit Publicist — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md)
- *A Warm Corner* (1930), as Joseph
- *The Circus* (1928), as Rex, a Tight Rope Walker · Assistant Director, Unit Publicist
- *South Sea Love* (1927), as Bob Bernard
- *Becky* (1927), as John Carroll Estabrook
- *Sally in Our Alley* (1927), as Chester Drake
- *Tillie the Toiler* (1927), as Pennington Fish
- *The Big Parade* (1925), as Doughboy — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md)

## Gallery

- ![Silent film actor Harry Crocker in "Tillie the Toiler." Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors (1927)](https://film.one/media/person/102737/gallery-5f9a63ef077f.jpg) Silent film actor Harry Crocker in "Tillie the Toiler." Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors (1927) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Silent_film_actor_Harry_Crocker_in_%22Tillie_the_Toiler%22_%28SAYRE_22506%29.jpg/1280px-Silent_film_actor_Harry_Crocker_in_%22Tillie_the_Toiler%22_%28SAYRE_22506%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Harry Crocker](https://film.one/media/person/102737/gallery-159ee972cda7.jpg) Harry Crocker — Image via TMDB

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