---
name: "Harry Ditson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-ditson"
fi1m_id: "harry-ditson"
imdb_id: "nm0228533"
tmdb_id: 55908
wikidata_id: "Q111459821"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T18:53:45.776778+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 Ditson

## Identity

Harry Ditson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-ditson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-ditson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0228533
- **TMDB ID:** 55908
- **Wikidata ID:** Q111459821
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111459821, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228533/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55908

Actor. Born in Bronx or Brooklyn, New York (uncertain).

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 1981–1984
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 77 (1), 1980s 76 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111459821, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228533/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55908

## Biography

Harry Ditson is an American actor and voice actor. He has appeared in over ninety film, television and stage productions since the early 1970s.

Born in either the Bronx or Brooklyn, he attended Upper Canada College in Toronto for a short time in the late 1950s. On stage he originated the role of Sheldrake in the 1983 world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's *Sunset Blvd.* in London.

His film credits include *Fiddler on the Roof* (1971), *A Bridge Too Far* (1977), *Top Secret!* (1984) as Du Quois, *Reds* (1981), *The Tailor of Panama* (2001), *De-Lovely* (2004), *Woman in Gold* (2015) and *Angel Has Fallen* (2019). He has also worked as a producer and provided voices for English dubs.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these

- *Top Secret!* (1984), Fi1m 76, as Du Quois — [page](https://film.one/film/top-secret.md)
- *Reds* (1981), Fi1m 77, as Maurice Becker — [page](https://film.one/film/reds.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Fiddler on the Roof* (1971), Fi1m 77, as Leibesh (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/fiddler-on-the-roof.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

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

- *A Keller Christmas Vacation* (2025), as Ron
- *Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy* (2024), as (voice)
- *Angel Has Fallen* (2019), as Neurologist
- *Forgotten Man* (2017), as Mike
- *Woman in Gold* (2015), as Franks
- *Mo* (2010), as Sen. George Mitchell
- *Archangel* (2005), series, as Frank Adelman
- *De-Lovely* (2004), as Dr. Moorhead
- *It's All About Love* (2003), as George
- *Whistle* (2002), as Curtis
- *Dickens* (2002), series, as American Journalist
- *The Tailor of Panama* (2001), as Elliot
- *Shooting Fish* (1997), as IRS Man
- *Cold Comfort Farm* (1995), as Earl P. Neck
- *Harry Enfield and Chums* (1994), series, as Officer
- *Don't Leave Me This Way* (1993), as Tom Neil
- *Hostages* (1992), as David Say
- *Back in the USSR* (1992), as Whittier
- *Hancock* (1991), as American TV Executive
- *Perfectly Normal* (1991), as Man in Stand · Associate Producer
- *The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story* (1990), as Martin Shugrue
- *Jeeves and Wooster* (1990), series, as Slingsby
- *Split Ends* (1989), series, as Clint
- *Monkeys* (1989), as Benedict J. Tisa
- *Murrow* (1986), as Don Hollenbeck
- *Revolution* (1985), as Israel Davis
- *Water* (1985), as Spenco Executive
- *Top Secret!* (1984), as Du Quois — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/top-secret.md)
- *Under the Hammer* (1984), as Teichman
- *The Sender* (1982), as Dr Hirsch
- *Incubus* (1982), as Lt. Drivas
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, as Smiley Coy
- *Reds* (1981), as Maurice Becker — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/reds.md)
- *Ragtime* (1981), as County Clerk
- *Improper Channels* (1981), as Harold Clevish
- *Birth of the Beatles* (1979), as Reporter
- *A Bridge Too Far* (1977), as US Private
- *Nasty Habits* (1977), as Ambrose
- *Fiddler on the Roof* (1971), as Leibesh (uncredited) — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/fiddler-on-the-roof.md)

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