--- name: "Harry Myers" canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-myers" fi1m_id: "harry-myers" imdb_id: "nm0616729" tmdb_id: 13854 wikidata_id: "Q743865" roles: ["Actor"] born: "4 September 1882" died: "25 December 1938" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T23:12:22.567706+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 Myers ## Identity Harry Myers - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-myers - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** harry-myers - **IMDb ID:** nm0616729 - **TMDB ID:** 13854 - **Wikidata ID:** Q743865 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_C._Myers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q743865, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13854 Actor. Born 4 September 1882 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Died 25 December 1938. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 4 September 1882, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - **Died:** 25 December 1938 - **Also known as:** Henry Myers - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_C._Myers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q743865, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13854 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*City Lights*](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md) (89) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Harry C. Myers, sometimes credited as Henry Myers, was an American actor and film director. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and began his career as a theatre actor before entering films in 1909 with Lubin Studios in Philadelphia. By 1914 he was directing his own comedy shorts, frequently starring with his wife, the actress Rosemary Theby. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1908 and 1938, and directed over 50 shorts between 1913 and 1917. After 1920 he took starring roles in feature films. Myers is known for his performance as the eccentric millionaire in Charlie Chaplin's *City Lights* (1931). Other credits include *The Marriage Circle* (1924) and *A Slight Case of Murder* (1938). He died in Hollywood, California, in 1938. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *City Lights* (1931), Fi1m 89, as An Eccentric Millionaire — [page](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md) ## Complete filmography (121) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Zenobia* (1939), as Party Guest Who Didn't Mind - *The Oklahoma Kid* (1939), as Banker (uncredited) - *Kentucky* (1938), as Dancer - *Racket Busters* (1938), as Court Stenographer (uncredited) - *Dangerous to Know* (1938), as Party Guest (uncredited) - *A Slight Case of Murder* (1938), as Partygoer (uncredited) - *Dangerously Yours* (1937), as Costume Ball Participant - *Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938* (1937), as Husband - *Parnell* (1937), as Man in Courtroom - *Rich Relations* (1937), Actor - *Mixed Magic* (1936), Actor - *Lady Be Careful* (1936), as Passerby - *Hollywood Boulevard* (1936), as Harry Myers- Actor at Trocadero Bar - *One Rainy Afternoon* (1936), as Man in Theater (Uncredited) - *The Calling of Dan Matthews* (1935), as Club Owner (uncredited) - *Honeymoon Bridge* (1935), Actor - *Mississippi* (1935), as Stage Manager (uncredited) - *We Live Again* (1934), as Bailiff - *Allez Oop* (1934), as Circus spectator - *Love Birds* (1934), Additional Dialogue - *Managed Money* (1934), as Mr. George Rogers - *Pardon My Pups* (1934), as Mr. Rogers - *Rainbow Over Broadway* (1933), as Berwiskey - *What's to Do?* (1933), as Mr. George Rogers - *Merrily Yours* (1933), as Mr. Rogers - *Damaged Lives* (1933), as Nat Franklin - *Police Call* (1933), as Steward - *Mary Stevens, M.D.* (1933), as Nervous Patient (uncredited) - *The Important Witness* (1933), as Drunk - *The Savage Girl* (1932), as Amos P. Stitch - *A Strange Adventure* (1932), as Police Officer Ryan - *Easy to Get* (1931), as Cheating Husband - *Convicted* (1931), as Sturgeon - *The Great Pie Mystery* (1931), as A. Dabney Denton - *Meet the Wife* (1931), as Harvey Lennox - *City Lights* (1931), as An Eccentric Millionaire — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md) - *Wonder of Women* (1929), as Bruno Heim - *Montmartre Rose* (1929), Actor - *Dream of Love* (1928), as The Baron - *The Street of Illusion* (1928), as Lew Fielding - *The Dove* (1927), as Mike - *The Girl in the Pullman* (1927), as Jimmy Mason - *Getting Gertie's Garter* (1927), as Jimmy Felton - *The Bachelor's Baby* (1927), as Bill Taylor - *Exit Smiling* (1926), as Jesse Watson - *Get 'Em Young* (1926), as Orvid Joy - *Up in Mabel's Room* (1926), as Jimmie Larchmont - *The Nut-Cracker* (1926), as Arthur Briggs - *Monte Carlo* (1926), as Greves - *The Beautiful Cheat* (1926), as Jimmy Austin - *Grounds for Divorce* (1925), as Count Zappata - *Zander the Great* (1925), as Texas - *She Wolves* (1925), as Henri de Latour - *Reckless Romance* (1924), as Christopher Skinner - *Tarnish* (1924), as The Barber - *Listen Lester* (1924), as Listen Lester - *The Marriage Circle* (1924), as Detective - *Daddies* (1924), as Robert Audrey - *Stephen Steps Out* (1923), as Harry Stetson - *The Bad Man* (1923), as Red Giddings - *The Common Law* (1923), as Cardemon - *The Printer's Devil* (1923), as Sidney Fletcher - *Little Johnny Jones* (1923), as The Chauffeur - *The Brass Bottle* (1923), as Horace Ventimore - *Main Street* (1923), as Dave Dyer - *Brass* (1923), as Wilbur Lansing - *The Beautiful and Damned* (1922), Actor - *In the Days of Buffalo Bill* (1922), as Andrew Johnson - *Top o' the Morning* (1922), Actor - *The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe* (1922), as Robinson Crusoe - *Boy Crazy* (1922), as J. Smythe - *Turn to the Right* (1922), as Gilly - *Handle with Care* (1922), as Ned Picard - *Oh Mary Be Careful* (1921), as Bobby Burns - *The March Hare* (1921), as Tod Rollins - *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court* (1921), as The Yankee / Martin Cavendish - *Why Trust Your Husband?* (1921), as Elmer Day - *Peaceful Valley* (1920), as Ward Andrews - *45 Minutes from Broadway* (1920), as Daniel Cronin - *The Notorious Mrs. Sands* (1920), as Grey Sands - *The Masked Rider* (1919), as Harry Burrel - *Squatters Rights* (1919), as Harry Morgan - *The Trail's End* (1919), Actor - *Out of the Night* (1918), as Ralph Evanns - *Conquered Hearts* (1918), as Stonne - *His Strenuous Visit* (1916), Director - *The Chalk Line* (1916), as Mr. Love · Director - *A Model Husband* (1916), as Mr Cherub · Director - *The Man of Shame* (1915), as Lieutenant Du Fresne · Director - *The Earl of Pawtucket* (1915), Director - *Cocaine Traffic; Or, The Drug Terror* (1914), Director - *When the Earth Trembled* (1913), as Paul Girard Jr. - *The Price Demanded* (1913), as Roger Van Buren - *The Exile* (1913), Actor - *Until We Three Meet Again* (1913), as James Abbott - *Just Maine Folks* (1912), as Harry Lang - *His Mistake* (1912), Actor - *A Physician's Honor* (1912), Actor - *The Surgeon’s Heroism* (1912), as The Foreman - *The Matchmaker* (1911), as Harold Satterlee - the Son - *The Life Saver* (1911), as Young Calvin - *Through Jealous Eyes* (1911), as Harry - Albert's Friend - *Her Two Sons* (1911), Actor - *During Cherry Time* (1911), as Harry - *Always a Way* (1911), as Harry Acker - *Higgenses Versus Judsons* (1911), as John Judson - *The Indian's Sacrifice* (1911), as Elk - the Educated Indian - *Duke de Ribbon Counter* (1911), as Harold aka Duke of Chesville - *The State Line* (1911), as Harry Blake - *The Two Fathers* (1911), as The Adopted Father - *Opportunity and the Man* (1911), as Ramsey - former tramp - *The Wife’s Awakening* (1911), as The Wife's Former Suitor - *The Actress and the Singer* (1911), as The Artist - *Vanity and Its Cure* (1911), as John Hart - *Nan’s Diplomacy* (1911), as 'Cousin Harry' - *The Test* (1911), as Harry Thorne - the Rival - *A Show Girl’s Strategem* (1911), as John Lane - *Age Versus Youth* (1911), as Jack Norton - *His Bogus Uncle* (1911), as The Second Suitor - Albert White - *His Wedding Promise*, Actor - *The Man Who Died*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Harry Myers](https://film.one/media/person/102727/gallery-2d469b3a7d89.jpg) Harry Myers — Motion Picture Magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Harry_Myers_001.jpg/1280px-Harry_Myers_001.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Newspaper advertisement for the American film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) with Rosemary Theby, Pauline Starke, and Harry Myers, on page 8 (1922)](https://film.one/media/person/102727/gallery-82b900fe04bf.jpg) Newspaper advertisement for the American film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) with Rosemary Theby, Pauline Starke, and Harry Myers, on page 8 (1922) — Fox Film Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court_%281921%29_-_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Still from the American film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) with Rosemary Theby, Pauline Starke, and Harry Myers, on page 84 of the March 5,](https://film.one/media/person/102727/gallery-d94cf3d30183.jpg) Still from the American film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) with Rosemary Theby, Pauline Starke, and Harry Myers, on page 84 of the March 5, — Fox Film Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court_%281921%29_-_5.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![A scene from "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," which opened Sept. 17, 1905, at the Grand Opera House, Seattle. Includes Madge Carr Cook and Harry Myers. Subjec](https://film.one/media/person/102727/gallery-337e2501eb4f.jpg) A scene from "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," which opened Sept. 17, 1905, at the Grand Opera House, Seattle. Includes Madge Carr Cook and Harry Myers. Subjec — Joseph Byron, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/A_scene_from_%22Mrs_Wiggs_of_the_Cabbage_Patch%22_%28SAYRE_12436%29.jpg/1280px-A_scene_from_%22Mrs_Wiggs_of_the_Cabbage_Patch%22_%28SAYRE_12436%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Harry Myers](https://film.one/media/person/102727/gallery-c60eea90442a.jpg) Harry Myers — Image via TMDB - ![Poster for the 1921 film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.](https://film.one/media/person/102727/gallery-79c2302edcea.jpg) Poster for the 1921 film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. — Fox Film Corp., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Connecticut_Yankee_poster.jpg/1280px-Connecticut_Yankee_poster.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Harry C. Myers, film actor Subjects: actors](https://film.one/media/person/102727/gallery-33c99c6b69ef.jpg) Harry C. Myers, film actor Subjects: actors — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Harry_C._Myers%2C_film_actor_%28SAYRE_7534%29.jpg/1280px-Harry_C._Myers%2C_film_actor_%28SAYRE_7534%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/harry-myers