---
name: "Harvey Braban"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harvey-braban"
fi1m_id: "harvey-braban"
imdb_id: "nm0102607"
tmdb_id: 47683
wikidata_id: "Q5677058"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "19 May 1883"
died: "1 January 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T00:23:18.372048+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."
---

# Harvey Braban

## Identity

Harvey Braban

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harvey-braban
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harvey-braban
- **IMDb ID:** nm0102607
- **TMDB ID:** 47683
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5677058
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Braban, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5677058, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102607/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47683

Actor. Born 19 May 1883 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK. Died 1 January 1943.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 19 May 1883, Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- **Died:** 1 January 1943
- **Also known as:** George William Chapman
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Braban, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5677058, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102607/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47683

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Blackmail*](https://film.one/film/blackmail.md) (74)

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## Biography

Harvey Braban, born George William Chapman, was a British stage and film actor. He was born on 19 May 1883 in Brighton, Sussex, and performed regularly in West End plays from the early 1900s, with occasional Broadway appearances.

From 1920 he appeared in British silent films produced by Stoll Pictures and the Ideal Film Company, often in crime and melodrama roles. He played the Chief Inspector in Alfred Hitchcock's *Blackmail* (1929) and was frequently cast as policemen or authority figures thereafter. One of his final screen roles was as Lord Salisbury in *Sixty Glorious Years* (1938). He died on 6 August 1943.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Blackmail* (1929), Fi1m 74, as The Chief Inspector — [page](https://film.one/film/blackmail.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *Sixty Glorious Years* (1938), as Lord Salisbury
- *Thank Evans* (1938), as Inspector Pine
- *The Viper* (1938), as Jagger
- *Darby and Joan* (1937), as Coroner
- *Bulldog Jack* (1935), as Sgt. Robinson
- *The Path of Glory* (1934), as Colonel Conti
- *Brother Alfred* (1932), as Denis
- *The Callbox Mystery* (1932), as Inspector Brown
- *The Girl in the Night* (1931), as Inspector
- *Alibi* (1931), as Insp. Davis
- *Should a Doctor Tell?* (1930), as Prosecution
- *Blackmail* (1929), as The Chief Inspector — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/blackmail.md)
- *The Great Well* (1924), as Eric
- *The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots* (1924), as Ruthven
- *The Reef of Stars* (1923), as Simon Macquart
- *The Romany* (1923), as Andrew MacDonald
- *Man and His Kingdom* (1922), as Sagasta
- *Diana of the Crossways* (1922), as Rodworth
- *Shirley* (1922), as Nunnally
- *Bentley's Conscience* (1922), as Richard Glym
- *Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills* (1921), as Gwylim Rhys
- *The Prey of the Dragon* (1921), as Robin Wentworth
- *A Gentleman of France* (1921), as Baron de Rosnay
- *The Prince and the Beggarmaid* (1921), as King Hildred
- *The Devil's Foot* (1921), as Mortimer Tregennis
- *The Yellow Claw* (1921), as Gaston Max

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