---
name: "Otis Harlan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/otis-harlan"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 December 1865"
died: "21 January 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 86
updated: "2026-09-17T05:52:15.470048+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."
---

# Otis Harlan

Actor. Born 27 December 1865 in Zanesville, Ohio, USA. Died 21 January 1940.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 December 1865, Zanesville, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 21 January 1940
- **Active:** 1938–1942
- **Also known as:** Отис Хэрлан
- **Works often with:** [David Hand](https://film.one/person/david-hand.md), [Edward H. Plumb](https://film.one/person/edward-h-plumb.md), [Frank Churchill](https://film.one/person/frank-churchill.md), [Leigh Harline](https://film.one/person/leigh-harline.md), [Walt Disney](https://film.one/person/walt-disney.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 85 (1), 1940s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2698123, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0363227/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5465

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Bambi*](https://film.one/film/bambi.md) (86), [*Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*](https://film.one/film/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs.md) (85)

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## Biography

Otis Harlan was an American actor and comedian. Born in Zanesville, Ohio, he began his career on the stage in the late 1880s and appeared in vaudeville and Broadway productions, including works by Victor Herbert and Irving Berlin.

He played Cap'n Andy in the 1929 film version of *Show Boat* and Starveling in the 1935 adaptation of *A Midsummer Night's Dream*. Harlan provided the voice of Happy in the Disney animated feature *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937). He was the uncle of actor Kenneth Harlan and died in Martinsville, Indiana, in 1940.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Bambi* (1942), Fi1m 86, as Mr. Mole (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/bambi.md)
- *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1938), Fi1m 85, as Happy (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs.md)

## Also known for

- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1935), Starveling
- *3 Bad Men* (1926), Zach Little

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