Harry T. Morey

Harry T. Morey
1920 promotional photograph
Born	(1873-09-21)21 September 1873 Charlotte, Michigan, U.S.
Died	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Harry Temple Morey (21 August 1873 – January 24, 1936) was an American stage and motion picture actor who appeared in nearly two hundred films during his career.

Biography

Born in Charlotte, Michigan, Morey began acting career on the stage. In 1909, Morey joined the Vitagraph Film Company, making him a member the original Vitagraph stock company of actors. He had his first substantial film role in 1910, opposite actors Maurice Costello and Earle Williams in the Van Dyke Brooke-directed dramatic short Capital vs. Labor. He would spend the early 1910s appearing opposite such popular actors of the era as John Bunny, Flora Finch, Julia Swayne Gordon, Florence Turner, Edith Storey and William Shea.

Morey would make his final film appearance in the 1934 Ralph Staub-directed comedy short Very Close Veins opposite actors Ben Blue and Shemp Howard.

Morey died in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1936 at the age of 62 of a lung abscess.

Selected filmography

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Fighting Destiny (1919)

• Ben Hur (1907)
• A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
• All for a Girl (1912)
• Our Wives (1913)
• The Forgotten Latchkey (1913)
• My Official Wife (1914)
• A Million Bid (1914)
• Wildness of Youth (1922)
• Beyond the Rainbow (1923)
• Where the Pavement Ends (1923)
• The Green Goddess (1923)
• Heart of a Siren (1925)
• Aloma of the South Seas (1926)
• The Fifty-Fifty Girl (1928)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929)

External links

• Harry T. Morey at the Internet Movie Database