John Harmon (actor)
John Harmon was an American character actor.
Harmon was a very prolific bit actor. His career spanned over six decades and almost 300 movie and television roles in a wide variety of genres. Many of his earlier appearances are uncredited. His first major screen credit was in I Was Framed. His movie career highlights were roles in Gallant Bess, The Monster of Piedras Blancas, Live Fast, Die Young and The Street is my Beat. The movie in which he made his last screen appearance, The Naked Monster, was released in 2005, twenty years after his death. Harmon's most notable TV roles were in Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, , and The Rifleman.
In his later years, Harmon became a used books dealer in Los Angeles. He collected first editions of Mark Twain. He suffered a stroke about a year before he died from heart failure.Selected filmography
- The Missing Guest
- King of the Underworld as Slats
- I Was Framed
- Find the Blackmailer
- Monsieur Verdoux as Joe Darwin
- Tangier Incident
- Jack Slade
- Funny Girl as Company Manager
- Malibu High