Kenneth Harlan

Known For

Paradise Island Jim Thorne

(1930)

The Penalty Dr. Wilmot Allen

(1920)

Danger Island Captain Harry Drake

(1931)

The Ice Flood Jack De Quincey

(1926)

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Actor (201 credits)

1943 Nearly Eighteen
Sammy Klein

1943 The Underdog
Eddie Mohr

1943 Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Baggage Car Clerk [Ch. 2] (uncredited)

1943 Melody Parade
Jedson

1943 The Law Rides Again
John Hampton (as Ken Harlan)

1943 The Masked Marvel
Plant Guard [Ch. 1] / Police Car 7 Driver [Ch. 3]

1943 Girls in Chains
Police Lt. Jackson (uncredited)

1943 Daredevils of the West
Territorial Commissioner [Ch. 9, 10]

1943 A Stranger in Town
Banker in Barbershop (uncredited)

1943 Wild Horse Stampede
Borman (as Ken Harlan)

1943 You Can't Beat the Law
First Warden

1943 G-Men vs. The Black Dragon
Lab Guard / Officer Casey (uncredited)

1943 Silent Witness
Detective Tommy Jackson

1942 The Sundown Kid
Warden Penrose (uncredited)

1942 Hitler--Dead or Alive
Cutler

1942 You Can't Escape Forever
Fingerprint Division Lieutenant (uncredited)

1942 Foreign Agent
George McCall

1942 Phantom Killer
Police Lt. Jim Brady

1942 Bandit Ranger
Mark Kenyon

1942 Deep in the Heart of Texas
Captain Sneed

1942 Wings for the Eagle
Supervisor (uncredited)

1942 Juke Girl
Atlanta Produce Dealer (uncredited)

1942 Perils of the Royal Mounted
John Craig - Phony Commissioner [Chs.10-11]

1942 The Corpse Vanishes
Editor Keenan

1942 The Dawn Express
Agent Brown

1942 Klondike Fury
Flight Dispatcher

1942 Black Dragons
FBI Chief Colton

1942 Sleepytime Gal
Ticket Taker (uncredited)

1942 Don Winslow of the Navy
Capt. Holding [Ch. 1] (uncredited)

1941 Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc.
Police Lt. Cosgrove

1941 Fighting Bill Fargo
Sheriff Hackett

1941 Dangerous Lady
Det. Dunlap

1941 King of Dodge City
Banker Carruthers

1941 Wide Open Town
Tom Wilson

1941 Bullets for O'Hara
Jim

1941 Desperate Cargo
Capt. Hank MacFarland

1941 Paper Bullets
Jim Adams

1941 Million Dollar Baby
Reporter (uncredited)

1941 Sky Raiders
Blane [Ch. 2] (uncredited)

1941 Meet John Doe
Publicity Man (uncredited)

1941 Secret Evidence
Frank Billings

1941 The Case of the Black Parrot
Ship's Captain (uncredited)

1940 Pride of the Bowery
Police Captain Jim White

1940 Mysterious Doctor Satan
Capt. Lathrop [Chs. 1-2] (uncredited)

1940 A Little Bit of Heaven
Uncle Burt

1940 Junior G-Men
Dyer, Factory Gate Guard [Ch. 9] (uncredited)

1940 Prairie Schooners
Dalton Stull

1940 Doomed to Die
Ludlow

1940 Millionaires in Prison
Jerry Connell (uncredited)

1940 Murder in the Air
Commander Wayne

1940 Santa Fe Marshal
Blake - Henchman

1940 The Green Hornet
Charles Roberts [Ch. 7] (uncredited)

1939 The Night of Nights
Actor (uncredited)

1939 Heroes in Blue
Miller (uncredited)

1939 Dick Tracy's G-Men
Clive Anderson

1939 Range War
Charley Higgins

1939 Port of Hate
Bob Randall

1939 The Oregon Trail
General Terry [Ch. 1] (uncredited)

1939 Torchy Runs for Mayor
Stan - Star Advertising Manager (uncredited)

1939 Buck Rogers
Reporter at Wade's Lab (uncredited)

1939 The Flying Irishman
Man at New York Airport (uncredited)

1939 The Man Who Dared
Walton, a Henchman (uncredited)

1939 On Trial
Mr. John Trumbell - Juror #3

1938 The Duke of West Point
Varsity Football Coach

1938 The Little Adventuress
Tom Eagan

1938 The Headleys at Home
Smooth Adair

1938 Law of the Texan
Allen Spencer

1938 Sunset Trail
John Marsh

1938 Smashing the Rackets
Angry Businessman (uncredited)

1938 The Wages of Sin
Laundry Owner

1938 Pride of the West
Caldwell - Banker

1938 Held for Ransom
McBride

1938 Whirlwind Horseman
John Harper

1938 Under Western Stars
Richards

1938 Accidents Will Happen
Attorney Elmer Ross

1938 Merrily We Live
Mr. Remington (uncredited)

1938 Blondes at Work
Marvin Spencer

1938 Swing It, Sailor!
First Officer

1938 Saleslady
Bigelow

1937 Tim Tyler's Luck
Spencer, Trader [Chs. 2-3] (uncredited)

1937 Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Michael Corell, Richter Henchman

1937 The Mysterious Pilot
Carter Snowden

1937 Submarine D-1
Mr. Kelsey - Salvage Officer (uncredited)

1937 The Shadow Strikes
Captain Breen

1937 Something to Sing About
Transportation Manager (uncredited)

1937 Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Roger 'Angel' Carroll

1937 Wine, Women and Horses
Jed Bright

1937 Paradise Isle
Johnson

1937 Topper
Hotel Manager (uncredited)

1937 Blazing Sixes
Major Taylor

1937 Kid Galahad
Reporter (uncredited)

1937 San Quentin
Foreman (scenes deleted)

1937 Gunsmoke Ranch
Phineas T. Flagg

1937 Marked Woman
Eddie, a Sugar Daddy

1937 A Million to One
William Stevens

1937 Penrod and Sam
Real G-Man

1936 Trail Dust
Bowman

1936 Flying Hostess
1st Detective

1936 Hideaway Girl
Lead steward

1936 The Accusing Finger
Police Surgeon (uncredited)

1936 Easy to Take
Judge Allen (uncredited)

1936 They Met in a Taxi
Mr. Andrews

1936 The Case of the Velvet Claws
Peter Milnor

1936 China Clipper
Department of Commerce Inspector

1936 Public Enemy's Wife
G-Man

1936 San Francisco
'Chick'

1936 The Walking Dead
Stephen Martin

1936 Song of the Saddle
Marshal Bill Graves

1936 Movie Maniacs (Short)
Leading Man

1936 Man Hunt
Jim Davis

1935 Cappy Ricks Returns
Matt Peasley

1935 Wanderer of the Wasteland
Bob

1932 The Widow in Scarlet
Peter Lawton-Bond

1932 Foiled Again (Short)
The Hero

1932 The Shadow of the Eagle
Ward

1931 Danger Island
Captain Harry Drake

1931 Air Police
Lt. Jerry Doyle

1931 Finger Prints
Gary Gordon

1931 Women Men Marry
Fred Moulton

1930 Under Montana Skies
Clay Conning

1930 Paradise Island
Jim Thorne

1929 The Alibi (Short)

1929 Man, Woman and Wife
Bill / Jack Mason

1928 Code of the Air
Blair Thompson

1928 United States Smith
Cpl. Jim Sharkey

1928 Midnight Rose
Tim Regan

1927 Wilful Youth
Jack Compton

1927 Streets of Shanghai
Sergeant Lee

1927 Cheating Cheaters
Tom Palmer

1927 Stage Kisses
Donald Hampton

1927 Easy Pickings
Peter Van Horne

1926 Twinkletoes
Chuck Lightfoot

1926 The Ice Flood
Jack De Quincey

1926 The Virgin Wife
Dr. Everett Webb

1926 The Sap
Barry Weston

1926 The King of the Turf
John Doe Smith

1926 The Fighting Edge
Juan de Dios O'Rourke

1925 The Golden Strain
Milt Mulford Jr

1925 Soiled
Jimmie York

1925 Bobbed Hair
David Lacy

1925 Ranger of the Big Pines
Ross Cavanagh

1925 The Marriage Whirl
Arthur Carleton

1925 Drusilla with a Million
Colin Arnold

1925 The Crowded Hour
Billy Laidlaw

1925 The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
Brian Kent

1925 Learning to Love (uncredited)

1924 Two Shall Be Born
Brian Kelly

1924 On the Stroke of Three
Judson Forrest

1924 For Another Woman

1924 White Man
White Man

1924 Butterfly
Craig Spaulding

1924 The Man Without a Heart
Rufus Asher

1924 The Virgin
David Kent

1924 Poisoned Paradise: The Forbidden Story of Monte Carlo
Hugh Kildair / Gilbert Kildair

1923 The Broken Wing
Philip Marvin

1923 April Showers
Danny O'Rourke

1923 The Virginian
The Virginian

1923 A Man's Man
Billy Geary

1923 East Side - West Side
Duncan Van Norman

1923 Temporary Marriage
Robert Belmar

1923 The Girl Who Came Back
Martin Norries

1923 Little Church Around the Corner
David Graham

1922 The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony

1922 Thorns and Orange Blossoms
Alan Randolph

1922 The Toll of the Sea
Allen Carver

1922 The World's a Stage
Wallace Foster

1922 The Married Flapper
Bill Billings

1922 I Am the Law
Cpl. Bob Fitzgerald

1922 The Primitive Lover
Donald Wales

1922 Polly of the Follies
Bob Jones

1922 Received Payment
Cary Grant

1921 Dawn of the East
Roger Strong

1921 Woman's Place
Jim Bradley

1921 The Barricade
Robert Brennon

1921/I Nobody
Tom Smith

1921 Lessons in Love
John Warren

1921 Mama's Affair
Dr. Harmon

1920 Dangerous Business
Clarence Brooks

1920 Love, Honor and Obey
Stuart Emmett

1920 Going Some
Donald Keap

1920 The Penalty
Dr. Wilmot Allen

1920 Dollars and Sense
David Rogers

1920 The Turning Point
Jack Rivett

1919 The Trembling Hour
Major Ralph Dunstan

1919 The Hoodlum
William Turner

1919 The Microbe
DeWitt Spense

1918 The Law That Divides
Howard Murray

1918 Bread
Dick Frothingham

1918 Her Body in Bond
Joe Blondin / Pierrot

1918 Midnight Madness
Prentice Tiller

1918 A Model's Confession
Billy Ravensworth

1918 The Marriage Lie
Douglas Seward

1918 The Wine Girl
Frank Harris

1918 The Wife He Bought
Steele Valiant

1918 A Man's Man
Billy Geary

1918 My Unmarried Wife
Phillip Smith

1917 The Lash of Power
John Rand

1917 The Price of a Good Time
Preston Winfield

1917 The Flame of the Yukon
George Fowler

1917 Cheerful Givers
Horace Gray

1917 Betsy's Burglar
Harry Brent

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Self (2 credits)

1931 The Voice of Hollywood No. 26 (Short)
Himself - Host

1923 Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 7 (Documentary short)
Himself

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Archive footage (6 credits)

2015 Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (TV Series documentary)
Various characters

- Bum's Rush (2015) ... Various characters (uncredited)

- Slap Happy (2015) ... Various characters (uncredited)

- A Trio Grows in Brooklyn (2015) ... Various characters (uncredited)

2007 Anna May Wong, Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend (Documentary)
Allen Carver (clip from Toll of the Sea (1922))

1966 Black Dragon of Manzanar (TV Movie)
Lab Guard / Officer Casey (uncredited)

1966 Dr. Satan's Robot (TV Movie)
Yacht Capt. Lathrop (uncredited)

1966 Sakima and the Masked Marvel (TV Movie)
Plant Guard

1953 Planet Outlaws
Reporter (uncredited)

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Stage: Appeared (as "Don Marlowe") in 'White Flame" on Broadway. See more »

Publicity Listings:

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Alternate Names:

Ken Harlan

Height:

6' 1" (1.85 m)

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Trivia:

American romantic lead of the silent era, a graduate of Fordham University in New York. on stage from c. 1902, In Hollywood from 1916. Married an astonishing nine times! His status diminished with the advent of sound and he was relegated to lesser roles. He retired in 1943 to become a restaurateur and actor's agent. See more »