Lillian Harmer
Actor
Biography
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Lillian Harmer (September 8, 1883 – May 14, 1946) was an American character actress. Born in Philadelphia in 1883, Harmer had a brief film career during the 1930s. During her short career she would appear in over 60 films, mostly in uncredited roles. She would occasionally be cast in a featured supporting role, as in A Shriek in the Night (1933) and The Bowery (1933), in which she played the historical character of Carrie Nation.
Other notable films in which she appeared include: Huckleberry Finn (1931), starring Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer; the 1933 version of Alice in Wonderland; William Wellman's 1937 version of A Star is Born, starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, and Adolphe Menjou; the Ronald Colman vehicle, The Prisoner of Zenda; and the 1938 Cecil B. DeMille historical drama, The Buccaneer, starring Fredric March. Her final film appearance would be in a small role in 1938's Gateway, starring Don Ameche and Arleen Whelan.
Harmer, who was married to Albert Frederick Kaeber, died on May 14, 1946, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Filmography
Alice in Wonderland
as Cook 1933
If I Had a Million
as Idylwood Receptionist (uncredited) 1932
No Man of Her Own
as Mattie (uncredited) 1932
Millie
as Governess (uncredited) 1931
Hold Your Man
as Miss Allen (uncredited) 1933
A Shriek in the Night
as Augusta 1933
Riffraff
as Mrs. McCall 1936
I Cover the Waterfront
as Gossip with Telescope 1933
Ann Vickers
as Prison Matron in Warden's Office (uncredited) 1933
Romance in Manhattan
as Landlady 1935
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
as Landlady (uncredited) 1932
The Bowery
as Carrie A. Nation 1933
Make a Wish
as Clara 1937
Public Hero Number 1
as Mrs. Higgins (uncredited) 1935
Smart Woman
as Mrs. Windleweaver 1931
The Great O'Malley
as Miss Taylor 1937