Harry Lauter
Biography
American character actor specializing in villainous roles. Born in White Plains, New York to Herman E. and Franceska Lauter, he was raised in Denver, Colorado. Although it has been suggested that he appeared briefly in a couple of films during the Thirties, his real movie career began in 1946. He came to be a familiar presence in low-budget films, serials, and television programs in the 1950s, though he only once really came close to stardom, as one of the leads in the television series "Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955)". Most of his career was spent as a serviceable second lead or heavy, though he continued to play bit parts in larger pictures. The son of an artist, he devoted much of his energy late in life to his own painting and running an art gallery. He died in 1990.
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Creature with the Atom Brain
1955
No Way Out
1950
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971
A Foreign Affair
1948
Lonely are the Brave
1962
Return to Treasure Island
1954
The Case Against Brooklyn
1958
Trader Tom of the China Seas
1954
Raiders of Old California
1957
The Racket
1951
Rancho Notorious
1952
Frontier Investigator
1949
Fighter Attack
1953
Hills of Utah
1951
Apache Ambush
1955
White Heat
1949
Batman
1966
It Came from Beneath the Sea
1955
Crime Wave
1953
The Marshal's Daughter
1953
Buffalo Gun
1961
The Showdown
1950
Flying Leathernecks
1951
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958
At Gunpoint
1955
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
This Woman Is Dangerous
1952
Missile Monsters
1958
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951
The Great Dan Patch
1949
The Todd Killings
1971
The Great Jewel Robber
1950
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971
Return of the Gunfighter
1967
Come Fill the Cup
1951
Fort Courageous
1965
The Big Heat
1953
According to Mrs. Hoyle
1951
The Steel Fist
1952