Stacy Harris
Stacy Harris is known for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Bloody Mama (1970), His Kind of Woman (1951).
Biography
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Stacy Harris (July 26, 1918 – March 13, 1973) was a Canadian-born actor with hundreds of film and television appearances. His name is often found spelled Stacey Harris.
Harris was an Army pilot whose leg was injured in a plane crash less than six months after he enlisted in 1937. That injury prevented him from re-enlisting when World War II began, but he served with the American Volunteer Group as an ambulance driver and with the French Foreign Legion as a dispatch rider. Before becoming an actor, he held a variety of jobs, including newspaper reporter, boxer, sailor, and artist.
Harris played varied characters, often villains, on various programs produced by Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited, such as Dragnet, Noah's Ark, GE True, Adam-12, and Emergency!.
Harris guest starred in the religion anthology series, Crossroads, and played a gangster in the 1956 time travel television episode of the anthology series Conflict entitled "Man from 1997" opposite James Garner and Charles Ruggles. Thereafter, he appeared as Whit Lassiter in the 1958 episode "The Man Who Waited" of the NBC children's western series, Buckskin. He guest starred as Colonel Nicholson in the 1959 episode "A Night at Trapper's Landing" of the NBC western series, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin.
Harris appeared too in three syndicated series, Whirlybirds, starring Kenneth Tobey, Sheriff of Cochise and U.S. Marshal, both with John Bromfield, and as the character Ed Miller in the episode "Mystery of the Black Stallion" of the western series, Frontier Doctor, starring Rex Allen. He was cast in two episodes of the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
Harris in 1958 portrayed Max Bowen in "The Hemp Tree" and in 1959 as Abel Crowder in "Rough Track to Payday", episodes of the CBS western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.
In 1960, Harris was cast as a drummer named Cramer in the episode "Fair Game" of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. Harris appeared in three episodes of CBS's Perry Mason, playing the role of murder victim Frank Curran in "The Case of the Married Moonlighter" (1958), Perry's client Frank Brooks in "The Case of the Lost Last Act" (1959), and murderer Frank Brigham in "The Case of the Crying Comedian" in 1961.
In 1969, Harris played the corrupt and cowardly Mayor Ackerson of the since ghost town of Helena, Texas, in the episode "The Oldest Law" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. Popular character actor Jim Davis played Colonel William G. Butler (1831-1912), who takes revenge on the town after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of Butler's son, Emmett, who died from a stray bullet from a saloon brawl. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of San Antonio, becomes the seat of government of Karnes County. Tom Lowell (born 1941) played Emmett Butler, and Tyler McVey was cast as Parson Blake in this episode.
Harris died March 13, 1973, at the age of 54 in Los Angeles, California of an apparent heart attack. CLR
Questions about Stacy Harris
How many Stacy Harris films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 24 films with Stacy Harris, from 1950 to 1971.
What is the best rated Stacy Harris film?
The best rated Stacy Harris film in the catalogue is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), rated 7.0.
What was the first Stacy Harris film?
The first Stacy Harris film in the catalogue is His Kind of Woman, from 1951.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
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7.0 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
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5.5 Bloody Mama
1970
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6.8 His Kind of Woman
1951
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5.8 Countdown
1967
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6.9 The Mountain
1956
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6.4 Raintree County
1957
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5.8 The Hunters
1958
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5.2 Comanche
1956
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4.4 The Wife Swappers
1970
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4.5 The Great Sioux Massacre
1965
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5.7 Appointment with Danger
1950
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6.1 Dragnet
1954
Full filmography
29 films — 24 in the catalogue
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9.0 O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
1971 · Agent Ben Hazzard
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8.0 The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1971 · Dr. Leonard
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4.4
The Wife Swappers
1970 · Psychiatrist
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5.5
Bloody Mama
1970 · Agent McClellan
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4.2 Noon Sunday
1970 · Operations Commander Callan
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5.3 Companions in Nightmare
1968 · Phillip Rootes
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5.8
Countdown
1967 · Technician (uncredited)
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5.0 An American Dream
1966 · Detective O'Brien
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6.1 Brainstorm
1965 · Josh Reynolds
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4.5
The Great Sioux Massacre
1965 · Mr. Turner
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6.3 Sylvia
1965 · Mr. Leland (uncredited)
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7.0
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Police Radio Unit F-7 (voice) (uncredited)
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9.0 Four for the Morgue
1962 · Lieutenant Victor Beaujac
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4.6 The Adventures of Superboy
1961 · Jake
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6.6 Cast a Long Shadow
1959 · Eph Brown
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6.4 Good Day for a Hanging
1959 · Coley
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5.8
The Hunters
1958 · Col. Monk Moncavage
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5.0 New Orleans After Dark
1958 · Detective Vic Beaujac
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6.4
Raintree County
1957 · Union Lieutenant (uncredited)
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6.3 The Brass Legend
1956 · George Barlow
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6.9
The Mountain
1956 · Nicholas Servoz
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5.2
Comanche
1956 · Art Downey
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5.3 New Orleans Uncensored
1955 · Scrappy Durant
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6.1
Dragnet
1954 · Max Edward Troy
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7.5 Three Lives
1953 · Reuben Zadok
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5.9 Hordas Selvagens
1953 · Uriah (as Stacy S. Harris)
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6.3 The Redhead from Wyoming
1953 · Chet Jones
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6.8
His Kind of Woman
1951 · Harry (uncredited)
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5.7
Appointment with Danger
1950 · Paul Ferrar
Series and TV shows
20 titles
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8.0
Emergency!
1972 · Mr. Howarth
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7.1
Adam-12
1968 · Jim Ralston
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7.0
Dragnet
1967 · Michael Cooper Smith
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6.8
Ironside
1967 · Gordon
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6.8
Mannix
1967 · Russ
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7.1
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964 · Finley
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6.5
The Virginian
1962 · Gambler · 2 ep.
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7.9
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Prosecutor
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7.5
Bonanza
1959 · Judge Simpson
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7.3
Rawhide
1959 · Riggs
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5.1
The Rebel
1959 · Cramer
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8.0
The Untouchables
1959 · Capt. Reardon
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7.2
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Ralph Durbin
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7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Maj. McNab
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7.7
Perry Mason
1957 · Ed Brigham
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6.7
Wagon Train
1957 · The Sheriff
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7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Cullen
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6.7
Gunsmoke
1955 · Leonard
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6.8
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955 · Sam Rolfe
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6.5
Dragnet
1951 · Benny Davis
People data: TMDb.
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