Harold Huber

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BIRTHDAY

January 01, 1910

New York City, NY

DIED

September 26, 1959

RECENT CREDITS

Ladies They Talk About (FILM) Jan. 1, 2001

The Joker Is Wild (FILM) Jan. 1, 1957

Dance, Girl, Dance (FILM) Jan. 1, 1940

Going Places (FILM) Dec. 31, 1938

San Francisco (FILM) Jan. 1, 1936

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BIOGRAPHY

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Given the fact that the mustachioed, beady-eyed Harold Huber looked as though he'd stepped right out of a Damon Runyon story, it's hard to believe that Huber could ever have hoped for a successful career as a lawyer. Yet it is true that Huber, a graduate of the Columbia University law school, did indeed briefly hang out an attorney's shingle. By the time he was in his mid-20s, however, Huber had switched to acting, often in shifty, underhanded roles of various nationalities. He showed up in a handful of Charlie Chan films, usually equipped with an unconvincing comic-opera foreign accent; he was, however, thoroughly convincing as the fast-talking New York police detective in 1937's Charlie Chan on Broadway. A busy radio and television performer, Harold Huber starred on the radio versions of Fu Manchu and Hercule Poirot, and was top-billed as Broadway columnist Johnny Warren on the 1950 TV series I Cover Times Square.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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