Actor · Acting

Harry Lauter

Born 1914-06-19

Died 1990-10-30

📍 White Plains, New York, USA

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.

Filmography 235

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

as Dep. Sheriff Gibson

as Stewart Victor

The Todd Killings

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

as General Winthrop

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

as House Party Guest (uncredited)

Alias Smith and Jones

More Dead than Alive

Land of the Giants

The Mountains of the Moon

The High Chaparral

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion

Return of the Gunfighter

as Frank Marlowe

For Pete's Sake

The Time Tunnel

The Green Hornet

The Time Tunnel

as Mr. Merrick (uncredited)

as Cpl. Alvin Ross

as Judd Conners

as Submarine Captain

The Wild Wild West

as Spence Gillis

Fort Courageous

as Fake SDI Agent

as Ben Lattimore

Gilligan's Island

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)

The Beverly Hillbillies

as Motorcycle Officer

The Wild Westerners

Lonely are the Brave

as Deputy in Canyon (uncredited)

The Investigators

as John Maitland

Posse from Hell

Stagecoach West

Stagecoach West

as Captain Avery

A Date with Death

as Lt. George Caddell

The Gunfight at Dodge City

as City Marshal Ed Masterson

The Louisiana Hussy

as Orville Tippet

The Last Hurrah

as Votes Tallyman (uncredited)

Girl on the Run

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip

as Sheriff Conners

as Compton Schaeffer

Yancy Derringer

as Francis Jordan

Cry Baby Killer

as Police Lt. Porter

Tarzan's Fight for Life

as Dr. Ken Warwick

The Case Against Brooklyn

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

Missile Monsters

Raiders of Old California

as Scott Johnson

Tombstone Territory

as Sgt. Shelton

Death in Small Doses

as Steve Hummel / Mr. Brown

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Crawford - Miner

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

as Charles Decker

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

as Briggs (uncredited)

Hellcats of the Navy

as Lt. (j.g.) Wes Barton

The Badge of Marshal Brennan

Tales of Wells Fargo

as Henry Wilson

The Women of Pitcairn Island

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Maurie - Gunman

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Karger - Outlaw

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Union Sgt. Stone

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

as Det. Tim Grogan

as Deputy Ben Clovey

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

as Cutting - Generator Technician (uncredited)

as State Department Security Chief

The Count of Monte Cristo

Dig That Uranium

as Haskell, the boss

as Federal Marshal

The Crooked Web

as Sgt. Mike Jancoweizc

Screen Director's Playhouse

as Truck Driver

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

as Gregory Bellow

as Henry Rucker

as Michael Drennan

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Creature with the Atom Brain

It Came from Beneath the Sea

as Deputy Bill Nash

King of the Carnival

Lord of the Jungle

Outlaw Treasure

Timber Country Trouble

as Webb, the lumberjack

Buffalo Bill Jr.

The Millionaire

as Andrew Stevens

The Millionaire

as Anders - Phone Co. Supervisor

as Officer Greeley

Captain Midnight

The Forty-Niners

Return to Treasure Island

Silver Needle in the Sky

Silver Needle in the Sky

Dragonfly Squadron

as Capt. Vedders

Public Defender

as Deputy Sheriff Malden

Trader Tom of the China Seas

Manhunt in Space

as Roadblock Officer (uncredited)

as Hank O'Connell (uncredited)

Fighting Lawman

as Outlaw Al Clark - aka Al Deacons

Letter to Loretta

Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders

as Constable Clark

The Marshal's Daughter

Prince of Pirates

Biff Baker U.S.A.

as George Carlton

Mr. & Mrs. North

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

as Honor Guard Captain

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Cavalcade of America

as Ray Marshall

Cavalcade of America

Death Valley Days

as Henry Schmidtlein

Hopalong Cassidy

as Randall, alias Jon Edmum

as Dave Kilrain

The Red Ball Express

as Lt. Michaelson -- Sentry (uncredited)

Talk About a Stranger

as Clarence, Bookkeeper

Rancho Notorious

as Deputy at Gunsight (uncredited)

This Woman Is Dangerous

as Trooper (Uncredited)

as Tod Rawlings

The Kid from Amarillo

as Officer Mosley (uncredited)

Come Fill the Cup

as Cameron - Ives' Pilot (uncredited)

as Henchman Evan Fox

The Day the Earth Stood Still

as Lieutenant in Charge of Landing Site

as Saunders (uncredited)

Flying Leathernecks

The Adventures of Kit Carson

According to Mrs. Hoyle

as Gordon Warren

as Wade Trimble

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Thunder in God's Country

as Marshal Tim Gallery

Silver City Bonanza

The Flying Missile

as Army Base Information Desk Clerk

Experiment Alcatraz

as Richard 'Dick' McKenna

Flying Disc Man from Mars

as James Worth (uncredited)

as Orderly (uncredited)

as Cowhand (uncredited)

The Gene Autry Show

The Great Jewel Robber

as Reporter (uncredited)

711 Ocean Drive

as Flirty Man at Bar (uncredited)

When Willie Comes Marching Home

as Aide (uncredited)

Blue Grass of Kentucky

as Dick Wentworth

Twelve O'Clock High

as Radio officer

as Ambulance Attendant

The Life of Riley

The Lone Ranger

as Man with Microphone in Car (uncredited)

Bandit King of Texas

I Was a Male War Bride

as Naval Lt. Perkins (uncredited)

The Great Dan Patch

Frontier Investigator

as Rocky's Brother

as George Reeves Jr.

Prince of the Plains

as Bill Manning

The Gay Intruders

as Male Secretary

A Foreign Affair

as Corporal (uncredited)

The Magnificent Rogue