Sam Hardy

from New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Artwork for King KongImage of Sam Hardy

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sam B. Hardy (March 21, 1883 – October 16, 1935) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in feature films during the silent and early sound eras. He died of intestinal problems. He was also known as Samuel Hardy.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Hardy attended Yale but left there to become an actor on stage. He entered the world of film with Biograph Studios.

Hardy became ill while he was working in the film Shoot the Chutes, starring Eddie Cantor. He did not survive emergency surgery at a hospital.

Timeline

1935Aged 52

  • Poster for Break of Hearts

    Marx

  • Poster for Powdersmoke Range

    Big Steve Ogden

  • Poster for Man on the Flying Trapeze

    Story

1934Aged 51

  • Poster for Little Miss Marker

    Bennie the Gouge

  • Poster for Aunt Sally

    Michael 'King' Kelly

  • Poster for I Give My Love

    Pogey

  • Poster for The Hollywood Gad-About

    Self - Weight Guesser (uncredited)

  • Poster for Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

    Jack Summers

  • Poster for Night Alarm

    Editor Stephen Caldwell

  • Poster for The Gay Bride

    Daniel J. Dingle

1933Aged 50

  • Poster for Face in the Sky

    Professor Triplett

  • Poster for Goldie Gets Along

    Sam Muldoon

  • Poster for King Kong

    Charles Weston

  • Poster for Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles

    Sinclair Sable

  • Poster for Three Cornered Moon

    Hawkins

  • Poster for The Big Brain

    Slick Ryan

  • Poster for Ann Vickers

    Russell Spaulding

  • Poster for Curtain at Eight

    Capt. Martin Gallagher

1932Aged 49

  • Poster for Rule 'Em and Weep

    King Frenzi

  • Poster for The Dark Horse

    Mr. Black

  • Poster for Make Me a Star

    Jeff Baird

  • Poster for The Phantom of Crestwood

    Pete Harris

1931Aged 48

  • The Champion

    Rooney - Kane's Manager

  • Poster for June Moon

    Sam Hart

  • Poster for The Millionaire

    McCoy

  • Poster for Annabelle's Affairs

    James Ludgate

  • Poster for The Miracle Woman

    Bob Hornsby

  • Poster for The Magnificent Lie

    Larry

  • Poster for Peach-o-Reno

    Judge Jackson

1930Aged 47

  • Poster for Burning Up

    Windy 'Wally' Wallace

  • Poster for Song of the West

    Davolo

  • Poster for True to the Navy

    Brady

  • Poster for The Florodora Girl

    Harry Fontaine

  • Poster for Borrowed Wives

    G.W. Parker

  • Poster for Reno

    J.B. Berkley

1929Aged 46

1928Aged 45

  • Poster for Burning Up Broadway

    Spike

  • Poster for Turn Back the Hours

    'Ace' Kearney

  • Poster for The Big Noise

    Philip Hurd

  • Poster for Diamond Handcuffs

    Spike

  • Poster for The Night Bird

    Gleason

  • Poster for The Butter and Egg Man

    Joe Lehman

  • Poster for Outcast

    Jack

  • Give and Take

    Industrialist

1927Aged 44

  • Poster for The Perfect Sap

    Nick Fanshaw

  • Poster for Orchids and Ermine

    Hank

  • Poster for Broadway Nights

    Johnny Fay

  • Poster for A Texas Steer

    Brassy Gall

1926Aged 43

  • Poster for Bluebeard's Seven Wives

    Gindelheim

  • Poster for When Love Grows Cold

    William Graves

  • Poster for The Savage

    Managing Editor

  • Poster for The Great Deception

    Handy

  • Poster for The Prince of Tempters

    Apollo Beneventa

1925Aged 42

  • Poster for The Half-Way Girl

    Jardine

1923Aged 40

  • Poster for Mighty Lak' a Rose

    Jerome Trevor

  • Poster for Little Old New York

    Cornelius Vanderbilt

1922Aged 39

1921Aged 38

  • Poster for Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

    J. Rufus Wallingford

1919Aged 36

  • Poster for Almost Married

    Lt. James 'Jim' Winthrop, Jr.

1918Aged 35

1917Aged 34

  • Poster for At First Sight

    Hartly Poole

Year unknown

  • Poster for His Father's Wife

    Lieutenant James 'Jim' Winthrop Jr.