Lillian Harmer

from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Artwork for A Star Is BornImage of Lillian Harmer

Biography

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Lillian Harmer (September 8, 1883 – May 14, 1946) was an American character actress. Born in Philadelphia in 1883, Harmer had a brief film career during the 1930s. During her short career she would appear in over 60 films, mostly in uncredited roles. She would occasionally be cast in a featured supporting role, as in A Shriek in the Night (1933) and The Bowery (1933), in which she played the historical character of Carrie Nation.

Other notable films in which she appeared include: Huckleberry Finn (1931), starring Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer; the 1933 version of Alice in Wonderland; William Wellman's 1937 version of A Star is Born, starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, and Adolphe Menjou; the Ronald Colman vehicle, The Prisoner of Zenda; and the 1938 Cecil B. DeMille historical drama, The Buccaneer, starring Fredric March. Her final film appearance would be in a small role in 1938's Gateway, starring Don Ameche and Arleen Whelan.

Harmer, who was married to Albert Frederick Kaeber, died on May 14, 1946, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Timeline

1938Aged 55

  • Poster for Gateway

    Matron

1937Aged 54

  • Poster for The Great O'Malley

    Miss Taylor

  • Poster for A Star Is Born

    Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)

  • Poster for Make a Wish

    Clara

1936Aged 53

  • Poster for Riffraff

    Mrs. McCall

  • Poster for Dancing Feet

    Aggie

  • Don’t Get Personal

    The Farmer's Wife

  • Poster for Little Miss Nobody

    Jessica Taggert

  • Poster for Sworn Enemy

    Mrs. Hirsch (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Captain's Kid

    Mrs. Pengast

  • Poster for Fugitive in the Sky

    Martha Staeger

  • Poster for Rainbow on the River

    Superintendent (uncredited)

1935Aged 52

  • Poster for Without Children

    Frieda

  • Poster for Party Wire

    Deborah

  • Poster for Public Hero Number 1

    Mrs. Higgins (uncredited)

  • Poster for 3 Kids and a Queen

    Elmira Wiggins

  • Poster for Personal Maid's Secret

    Miss Getson

1934Aged 51

  • Poster for Change of Heart

    Mrs. Boggs (uncredited)

  • Poster for Desirable

    Aunt Agnes

  • Poster for A Wicked Woman

    Mrs. Finch (uncredited)

  • Poster for Romance in Manhattan

    Landlady

1933Aged 50

  • Poster for The Secret of Madame Blanche

    Aubrey's Maid (Uncredited)

  • Poster for I Cover the Waterfront

    Gossip with Telescope

  • Poster for Hold Your Man

    Miss Allen (uncredited)

  • Poster for A Shriek in the Night

    Augusta

  • Poster for Ann Vickers

    Prison Matron in Warden's Office (uncredited)

  • Poster for Stage Mother

    Fred's Mother (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Bowery

    Carrie A. Nation

  • Poster for Lone Cowboy

    Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)

  • Poster for Alice in Wonderland

    Cook

1932Aged 49

  • Poster for The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

    Landlady (uncredited)

  • Poster for New Morals for Old

    Alice - the Maid

  • Poster for Guilty as Hell

    Mrs. Alvin

  • Poster for If I Had a Million

    Idylwood Receptionist (uncredited)

  • Poster for No Man of Her Own

    Mattie (uncredited)

1931Aged 48

  • Poster for Millie

    Governess (uncredited)

  • Poster for Huckleberry Finn

    Miss Watson

  • Poster for Smart Woman

    Mrs. Windleweaver

1927Aged 44

  • Poster for A Harp in Hock

    Sourface