1. Harold Huth was a British actor, film director and producer.
26 Facts About Harold Huth
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Harold Huth was a nephew of Eva Moore and a cousin of the actor Roland Pertwee.
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Harold Huth married Bridget Nickols and they had two daughters, Angela and Patricia.
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Harold Huth got the role in part due to the connections of Pertwee.
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Harold Huth followed it up with the role of Captain Nolan in the film Balaclava about the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Harold Huth went on to have roles in A South Sea Bubble with Ivor Novello, directed by Hunter; The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel with Matheson Lang, playing Louis Antoine de Saint-Just; and The Silver King, directed by Hunter, with Percy Marmont and Chili Bouchier.
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Harold Huth made his stage acting debut aged 36 on stage in The Truth Game with Ivor Novello.
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Harold Huth had the male lead in Downstream opposite Chili Bouchier, directed by Giuseppe Guarino.
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Harold Huth made a third film with Bouchier, City of Play.
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Harold Huth had roles in Leave It to Me ; An Obvious Situation, directed by Guarino; Guilt, directed by Reginald Fogwell; and Bracelets.
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Harold Huth had the lead in The Outsider, alongside Joan Barry, receiving much acclaim.
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Harold Huth had a key support part in Down River with Charles Laughton.
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Harold Huth had the lead in The Flying Squad ; Sally Bishop, directed by Hunter; and The World, the Flesh, the Devil.
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Harold Huth had support parts in Rome Express ; Discord ; My Lucky Star, with Florence Desmond; The Ghoul, with Boris Karloff and directed by Hunter; and The Camels Are Coming with Jack Hulbert.
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Harold Huth quit acting to become head of casting for Gaumont British.
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Harold Huth returned to acting briefly with a small role in Take My Tip with Hulbert.
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Harold Huth directed his first film, Hell's Cargo, for Associated British Picture Corporation.
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Harold Huth followed it with Bulldog Sees It Through starring Jack Buchanan, and East of Piccadilly.
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Harold Huth moved into producing with Busman's Honeymoon, shot in Britain for MGM starring Robert Montgomery.
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Harold Huth worked as producer on "Pimpernel" Smith for Leslie Howard and over at British Mercury he co-directed Breach of Promise.
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Harold Huth returned to acting in This Was Paris and MGM got him to produce another in England, The Adventures of Tartu.
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Harold Huth joined Gainsborough Pictures, for whom he produced a melodrama, Love Story, with Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc; it was a huge commercial success.
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Harold Huth produced The White Unicorn with fellow Gainsborough alumni Lockwood and Bernard Knowles and produced and directed Nightbeat.
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Harold Huth produced Blackmailed, directed by Marc Allegret, in which he had a small role.
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Harold Huth went to work as an associate producer at Warwick Films for Irwin Allen and Albert Broccoli, helping make The Man Inside, Idol on Parade, The Bandit of Zhobe, Jazz Boat, The Trials of Oscar Wilde and In the Nick.
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Harold Huth was credited as a writer on The Hellions.