16 Facts About Harry Bellaver

Harry Bellaver left school at a young age and worked various jobs but eventually was awarded a scholarship to Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York.

Harry Bellaver was a member of the Hedgerow Players of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, for eight years.

Harry Bellaver made his Broadway debut in the 1931 Group Theatre in the play 1931.

Harry Bellaver appeared in the original production of the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun as Chief Sitting Bull.

Harry Bellaver appeared in the same role in the 1958 and 1966 revivals.

Harry Bellaver was a prolific film character actor, mainly in "working class" roles, from 1939 through the 1960s.

Harry Bellaver appeared in the film adaptation of From Here to Eternity and in several notable film noirs.

Harry Bellaver played the role of ex-convict "Creeps" in 1939's Another Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy.

Harry Bellaver appeared in The House on 92nd Street as a taxi driver spying for the Nazis and again played a cab driver, this time victimized by a gangster, in Side Street.

Harry Bellaver played Sam the Surgeon in the classic Bob Hope comedy The Lemon Drop Kid.

Harry Bellaver appeared in Love Me or Leave Me with James Cagney and Doris Day in 1955 and The Old Man and the Sea with Spencer Tracy in 1958.

Harry Bellaver is best known for his featured role as Sgt.

Harry Bellaver played an older, mellow detective who was a counterpoint to the dedicated young detectives played by James Franciscus and Paul Burke.

Harry Bellaver served in the Special Services Unit of the US Army during World War II, where he toured the front lines as a stage manager and actor in the USO.

Harry Bellaver lived in Tappan, New York, when he died of pneumonia on August 8,1993, at Nyack Hospital in Nyack, New York.

Harry Bellaver was survived by his daughters, Lee Bellaver of Stone Ridge, New York, and theatrical casting director Vaughn Bellaver-Allentuck of East Hampton, Long Island, two grandsons, a granddaughter, and two great-granddaughters.