1. Herman Arthur "Harry" Lauter was an American character actor.
14 Facts About Harry Lauter
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Harry Lauter worked as a model for a professional photographer and was a rodeo rider before moving into acting.
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Harry Lauter's acting break came with a role in The Magnificent Rogue, in which he played a model.
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Harry Lauter was a much seen presence in supporting roles in low-budget films, serials, and seemingly innumerable television programs in the 1950s.
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Harry Lauter's co-star was Willard Parker as Ranger Jace Pearson.
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Harry Lauter portrayed Ralph Cotton on the television version of The Roy Rogers Show.
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Harry Lauter dies but it's a heroic death, he kills the renegade Apache chief which ends the Indian attack and in so doing saves the rest of the cast involved in the fight.
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Harry Lauter was cast twice on the NBC children's western series Fury, with Peter Graves and Bobby Diamond, and on Tombstone Territory, starring Pat Conway.
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Harry Lauter appeared on NBC's Jefferson Drum, National Velvet, and Riverboat, on CBS's Have Gun - Will Travel, with Richard Boone, and the syndicated western-themed crime drama US Marshal.
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Harry Lauter appeared in The Wild Wild West S3 E17 "The Night of the Headless Woman" as Marshal.
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Harry Lauter had an uncredited, non-speaking role in the 1963 Stanley Kramer comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as a police dispatcher.
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The son of an artist, Harry Lauter devoted much of his energy late in his life to his own painting and the operation of an art gallery.
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Harry Lauter died of a heart attack on October 30,1990, in Ojai in Ventura County, California, at age 76.
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Harry Lauter was survived by his wife, two children and two step-children.