Kenneth Harlan

Tuvo activu principalmente na dómina del cine mudu, intérprete principalmente de personaxes románticos y aventureros.

 Carrera 
Nacíu en Boston, Massachusetts , graduar na Universidá de Fordham, en Nueva York. Harlan actuó per primer vegada nel teatru en 1899 na obra More Than A Queen, como sofitu de l'actriz Julia Arthur. A lo llargo de casi tou 1916 Harlan viaxó en xira con una compañía de baillarinos qu'encabezaba la futura intérprete de Ziegfeld Evan Burrows Fontaine.The Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star - Nov. 25, 1916

La carrera de Harlan estendióse más de 25 años, trabayando nunos 200 llargumetraxes y seriales. Harlan entró nel mundu del cine en 1916 como primer intérprete masculín a les órdenes de D.W. Griffith, trabayando darréu con Constance Talmadge, Lois Weber, Mary Pickford, Katherine MacDonald, y Anna May Wong, ente otres actrices. Harlan taba dotáu pal drama y la comedia, y rodó dellos westerns. Pasó con ésitu la transición al cine sonoru, llegando inclusive a cantar en dellos filmes, anque les cintes nes qu'actuó fueron de calter menor. Aun así, Harlan trabayó hasta 1943, añu nel cual retiróse.

 Vida personal 
Harlan casóse ocho veces, siendo una de les sos esposes la estrella de cine mudu Marie Prevost. Foi sobrín del actor y comediante Otis Harlan.

Harlan yera mayor de lo qu'indicaba'l so añu de nacencia, 1895. En 1909 interpretaba primeros papeles como adultu o papeles coprotagonistas xunto a actrices como Ethel Barrymore. Esiste un fotograma de Harlan na obra interpretada por Barrymore "Lady Frederick" en Seattle en xunetu de 1909. Si'l so añu de nacencia fuera 1895, Harlan tendría entós namái 14. Sicasí, l'home que ta xunto a Ethel Barrymore, según el restu del repartu, son considerablemente mayores de 14 añosPor otra parte, nun esisten evidencies de que Harlan tuviera na dómina dalgún famliar dedicáu al teatru.

Kenneth Harlan finó en 1967 en Sacramento (California), por causa de un aneurisma. Foi soterráu nel Campusantu Hollywood Forever de Los Angeles, California.

 Filmografía 

Nearly Eighteen (1943)
The Masked Marvel (1943)
The Underdog (1943)
Melody Parade (1943)
The Law Rides Again (1943)
Girls in Chains (1943)
Daredevils of the West (1943)
Wild Horse Stampede (1943)
You Can't Beat the Law (1943)
Foreign Agent (1942)
Phantom Killer (1942)
Bandit Ranger (1942)
Deep in the Heart of Texas (1942)
Perils of the Royal Mounted (1942)
The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
The Dawn Express (1942)
Klondike Fury (1942)
Black Dragons (1942)
Sleepytime Gal (1942)
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941)
Fighting Bill Fargo (1941)
Dangerous Lady (1941)
King of Dodge City (1941)
Wide Open Town (1941)
Bullets for O'Hara (1941)
Desperate Cargo (1941)
Paper Bullets (1941)
Secret Evidence (1941)
Pride of the Bowery (1940)
Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)
A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
Prairie Schooners (1940)
Doomed to Die (1940)
Murder in the Air (1940)
Santa Fe Marshal (1940)
Heroes in Blue (1939)
Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939)
Range War (1939)
Port of Hate (1939)
On Trial (1939)
Sunset Trail (1939)
The Duke of West Point (1938)
Little Adventuress (1938)
The Headleys at Home (1938)
Law of the Texan (1938)
The Wages of Ensin (1938)
Pride of the West (1938)
Held for Ransom (1938)
Whirlwind Horseman (1938)
Under Western Stars (1938)
Accidents Will Happen (1938)
Blondes at Work (1938)
Swing It, Sailor! (1938)
Saleslady (1938)
Wallaby Jim of the Islands (1937)
The Mysterious Pilot (1937)
The Shadow Strikes (1937)
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937)
Wine, Women and Horses (1937)
Paradise Isle (1937)
Blazing Sixes (1937)
Gunsmoke Ranch (1937)
Marked Woman (1937)
A Million to One (1937)
Penrod and Sam (1937)
Trail Dust (1936)
Flying Hostess (1936)
Hideaway Girl (1936)
They Met in a Taxi (1936)
The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
China Clipper (1936)
Public Enemy's Wife (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
The Walking Dead (1936)
Song of the Saddle (1936)
Movie Maniacs (1936)
Man Hunt (1936)
Cappy Ricks Returns (1935)
Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)
The Widow in Scarlet (1932)
The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
Danger Island (1931)

Air Police (1931)
Finger Prints (1931)
Women Men Marry (1931)
Under Montana Skies (1930)
Paradise Island (1930)
Man, Woman and Wife (1929)
United States Smith (1928)
Midnight Rose (1928)
Code of the Air (1928)
Willful Youth (1927)
Streets of Shanghai (1927)
Cheating Cheaters (1927)
Stage Kisses (1927)
Easy Pickings (1927)
Twinkle Toes (1926)
The Ice Flood (1926)
The Sap (1926)
The King of the Turf (1926)
The Fighting Edge (1926)
The Golden Strain (1925)
Bobbed Hair (1925)
Ranger of the Big Pines (1925)
The Marriage Whirl (1925)
Drusilla with a Million (1925)
The Crowded Hour (1925)
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925)
Two Shall Be Born (1924)
On the Stroke of Three (1924)
For Another Woman (1924)
Soiled (1924)
White Man (1924)
Butterfly (1924)
The Man Without a Heart (1924)
The Virgin (1924)
Poisoned Paradise (1924)
April Showers (1923)
The Virginian (1923)
The Broken Wing (1923)
A Man's Man (1923)
East Side - West Side (1923)
Temporary Marriage (1923)
Little Church Around the Corner (1923)
The Girl Who Came Back (1923)
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
Thorns and Orange Blossoms (1922)
The Toll of the Sea (1922)
The World's a Stage (1922)
The Married Flapper (1922)
I Am the Law (1922)
The Primitive Lover (1922)
Polly of the Follies (1922)
Received Payment (1922)
Dawn of the East (1921)
Woman's Place (1921)
The Barricade (1921)
Nobody (1921)
Lessons in Love (1921)
Mama's Affair (1921)
Dangerous Business (1920)
Love, Honor and Obey (1920)
The Penalty (1920/I)
Going Some (1920)
Dollars and Sense (1920)
The Turning Point (1920)
The Trembling Hour (1919)
The Hoodlum (1919)
The Microbe (1919)
The Law That Extremes (1918)
Her Body in Bond (1918)
Midnight Madness (1918)
A Model's Confession (1918)
The Marriage Lie (1918)
The Wine Girl (1918)
The Wife He Bought (1918)
My Unmarried Wife (1918)
A Man's Man (1918)
The Lash of Power (1917)
The Price of a Good Time (1917)
The Flame of the Yukon (1917)
Cheerful Givers (1917)
Betsy's Burglar (1917)

 Referencies 

 Enllaces esternos 

Kenneth Harlan en IBDb
fotogrames de Ken, Ethel Barrymore y otros en Lady Frederick Univ of Washington J. Willis Sayre Collection

Categoría:Actores y actrices de cine mudu
Categoría:Persones de Boston