Harry Benham

Known for ActingBorn 1884-02-25Died 1969-07-17Valparaiso, Indiana, USA

From Wikipedia Harry Benham (February 26, 1884 – July 17, 1969) was an American silent film actor. Born in Valparaiso, Indiana, as a child Benham and his family moved to Chicago, where he was raised and attended school. Benham had a talent for singing and sang in his local church choir. In 1904, the production Peggy From Paris came to Chicago and, at age 20, Benham became a member of the chorus while earning a living in the wholesale paper business. Benham was soon selected to play the leading role in the production and remained in that role throughout the production's three-year run. He was subsequently able to garner more roles in other plays, such as The Sultan of Sulu, Woodland, Marrying Mary, The Gay Musician, H.M.S. Pinafore, Florodora, The Mayoress, and Madame Sherry. In 1910 Benham joined the Thanhouser Company in New Rochelle, New York, for whom he played the leading role in many of the company's films through 1915. He married actress Ethyle Cooke, and together they had two children, Dorothy and Leland, who also became prominent Thanhouser personalities. Benham died on July 17, 1969 in Sarasota, Florida, aged 85.Read more

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Your Best Friend

The Love Craze

Coals of Fire

The Girl of the Cabaret

Sherlock Holmes Solves the Sign of the Four

Jilted

East Lynne

When a Count Counted

Their Burglar

Hush Money

When You and I Were Young

The Heart of the Princess Marsari

His Two Patients

Her Secret

Under Two Flags

The Lady from the Sea

The Mummy

The Town That Forgot God

A Freight Car Honeymoon

The Girl of the Sea

Pamela Congreve

The Head of the Ribbon Counter

His Uncle's Wives

Letters of a Lifetime

The Repeater

A Romance of the U.S.N.

Dora Thorne

The Old Curiosity Shop

David Copperfield

The Prey

The Dangerous Paradise

Madam Blanche, Beauty Doctor

When Hungry Hamlet Fled

A Woman's Loyalty

King Rene’s Daughter

The Warning

Brains vs. Brawn

The Wrecked Taxi

Her Ladyship's Page

The Missing Heir

The Smuggler

The Portrait of Lady Anne

Just a Shabby Doll

Cinderella

Nicholas Nickleby

Polly with a Past

Robin Hood

In a Garden