Harvey Braban(1883-1943)
- Actor
Harvey Braban born in 1883 in Brighton, Sussex, began in the theatre in
the early 1900's and became well-known on Broadway and the West End
theatre's from 1912. Smart, bald and stocky performer who occasionally
played leads but mostly supporting in many silent crime and melodrama
films first with the Stoll Film Company in 1920 later with Ideal Films,
best remembered as the Chief Inspector in Alfred Hitchcock's film
Blackmail (1929) from then on he was often cast as Police Inspector's in
many talkies, one of his final roles was 'Prime Minister Lord
Salisbury' in the film Queen of Destiny (1938) (AKA, 'Sixty Glorious Years'). Died in 1943 age 60.