Harry Benham
Acting
1884-02-25 · Valparaiso, 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.
Filmography
The Town That Forgot God
1922 · Movie
Your Best Friend
1922 · Movie
Hush Money
1921 · Movie
The Victim
1920 · Movie
Polly with a Past
1920 · Movie
The Dangerous Paradise
1920 · Movie
The Prey
1920 · Movie
The Love Craze
1918 · Movie
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
1918 · Movie
The Outsider
1917 · Movie
The Last of the Carnabys
1917 · Movie
When You and I Were Young
1917 · Movie
The Warfare of the Flesh
1917 · Movie
The Dancer's Peril
1917 · Movie
The Mischief Maker
1916 · Movie
The Path of Happiness
1916 · Movie
The Man Inside
1916 · Movie
When Hungry Hamlet Fled
1915 · Movie
His Two Patients
1915 · Movie
Madam Blanche, Beauty Doctor
1915 · Movie
The Country Girl
1915 · Movie
A Freight Car Honeymoon
1915 · Movie
The Girl of the Sea
1915 · Movie
Daughter of Kings
1915 · Movie
The Heart of the Princess Marsari
1915 · Movie
Zudora
1914 · Movie
Pamela Congreve
1914 · Movie
A Woman's Loyalty
1914 · Movie
Coals of Fire
1914 · Movie
Frou Frou
1914 · Movie
Robin Hood
1913 · Movie
Moths
1913 · Movie
The Girl of the Cabaret
1913 · Movie
King Rene’s Daughter
1913 · Movie
The Head of the Ribbon Counter
1913 · Movie
Just a Shabby Doll
1913 · Movie
Sherlock Holmes Solves the Sign of the Four
1913 · Movie
His Uncle's Wives
1913 · Movie
Star of Bethlehem
1912 · Movie
The Repeater
1912 · Movie
Brains vs. Brawn
1912 · Movie
A Romance of the U.S.N.
1912 · Movie
The Forest Rose
1912 · Movie
In a Garden
1912 · Movie
The Warning
1912 · Movie
Letters of a Lifetime
1912 · Movie
The Voice of Conscience
1912 · Movie
When a Count Counted
1912 · Movie
The Wrecked Taxi
1912 · Movie
The Portrait of Lady Anne
1912 · Movie
Under Two Flags
1912 · Movie
Her Secret
1912 · Movie
Jilted
1912 · Movie
Dora Thorne
1912 · Movie
Nicholas Nickleby
1912 · Movie
East Lynne
1912 · Movie
Her Ladyship's Page
1912 · Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1912 · Movie
She
1911 · Movie
Cinderella
1911 · Movie
The Tomboy
1911 · Movie
The Lady from the Sea
1911 · Movie
The Missing Heir
1911 · Movie
Their Burglar
1911 · Movie
David Copperfield
1911 · Movie
One Flag at Last
1911 · Movie
The Smuggler
1911 · Movie
Get Rich Quick
1911 · Movie
The Mummy
1911 · Movie
The Old Curiosity Shop
1911 · Movie