Harry Holman Movies
Rotund, squeaky-voiced American actor
Harry Holman forsook vaudeville and the legitimate stage for films in 1929. For the next 18 years, Holman played a vast array of mayors, justices of the peace, attorneys, millionaires and sugar daddies. Sometimes he had no professional designation at all, and was simply a "Jolly Fat Man" (as he was billed in 1935's
Dante's Inferno). Equally busy in short subjects as in features, Holman is best remembered by
Three Stooges fans as the first of many wealthy professors who tried to turn the Stooges into gentlemen in
Hoi Polloi (1935). A fixture of
Frank Capra films, Harry Holman showed up as the high school principal in Capra's Yuletide perennial
It's a Wonderful Life. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
