Harry Allen (actor) film role was in the 1923 silent film, "The Last Moment", in a supporting role. In his career Allen appeared in over 100 films, mostly in supporting and smaller roles. Some of the more notable films he appeared in include: "Of Human Bondage" (1934), starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard; the Marx Brothers' classic, "A Night at the Opera"; the original "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable; William Wyler's 1942 Academy Award-winning film, "Mrs. Miniver", starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright; "Jane Eyre" (1944), starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine; the Mickey Rooney
Charles Laughton as when, after the success of "The Private Life of Henry VIII" he appeared at the Old Vic Theatre in 1933 as Macbeth, Lopakin in "The Cherry Orchard", Prospero in "The Tempest" and Angelo in "Measure for Measure". In the US, Laughton worked with Bertolt Brecht on a new English version of Brecht's play "Galileo". Laughton played the title role at the play's premiere in Los Angeles on 30 July 1947 and later that year in New York. This staging was directed by Joseph Losey. The processes by which Laughton painstakingly, over many weeks, created his Galileo—and incidentally, edited and