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
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) concerning his weight and unattractive looks, suffered horribly in comparing himself to the handsome, masculine Clark Gable. Laughton would constantly watch his own walk, gestures, and face, making sure not to let his complex be projected. A British merchant navy officer recalled in his memoirs seeing the fore and aft-rigged schooner "Commodore II" being broken up in Cape Town in 1945, having suffered severe gale damage, and that this was the ship that had been re-rigged for the film. Contemporary reviews were enthusiastic. Andre Sennwald of "The New York Times" wrote, "Grim, brutal, sturdily romantic, made out of horror and