Otis Harlan
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Cherubic, pop-eyed character actor Otis Harlan came to films in the 1920s after extensive legitimate-stage and vaudeville experience. Though he essayed a variety of roles in silent films (he even appeared as a black family retainer in one effort), Harlan was most felicitously cast as a semi-regular in the Reginald Denny comedies at Universal. In 1929, he played Captain Andy in the first filmization of Edna Ferber's Show Boat. Most of his talkie assignments were bits, albeit memorable ones, including Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and small-town constable Hi Jenks in the 1937 "Our Gang" 1-reeler Roamin' Holiday. Generations of cartoon fans have revelled in Harlan's voiceover portrayal of "Happy" in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Otis Harlan was the uncle of silent-movie leading man Kenneth Harlan.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
| RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | The Texans |
|
— | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | Outlaws of Sonora |
|
— | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | Mr. Boggs Steps Out |
|
— | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | Western Gold |
|
— | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | Hitch Hike Lady |
|
— | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | Dr. Socrates |
|
— | 1935 |
| 91% | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
|
— | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | The Hoosier Schoolmaster |
|
— | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | Music in the Air |
|
— | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | King Kelly of the U.S.A. |
|
— | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | The Old Fashioned Way |
|
— | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | I Can't Escape |
|
— | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | The Sin of Norma Moran |
|
— | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | The Telegraph Trail |
|
— | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | That's My Boy |
|
— | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | Ride Him, Cowboy |
|
— | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | Air Eagles |
|
— | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | Millie |
|
— | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | Mountain Justice |
|
— | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | Dames Ahoy |
|
— | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | Loose Ankles |
|
— | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | Broadway |
|
— | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | Show Boat |
|
— | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | Barnum Was Right |
|
— | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | The Mississippi Gambler |
|
— | 1929 |
| 100% | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg(Old Heidelberg)(The Student Prince) |
|
— | 1928 |
| 63% | The Shepherd of the Hills |
|
— | 1928 |
| No Score Yet | Cheerful Fraud |
|
— | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | Three Bad Men |
|
— | 1926 |
| No Score Yet | What Happened to Jones? |
|
— | 1926 |
| No Score Yet | Perfect Clown |
|
— | 1925 |
| No Score Yet | Mademoiselle Midnight |
|
— | 1924 |
| No Score Yet | Abraham Lincoln |
|
— | 1924 |
Quotes from Otis Harlan's Characters
| Happy: | I'd like to dance and tap my feet / But they won't keep in rhythm. / You see, I washed 'em both today / And I can't do nothin' with 'em. |
| Happy: | This is Dopey. He don't talk none. |
| Snow White: | You mean he can't talk? |
| Happy: | He don't know. He never tried. |
| Snow White: | *laughs* Oh that's too bad. |