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Harold Huber

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Actor
Born:
1910 in New York City, NY
Death:
September 26, 1959 in New York City, NY
Biography:Given the fact that the mustachioed, beady-eyed "Harold Huber" looked as though he'd stepped right out of a "Damon Runyon" story, it's hard to believe that Huber could ever have hoped for a successful career as a lawyer. Yet it is true that Huber, a graduate of the Columbia University law school, did indeed briefly hang out an attorney's shingle. By the time he was in his mid-20s, however, Huber had switched to acting, often in shifty, underhanded roles of various nationalities. He showed up in a handful of Charlie Chan films, usually equipped with an unconvincing comic-opera foreign accent; he was, however, thoroughly convincing as the fast-talking New York police detective in 1937's "Charlie Chan on Broadway". A busy radio and television performer, "Harold Huber" starred on the radio versions of "Fu Manchu" and "Hercule Poirot", and was top-billed as Broadway columnist Johnny Warren on the 1950 TV... Full Biography
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