Lumsden Hare

Lumsden Hare
Lumsden Hare with Elsie Ferguson in The Avalanche (1919)
Born	Francis Lumsden Hare 17 October 1874 Tipperary, Ireland
Died	28 August 1964 (aged 89) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, theatre director and theatrical producer
Years active	1900–61

Lumsden Hare (17 October 1874 – 28 August 1964) was an Irish born film and theatre actor. He was also a theatre director and theatrical producer.

Biography

Born Francis Lumsden Hare in Tipperary, Ireland,^[1] he appeared in more than thirty-five Broadway productions in New York City between 1900 and 1942. He served as director and/or producer for various productions, some starring himself.

He started appearing in films in 1916. By his last screen appearance in 1961, Hare had appeared in more than 140 films and over a dozen television productions. He died, age 89, in Beverly Hills, California.

Partial filmography

with Turhan Bey in Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

• Barbary Sheep (1917)
• The Avalanche (1919)
• The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920)
• The Education of Elizabeth (1921)
• Sherlock Holmes (1922)
• On the Banks of the Wabash (1923)
• Second Youth (1924)
• Girls Gone Wild (1929)
• The Black Watch (1929)
• The Sky Hawk (1929)
• Fugitives (1929)
• Crazy That Way (1930)
• So This Is London (1930)
• Under Suspicion (1930)
• Svengali (1931)
• The Road to Singapore (1931)
• Arrowsmith (1931)
• Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
• International House (1933)
• College Humor (1933)
• His Double Life (1933)
• The House of Rothschild (1934)
• The World Moves On (1934)
• Black Moon(1934)
• The Little Minister (1934)
• The Bishop Misbehaves (1935)
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
• Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
• Clive of India (1935)
• The Crusades (1935)
• The Great Impersonation (1935)
• The Three Musketeers (1935)
• Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
• Under Two Flags (1936)
• The Princess Comes Across (1936)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
• Lloyd's of London (1936)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
• Gunga Din (1939)
• Captain Fury (1939)
• Northwest Passage (1940)
• Rebecca (1940)
• A Dispatch from Reuter's (1940)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
• Suspicion (1941) (uncredited)
• The Blonde from Singapore (1941)
• Passage from Hong Kong (1941)
• The Gorilla Man (1943)
• The Canterville Ghost (1944)
• Jungle Queen (1945 serial)
• The Green Years (1946)
• The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
• The Exile (1947)
• Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
• Hills of Home (1948)
• Challenge to Lassie (1949)
• That Forsyte Woman (1949)
• Dick Turpin's Ride (1951)
• My Cousin Rachel (1952)
• Young Bess (1953)
• Julius Caesar (1953)
• The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)

References

1. Excerpt from Silent Film Necrology by Eugene Michael Vazzano c. 2001 2nd edition

External links

• AllMovie.com.biography
• Lumsden Hare at the Internet Broadway Database
  
• Lumsden Hare at the Internet Movie Database
• Lumsden Hare with Elsie Ferguson in the 1919 silent film The Avalanche
• Lumsden Hare bio (Aveleyman)