Career
In Hollywood, he co-starred on a radio program with Hedda Hopper. In 1949, he contracted with Columbia Pictures and played in the serials, The Adventures of Sir Galahad and Batman and Robin (both 1949), and Atom Manitoba versus Superman (1950). Harvey appeared in 180 films and television programs between 1945 and 1963.
During the late 1940s alone, he appeared in fifteen films and television programs.
Harvey"s second film and his first credited role were Dragnet (1947), starring Henry Wilcoxon and Robert Kent, and the exploitation film, She Shoulda Said Number! (1949), respectively. Harvey died in 1963 at the age of fifty-one of a heart attack in Studio City, California.
1950s Television: The Cisco Kid (1950), Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951), The Range Rider (1951–1952), The Gene Autry Show (1951–1953), The Adventures of Kit Carson (1953–1954), Captain Midnight (1954–1955), Annie Oakley, (five episodes, 1954-1955), The Millionaire (1955), The and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955-1960), Sky King (1956, in "Rocket Story"), Frontier Doctor (1958), The Donna Reed Show (1959), Riverboat (1959), and Colt.45 as Sergeant Billings and as Sheriff Clinter (1959-1960). 1960s Film: In 1963, Harvey procured a bit part in Stanley Kramer"s massive $9 million, 12-star production, lieutenant"s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World which starred Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, and Milton Berle among others
Harvey got the role of a police officer, but offscreen he was the first cast member to die after completion of the filming.
Television: During the 1960s, Harvey appeared in the popular genre of American westerns: Sugarfoot (1960), The Tall Manitoba (1961), Bonanza (1961), Wagon Train (1961), Perry Mason (1961), Rawhide (1961–1962), Laramie (1962), Maverick (1962), and The Virginian (1963). He also appeared in the mystery/crime dramas of Surfside 6 (1962), Hawaiian Eye (1960–1962), Checkmate (1962), and Empire (1963).
