Career
He was also a screen writer and novelist. Harry Beresford started his acting career in 1880 on the London stage. He played in the West End as well as Broadway.
His perhaps best-known theatre role was the town drunk Clem Hawley in the play The Good Old Soak.
Between 1925 and 1938 he appeared as a supporting actor in fifty-six films, including,, and He often portrayed doctors, scholasts or scientists.
His last film role was in 1938. As a novelist, he wrote the original story for the 1939 horse racing film Long Shot.