Background
Harry Shannon was born on a farm in Saginaw, Michigan.
Harry Shannon was born on a farm in Saginaw, Michigan.
He often appeared in Western films. He began his career in live theatre and vaudeville, and switched to the film industry in the 1930s. Although he played most frequently in Westerns, his best-known film role was perhaps as Charles Foster Kane"s rough father in.
Among his other films were Someone to Remember (1943), Alaska Highway (1943), San Quentin (1946), and Witness to Murder (1954).
In 1960, he was cast as the outlaw Clay Hooper in the episode "Showdown at Goldtown" of the American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers western television series, Colt.45. The guest cast included Robert Colbert, Ruta Lee, and Dan Sheridan.
Shannon died at the age of seventy-four in Hollywood, California.