What is that Guys Name.......Harry Lauter

I have always loved movies,and  have seen tons of them, good and bad. In many of these films there were always a couple of faces that you see over and over in bit parts, but you would never know their names. These people were called "bit actors". They were always in the back ground and were always either a cop or the  bad guy. One of these actors was Harry Lauter who seemed to be in every movie and television show from the 40's to the 80's. Mr. Lauter died in the 1990's but lives on in many, many great films and TV programs.

Here is a short biography.

In a career of close to 50 years, he appeared in a large number of television episodes and Hollywood movies, often as either a villain, soldier, or policeman. Raised originally in suburban New York, he made his silver screen debut in "The Family Ford" (1930); beginning in the 1940s, he was kept busy in Hollywood, mostly for Columbia and Republic, attracting notice as a detective in the 1949 "White Heat", with James Cagney. Among his other films were "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), the 1957 "Hellcats of the Navy", with Ronald Reagan, and 1971's "Escape From the Planet of the Apes". From the 1950s on, Lauter amassed numerous television credits, with his only starring role being that of 'Clay Morgan' in "Tales of the Texas Rangers", which ran from 1955 until 1958; his other appearances, often in reoccurring parts, included "Dragnet", "Maverick", "Gunsmoke", "The Gene Autry Show", "Cheyenne", "Bonanza", "Rawhide", "Laramie", and "State Trooper", as well as such lighter fare as "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" and "My Little Margie". Lauter retired from show business following his turn as Marshal Charlie Benton in the 1979 "How the West Was Won". His final years were spent painting and running a California art gallery.