Harvey Braban | |
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Born | 19 May 1883 Brighton, Sussex United Kingdom |
Died | 1943 |
Years active | 1920-1938 (films) |
Harvey Braban (1883-1943) was a British stage and film actor.
Braban performed regularly in West End plays and from 1920 began appearing in silent films made by the leading British studios Stoll Pictures and the Ideal Film Company. Braban played the Chief Inspector in Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail and thereafter often portrayed policemen or other official figures of authority on screen. One of his final roles was that of the Victorian Prime Minister Lord Salisbury in the 1938 film Sixty Glorious Years.