Biography
Not to be confused with the later 20th Century-Fox contract player of the same name, silent screen actor Harry Carter had appeared in repertory with Mrs. Fiske and directed The Red Mill for Broadway impresario Charles Frohman prior to entering films with Universal in 1914. Often cast as a smooth villain, the dark-haired Carter made serials something of a specialty, menacing future director Robert Z. Leonard in
The Master Key (1914); playing the title menace in
The Gray Ghost (1917); and acting supercilious towards Big Top performers
Eddie Polo and
Eileen Sedgwick in
Lure of the Circus (1918). In addition to his serial work, Carter played General Von Kluck in the infamous propaganda piece The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918). It was back to chapterplays in the 1920s, where he menaced
Claire Anderson and
Grace Darmond in two very low-budget examples of the genre: The Fatal Sign (1920) and
The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide