Silver Harr

born: 21 September 1892
Rexburg, Idaho,
United States of America
died: 19 September 1968
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California,
United States of America
(age 75)

American actor who had a long career in films, often appearing in Westerns; his 1968 death notices say he was an actor for Warner Bros. for 50 years. Earlier records are hard to find for Harr: the earliest I've currently found is his World War I draft registration card (signed 5 June 1917), where he's living in Los Angeles and working as a "rough rider" for Clarence "Fat" Jones, proprietor of the Fat Jones Stables (which provided horses and other equipment for films for 51 years); he says that his right leg has been broken twice, and that his birth place is unknown, but in the United States. By the time of his 1925 marriage certificate, he began giving it as Idaho.
Real name: Arlie Roy Silver Harr
Height: 6'0"
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

2


1927
A One-Mama Man
Henchman

1929
Election Day
Cop

Acknowledgements:
https://www.theluckycorner.com/rms/081.html (Robert Demoss/The Lucky Corner)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZVN-5KL (WWI draft reg. card)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8N6-9C3 (1925 marriage)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJT-CQ2 (1930 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9Z3-NYL (1940 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V48Y-SRK (WWII draft reg. card)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XLR-299M (1950 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPCC-XJG (CA Death Index)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JB7Z-8PK (Social Security Death Index)
https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/collection/p15759coll35/id/4498/rec/8 (The Standard Casting Directory, Jan 1926)
https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/collection/p15759coll35/id/4945/rec/9 (The Standard Casting Directory, Mar 1926)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/382966902/ (Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep 1968)
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=VTNH19680921.1.15 (San Fernando Valley Times, 21 Sep 1968)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL7-JGS5 (daughter Aileen's birth certificate, 1927)
Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research; identification in A One-Mama Man, Election Day)

This page was last updated on: 17 January 2026