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Harry Bannister (September 29, 1889 - February 26, 1961), was an American stage, film and television actor, and theater producer and director.

Born in Holland, Michigan
Holland, Michigan

Holland is a city in the West Michigan region of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan on Lake Macatawa, which is fed by the Macatawa River ....
, Bannister began acting in movies and on Broadway in the 1920. He married the actress Ann Harding
Ann Harding

Ann Harding was an American theatre, film, radio, and television actress....
 in 1926, and appeared with her in two films, Her Private Affair (1929) and The Girl of the Golden West (1930). They were divorced in 1932.

Bannister founded the American Music Hall Theatre Group in New York City.






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Harry Bannister (September 29, 1889 - February 26, 1961), was an American stage, film and television actor, and theater producer and director.

Born in Holland, Michigan
Holland, Michigan

Holland is a city in the West Michigan region of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan on Lake Macatawa, which is fed by the Macatawa River ....
, Bannister began acting in movies and on Broadway in the 1920. He married the actress Ann Harding
Ann Harding

Ann Harding was an American theatre, film, radio, and television actress....
 in 1926, and appeared with her in two films, Her Private Affair (1929) and The Girl of the Golden West (1930). They were divorced in 1932.

Bannister founded the American Music Hall Theatre Group in New York City. Its first production, a melodrama entitled The Drunkard, ran for 277 performances. He appeared regularly on Broadway in the 1950s, starring, opposite Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
, in Affairs of State
Affairs of State

Affairs of State is a 1950 Broadway comedy written and directed by Louis Verneuil. It opened at the Royale Theatre, then moved to the Music Box Theatre and played for a total of 610 performances....
 and in Love Me Long with Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth was an American actress.Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway theatre career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba , for which she received a Tony Award in 1950....
.

On television Bannister played one of the fathers in the 1953 Russel Crouse
Russel Crouse

Russel Crouse was an American playwright and librettist, best known for his work in the Broadway theatre writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse....
 series Life with Father
Life with Father

Life with Father is the title of a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day, which was adapted into a 1939 Broadway play by Lindsay and Crouse, which was, in turn, made into a 1947 movie and a television series....
.

He died in New York City
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 at 72.

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