Harry Gribbon

Harry Peter Gribbon was born on June 9, 1885, in New York City.^[1] He was the brother of actor Eddie Gribbon.^[2]

Gribbon started in vaudeville, performing on the Keith, Orpheum, and Pantages circuits,^[2] and in 1913 he became the leading man^[1] in the Ziegfeld Follies.^[3] He performed on stage in approximately 200 productions, including Buster Brown, The Man Who Owned Broadway, and The Red Widow, after which Mack Sennett signed him to make films.^[4] Gribbon's Broadway credits included Meet a Body (1944), Mr. Big (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Delicate Story (1940), and Alley Cat (1934).^[5]

Gribbon worked for the L-KO Kompany. From 1915, Gribbon worked in silent cinema, first at Lubin under the sobriquet 'Rubber-faced Harry', which became 'Silk Hat Harry', when he joined Keystone later that year as top-hatted, amply moustachioed comic villain. During the sound era, acted in several RKO/Pathe short comediesar.^{[citation needed]}

Gribbon was married to actress May Emory. He died on July 28, 1961, in Los Angeles, California^[2] at the Motion Picture Country Home.^[3] He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California next to his wife.^[6]