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- He landed the lead villain role in the Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy film March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934), and rapidly became a familiar and reliable heavy in pictures both large and small.
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He landed the lead villain role in the Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy film March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934), and rapidly became a familiar and reliable heavy in pictures both large and small. In 1936 he adopted the stage name Henry Brandon after several years of being billed as either Henry or Harry Kleinbach.
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- Berlin, Germany
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) - Henry Brandon as Silas Barnaby - IMDb. Henry Brandon: Silas Barnaby. Showing all 32 items. Jump to: Photos (19) Quotes (13) Photos. Quotes. Barnaby : Who is it? Stannie Dum : It's me. Barnaby : What do you want of this hour of the night?
Henry Brandon was a versatile character player, often called upon to portray various ethnic types. He played the character of Renouf, a deserter from the French Foreign Legion, in the 1939 remake of Beau Geste. In 1943, he played Major Ruck, a British secret agent in the guise of an SS officer in Edge of Darkness.
Hal Roach signed Henry Brandon to play Barnaby after seeing him play the evil old Lawyer Cribbs in the long-running Los Angeles stage melodrama "The Drunkard". Roach wasn't aware that Brandon was only 21 at the time, and demanded to know where the old man was when Brandon appeared at his office.
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- Comedy, Family, Fantasy
- Gus Meins, Charley Rogers
- 1934-12-14
Nov 21, 2022 · He later changed his name to Henry Brandon and appeared in over 100 films throughout his 60 year career. Brandon played essentially the same character as an opera impresario who torments poor, poor Alfalfa in Our Gang Follies of 1938.
Nov 22, 2018 · Roach hired 21-year-old Henry Kleinbach (Henry Brandon) for the role of Silas Barnaby after seeing him in a play one night.
From a scene in the shoe house: Clockwise from top, Henry Brandon, Florence Roberts (as the Widow Peep), Charlotte Henry, Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The pair finally manages to free Widow Peep from the mortgage so that Bo-Peep can marry Tom-Tom, but Barnaby gets his revenge.
