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Actor, Robert Harron, was born Robert Emmett Harron on Apr 12, 1893 in New York City, NY. Harron died at the age of 27 on Sep 5, 1920 in Manhattan, NY .

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Tragic Griffith Stars: Clarine Seymour and Robert Harron

By FlickChick on Jul 16, 2015 From A Person in the Dark

Clarine Seymour and Robert Harron in "True Heart Susie" In 1919, both Bobby Harron and Clarine Seymour were the pets of director D.W. Griffith. Other than super-pet Lillian Gish, no one in the Griffith stock company seemed to have held a more secure place than Bobby. While not in the Lillian categ... Read full article


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Although he played Lillian Gish's brother in The Birth of a Nation (1915), he also donned blackface and played one of the black townsfolk in a crowd scene when director D.W. Griffith was short an extra.

D.W. Griffith's legendary cameraman, G.W. Bitzer, gave this first-hand account of his friend Harron's mysterious death: "He lived . . . long enough to make his confession and receive the sacraments from Father William Humphrey . . . the priest who had brought him as a boy to the old Biograph studio . . . Bobby would not have lied to him . . . His death marked the end of an era. With Bobby's passing, some thread of unity seemed to leave us . . . We felt that Bobby had brought us luck when he came to us so young and eager . . . After Bobby's death in 1920, it was never the same again."

Off screen pseudonym: Willie McBain

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