Harry Handworth

Harry Handworth (1878 – March 22, 1916) was a silent film actor and director from the United States.

Harry Handworth
Born	1878 Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died	March 22, 1916 (aged 38) Brooklyn, New York, United States
Occupation(s)	Film actor and director
Years active	1914–1916
Spouse	Octavia Handworth (m.1905 - 1916, his death)[1] 1 child
Children	Elsie Handworth (1907-1994)

He was the manager of the Pathe Freres^[2] and then president of Excelsior Feature Film Company. Beginning in 1914, he often worked in Lake Placid, New York and shot several films there, among them The Toll of Mammon.^[3] The film was about a fake cure for tuberculosis (the disease he died from).^[4][5] He also directed the play Cranberry Corners at the Lake Placid Opera House.^[6] He continued to shoot films in the Adirondack resort in 1916.^[7]

He died of tuberculosis in St. Mary's Hospital in Brooklyn in 1916.^[5]

Selected filmography

• When Fate Leads Trump (1914)^[8]
• The Toll of Mammon (1914)^[9]
• Anselo Lee (1915)
• The Question (director, 1916)^[10]
• Artie, the Millionaire Kid (producer, 1916)^[11][12][13]