Carter B. Harkness was an actor with Thanhouser circa 1911-1912.
Carter B. Harkness
A Thanhouser Company player, in one film you can watch free online.
Watch Carter B. HarknessOpens The Star of Bethlehem (1912)
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Films you can watch
From the encyclopedia
The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 117 words.
Carter B. Harkness was born in 1888. His stage career included three years in stock, after which he entered films, working with Biograph, Thanhouser, Edison (The Battle of Tapoli), Fox (Gold and the Woman, March 1916; Her People), and Rador (The Spirit of 1917). He was among the Thanhouser employees in attendance at the First Annual Entertainment and Dance held at Germania Hall, New Rochelle, on April 15, 1912. In 1911 and 1912 his residence was 212 Main Street, New Rochelle. A 1918 directory noted that he was 5’11” tall and had a medium complexion. At the time he lived at 727 Eighth Avenue, New York City.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “HARKNESS, Carter B.” thanhouser.org/research/people/carter-b-harkness/