Harry Henderson was an actor in theater and films in the United States. He made four films with the

Colored Players Film Corporation The Colored Players Film Corporation, also known as The Colored Players Film Corporation of Philadelphia, was an independent silent film production company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Primarily founded by David Starkman and Sherman H. Du ...

. He was also cast in several

Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled ...

films and had a starring role in the film melodrama ''

The Scar of Shame ''The Scar of Shame'' is a silent film shot in the winter of 1927 and released in April 1929. It is a silent film melodrama featuring black actors and was written for a predominantly black audience.Cripps, Thomas. Black Film as Genre. Indiana Un ...

''. He portrays a wealthy concert pianist in the film. He also had a lead role in the 1926 film '' The Prince of His Race''.

Filmography

*'' Uncle Jasper's Will'' (1922) *'' The Dungeon'' (1922) *'' The Ghost of Tolston's Manor'' (1923) *'' The Virgin of Seminole'' (1923) *'' Ten Nights in a Barroom'' (1926) as Willie Hammond, the Judge's Son *'' The Prince of His Race'' (1926) as Tom Beuford *''

The House Behind the Cedars ''The House Behind the Cedars'' is a 1927 silent film, silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by the noted director Oscar Micheaux. It was loosely adapted from the The House Behind the Cedars (book), 1900 novel of the same ...

'' (1927) *'' Children of Fate'' (1928) *''

'' (1929) as Alvin Hillyard

References

African-American male actors American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors 20th-century African-American people {{US-film-actor-stub