Harry Pilcer
Film actor
1885 –
Who is Harry Pilcer?
Harry Pilcer was an American actor, dancer, choreographer and lyricist. He is mainly remembered for his association with French dancer and singer Gaby Deslys who may have been his wife. They appeared in four Broadway musicals together Vera Violetta, The Honeymoon Express, The Belle of Bond Street and Stop Look! Listen!. He composed Deslys's waltz The Gaby Glide. As a dance team Pilcer and Deslys were contemporaries to Vernon and Irene Castle, Florence Walton and "Maurice", Dorothy Dickson and husband Carl Hyson, and Genevieve Lyon and her husband John Murray Anderson. Pilcer and Deslys would probably have been the top dance team in both America and Europe had not World War I intervened and Deslys's death from influenza in 1920. Pilcer also danced with Mistinguett and Teddy Bernard. After 1922 Pilcer ran a school of dancing in Paris. Pilcer co-starred with Deslys in her 1915 silent film Her Triumph.
Pilcer died at Cannes of a heart attack January 14, 1961.
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