Harry Landis

Who is Harry Landis?

Harry Landis is a British actor. He has had a long career in British television and film and is known for playing cockney-Jewish roles.

He began acting with London's politically minded Unity Theatre. In 1956 Landis had an important supporting role as a Cockney soldier in A Hill in Korea. Michael Caine, who made an unnoticed screen debut in the film, recalled in his autobiography that great things were expected of Landis at the time, but didn't materialise.

Indeed, Landis' other film roles have been pretty minor, as in Bitter Victory, Dunkirk, Operation Bullshine, Private Potter, Ransom with Sean Connery, and Edge of Sanity.

However Landis kept active in other media, returning to the Unity Theatre to help out the largely amateur casts, and occasionally directing there, such as a well-praised late '60s production of Death of a Salesman. On television he appeared in Dixon of Dock Green, The Avengers, The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling, The Long Street, The Saint, Locate and Destroy, Irish-Greek, Man In a Suitcase, Jason King, Angels, Z-Cars and Law and Order.