Harvey Braban

(b. Bristol, 19/05/1883 - d. Kensington, London, **/**/1943). British stage and film actor. Harvey Braban was a British actor active on stage and in film during the 1920s and 1930s, appearing both in London's West End and on Broadway. The IMDb lists more than 40 movies for him and he frequently played authority figures, including the Chief Inspector in Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929). He came to South Africa to take the part of the villain Simon Macquart in Joseph Albrecht’s film adaptation of The Reef of Stars (1924), based on the novel by H. De Vere Stacpoole. (FO)