Very active in the theater (he performed on Broadway from 1917 to
1957), Harold Vermilyea occasionally worked in television and in the
movies, where after a false start in the nineteen tens, he landed a few
interesting parts in a series of post-Second-World-War film-noirs for
Paramount, RKO and 20th Century-Fox, such as "The Big Clock" or "Sorry,
Wrong Number".
