H.M. Walker
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- June 27, 1878
- Died
- June 23, 1937 (aged 58)
- Birthplace
- West Middlebury, Ohio, USA
Biography
WALKER, H.M. (Harley Marquis Walker) started as a telegrapher, tapping out the descriptions of sportswriters at boxing matches and sending them to the offices of their newspapers. In 1903 he became a sportswriter himself and wrote a column, “The Wisdom of Blinkey Ben,” for the Los Angeles Examiner before joining Roach in 1917 as a part-time scenario and title writer for Harold Lloyd. In 1920, he left newspaper work and joined Roach full time as head of the editorial department. A brilliant title writer in the silent era, Walker was less skilled at dialogue; he was credited for providing these elements on more than 350 Roach comedies. He usually came up with the title for each film and also wrote fairly severe critiques after each preview. After leaving Roach in 1932 he wrote dialogue for some features, including Son of a Sailor (1933) with Joe E. Brown, W.C. Fields’ The Old Fashioned Way (1934), and the ZaSu Pitts picture Affair of Susan (1935). Walker died in the home of his good friend Leroy Shield, who had written scores at the Roach lot in 1930 and ’31. Died June 23, 1937, Chicago, Illinois, age 58; of a heart attack. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harley M. "Beanie" Walker (June 27, 1878 – June 23, 1937) was a member of the Hal Roach movie production company from 1916 until his resignation in 1932. The title cards he wrote for Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase, Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy comedies "have entered legend, both for silent films, and as opening remarks for the earlier talkies." He was also an officer of the Roach Studio corporation. On Roach's "Lot of Fun", script development usually started with meetings among the gag men, who would develop what was known as an "action script": the outline of the story and a description of the scenes and some of the sight gags, which generally would run three to six legal-size pages. This document would then pass to Walker, the head of the editorial department, which oversaw not only script editing, but film editing as well. Walker usually came up with the title of each film, wrote "brilliantly witty" title cards which would be produced and inserted into the film, and wrote a critique before the picture went out to the distributors, Pathé Exchange, or later, M-G-M. Walker's writing did not transition well to talkies and by 1931 he had left Roach studio and wrote dialogue for comedies produced by ex-Roach general manager Warren Doane at Universal Pictures. Later, he worked at Paramount Pictures, where he contributed to the W. C. Fields picture The Old Fashioned Way (1934).
Known For
Filmography
Wonder Dogs! Canine Stars of the Silent Era (1898-1928)
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Public Ghost # 1
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Them Thar Hills
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Her First Mate
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They Just Had to Get Married
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Pack Up Your Troubles
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Any Old Port!
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The Chimp
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What Price Taxi
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The Nickel Nurser
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Red Noses
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In Walked Charley
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The Old Bull
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Alum and Eve
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The Music Box
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Scram!
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County Hospital
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First in War
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Young Ironsides
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Girl Grief
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Helpmates
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The Tabasco Kid
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The Pooch
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Choo-Choo!
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Spanky
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Strictly Unreliable
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Show Business
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You're Telling Me
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Free Eats
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Beau Hunks
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Be Big!
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On the Loose
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Our Wife
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Playing at Politics
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War Mamas
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The Pajama Party
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Let's Do Things
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The Chiselers
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Catch-As Catch-Can
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Thundering Tenors
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Rough Seas
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Messing Around
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Hasty Marriage
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Skip the Maloo!
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What a Bozo!
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One of the Smiths
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The soul of the party
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One Good Turn
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Come Clean
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Chickens Come Home
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Helping Grandma
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Shiver My Timbers
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Love Business
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Little Daddy
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Pardon Us
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Haunted at Midnight
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Call a Cop!
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The Panic Is On
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
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Night Owls
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Dollar Dizzy
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The Fighting Parson
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The Big Kick
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The Shrimp
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The King
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The Head Guy
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Below Zero
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Hog Wild
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The Night Life
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Girl Shock
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The golf player
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The golfer
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The prince of the dollar
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Gold Diggers
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High C's
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Fast Work
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A gray in the air
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Follies of love
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All Teed Up
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Blotto
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Brats
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Shivering Shakespeare
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The First Seven Years
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When the Wind Blows
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Teacher's Pet
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Whispering Whoopee
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Night of Goblins
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Bear Shooters
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Another Fine Mess
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School's Out
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Doctor's Orders
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Los cazadores de osos
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Temps d'Hiver
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The Real McCoy
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Big Business
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Liberty
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Double Whoopee
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Men O' War
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Boxing Gloves
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Small Talk
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Skirt Shy
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Unaccustomed as We Are
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Wrong Again
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Angora Love
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Hotter Than Hot
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Moan & Groan, Inc.
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Bouncing Babies
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Crazy Feet
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Sky Boy
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The Finishing Touch
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Their Purple Moment
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From Soup to Nuts
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Came the Dawn
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Playin' Hookey
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Early to Bed
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Should Married Men Go Home?
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You're Darn Tootin'
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Fluttering Hearts
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Sugar Daddies
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Many Scrappy Returns
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Should Men Walk Home?
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Putting Pants on Philip
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The Sting of Stings
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Sailors, Beware!
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Fighting Fathers
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The Nickel-Hopper
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Get 'Em Young
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Good Cheer
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Long Fliv the King
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Papa Be Good!
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The Black Cyclone
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Just a Good Guy
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Wide Open Spaces
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The Battling Orioles
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Brothers Under the Chin
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A Truthful Liar
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The White Sheep
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Heavy Seas
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Uncensored Movies
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Mother's Joy
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The Whole Truth
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Grandma's Boy
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Now or Never
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Never Weaken
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An Eastern Westerner
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Number, Please?
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Haunted Spooks
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His Royal Slyness
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Get Out and Get Under
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High and Dizzy
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Bumping Into Broadway
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Ask Father
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Heap Big Chief
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Chop Suey & Co.
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Billy Blazes, Esq.
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Fireman Save My Child
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A Gasoline Wedding
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The Tip
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Here Come the Girls
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Beat It
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All Aboard
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We Never Sleep
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Clubs Are Trump
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Rainbow Island
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Love, Laughs and Lather
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By the Sad Sea Waves
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The Flirt
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Bliss
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From Laramie to London
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Birds of a Feather
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Step Lively
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