Harold R Minger (1895-1976) was a theatre actor active on Broadway in the 1920s, including in multiple editions of the Grand Street Follies, in which he performed alongside James Cagney in 1928.
Minjir travelled to Hollywood, like so many others, in the early years of sound. IMDb suggests he did an uncredited bit in Cagney’s The Public Enemy (1931), but the AFI states his first film as being a featured supporting role in Daughter of the Dragon (1931), the last of Warner Oland’s Fu Manchu pictures, and also starring Anna May Wong.
He went on to make around sixty films, including Jewel Robbery (1932), Wife vs Secretary (1936), Lubitsch’s Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938) and Blondie (1938), the first in the Dagwood and Blondie series.
Minjir’s last decent role was in The Great Commandment (1939), a strange independent production in which he played the apostle Andrew. After that, he was restricted to small, uncredited appearances in films including Lang’s The Woman in the Window (1944) and, at the age of 50, he walked away from Hollywood. It may be presumed he returned to the stage, but no information seems readily available.
Minjir appeared as the travel bureau agent in MGM’s The Cat and the Fiddle.
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