Harry Charles Bradley Cockrill (1869-1947) was 60 when he made his first film, but still managed to accumulate well over 200 appearances in the next seventeen years.
Bradley started out as a legitimate actor on the stage, performing regularly on Broadway from the late 1900s. From 1922 to 1927 he performed more than 2,300 times in the original production of Abie’s Irish Rose.
In 1929, Bradley was part of the exodus from New York to Hollywood, making his screen debut in a Paramount short called The Home Edition (1929). Thereafter, he was mostly uncredited, but with the occasional featured role, for example in Warner’s Convention City (1933). He had a prominent role in Heat Lightning (1934) for the same studio. He worked for Capra in Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and Hawks in His Girl Friday (1940).
Bradley was uncredited in four MGM musicals:Dancing Lady, Broadway Melody of 1938, The Big Store and Girl Crazy.
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