Harry Lewis (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Harry Lewis (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Harry L. Lewis (April 1, 1920 â€" June 9, 2013) was a supporting actor

in films and was the founder, along with his wife Marilyn, of the

"Hamburger Hamlet" restaurant chain.Lewis was born in Los Angeles,

California, on April 1, 1920. His first film role was as a flagman in

Dive Bomber (1941). He was immediately put under contract to Warner

Bros., at which he made several films. He is perhaps best remembered

for his role as Edward "Toots" Bass, one of Edward G. Robinson's

henchmen, with his film career interrupted when he enlisted in the

Army Air Forces and appeared in the cast of Winged Victory (1944).

After the war he returned to Warners and appeared in 1948's Key

Largo.Other small film roles included appearances as Claude Rains's

butler in The Unsuspected (1947), Sheriff Clyde Boston in Gun Crazy

(1949), the head of a gang of criminals in Blonde Dynamite (1950), and

as a gangster in "The Monkey Mystery" episode of Adventures of

Superman on television (1951). He also had a minor role as a slave in

Cecil B. Demille's epic The Ten Commandments.In 1950, Lewis and his

then girlfriend Marilyn Friedman, invested $3,500 to open the

Hamburger Hamlet restaurant at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and

Hilldale Avenue on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The restaurant was

successful and grew into a chain of 24 locations. The couple's two

children, David and Adam, joined them in the restaurant business. The

Lewises took Hamburger Hamlet public in 1969, and sold the company for

$29.2 million in 1987. After the sale, the couple opened new

independent restaurants in the Los Angeles area. The reason they gave

for the name "Hamburger Hamlet" was because they meant for the eatery

to be a restaurant where actors could hang out, and that it was every

actor's dream to play Hamlet.
Harry Lewis (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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