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Harry Richman Biography

Harry Richman aka Harold Reichman
Harry Richman
Harold Reichman
Born: 1895-08-10
Died: 1972-11-03
Location of Death: Hollywood, California

Race: White
Field: Musician, Actor
Famous for: Puttin' on the Ritz

Field: Musician

Harry Richman (10 August 1895–3 November 1972) was an American entertainer. He was a singer, actor, dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and night club performer, at his most popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

Richman was born as Harold Reichman in Cincinnati, Ohio. He changed his name to "Harry Richman" at age 18, by which time he was already a professional entertainer in vaudeville. He worked as a piano accompanist to such stars as Mae West and Nora Bayes. With Bayes' act he made his Broadway debut in 1922. He appeared in several editions of the George White's Scandals in the 1920s to acclaim. He appeared in the 1931 Ziegfeld Follies.

He made his feature movie debut in Hollywood in 1930 with the film Puttin' on the Ritz, featuring the Irving Berlin song of the same title, which gave Richman a phonograph record hit that year.

Richman was also an amateur aviator of some accomplishment, being the co-pilot in 1936, with famed flyer Henry Tindall "Dick" Merrill, of the first round-trip Trans-Atlantic flight in his own single-engine Vultee transport.

He also made regular radio broadcasts in the 1930s.

Richman largely retired in the 1940s, although he made irregular appearances, including on television, into the 1950s.

His autobiography A Hell of a Life was published in 1966.

Harry Richman died in Hollywood, California.

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