- (1920 - 1954) Active on Broadway as an actor [sometimes credited as harry C. Bannister], director and/or producer in the following productions:
- (1920) Stage Play: The Passing Show of 1921. Musical revue. Music by Jean Schwartz; Book by Harold Atteridge; Lyrics by Harold Atteridge; Incidental music by Al Goodman; Additional music by Lew Pollock, Abner Silver, Howard Brothers, Ernie Erdman, Malvin M. Franklin, Richard Whiting, Frank Magine and Charley Straight. Musical Director: Al Goodman. Music orchestrated by J. Bodewalt Lampe. Additional lyrics by Alfred Bryan, Fred Rose, Alex Gerber, Richard Egan, Sidney Clare, Sidney D Mitchell and Joe Lyons. Dream Fantasies Ballet Conceived and Executed by Cleveland Bronner. Directed by J.C. Huffman and Max Scheck. Winter Garden Theatre: 29 Dec 1920- 28 May 1921 (191 performances).
- (1924) Stage Play: The Busybody. Comedy. Written by Dorrance Davis [earliest Broadway credit]. Directed by Clarke Silvernail. Bijou Theatre: 29 Sep 1924- Nov 1924 (closing date unknown/64 performances). Cast: Harry Bannister [credited as Harry C. Bannister] (as "Ernest Cadman"), Florence Denman (as "Hilda"), Josephine Drake (as "The Lady Across the Hall"), Mildred Florence (as "Minerva Culpepper"), Joseph Guthrie (as "The Janitor"), Nelan H. Jaap (as "Edward Culpepper"), Edward Keane (as "Ignatius J. Cassidy"), Lisle Leigh (as "Miss Hammer"), William Leonard (as "Archibald Stubbs"), Ada Lewis (as "Mrs. Cornelia Culpepper"), Dan Marlowe (as "A Detective"), Fred Richards (as "Another Detective"), Minnie Stanley (as "The Woman Downstairs"), Helen Stewart (as "Sally Culpepper"), Basil West (as "Professor Kelp"), Josephine Whittell (as "Rosamond Rossmore"). Produced by George Choos.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Valley of Content.
- (1926) Stage Play: Yellow. Melodrama. Written by Margaret Vernon. Directed by John Meehan. National Theatre: 21 Sep 1926- Jan 1927 (closing date unknown/135 performances). Cast: Harry Bannister (as "Inspector Graney"), Frank Burbeck (as "An Old Roue"), Eva Casanova (as "Carrie Williams"), Paul Doucet [credited as H. Paul Doucet] (as "Louis"), Richard Freeman (as "Paul"), Joseph Guthrie (as "Hotel Porter"), Walter Hale (as "Page Boy"), Hale Hamilton (as "Jack Crompton"), Paul Hanson (as "Policeman"), Frank Kingdon (as "Thomas W. Sayre"), Helen Macks (as "Check Girl Martin Malloy (as "Welles Mary Meehan (as "Cigarette Girl"), Chester Morris (as "Val Parker"), Daniel Pennell (as "Donaldson"), Jose Rivas (as "Hotel Waiter"), Selena Royle (as "Polly"), Spencer Tracy (as "Jimmy Wilkes"), Shirley Warde (as "Daisy Lingard"), Jane Wheatley (as "Mrs. Sayre"), Marjorie Wood (as "Jen Wilkes"). Produced by George M. Cohan.
- (1927) Stage Play: Revelry. Written by Maurine Dallas Watkins. Based the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Directed and produced by Robert Milton. Theatre Masque: 12 Sep 1927- Oct 1927 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: Harry Bannister, 'Lionel Bevans' (as "Second Guard"), Frederick Burton, Berton Churchill (as "Willis Markham"), James Crane, Jefferson De Angelis, Charles Ellis, Rose Hobart (as "Gladys Hartley"), Irene Homer, Adele Klaer, George MacFarlane, William B. Mack, David Munroe, Eleanor Woodruff.
- (1933) Stage Play: Late One Evening. Written by Audrey Carten and Waveney Carton. Directed by Cecil Humphreys. Plymouth Theatre: 9 Jan 1933- Jan 1933 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Roman Arnoldoff, Daisy Belmore, Donn Bonhoff, H. Langdon Bruce, Hugh Buckler, John Buckler, Richard Carey, Ernestine De Becker, Helen Deddens, Edward Emery, Dennis Gurney, Hans Hansen, Orville Harris, Winifred Harris, Ursula Jeans, Isabel Keightley, Eva Leonard Boyne (as "Nurse"), Isidore Marcil, Vera Fuller Mellish, H.C. Neslo, Audrey Ridgwell, Ernest Roberts, Ralph Roberts, Antionette Rochte, Enid Romany, Edward Ryan, Estelle Scheer, Gilbert Squarey, Alice May Tuck, Richard Warner. Produced by Harry Bannister.
- (1934) Stage Play: The Drunkard. Melodrama (revival). Written by H.S. Smith. Directed by Harry Bannister. American Music Hall: 10 Mar 1934- Nov 1934 (closing date unknown/554 performances). Cast: Master Eddie Bracken (as "Boy"), Hal Conklin (as "Edward Middleton"), James Coyle (as "Farmer Stevens"), Dortha Duckworth (as "Mary/Mrs. Wilson's daughter"), Katherine Hirsch (as "Agnes/Dowton's sister"), Stan Huff (as "Bar Fly"), Vera G. Hurst (as "Mrs. Wilson"), Charles Jordan (as "William Dowton"), George Mura (as "Arden Rendelaw"), June Mura (as "Julia"), Alfred Regali (as "Landlord"), Herbert Shelley (as "Farmer Gates"), Sandy Strouse (as "Bar Fly"), Robert Vivian (as "Squire Cribbs"). Produced by Fifty-fifth Street Group Inc.
- (1938) Stage Play: The Good.
- (1939) Stage Play: I Must Love Someone.
- (1942) Stage Play: Strip for Action.
- (1945) Stage Play: Polanaise. Musical.
- (1947) Stage Play: John Loves Mary. Comedy/farce.
- (1949) Stage Play: Forward the Heart. Drama.
- (1949) Stage Play: Love Me Long. Comedy.
- (1950) Stage Play: Affairs of State. Comedy.
- (1953) Stage Play: The Bat. Melodrama/mystery.
- (1954) Stage Play: Mademoiselle Colombe. Written by Jean Anouilh. Book adapted by Louis Kronenberger. Scenic Design by Boris Aronson. Directed by Harold Clurman. Longacre Theatre: 6 Jan 1954- 27 Feb 1954 (61 performances). Cast: Edna Best (as "Mme. Alexandra"), Julie Harris (as "Colombe"), Sam Jaffe (as "Gourette"), Eli Wallach (as "Julien"), Harry Bannister (as "Gaulois") [final Broadway role], Jeanne Jerrems (as "Dancer"), Edward Julien (as "Chiropodist") [Broadway debut], Nehemiah Persoff (as "Hairdresser"), Lee Philips (as "Dancer"), Edna Preston (as "Mme. Georges"), Mikhail Rasumny (as "Poet-Mine-Own"), Gregory Robins (as "Stagehand"), Frank Silvera (as "Deschamps"), Joanne Taylor (as "Manicurist"), William Windom (as "Edouard"). Produced by Robert L. Joseph and Jay Julien.
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