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Harry E. Northup
Harry E. Northup
	Harry Northup
Born	September 2, 1940 (age 84); Amarillo, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actor, poet
Years active	1949–present

Harry E. Northup (born September 2, 1940) is an American actor and poet. As an actor, he made frequent appearances in the films of Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme and Jonathan Kaplan.

Personal life and career

Northup was born in Amarillo, Texas. He lived in 17 places by age 17, but mostly in Sidney, Nebraska, where he graduated from high school in 1958. From 1958 to 1961 he served in the United States Navy, where he attained the rank of Second Class Radioman. From 1963 to 1968, he studied Method acting with Frank Corsaro in New York City.^[1]

Northup received his B.A. in English from California State University, Northridge, where he studied poetry with Ann Stanford. He has made a living as an actor for over 30 years and has been in 37 films, including Martin Scorsese's first six feature films: Who's That Knocking at My Door, Boxcar Bertha, Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver and New York, New York. He was Mr. Bimmel in Jonathan Demme's film The Silence of the Lambs and starred in Over the Edge and Fighting Mad.^[2]

Northup has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1976.^[1] His second wife, poet and novelist Holly Prado, died on June 14, 2019.^[3] He has a son, Dylan, by his first marriage.^[4] Poets such as Walt Whitman,^[5] Leland Hickman,^[6] Paul Blackburn,^[7] Ann Stanford,^[8] William Carlos Williams,^[9] and Holly Prado^[10] have influenced Northup's poetry. He conceived and coordinated the weekly poetry reading series "Poetry on Melrose" at Gasoline Alley in Los Angeles, from 1986 to 1988. Poets who read at the venue include Robert Peters, Jack Hirschman and Lewis MacAdams.^[11]

Awards and honors

The City of Los Angeles, as represented by the L.A. City Council, awarded Northup a Certificate of Recognition on November 15, 2006.^[12]

Poetry

Amarillo Born, Victor Jiminez Press, 1966
The Jon Voight Poems, Mt. Averno Press, 1973
Eros Ash, Momentum Press, 1976
Enough The Great Running Chapel, Momentum Press, 1982
The Images We Possess Kill The Capturing, Jesse Press, 1988
The Ragged Vertical, Cahuenga Press, 1996
Reunions, Cahuenga Press, 2001
Greatest Hits, 1966–2001, Pudding House Press, 2002
Red Snow Fence, Cahuenga Press, 2006
Where Bodies Again Recline, Cahuenga Press, 2011
East Hollywood: Memorial To Reason, Cahuenga Press, 2015
Love Poem to MPTF, Cahuenga Press, 2020

Anthologies

Venice Thirteen, Bayrock Press, 1971
The Streets Inside: Ten Los Angeles Poets, Momentum Press, 1978
Foreign Exchange, Biographics, 1979
Poetry Loves Poetry, An Anthology of Los Angeles Poets, Momentum Press, 1985
Gridlock: An anthology of Poetry About Southern California, Applezaba Press, 1990
Grand Passion, The Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, Red Wind Books, 1995
Corners of the Mouth, A Celebration of Thirty Years at the Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, Deer Tree Press, 2014
Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, Pacific Coast Poetry Series/Beyond Baroque Books, 2015
Coiled Serpent, Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles, Tia Chucha Press, 2016
Beat Not Beat anthology, Moon Tide Press, 2022

Audio

Personal Crime, New Alliance Records, 1993
Homes, New Alliance Records, 1995
As Long As I Tell The Truth What Difference Does It Make To You – An Interview with Harry Northup, Alright, Dude Productions, 2010^[13]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1967	Who's That Knocking at My Door	Harry
1971	Alias Smith and Jones	Hank	TV Episode
1972	Boxcar Bertha	Deputy Sheriff Harvey Hall
1973	Mean Streets	Soldier
1973	The All-American Boy	Parker
1974	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Joe & Jim's Bartender
1974	Crazy Mama	FBI Agent
1976	Fighting Mad	Sheriff Skerritt	starring role
	Two-Minute Warning	Lieber (The S.W.A.T. Team)
	Taxi Driver	'Doughboy'	1976 Palme d'Or winner at Cannes
1977	New York, New York	'Alabama'
	Handle With Care	The Red Baron
	Which Way Is Up?	Chief Goon
1978	Blue Collar	Hank
1979	Over the Edge	Sergeant Doberman	starring role
1979	11th Victim	Officer Thorpe
1980	Tom Horn	Thomas Burke
1980	Used Cars	Carmine
1982	The Day the Bubble Burst	Andrew Arvay	TV movie
1982	Knots Landing	Wayne Harkness	TV, recurring role
1984	Nickel Mountain	Frank
1986	The Deliberate Stranger	Tom Hargreaves	TV MiniSeries
1986	North and South: Book II	Major	TV miniseries
1987	Project X	Congressman
1988	Kansas	Governor Dellit
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Mr. Bimmel	1991 Oscar winner for Best Picture
1992	Unlawful Entry	McMurtry, Desk Sergeant
1992	Hero	Mr. Fletcher
1993	Philadelphia	Juror No. 6
1994	Bad Girls	Preacher Sloan
1994	Reform School Girl	Uncle Charlie
1996	In Cold Blood	Minister	TV MiniSeries
1998	Beloved	Sheriff
1998	Four Corners	Tom Brothers	TV series
1999	Brokedown Palace	Leon Smith
2001	ER	Competency Evaluator	TV Episode
2002	The Court	Justice Fitzsimmons	TV, recurring role
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Congressman Flores
2014	That Guy Dick Miller	Himself
2018	Carry Tiger to Mountain	Isaac Solomon

References

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^ ^a ^b Cinema Retro interview by Raymond Benson^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ in am/fm magazine, Mar 22, 2020:https://www.amfm-magazine.tv/harry-e-northup-from-acting-in-martin-scorsese-films-to-writing-poetry/
^ Pineda, Dorany (June 25, 2019). "Holly Prado, poet who championed L.A.'s literary scene, dies at 81". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
^ Northup's Archives
^ LA Reader, article by James Cushing, Friday, September 3, 1982, vol 4, No. 45, p. 12
^ LA Reader, James Cushing, September 3, 1982, vol 4,#45, p. 12
^ Chiron Review, Issue 78, Spring, 2005 p.4
^ LA Reader, article by James Cushing, Friday, September 3, 1982, vol 4, No. 45, p 13]
^ Chiron Review, Issue 78, Spring, 2005, p. 4 & 5
^ Lummox Journal, July 2001, p. 11
^ Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library
^ Cinema Retro vol 5, Issue No. 14 2009 interview by Raymond Benson
^ "Private Video on Vimeo". Archived from the original on November 14, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2011.