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American composer, lyricist, and film director/producer
Harry Williams (songwriter)
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American composer, lyricist, and film director/producer
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Birth:
23 August 1879(Faribault, Rice County, Minnesota, U.S.A.)
Death:
15 May 1922(Oakland, Alameda County, California, U.S.A.)
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Biography
Harry Hiram Williams (August 23, 1879 – May 15, 1922) was an American composer, lyricist, and publisher of popular music from 1903 until his death in 1922.
One of his early hits, written in 1905 with Egbert Van Alstyne, is "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree". He also produced story ideas and directed silent movies with Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios, according to Sennett's biography The King of Comedy.