Actor. He was best known for playing the character roles of bartenders, jailers, deputies, ranchers, barflies, townsmen, and trappers, usually in classic westerns, but some were uncredited. He will be best remembered for playing the role of 'Doc Jordan' in the western film, "Shotgun Pass" (1931). The film which was directed by J.P. McGowan, which was written for the screen by Robert Quigley, and which also starred Tim McCoy, Virginia Lee Corbin, and Monte Vandergrift, tells the story of Tim Walker who has rounded up horses for delivery to the United States Army and needs to drive them through Shotgun Pass. The Mitchell brothers are also in the horse business and they have blocked the pass in an attempt to stop him. He was born as Harry Delroy to John Delroy and his wife Martha Webb Delroy in Wheaton, Illinois, on July 2, 1878. He worked as a clown with the Kit Carson Wild West Show and was given the nickname of The Mayor of Gower Gulch before appearing in films. He made his actual film debut playing the role of 'Angus McBride' in the film drama, "Stormy Seas" (1923). The film which was directed and starred J.P. McGowan, which was written for the screen by Arthur W. Donaldson, and which also starred Helen Holmes, Leslie Casey, tells the story of two men in love with the same girl, who race to save her when she is trapped aboard a ship on fire in storm-swept seas. Besides, "Stormy Seas" (1923), and "Shotgun Pass" (1931), his many other film credits include, "Bad Men's Money" (1929), "O'Malley Rides Alone" (1930), "Call The Desert" (1930), "The Canyon Of Missing Men" (1930), "The Lone Rider" (1930), "Beyond The Law" (1930), "Pardon My Gun" (1930), "Near The Trail's End" (1931), "The Range Feud" (1931), "Ghost City" (1932), "Lawless Valley" (1932), "The Scarlet Brand" (1932), "The Riding Toronado" (1932), "Two-Fisted Law" (1932), "Broadway To Cheyenne" (1932), "Between Fighting Men" (1932), "Young Blood" (1932), "Forbidden Trail" (1932), "Treason" (1933), "Phantom Thunderbolt" (1933), "The Circus Queen Mother" (1933), "The Lone Avenger" (1933), "The Man Trailer" (1934), "Tracy Rides" (1935), "The Cowboy And The Bandit" (1935), "Fighting Shadows' (1935), "Border Brigands" (1935), "Rio Rattler" (1935), "The Farmer Takes A Wife" (1935), "The Eagle's Brood" (1935), "Gallant Defender" (1935), "Trigger Tom" (1935), "Valley Of The Lawless" (1936), "Yellow Dust" (1936), "Border Caballero" (1936), "Oh, Susanna!" (1936), "The Unknown Ranger" (1936), "Cavalry" (1936), "Ghost-Town Gold" (1936), "Valley Of Terror" (1937), "The Gambling Terror" (1937), "The Fighting Texan" (1937), "Blazing Sixes" (1937), "The Mystery Of The Hooded Horsemen" (1937), "Heroes Of The Alamo" (1937), "Roaring Six Guns" (1937), "Stars Over Arizona" (1937), "Law For Tombstone" (1937), "Where Trails Divide" (1937), "Thunder Trail" (1937), "Where The West Begins" (1938), "Cattle Raiders" (1938), "Rawhide" (1938), "The Feud Maker" (1938), "Whirlwind Horseman" (1938), "Flaming Frontiers" (1938), "Panamint's Bad Man" (1938), "The Mexicali Kid" (1938), "Six-Gun Trail" (1938), "The Frontiersmen" (1938), "The Thundering West" (1939), "Code Of The Cactus" (1939), "Smoky Trails" (1939), "Man Of Conquest" (1939), "Outpost Of The Mounties" (1939), "El Diablo Rides" (1939), "Pioneer Days" (1940), "Santa Fe Marshal" (1940), "East Side Kids" (1940), "The Cheyenne Kid" (1940), "20 Mule Team" (1940), "Frontier Crusader" (1940), "Adventures Of Red Ryder" (1940), "The Return Of Frank James" (1940), "Riders Of Nowhere" (1940), "Border Vigilantes" (1941), "The Lone Rider In Frontier Fury" (1941), "Badlands Of Dakota" (1941), "Priarie Stranger" (1941), "Tonto Basin Outlaws" (1941), "Miss Polly" (1941), "The Lone Rider And The Bandit" (1942), "South Of Santa Fe" (1942), "Rolling Down The Great Divide" (1942), "In Old California" (1942), "Hillbilly Blitzkrieg" (1942), "The Lone Prairie" (1942), "Northwest Rangers" (1942), "Pardon My Gun" (1942), "A Tornado In The Saddle" (1942), "Dawn On The Great Divide" (1942), "The Rangers Take Over" (1942), "Dead Men Walk" (1943), "Death Rides The Plains" (1943), "West Of Texas" (1943), "Western Cyclone" (1943), "Six Gun Gospel" (1943), "Black Market Rustlers" (1943), "Blazing Frontier" (1943), "Garden Of Eatin" (1943), "Klondike Kate" (1943), "The Vigilantes Ride" (1943), "Lucky Cowboy" (1944), "Law Men" (1944), "Land Of The Outlaws" (1944), "Belle Of The Yukon" (1944), "His Brother's Ghost" (1945), "Shadows Of Death" (1945), "Both Barrels Blazing" (1945), "Nob Hill" (1945), "Gangster's Den" (1945), "Stagecoach Outlaws" (1945), "Fighting Bill Carson" (1945), "Dakota" (1945), "Frontier Feud" (1945), "Border Bandits" (1946), "Lightning Raiders" (1946), "Roaring Rangers" (1946), "Throw A Saddle On A Star" (1946), "The Gentleman From Texas" (1946), "The Desert Horseman" (1946), "Gunman's Code" (1946), "South Of The Chisholm Trail" (1947), "Cheyenne" (1947), "Hoppy's Holiday" (1947), "Stage To Mesa City" (1948), "Panhandle" (1948), "Silver River" (1948), "The Valiant Hombre" (1948), "The Blazing Trail" (1949), "The Traveling Saleswoman" (1950), "FAther Is A Bachelor" (1950), "I Shot Billy The Kid" (1950), "The Return Of Jesse James" (1950), and "Golden Girl" (1951). His last film role was playing a 'Townsman' in the western, "The Old West" (1952). The film which was directed by George Archainbaud, which was written for the screen by Gerald Geraghty, and which also starred Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Lyle Talbot, Pat Buttram, and Dickie Jones, tells the story of Doc Lockwood and his gang who are trying to take away Gene Autry's contract for supplying horses to the stagecoach line. Parson Brooks joins Gene Autry in an effort to clean up the town of Sadderlock. He retired from acting shortly thereafter. During his acting career, he also used the name Harry 'Rube' Dalroy and Harry Dalroy. His funeral service was held through Utter McKinley Mortuaries and he was buried in Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California. He was married to Myrtle Mae Smith Dalroy (1888-1947), in Franklin, Ohio, on May 23, 1943, and together they had one child, a daughter named Ruth Katherine Dalroy born in 1924.