The Harris Family

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The remarkable HARRISes, GEORGE II, ANN, and their six talented children have appeared all over Off-Off and in innumerable commercial vehicles.

Read WALTER HARRIS’ picture-rich tribute to his father GEORGE II HERE.

GEORGE II menaces KAY CARNEY in Myrtilus by Edward de Grazia at La Mama, 1967, and does a Beyond the Fringe skit in The Spring Horror Show at the Cino, 1966. (Photos JAMES D. GOSSAGE)

ANN HARRIS

ANN and GEORGE II in “Children of Light” costumes and make-up.

GEORGES ll and lll, plus Cinoites NORMAN THOMAS MARSHALL and DEBORAH LEE in RONNY TAVEL’s Gorilla Queen at Judson Church.

Best-known are GEORGE III (left) and WALTER (right). GEORGE III, an Alpha male born to a performing family, started theatre troupes.

Collage: top row, The El Dorado Players at La Mama (with ELOISE), and San Francisco’s The Cockettes; bottom row, The Angels of Light (with JACK COE), and a singing act with his sisters, Hibiscus and the Screaming Violets.

WALTER sang “What a Piece of Work Is Man” in Broadway’s Hair, and was “Kenny” in Lanford Wilson’s The Sand Castle (La Mama & Cino).

GEORGE III was the famous blond sticking the famous flower into the famous rifle at the Pentagon.

Sign for Hbiscus and The Screaming Violets (George III and his sisters).

JAYNE, MARY LOU, and ELOISE continued as a singing act after GEORGE III’s death, first as The Screaming Violets, then as The Harris Sisters. The collage comparing them to priestesses from Crete hangs on my wall.