- In the 1970s, Townes put himself through the seminary to become an Episcopal priest. Townes was ordained as an Episcopal priest in St. Paul's Cathedral on March 16, 1974. He served at St. Mary of the Angels Anglican Church in Hollywood until he retired from acting in 1989 and moved back to Huntsville, where he died, and is interred at Maple Hill Cemetery.
- Harry Townes appeared in "The Four of Us Are Dying," a The Twilight Zone (1959) episode, and in "The First," a two-parter of the The Incredible Hulk (1977) TV series. In both, he played a man who could change his form (in the Twilight Zone, he could change his face; in the Hulk, he could also turn into a Hulk). In both, he planned to run away with a woman, but before he could, was accosted in his hotel room by a man with a gun. In both, he escaped, and changed form, only to be shot to death by still another person with a gun, who only shot him because he was in his other form. In both, he reverted to his original appearance in death.
- He attended the University of Alabama, but later transferred to, and graduated from, Columbia University.
- Served in the Air Corps for four years during World War II.
- While at the University of Alabama Townes was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Psi chapter.
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