Henry B. Walthall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In New York in 1901, Walthall won a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker. He performed in the play for three years, in New York and on tour. With the company of Henry Miller he gained recognition on Broadway in plays including Pippa Passes, The Only Way and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906–08). His fellow cast member James Kirkwood introduced Walthall to D. W. Griffith, and at the conclusion of that engagement, Walthall joined the Biograph Company. His career in movies began in 1909 at Biograph Studios in New York with a leading role in the film A Convict's Sacrifice. This film also featured James Kirkwood, and was directed by D. W. Griffith, a director that played a huge part in Walthall's rise to stardom. As the industry grew in size and popularity, Griffith emerged as a director and Walthall found himself a mainstay of the Griffith company, frequently working alongside such Griffith regulars as Owen Moore, Kate Bruce, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Bobby Harron and Jack and Mary Pickford. He followed Griffith's departure from New York's Biograph to California's Reliance-Majestic Studios in 1913. After a few months with Reliance, he joined Pathé for a short period. He decided to go into the producing business and formed The Union Feature Film Company, the first to be devoted entirely to full-length films. The venture was not successful, however, and he again became associated with Griffith's company. Given the relatively short length of films in the early years, Walthall frequently found himself cast in dozens of films each year. He gained national attention in 1915 for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in Griffith's highly influential and controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation. Walthall's portrayal of a Confederate veteran rounding up the Ku Klux Klan won him large-scale fame, and Walthall was soon able to emerge as a leading actor in the years leading up to the 1920s, parting ways with Griffith. Walthall continued working in films through the 1920s, appearing in The Plastic Age with Gilbert Roland and Clara Bow. He portrayed Roger Chillingworth in Victor Seastrom's 1926 adaptation of The Scarlet Letter opposite Lillian Gish. Walthall continued his career into the 1930s. After his performance in director John Ford's 1934 film Judge Priest starring Will Rogers he enjoyed a golden period of his career. He portrayed Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman. In 1936 he appeared as Marcel in The Devil-Doll. He was gravely ill during his final film, China Clipper. Frank Capra wanted Walthall to portray the High Lama in his 1937 film, Lost Horizon. "Frail and failing, he died before we could test him," Capra wrote. Walthall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.
The Birth of a Nation
as Col. Ben CameronTwo families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons,...
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A Tale of Two Cities
as Dr. ManetteThe exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in...
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Wings
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The Scarlet Letter
as Roger Prynne aka Roger ChillingworthIn Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love....
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The Devil-Doll
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as Roger ChillingworthIn the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on...
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Dante's Inferno
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Hotel Continental
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as uncreditedTwo lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them...
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as Sir James Hamlin (archive footage)A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After...
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as John CollinsJaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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as Colonel Henry Randolph RansomeThe old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry...
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as BlacktonThe film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the...
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as Arthur Rogers (uncredited)The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.
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as uncreditedDuring the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington...
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as Bernard Latham Wayne, alias Prof. MystoWhen a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a...
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as Karsten BernickBased on Henrik Ibsen's play from 1877.
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as The WandererA little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another...
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as The Indian Chief's SonTwo young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events...
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as Henry GarnettAn outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only...
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as Bob LeadlyJohn Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and,...
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as Col. PeakeFemme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a...
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as SchultzJim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His...
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as Edgar Allan PoeAfter a brief view of Edgar Allan Poe's family background, his grandfather, David Poe, Sr., an...
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as The HusbandWhen the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the...
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as Nathaniel "Nat" BarryA once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young...
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Oil and Water
as The IdealistA stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that...
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Helldorado
as Abner MeadowsArthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her...
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A Strange Meeting
as A ThiefMary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into...
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The Mended Lute
as IndianIn an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.
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as Father JamesJoe, a former sea captain whose wife died during the birth of their child at sea, is now a...
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as Younger John RogersAn experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to...
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as Jonas DeeringThe Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He...
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as FullerA stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His...
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Hearts in Bondage
as Capt. BuchananBest friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged...
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The House with Closed Shutters
as Charles Randolph - The Confederate SoldierDuring the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to...
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as Actor In Oliver TwistAn abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece...
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The Strange Case of Mary Page
as Phil Langdon, AttorneyA 15-episode dramatic action movie serial only two of which survive.
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Fools of Fate
as uncreditedFanny is the wife of Ben Webster, a trapper, and while he is an affectionate and dutiful...
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A Girl of the Limberlost
as Dr. AmonElnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her...
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Two Daughters of Eve
as The FatherCalumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this...
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Speakeasy
as Piano playerNewspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of...
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as In Boarding HouseThis might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple...
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Black Magic
as Dr. BradbrokeOn a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many...
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as The LordPeggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a...
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as Duke Johann von HatzfeldRomaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
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Self Defense
as Doctor BordenKaty Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business...
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The Unknown Purple
as Peter Marchmont / Victor CromportInventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his...
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Kentucky Pride
as Mr. BeaumontThis rare John Ford silent is a charming, sweetly sentimental tale of the relationship between...
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Headline Shooter
as Judge Beacon (uncredited)A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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Her Forgotten Past
as Mr. MaynardA compulsive gambler, thought to have been killed in an automobile crash, reappears when his...
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The Slave
as Alachus' FriendA Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she...
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Gimme
as John McGimseyA young woman borrows money from her boss for her wedding dress. After the marriage he asks to...
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as William HaleMary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she...
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as Self (archive footage)Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a...
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The Great Love
as Sir Roger BrightonJim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist...
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as Mexican ManGeorge Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal...
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as Robert StevensAs a derelict paints the face of a girl on a barroom floor, the plot is developed in a series of...
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as The LordA Feudal Lord and his bride were visited by their cousin at a time when this Lord was presenting...
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as First BanditAfter the death of his wife the baby was all the sheriff had left, the promise of hope in the...
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as Jim WatsonA widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance...
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From Headquarters
as Buffalo Bill RyanUnited States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of...
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as The First RivalThe question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter...
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The Little Tease
as The Valley ManThe supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was...
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as Joe JenkinsA young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an...
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are...
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The Informer
as The False BrotherThe young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his...
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Central Park
as EbyTwo destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get...
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Pippa Passes
as uncreditedPippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing...
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Strongheart
as Soangataha / StrongheartSTRONGHEART (1914) is a Native American Indian drama. Based on a famous play of the time, the...
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The Flaming Signal
as Rev. Mr. JamesA pilot and his dog crash-land on an island run by a psycho who owns a motel--and most of the...
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as Mr. EvansWhen a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub...
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as Harley P. HennageHarley P. Hennage, town gambler, takes under his protection Dana Corbaly when her widowed mother...
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as George BennettA spy story that takes place during World War I.
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In Old California
as Perdita's SonAn historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned...
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as Karl BreitmanKarl Breitman, obsessed with the notion that he is a descendant of Napoleon, is driven to...
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as Stephen DuaneWhen wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she...
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The Unknown Soldier
as John PhillipsThe Unknown Soldier is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman and written...
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as MinerAll the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a...
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as William LatimerA wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day...
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as The LordIn the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their...
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The Confession
as Father BartlettA priest hears a murderer's confession but can't reveal the truth, even though his brother is...
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Retribution
as Henry / Tommy MooneyHenry B. Walthall made his talkie debut in this 10-minute short from Vitaphone. In the film he...
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Tol'able David
as Amos HatburnTol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by...
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Broken Ways
as The Road AgentIn this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question....
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The Thread of Destiny
as EstradaThe orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is...
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as BurkeOn trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before...
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as The HusbandEach night, after the day's work at the factory, the three bachelor friends met and declared...
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as Gale GaylordYears after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous...
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The Woman on the Jury
as Prosecuting AttorneyThe story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but...
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The Long Arm of Mannister
as George MannisterWalking aimlessly in the desert, crazed by thirst and hunger, Lucy Mannister and Gaston Sinclair...
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as Captain Alving / OswaldCaptain Alving, a notorious rake and financially irresponsible, seeks wealthy heiress Helen's...
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as Henri PrevostA rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which...
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as Aaron PriceA silent Western about a rough rider, that winds up in jail and the adventure begins.
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as Dr. Samuel WebbWhen the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the...
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as John BallardWhen a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician...
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The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
as BillIn a quaint fishing village Bill and Mary are childhood sweethearts. Ten years roll by, and the...
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as Party GuestMr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves,...
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as SunbatherTom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and...
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as PedroIn Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel....
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as Badger Gang MemberThe unwilling dupe of her step-father, she became the decoy of the wealthy young man, but at the...
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as Breezy BrightAn easy-going cowboy is forced to work on the ranch of a bossy 'able-minded' three-time widow...
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as Jack CraigerHelen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her...
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as Vincent, as an AdultA story about two children that are made to promise they will not forget their recently departed...
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as Philip WhitemoreTwo men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the...
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Humdrum Brown
as Hector 'Humdrum' BrownLove and double-crosses at the bank.
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