Louis Wolheim
It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as an extra in the Wharton studio but never received much attention. Barrymore had only to look at him once to realize that Wolheim's face was his fortune. Through Barrymore, Wolheim gained an entree into New York theatrical life. On the legitimate stage he made a great success in "Welcome Wing" and "The Hairy Ape", climaxing these plays by his triumph in "What Price Glory". Louis Wolheim died in Los Angeles, California on 18 February 1931, the result of stomach cancer.
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Stanislas 'Kat' KatczinskyWhen a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Music Hall ProprietorA doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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Two Arabian Knights
as Peter O'GaffneyDuring World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a...
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Orphans of the Storm
as Executioner (uncredited)France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as...
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Condemned!
as Jacques DuvalSuave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the...
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The Silver Horde
as George BaltA salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
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The Racket
as Nick ScarsiA renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film...
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America
as Captain HareThe story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
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Wolf Song
as GullionIn 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head...
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Sorrell and Son
as BuckStephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts...
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The Sin Ship
as Captain Sam McVeyA lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she...
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Sherlock Holmes
as CraiginSherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut...
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Danger Lights
as Dan ThornHead railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a...
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Tempest
as Sergeant BulbaIn the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other...
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Unseeing Eyes
as LairdThe sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.
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Little Old New York
as The Hoboken TerrorAn Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has...
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The House of Hate
as Patch-eye PeteA young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was...
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The Ship from Shanghai
as TedOn a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac...
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The Eternal Mother
as Bucky McGhee (as Louis R. Wolheim)Maris, having married Lynch, a worthless man who deserts her, taking their daughter Felice with...
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The Test of Honor
as Man Devil in dream (uncredited)After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two...
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The Last Moment
as The FinnThe Last Moment is a silent film now considered lost.
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The Avenging Trail
as Lefty ReedLumberjack Gaston Olaf is newly arrived in the lumber camp of Havens Falls, but it isn't long...
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The Face in the Fog
as PetrusBoston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of...
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Experience
as CrimeYouth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city....
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Gentleman's Fate
as Frank TomasuloA bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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The End of the Tour
as uncreditedA lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter...
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The Romance of Elaine
as uncreditedThe heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X,...
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A Pair of Cupids
as Dirk ThomasHenry Burgess favors a match between his ward, Virginia Parke, and his nephew, Peter Warburton,...
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Square Shoulders
as John 'Slag' CollinsTad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war...
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The Awakening
as Le BeteA French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier ....
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The Poor Rich Man
as WrestlerVantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile,...
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The Brand of Cowardice
as Cpl. MallinCyril Hamilton is a chicken-hearted easterner who heads west. He makes up for his past misdeeds...
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Dorian's Divorce
as Capt. Ross (as L. Robert Wolheim)Wealthy clubman Richard Dorian is a lighthearted soul who can't seem to take anything seriously,...
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The Millionaire's Double
as Bob HollowayAfter his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in...
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The Eyes of Mystery
as Brad TiltonCarma Carmichael, who lives with her uncle Quincy, is kidnapped by her renegade father Roger and...
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The Story Without a Name
as KurderAlan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government....
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