Louis Wolheim

Born: 1880-03-27

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.


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All Quiet on the Western Front

as Stanislas 'Kat' Katczinsky
Released: 1930-04-29

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Music Hall Proprietor
Released: 1920-03-18

A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

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Orphans of the Storm

as Executioner (uncredited)
Released: 1921-12-28

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as...

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Wolf Song

as Gullion
Released: 1929-03-29

In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head...

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The Racket

as Nick Scarsi
Released: 1928-11-01

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.

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Sherlock Holmes

as Craigin
Released: 1922-03-07

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut...

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Danger Lights

as Dan Thorn
Released: 1930-11-15

Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a...

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Condemned

as Jacques Duval
Released: 1929-11-03

Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the...

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Two Arabian Knights

as Peter O'Gaffney
Released: 1927-09-23

During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a...

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Frozen Justice

as Duke
Released: 1929-10-13

Drama set in Alaska

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Tempest

as Sergeant Bulba
Released: 1928-05-27

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other...

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Square Shoulders

as John 'Slag' Collins
Released: 1929-03-10

Tad'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 Silver Horde

as George Balt
Released: 1930-10-24

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

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Little Old New York

as The Hoboken Terror
Released: 1923-08-01

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has...

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Gentleman's Fate

as Frank Tomasulo
Released: 1931-03-07

A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.

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The House of Hate

as Patch-eye Pete
Released: 1918-01-02

A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was...

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The Awakening

as Le Bete
Released: 1928-11-17

A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier ....

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Unseeing Eyes

as Laird
Released: 1923-11-18

The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.

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The Test of Honor

as Man Devil in dream (uncredited)
Released: 1919-04-16

After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two...

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Sorrell and Son

as Buck
Released: 1927-12-02

Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts...

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The Face in the Fog

as Petrus
Released: 1922-10-07

Boston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of...

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America

as Captain Hare
Released: 1924-02-21

The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.

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The Ship from Shanghai

as Ted
Released: 1930-01-31

On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac...

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The Sin Ship

as Captain Sam McVey
Released: 1931-04-18

A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she...

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The Millionaire's Double

as Bob Holloway
Released: 1917-04-30

After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in...

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The Brand of Cowardice

as Cpl. Mallin
Released: 1916-10-23

Cyril Hamilton is a chicken-hearted easterner who heads west. He makes up for his past misdeeds...

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The Avenging Trail

as Lefty Reed
Released: 1917-12-31

Lumberjack Gaston Olaf is newly arrived in the lumber camp of Havens Falls, but it isn't long...

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The Poor Rich Man

as Wrestler
Released: 1918-12-23

Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile,...

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The End of the Tour

as uncredited
Released: 1917-01-29

A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter...

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The Story Without a Name

as Kurder
Released: 1924-10-27

Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government....

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Dorian's Divorce

as Capt. Ross (as L. Robert Wolheim)
Released: 1916-06-05

Wealthy clubman Richard Dorian is a lighthearted soul who can't seem to take anything seriously,...

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The Eternal Mother

as Bucky McGhee (as Louis R. Wolheim)
Released: 1917-11-26

Maris, having married Lynch, a worthless man who deserts her, taking their daughter Felice with...

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The Last Moment

as The Finn
Released: 1923-06-07

The Last Moment is a silent film now considered lost.

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A Pair of Cupids

as Dirk Thomas
Released: 1918-07-29

Henry Burgess favors a match between his ward, Virginia Parke, and his nephew, Peter Warburton,...

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The Eyes of Mystery

as Brad Tilton
Released: 1918-01-21

Carma Carmichael, who lives with her uncle Quincy, is kidnapped by her renegade father Roger and...

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