Richard Barthelmess
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an Oscar-nominated silent film star. Barthelmess was educated at Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack and Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut. His father died when he was a baby and his mother, Caroline Harris , was a stage actress, so he worked in theatres in his early days, between schooling, doing "walk-ons". This led to acting in college, doing amateur productions. Russian actress Alla Nazimova, a friend of the family, had been taught English by Barthelmess's mother. Nazimova in return convinced Barthelmess to try acting professionally and he made his first film appearance in 1916 in the serial Gloria's Romance as an extra. At this time he also appeared as a supporting player in several films starring Marguerite Clark. His next role, in War Brides opposite Alla Nazimova, attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offered him several important roles, finally casting him opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920). He soon became one of Hollywood's highest paid performers, starring in such classics as The Patent Leather Kid (1927) and The Noose (1928); he was nominated for Best Actor at the first Academy Awards for his performance in both these films, and he won a Special Citation for producing The Patent Leather Kid. He founded his own production company, Inspiration Film Company, together with Charles Duell and Henry King. One of their films, Tol'able David (1921), in which Barthelmess starred as a teenage mailman who finds courage, was a major success. With the advent of the sound era, Barthelmess' fortunes changed. He made several films in the new medium, most notably Son of the Gods (1930), The Dawn Patrol (1930), The Last Flight (1931), and The Cabin in the Cotton (1932), Central Airport (1933), and a supporting role as Rita Hayworth's character's husband in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Barthelmess , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Only Angels Have Wings
as Bat Mac PhersonA traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air...
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Broken Blossoms
as Cheng HuanThe love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a...
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The Tingler
as David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans...
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Way Down East
as David BartlettA naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild...
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The Spoilers
as Bronco KidWhen honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon...
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The Stolen Jools
as Richard BarthelmessFamous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended...
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The Cabin in the Cotton
as Marvin BlakeSharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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Tol'able David
as David KinemonYoung David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force...
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Four Hours to Kill!
as Tony MakoA detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer,...
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Show of Shows
as Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of...
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The Patent Leather Kid
as Patent Leather KidThe Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at...
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Starlit Days at the Lido
as SelfBasically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The...
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Heroes for Sale
as Tom HolmesTom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I...
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Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
as GastonA home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls...
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Massacre
as Chief Joe ThunderhorseUpon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the...
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life,...
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The Love Flower
as Bruce SandersA man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective...
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The Seventh Day
as John Alden Jr.A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England...
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A Modern Hero
as Pierre Radier aka Paul RaderA 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the...
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The Dawn Patrol
as Dick CourtneyWorld War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is...
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Alias the Doctor
as Karl BrennerKarl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to...
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The Finger Points
as Breckenridge 'Breck' LeeLee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment...
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
as J.B. RoscoeA young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's...
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Weary River
as Jerry LarrabeeA gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on...
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
as Chad BufordAn orphan (Richard Barthelmess) is adopted by Major Buford (Claude Gillingwater) is educated in...
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The Drop Kick
as Jack HamillCollege football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent...
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Central Airport
as James 'Jim' BlaineAviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for...
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The Amateur Gentleman
as Barnabas BartyBarbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone...
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Seeing Stars
as SelfFirst National gala celebrity banquet with stars.
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The Noose
as Nickie ElkinsIn this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
as HimselfIntimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue...
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The Last Flight
as Cary LockwoodCary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the...
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The Enchanted Cottage
as Oliver BashforthThe Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded...
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The Mayor of 44th Street
as Ed KirbyIn this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at...
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The Girl Who Stayed at Home
as Ralph GreyRalph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the...
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Camille
as uncreditedCamille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand...
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The Lash
as Francisco Delfino 'Pancho'A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people...
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Son of the Gods
as Sam LeeThe popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives...
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Midnight Alibi
as Lance McGowanAn elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his...
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Soul-Fire
as Eric FaneEric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job...
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Scarlet Days
as Don Maria AlvarezRosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged...
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The Idol Dancer
as Dan McGuireA religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic...
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Nearly Married
as Dick GriffonSilent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.
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The Hope Chest
as Tom BallantyneDaughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate...
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Scarlet Seas
as Steven DunkinA sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He...
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The Beautiful City
as Tony GillardiFor their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'
as uncreditedBobby Jones gives Frank Craven some helpful tips on his short game.
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Drag
as David CarrollYoung David Carroll takes over the publication of a local newspaper in Vermont. Although he is...
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Just Suppose
as Prince Rupert of KoroniaA prince comes to America and falls in love with a regular girl.
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Sonny
as Sonny Crosby / JoeTwo men who bear a striking resemblance to each befriend each other while stationed in France...
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The Bright Shawl
as Charles AbbottCharles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.
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I'll Get Him Yet
as Scoop McCreadyA young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast...
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Experience
as YouthYouth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city....
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Rich Man, Poor Man
as Bayard VarickBorn and raised in poverty, Marguerite Clark has learned to expect very little out of life and...
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Shore Leave
as D.X. (Bilge) Smith"Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a...
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New Toys
as Will WebbA young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to...
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Peppy Polly
as Dr. James MerrittPolly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at...
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as The Yellow Man (archive footage)The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are...
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Ranson's Folly
as Lt. RansonU. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as "The Red Rider," and...
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Out of the Ruins
as Lt. Pierre DumontHe hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the...
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Boots
as Everett WhiteBoots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable...
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Wheel of Chance
as Nicolai TurkeltaubA Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that...
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The Eternal Sin
as GennaroGennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has...
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The Bond Boy
as Peter Newbolt (father) / John NewboltFor the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie...
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Bab's Diary
as Tommy GrayBab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary...
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War Brides
as ArnoJoan is loved by a young man of the village and they are married. In a few weeks the husband, a...
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Young Nowheres
as Albert 'Binky' WhalenYoung Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard...
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Twenty-One
as Julian McCulloughTwenty-One is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson and starring...
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The Oscars
as uncreditedAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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