Richard Barthelmess
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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.
Known for
Credits
Shore Leave (1925)
as D.X. (Bilge) Smith
Fury (1923)
as Boy Leyton
Peppy Polly (1919)
as Dr. James Merritt
Soul-Fire (1925)
as Eric Fane
Central Airport (1933)
as James 'Jim' Blaine
Scarlet Seas (1928)
as Steven Dunkin
Wild Primrose (1918)
as Jack Wilton
Just a Song at Twilight (1916)
as George Turner
New Toys (1925)
as Will Webb
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
as Bat MacPherson
Tol'able David (1921)
as David Kinemon
Heroes for Sale (1933)
as Tom Holmes
Sonny (1922)
as Sonny Crosby / Joe
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
as Cheng Huan
The Show of Shows (1929)
as Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
For Valour (1917)
as Henry Nobbs
The Tingler (1959)
as David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Boots (1919)
as Everett White
The Dawn Patrol (1930)
as Dick Courtney
The Eternal Sin (1917)
as Gennaro
The Spoilers (1942)
as Bronco Kid
Twenty-One (1923)
as Julian McCullough
A Modern Hero (1934)
as Pierre Radier aka Paul Rader
The Bright Shawl (1923)
as Charles Abbott
The Stolen Jools (1931)
as Richard Barthelmess
The Soul of a Magdalen (1917)
as Louis Broulette
Three Men and a Girl (1919)
as Christopher Kent
The Fighting Blade (1923)
as Karl Van Kerstenbroock
Way Down East (1920)
as David Bartlett
Ranson's Folly (1926)
as Lt. Ranson
Sunshine Nan (1918)
as MacPherson Clark
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
The White Black Sheep (1926)
as Robert Kincarin
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
as Marvin Blake
Just Suppose (1926)
as Prince Rupert of Koronia
The Beautiful City (1925)
as Tony Gillardi
Bab's Diary (1917)
as Tommy Gray
The Seven Swans (1917)
as Prince Charming
I'll Get Him Yet (1919)
as Scoop McCready
The Noose (1928)
as Nickie Elkins
The Valentine Girl (1917)
as Robert Wentworth
Son of the Gods (1930)
as Sam Lee
The Patent Leather Kid (1927)
as Patent Leather Kid
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) (1921)
as Himself
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette (1926)
as Gaston
The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
as J.B. Roscoe
Alias the Doctor (1932)
as Karl Brenner
Spy of Napoleon (1936)
as Gerard de Lanoy
The Moral Code (1917)
as Gary Miller
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
as Ed Kirby
The Amateur Gentleman (1926)
as Barnabas Barty
Seeing Stars (1922)
as Self
The Last Flight (1931)
as Cary Lockwood
The Drop Kick (1927)
as Jack Hamill
Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
as Tony Mako
Weary River (1929)
as Jerry Larrabee
The Voice of Hollywood (1930)
Actor
Massacre (1934)
as Chief Joe Thunderhorse
Wheel of Chance (1928)
as Nicolai Turkeltaub
Drag (1929)
as David Carroll
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928)
as Chad Buford
The Lash (1930)
as Francisco Delfino 'Pancho'
Midnight Alibi (1934)
as Lance McGowan
War Brides (1916)
as Arno
Starlit Days at the Lido (1935)
as Self
Scarlet Days (1919)
as Don Maria Alvarez
The Finger Points (1931)
as Breckenridge 'Breck' Lee
The Great Chase (1962)
Actor
Nearly Married (1917)
as Dick Griffon
The Streets of Illusion (1917)
as Donald Morton
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)
as The Yellow Man (archive footage)
The Bond Boy (1923)
as Peter Newbolt (father) / John Newbolt
The Hope Chest (1918)
as Tom Ballantyne
The Enchanted Cottage (1924)
as Oliver Bashforth
Young Nowheres (1929)
as Albert 'Binky' Whalen
Hit-the-Trail Holliday (1918)
as Bobby Jason
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
Bab's Burglar (1917)
as Tommy Gray
The Seventh Day (1922)
as John Alden Jr.
Camille (1917)
Actor
The Love Flower (1920)
as Bruce Sanders
Experience (1921)
as Youth
The Idol Dancer (1920)
as Dan McGuire
The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)
as Ralph Grey
Classmates (1924)
as Duncan Irving Jr
Rich Man, Poor Man (1918)
as Bayard Varick
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter' (1931)
Actor
Out of the Ruins (1928)
as Lt. Pierre Dumont
How to Break 90 #1: The Grip (1933)
as Himself