Louis Wolheim
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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.
Known for
Credits
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
as Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
as Music Hall Proprietor
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
as Executioner (uncredited)
Little Old New York (1923)
as The Hoboken Terror
The Shady Lady (1928)
as Professor Holbrook
The Ship from Shanghai (1930)
as Ted
The House of Hate (1918)
as Patch-eye Pete
The Sunbeam (1916)
as Biff - the Brute
The Awakening (1928)
as Le Bete
The Millionaire's Double (1917)
as Bob Holloway
The Romance of Elaine (1915)
Actor
Sorrell and Son (1927)
as Buck
The Test of Honor (1919)
as Man Devil in dream (uncredited)
The Eyes of Mystery (1918)
as Brad Tilton
Peg of the Pirates (1918)
as Flatnose Tim
The Story Without a Name (1924)
as Kurder
The Poor Rich Man (1918)
as Wrestler
The Silver Horde (1930)
as George Balt
The Racket (1928)
as Nick Scarsi
The End of the Tour (1917)
Actor
The Brand of Cowardice (1916)
as Cpl. Mallin
A Pair of Cupids (1918)
as Dirk Thomas
The Face in the Fog (1922)
as Petrus
Condemned! (1929)
as Jacques Duval
Two Arabian Knights (1927)
as Peter O'Gaffney
Sherlock Holmes (1922)
as Craigin
Gentleman's Fate (1931)
as Frank Tomasulo
Danger Lights (1931)
as Dan Thorn
A Manhattan Knight (1920)
as Mangus O'Shea
Square Shoulders (1929)
as Slag
The Sin Ship (1931)
as Captain Sam McVey
America (1924)
as Captain Hare
The Go-Getter (1923)
as Daniel Silver
Tempest (1928)
as Sergeant Bulba
Enemies of Women (1923)
Actor
Frozen Justice (1929)
as Duke
The Last Moment (1923)
as The Finn
Wolf Song (1929)
as Gullion
The Belle of the Season (1917)
as Johnson
Unseeing Eyes (1923)
as Laird
Experience (1921)
as Crime
The Eternal Mother (1917)
as Bucky McGhee (as Louis R. Wolheim)
The Avenging Trail (1917)
as Lefty Reed
The Uninvited Guest (1924)
as Jan Boomer
Number 17 (1921)
Actor
Opportunity (1918)
as Prizefight spectator
Lover's Island (1925)
as Capt. Joshua Dawson
Dorian's Divorce (1916)
as Capt. Ross (as L. Robert Wolheim)