Henry B. Walthall
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In New York in 1901, Walthall won a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker. He performed in the play for three years, in New York and on tour. With the company of Henry Miller he gained recognition on Broadway in plays including Pippa Passes, The Only Way and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906–08). His fellow cast member James Kirkwood introduced Walthall to D. W. Griffith, and at the conclusion of that engagement, Walthall joined the Biograph Company. His career in movies began in 1909 at Biograph Studios in New York with a leading role in the film A Convict's Sacrifice. This film also featured James Kirkwood, and was directed by D. W. Griffith, a director that played a huge part in Walthall's rise to stardom. As the industry grew in size and popularity, Griffith emerged as a director and Walthall found himself a mainstay of the Griffith company, frequently working alongside such Griffith regulars as Owen Moore, Kate Bruce, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Bobby Harron and Jack and Mary Pickford. He followed Griffith's departure from New York's Biograph to California's Reliance-Majestic Studios in 1913. After a few months with Reliance, he joined Pathé for a short period. He decided to go into the producing business and formed The Union Feature Film Company, the first to be devoted entirely to full-length films. The venture was not successful, however, and he again became associated with Griffith's company. Given the relatively short length of films in the early years, Walthall frequently found himself cast in dozens of films each year. He gained national attention in 1915 for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in Griffith's highly influential and controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation. Walthall's portrayal of a Confederate veteran rounding up the Ku Klux Klan won him large-scale fame, and Walthall was soon able to emerge as a leading actor in the years leading up to the 1920s, parting ways with Griffith. Walthall continued working in films through the 1920s, appearing in The Plastic Age with Gilbert Roland and Clara Bow. He portrayed Roger Chillingworth in Victor Seastrom's 1926 adaptation of The Scarlet Letter opposite Lillian Gish. Walthall continued his career into the 1930s. After his performance in director John Ford's 1934 film Judge Priest starring Will Rogers he enjoyed a golden period of his career. He portrayed Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman. In 1936 he appeared as Marcel in The Devil-Doll. He was gravely ill during his final film, China Clipper. Frank Capra wanted Walthall to portray the High Lama in his 1937 film, Lost Horizon. "Frail and failing, he died before we could test him," Capra wrote. Walthall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.
Known for
Credits
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
as Col. Ben Cameron
The Two Brothers (1910)
as Pedro
Wings (1927)
as Mr. Armstrong
In the Aisles of the Wild (1912)
as Jim Watson
42nd Street (1933)
as Concerned Actor (uncredited)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
as Dr. Manette
The Raven (1915)
as Edgar Allan Poe
1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909)
Actor
Flower of the North (1921)
as Philip Whitemore
The Little Darling (1909)
as In Boarding House
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
as Colonel Marshall
A Gambler's Honor (1913)
as Beth's Brother
The Devil-Doll (1936)
as Marcel
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
The Garden Murder Case (1936)
as Dr. Garden
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
as Eph Clinton
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
as The Indian Chief's Son
Freedom of the Press (1928)
as John Ballard
The Broken Locket (1909)
as Mexican Man
Me and My Gal (1932)
as Sarge
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
as A Psalm Singer
Judge Priest (1934)
as Reverend Ashby Brand
Temper (1915)
as Frank Bradbury
The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
as Father Ryan
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)
as Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)
Hold Your Man (1933)
as Clergyman in Alternate Version (uncredited)
Dollar Down (1925)
as Alec Craig
Classmates (1914)
as Duncan Irving
Three Friends (1913)
as The Husband
Single Wives (1924)
as Franklin Dexter
A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
as Dr. Amon
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
The Mirror (1913)
as The Station Agent
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
as Wheat King's Assistant
Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
as John Gaunt
The Face at the Window (1910)
as Ralph Bradford
Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913)
as The Young Woman's Fiance
The One She Loved (1912)
as The Husband
The Woman on the Jury (1924)
as Prosecuting Attorney
So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
as In Club
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
as John Howard Payne
The Plastic Age (1925)
as Henry Carver
The Girl Who Wouldn't Work (1925)
as William Hale
The River of Romance (1929)
as General Jeff Rumford
Viva Villa! (1934)
as Francisco Madero
The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)
as Jonas Deering
Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927)
as Van Denbosch
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
as Father Juniper
The Call to Arms (1910)
as The Lord
The Road to Mandalay (1926)
as Father James
If We Only Knew (1913)
as The Father
The Oath and the Man (1910)
as Henri Prevost
I Am Not a Racist (2019)
as Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Mine with the Iron Door (1936)
as David Burton
Men in White (1934)
as enry B. Walthall
Gold Is Not All (1910)
as Man at Party
The Murder in the Museum (1934)
as Bernard Latham Wayne, alias Prof. Mysto
Humdrum Brown (1918)
as Hector 'Humdrum' Brown
London After Midnight (1927)
as Sir James Hamlin
The Thread of Destiny (1910)
as Estrada
Brutality (1912)
as Actor In Oliver Twist
Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
as The Father
The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)
as The Householder's Weakling Brother
Strongheart (1914)
as Soangataha / Strongheart
Parted Curtains (1920)
as Joe Jenkins
The Long Lane's Turning (1919)
as Harry Sevier
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
as Holofernes
Dark Hazard (1934)
as Schultz
In the Border States (1910)
as Confederate Corporal
The Perfidy of Mary (1913)
as The Poet
The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
as Charles Randolph - The Confederate Soldier
The Way of the World (1910)
Actor
His Robe of Honor (1918)
as Julian Randolph
Headline Shooter (1933)
as Judge Beacon (uncredited)
The Sheriff's Baby (1913)
as First Bandit
A Flash of Light (1910)
as Younger John Rogers
The Lady and the Mouse (1913)
as The First Rival
China Clipper (1936)
as Dad Brunn
Rose o' Salem Town (1910)
as The Trapper
A Child of the Ghetto (1910)
as The Farmer
The Kickback (1922)
as Aaron Price
The Tenderfoot's Triumph (1910)
as A Horse Thief
Dante's Inferno (1935)
as Pop McWade
During the Round-Up (1913)
as The Stranger
The Honor of His Family (1910)
as George Pickett Jr.
Oil and Water (1913)
as The Idealist
Tol'able David (1930)
as Amos Hatburn
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908)
as Woodsman
Love Among the Roses (1910)
as The Lord
Two Men of the Desert (1913)
as First Partner
The Face on the Barroom Floor (1923)
as Robert Stevens
They Would Elope (1909)
Actor
Pranks (1909)
as Sunbather
A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
as Arthur Rogers (uncredited)
Kit Carson Over the Great Divide (1925)
as Dr. Samuel Webb
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)
as Bill
The Strange Case of Mary Page (1916)
as Phil Langdon, Attorney
The Scarlet Letter (1927)
as Roger Prynne aka Roger Chillingworth
The Misleading Lady (1916)
as Jack Craiger
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
as The Nephew
In Life's Cycle (1910)
as Vincent, as an Adult
Chandu the Magician (1932)
as Robert Regent
The Trespasser (1929)
as Fuller
The Sting of Victory (1916)
as David Whiting / Walker Whiting
Is There Justice? (1931)
as District Attorney John Raymond
Souls Courageous (1911)
Actor
The Cloister’s Touch (1910)
as The Father
The Sealed Room (1909)
as The Troubador
The Tenderfoot's Money (1913)
as The Prospector
His Last Burglary (1910)
as William Standish
Her Mother's Oath (1913)
as The Actor
A Woman in the Ultimate (1913)
as Badger Gang Member
The Phantom in the House (1929)
as Boyd Milburn
The Whispering Shadow (1933)
as J. D. Bradley
The Able-Minded Lady (1922)
as Breezy Bright
The Green-Eyed Devil (1914)
Actor
The Gray of the Dawn (1910)
Actor
The Long Arm of Mannister (1919)
as George Mannister
City Park (1934)
as Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome
Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet (1910)
Actor
Central Park (1932)
as Eby
The Long Chance (1922)
as Harley P. Hennage
In Old California (1929)
as Don Pedro De León
The Heart of an Outlaw (1909)
as The Mexican Lover
Speakeasy (1929)
as Piano player
Getting Even (1909)
as Miner
Ramona (1910)
as Alessandro
The Wolf Dog (1933)
as Jim Courtney
The Kid (1910)
as Walter Holden
The Unknown Soldier (1926)
as John Phillips
The Gangsters of New York (1914)
as Porky Dugan
The Mountain Rat (1914)
as Douglas Williams
Love Time (1934)
as Duke Johann von Hatzfeld
Alias Mary Smith (1932)
as Atwell
Hotel Continental (1932)
as Winthrop
Her Forgotten Past (1933)
as Mr. Maynard
In Little Italy (1909)
as Victor Ratazzi
The Armorer’s Daughter (1910)
as Macennas
The Awakening of Donna Isolla (1914)
as The President of the Republic
The Great Love (1918)
as Sir Roger Brighton
London After Midnight (2002)
as Sir James Hamlin (archive footage)
The Stolen Loaf (1913)
as The Poor Man
One Clear Call (1922)
as Henry Garnett
Anybody's Blonde (1931)
as Mr. Evans
Death's Marathon (1913)
as The Husband
Kentucky Pride (1925)
as Mr. Beaumont
The Day After (1909)
as Party Guest
Helldorado (1935)
as Abner Meadows
Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
as Bob Leadly
Strange Interlude (1932)
as Professor Leeds
A Strange Meeting (1909)
as A Thief
The Little Tease (1913)
as The Valley Man
Self Defense (1932)
as Doctor Borden
The Last Outlaw (1936)
as Cal Yates
Wilful Peggy (1910)
as The Lord
Pippa Passes (1909)
Actor
The Gold Seekers (1910)
as The Prospector
A Light in the Window (1927)
as Johann Graff
The Informer (1912)
as The False Brother
The Usurer (1910)
as One of the Second Debtors
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
as Roger Chillingworth
The Odalisque (1914)
as Joe, in love with May
In Old California (1910)
as Perdita's Son
From Headquarters (1929)
as Buffalo Bill Ryan
Boy of Mine (1923)
as William Latimer
Police Court (1932)
as Nathaniel "Nat" Barry
Ghosts (1915)
as Captain Alving / Oswald
The Golden Bed (1925)
as Col. Peake
Hearts in Bondage (1936)
as Capt. Buchanan
The Flaming Signal (1933)
as Rev. Mr. James
Stark Mad (1929)
as Capt. Rhodes - Yacht Commander
The Newlyweds (1910)
as A Friend / At Station Reception
My Baby (1912)
as The Husband
Everybody's Acting (1926)
as Thorpe
Blaze o' Glory (1929)
as Burke
Lord Chumley (1914)
as Lord Chumley
The Jazz Age (1929)
as Mr Maxwell
The False Faces (1919)
as Michael Lanyard
The Converts (1910)
Actor
For His Sake (1911)
Actor
A Summer Idyll (1910)
Actor
Broken Ways (1913)
as The Road Agent
The Call (1910)
as Billy Harvey
The Barrier (1926)
as Gale Gaylord
Rod of Wrath (1915)
as Erickson's Son
Three Faces East (1926)
as George Bennett
The Command from Galilee (1911)
as The Lover
The Boomerang (1919)
as George Gray
Beggars in Ermine (1934)
as Marchant the Blind Man
Black Magic (1929)
as Dr. Bradbroke
The Confession (1920)
as Father Bartlett
The God Within (1912)
as The Woodsman
Friends (1912)
as Dandy Jack
The Switchtower (1913)
as The Switchman
A Splendid Hazard (1920)
as Karl Breitman
Fighting Love (1927)
as Filipo Navarro
On the Reef (1910)
as Mr. Wilson
The Love Trader (1930)
as Captain Adams
Pillars of Society (1916)
as Karsten Bernick
The Mended Lute (1909)
as Indian
Fools of Fate (1909)
Actor
Temple Tower (1930)
as Blackton
My Hero (1912)
as Indian Charlie
The Mysterious Shot (1914)
as The Gopher
The Outer Edge (1915)
as Dr. Rownlee
Thou Shalt Not (1910)
Actor
Gimme (1923)
as John McGimsey
The Unknown Purple (1923)
as Peter Marchmont / Victor Cromport
The Iconoclast (1910)
Actor
The Wanderer (1913)
as The Wanderer
The Circular Path (1915)
as Reverend Darwin Kirby
Klondike (1932)
as Mark Armstrong
In Old Kentucky (1909)
as Robert, the Confederate son
Modern Husbands (1919)
as Stephen Duane
The Old Man (1914)
as The Old Man
Retribution (1928)
as Henry / Tommy Mooney
The Floor Above (1914)
as Stephen Pryde