Cullen Landis
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Cullen Landis (July 9, 1896 – August 26, 1975) was an American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early ears of the silent film era. James Cullen Landis was the middle of three siblings (two sons and a daughter) raised by Lulan and Margaret (née Cullen) Landis in Nashville, Tennessee, where his father supported his family as a stock broker. As a boy, James was a train enthusiast and dreamed to be an railroad engineer. Though the ambition eventually faded, his interest in railroads did not, and some years later he helped design for himself a model train set powered by steam. He began working in the fledgling film industry at age 18 around the time his older sister, Margaret Landis, appeared in her first film. In 1928 Cullen Landis starred in the first ‘all talking’ motion picture, Lights of New York. He once confided in a friend that talkies were perfect for musicals and that he was no "song and dance man". He left Hollywood for Detroit in 1930 to produce and direct industrial films for automobile companies. Landis began as a movie director, only turning to acting after his lead player broke a leg and it was discovered that the actor’s costumes fit him. He went on to become one of the more popular lead actors of the silent era, appearing in some one hundred films over 14 years. During World War II, he served as a captain with US Army Signal Corps producing training films in the South Pacific. By war’s end he was twice decorated and promoted to major. In the post war years he made documentaries for the US State Department that took him to the far corners of the world. James Cullen Landis died on August 28, 1975, aged 79, at a nursing home in Bloomfield, Michigan, three months after the death of his wife, Jane. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
Credits
Dollar Devils (1923)
as Jim Biggers
Cheap Kisses (1924)
as Donald Dillingham
Going Some (1920)
as J. Wallingford Speed
Snowblind (1921)
as Pete Garth
The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
A Broadway Butterfly (1925)
as Ronald Steel
Out with the Tide (1928)
as John Templeton
Youth to Youth (1922)
as Page Brookins
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1926)
as Victor McQuade
The Ace of Hearts (1921)
as Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
Broadway After Midnight (1927)
as Jimmy Crestmore
A Midnight Adventure (1928)
as Fred Nicholson
Man With Two Mothers (1922)
Actor
The Fighting Coward (1924)
as Tom Rumford
Gay and Devilish (1922)
as Peter Armitage
Lights of New York (1928)
as Eddie Morgan
The Little Wild Girl (1928)
as Jules Barbier
The Fog (1923)
as Nathan Forge
Where the West Begins (1919)
as Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
Almost a Husband (1919)
as Jerry Wilson
The Famous Mrs. Fair (1923)
as Alan Fair
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919)
as Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
The Devil's Skipper (1928)
as John Dubray
Forsaking All Others (1922)
as Oliver Newell
Soul of the Beast (1923)
as Paul Nadeau
The Man Life Passed By (1923)
as Harold Trevis
Wasted Lives (1925)
as John Grayson
Crashin' Thru (1923)
as Cons Saunders
It's a Great Life (1920)
as Stoddard
Her Rustic Romeo (1918)
as Jack
Pampered Youth (1925)
as George Minafer
Love in the Dark (1922)
as Tim O'Brien
One Law for the Woman (1924)
as Ben Martin
Jinx (1919)
as Slicker Evans
Watch Your Step (1922)
as Elmer Slocum
Peacock Feathers (1925)
as Jerry Chandler
The Old Nest (1921)
as Jim at 22-32
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight? (1922)
Actor
We're All Gamblers (1927)
as Georgie McCarver
Finnegan's Ball (1927)
as Flannigan Jr.
The Broken Mask (1928)
as Pertio
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo (1926)
as Davy Crockett
The Midnight Flyer (1925)
as David Henderson
On to Reno (1928)
as Bud
Christine of the Big Tops (1926)
as Bob Hastings
Remembrance (1922)
as Seth Smith
Born Rich (1924)
as Jack Le Moyne
Bunty Pulls the Strings (1921)
as Rab
Somebody's Widow (1918)
as Jack Random
Convict's Code (1930)
as Kenneth Avery
Pioneer Trails (1923)
as Jack Dale / Jack Plains
The Midnight Alarm (1923)
as Chaser
Voices of the City (1921)
as Jimmy
Life in Hollywood No. 5 (1927)
Actor
An Enemy of Men (1925)
as Doctor Phil
My Old Dutch (1926)
as Herbert Brown
A Girl of the Limberlost (1924)
as Hart Henderson
The Smoke Eaters (1926)
as Ed
Upstairs (1919)
as Lemuel Stallings
Frenzied Flames (1926)
as Danny Grovan
The Infamous Miss Revell (1921)
as Max Hildreth
The Fighting Failure (1926)
as Denny O'Brien
Masters of Men (1923)
as Dick Halpin
Cupid In Quarantine (1918)
as The Boyfriend
Sunny Jane (1917)
as Thomas
Who Is Number One? (1917)
as Tommy Hale
Two to One (1927)
as George Minafer
Perils of the Coast Guard (1926)
as Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
Pinto (1920)
as Bob DeWitt
The Dixie Flyer (1926)
as 'Sunrise' Smith
Over the Garden Wall (1918)
as Jack
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail (1926)
as Gordon Kent