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