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