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