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