Henry B. Walthall
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In New York in 1901, Walthall won a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker. He performed in the play for three years, in New York and on tour. With the company of Henry Miller he gained recognition on Broadway in plays including Pippa Passes, The Only Way and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906–08). His fellow cast member James Kirkwood introduced Walthall to D. W. Griffith, and at the conclusion of that engagement, Walthall joined the Biograph Company. His career in movies began in 1909 at Biograph Studios in New York with a leading role in the film A Convict's Sacrifice. This film also featured James Kirkwood, and was directed by D. W. Griffith, a director that played a huge part in Walthall's rise to stardom. As the industry grew in size and popularity, Griffith emerged as a director and Walthall found himself a mainstay of the Griffith company, frequently working alongside such Griffith regulars as Owen Moore, Kate Bruce, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Bobby Harron and Jack and Mary Pickford. He followed Griffith's departure from New York's Biograph to California's Reliance-Majestic Studios in 1913. After a few months with Reliance, he joined Pathé for a short period. He decided to go into the producing business and formed The Union Feature Film Company, the first to be devoted entirely to full-length films. The venture was not successful, however, and he again became associated with Griffith's company. Given the relatively short length of films in the early years, Walthall frequently found himself cast in dozens of films each year. He gained national attention in 1915 for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in Griffith's highly influential and controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation. Walthall's portrayal of a Confederate veteran rounding up the Ku Klux Klan won him large-scale fame, and Walthall was soon able to emerge as a leading actor in the years leading up to the 1920s, parting ways with Griffith. Walthall continued working in films through the 1920s, appearing in The Plastic Age with Gilbert Roland and Clara Bow. He portrayed Roger Chillingworth in Victor Seastrom's 1926 adaptation of The Scarlet Letter opposite Lillian Gish. Walthall continued his career into the 1930s. After his performance in director John Ford's 1934 film Judge Priest starring Will Rogers he enjoyed a golden period of his career. He portrayed Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman. In 1936 he appeared as Marcel in The Devil-Doll. He was gravely ill during his final film, China Clipper. Frank Capra wanted Walthall to portray the High Lama in his 1937 film, Lost Horizon. "Frail and failing, he died before we could test him," Capra wrote. Walthall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.
Known for
Credits
Wings (1927)
as Mr. Armstrong
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
as Col. Ben Cameron
Dollar Down (1925)
as Alec Craig
42nd Street (1933)
as Concerned Actor (uncredited)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
as Dr. Manette
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
as The Indian Chief's Son
Classmates (1914)
as Duncan Irving
Flower of the North (1921)
as Philip Whitemore
Single Wives (1924)
as Franklin Dexter
The Raven (1915)
as Edgar Allan Poe
The Kickback (1922)
as Aaron Price
Men in White (1934)
as enry B. Walthall
The Devil-Doll (1936)
as Marcel
1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909)
Actor
Three Friends (1913)
as The Husband
Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
as John Gaunt
The Mirror (1913)
as The Station Agent
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
as Colonel Marshall
China Clipper (1936)
as Dad Brunn
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
as Eph Clinton
Me and My Gal (1932)
as Sarge
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
as Holofernes
Strongheart (1914)
as Soangataha / Strongheart
The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
as Father Ryan
Hold Your Man (1933)
as Clergyman in Alternate Version (uncredited)
The Plastic Age (1925)
as Henry Carver
Central Park (1932)
as Eby
Pranks (1909)
as Sunbather
Temper (1915)
as Frank Bradbury
London After Midnight (1927)
as Sir James Hamlin
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
as John Howard Payne
Viva Villa! (1934)
as Francisco Madero
The Road to Mandalay (1926)
as Father James
The Trespasser (1929)
as Fuller
The River of Romance (1929)
as General Jeff Rumford
Death's Marathon (1913)
as The Husband
In Old California (1929)
as Don Pedro De León
The One She Loved (1912)
as The Husband
Parted Curtains (1920)
as Joe Jenkins
The Sting of Victory (1916)
as David Whiting / Walker Whiting
Tol'able David (1930)
as Amos Hatburn
Helldorado (1935)
as Abner Meadows
Headline Shooter (1933)
as Judge Beacon (uncredited)
Her Forgotten Past (1933)
as Mr. Maynard
Strange Interlude (1932)
as Professor Leeds
Dante's Inferno (1935)
as Pop McWade
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
City Park (1934)
as Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome
The Scarlet Letter (1927)
as Roger Prynne aka Roger Chillingworth
The Face at the Window (1910)
as Ralph Bradford
Chandu the Magician (1932)
as Robert Regent
Oil and Water (1913)
as The Idealist
Is There Justice? (1931)
as District Attorney John Raymond
The Mountain Rat (1914)
as Douglas Williams
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
as The Nephew
Judge Priest (1934)
as Reverend Ashby Brand
They Would Elope (1909)
Actor
The Misleading Lady (1916)
as Jack Craiger
One Clear Call (1922)
as Henry Garnett
Boy of Mine (1923)
as William Latimer
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)
as Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)
In the Aisles of the Wild (1912)
as Jim Watson
The Kid (1910)
as Walter Holden
His Robe of Honor (1918)
as Julian Randolph
Brutality (1912)
as Actor In Oliver Twist
In the Border States (1910)
as Confederate Corporal
The Garden Murder Case (1936)
as Dr. Garden
The Last Outlaw (1936)
as Cal Yates
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
as Wheat King's Assistant
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
as Roger Chillingworth
Hotel Continental (1932)
as Winthrop
Ramona (1910)
as Alessandro
The Tenderfoot's Triumph (1910)
as A Horse Thief
Getting Even (1909)
as Miner
The Call to Arms (1910)
as The Lord
Souls Courageous (1911)
Actor
The Outer Edge (1915)
as Dr. Rownlee
Love Time (1934)
as Duke Johann von Hatzfeld
The Sealed Room (1909)
as The Minstrel
The Informer (1912)
as The False Brother
Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
as The Father
Anybody's Blonde (1931)
as Mr. Evans
The Whispering Shadow (1933)
as J. D. Bradley
The Unknown Soldier (1926)
as John Phillips
Humdrum Brown (1918)
as Hector 'Humdrum' Brown
Klondike (1932)
as Mark Armstrong
From Headquarters (1929)
as Buffalo Bill Ryan
The Usurer (1910)
as One of the Second Debtors
Lord Chumley (1914)
as Lord Chumley
A Flash of Light (1910)
as Younger John Rogers
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
as Father Juniper
The Mine with the Iron Door (1936)
as David Burton
The Day After (1909)
as Party Guest
Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913)
as The Young Woman's Fiance
So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
as In Club
Dark Hazard (1934)
as Schultz
The Strange Case of Mary Page (1916)
as Phil Langdon, Attorney
My Baby (1912)
as The Husband
The Flaming Signal (1933)
as Rev. Mr. James
A Strange Meeting (1909)
as A Thief
Hearts in Bondage (1936)
as Capt. Buchanan
Wilful Peggy (1910)
as The Lord
The Gold Seekers (1910)
as The Prospector
A Woman in the Ultimate (1913)
as Badger Gang Member
The Stolen Loaf (1913)
as The Poor Man
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Broken Ways (1913)
as The Road Agent
Friends (1912)
as Dandy Jack
Speakeasy (1929)
as Piano player
Pillars of Society (1916)
as Karsten Bernick
The Great Love (1918)
as Sir Roger Brighton
The Golden Bed (1925)
as Col. Peake
In Little Italy (1909)
as Victor Ratazzi
The Way of the World (1910)
Actor
The Broken Locket (1909)
as Mexican Man
Kentucky Pride (1925)
as Mr. Beaumont
Blaze o' Glory (1929)
as Burke
The Wolf Dog (1933)
as Jim Courtney
The Switchtower (1913)
as The Switchman
Fools of Fate (1909)
Actor
Gold Is Not All (1910)
as Man at Party
The Mended Lute (1909)
as Indian
London After Midnight (2002)
as Sir James Hamlin (archive footage)
The Girl Who Wouldn't Work (1925)
as William Hale
Ghosts (1915)
as Captain Alving / Oswald
In Old California (1910)
as Perdita's Son
If We Only Knew (1913)
as The Father
The Thread of Destiny (1910)
as Estrada
The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
as Charles Randolph - The Confederate Soldier
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
as A Psalm Singer
The Murder in the Museum (1934)
as Bernard Latham Wayne, alias Prof. Mysto
The Unknown Purple (1923)
as Peter Marchmont / Victor Cromport
Self Defense (1932)
as Doctor Borden
Temple Tower (1930)
as Blackton
Three Faces East (1926)
as George Bennett
Beggars in Ermine (1934)
as Marchant the Blind Man
The Woman on the Jury (1924)
as Prosecuting Attorney
Two Men of the Desert (1913)
as First Partner
The Circular Path (1915)
as Reverend Darwin Kirby
A Child of the Ghetto (1910)
as The Farmer
The Sheriff's Baby (1913)
as First Bandit
The Two Brothers (1910)
as Pedro
The Barrier (1926)
as Gale Gaylord
The Little Darling (1909)
as In Boarding House
The Odalisque (1914)
as Joe, in love with May
The Gangsters of New York (1914)
as Porky Dugan
Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927)
as Van Denbosch
A Summer Idyll (1910)
Actor
The Love Trader (1930)
as Captain Adams
Rose o' Salem Town (1910)
as The Trapper
I Am Not a Racist (2019)
as Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Honor of His Family (1910)
as George Pickett Jr.
The Old Man (1914)
as The Old Man
His Last Burglary (1910)
Actor
Police Court (1932)
as Nathaniel "Nat" Barry
The Wanderer (1913)
as The Wanderer
Kit Carson Over the Great Divide (1925)
as Dr. Samuel Webb
In Old Kentucky (1909)
as Robert, the Confederate son
The Green-Eyed Devil (1914)
Actor
The Perfidy of Mary (1913)
as The Poet
The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)
as The Householder's Weakling Brother
The Little Tease (1913)
as The Valley Man
Black Magic (1929)
as Dr. Bradbroke
Stark Mad (1929)
as Capt. Rhodes - Yacht Commander
The Confession (1920)
as Father Bartlett
Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
as Bob Leadly
The Newlyweds (1910)
as A Friend / At Station Reception
For His Sake (1911)
Actor
Pippa Passes (1909)
Actor
A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
as Arthur Rogers (uncredited)
The Mysterious Shot (1914)
as The Gopher
The Oath and the Man (1910)
as Henri Prevost
Fighting Love (1927)
as Filipo Navarro
Alias Mary Smith (1932)
as Atwell
The Lady and the Mouse (1913)
as The First Rival
Freedom of the Press (1928)
as John Ballard
The Phantom in the House (1929)
as Boyd Milburn
Love Among the Roses (1910)
as The Lord
Gimme (1923)
as John McGimsey
Modern Husbands (1919)
as Stephen Duane
A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
as Dr. Amon
The Long Arm of Mannister (1919)
as George Mannister
The Long Chance (1922)
as Harley P. Hennage
The Floor Above (1914)
as Stephen Pryde
The God Within (1912)
as The Woodsman
The Converts (1910)
Actor
The Gray of the Dawn (1910)
Actor
A Gambler's Honor (1913)
as Beth's Brother
The Tenderfoot's Money (1913)
as The Prospector
My Hero (1912)
as Indian Charlie
The Long Lane's Turning (1919)
as Harry Sevier
Everybody's Acting (1926)
as Thorpe
The Jazz Age (1929)
as Mr Maxwell
The Able-Minded Lady (1922)
as Breezy Bright
A Light in the Window (1927)
as Johann Graff
The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)
as Jonas Deering
The Face on the Barroom Floor (1923)
as Robert Stevens
The Heart of an Outlaw (1909)
as The Mexican Lover
In Life's Cycle (1910)
as Vincent, as an Adult
A Splendid Hazard (1920)
as Karl Breitman
The Boomerang (1919)
as George Gray
Her Mother's Oath (1913)
as The Actor
During the Round-Up (1913)
as The Stranger
Rod of Wrath (1915)
as Erickson's Son
The Iconoclast (1910)
Actor
Thou Shalt Not (1910)
Actor
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)
as Bill
The Call (1910)
as Billy Harvey
The Command from Galilee (1911)
as The Lover
On the Reef (1910)
as Mr. Wilson
The False Faces (1919)
as Michael Lanyard
Retribution (1928)
as Henry / Tommy Mooney
The Armorer’s Daughter (1910)
as Macennas
The Awakening of Donna Isolla (1914)
as The President of the Republic
Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet (1910)
Actor
The Cloister’s Touch (1910)
as The Father