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
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
as Dr. Manette
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
as Colonel Marshall
42nd Street (1933)
as Concerned Actor (uncredited)
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
as John Howard Payne
Three Friends (1913)
as The Husband
The Raven (1915)
as Edgar Allan Poe
Viva Villa! (1934)
as Francisco Madero
The Devil-Doll (1936)
as Marcel
Single Wives (1924)
as Franklin Dexter
The Kickback (1922)
as Aaron Price
A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
as Dr. Amon
Me and My Gal (1932)
as Sarge
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
as The Indian Chief's Son
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
as Father Juniper
The River of Romance (1929)
as General Jeff Rumford
The Road to Mandalay (1926)
as Father James
Dollar Down (1925)
as Alec Craig
Judge Priest (1934)
as Reverend Ashby Brand
London After Midnight (1927)
as Sir James Hamlin
Classmates (1914)
as Duncan Irving
I Am Not a Racist (2019)
as Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Usurer (1910)
as One of the Second Debtors
Brutality (1912)
as Actor In Oliver Twist
The Mountain Rat (1914)
as Douglas Williams
The Mirror (1913)
as The Station Agent
Temper (1915)
as Frank Bradbury
The Scarlet Letter (1927)
as Roger Prynne aka Roger Chillingworth
The Call to Arms (1910)
as The Lord
Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
as John Gaunt
The Garden Murder Case (1936)
as Dr. Garden
Flower of the North (1921)
as Philip Whitemore
The Wolf Dog (1933)
as Jim Courtney
Chandu the Magician (1932)
as Robert Regent
1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909)
Actor
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
as The Nephew
Dante's Inferno (1935)
as Pop McWade
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
as Eph Clinton
China Clipper (1936)
as Dad Brunn
Parted Curtains (1920)
as Joe Jenkins
The Trespasser (1929)
as Fuller
In Old Kentucky (1909)
as Robert, the Confederate son
Humdrum Brown (1918)
as Hector 'Humdrum' Brown
The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
as Father Ryan
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
as Wheat King's Assistant
Souls Courageous (1911)
Actor
Central Park (1932)
as Eby
If We Only Knew (1913)
as The Father
Love Among the Roses (1910)
as The Lord
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
as Holofernes
The Unknown Purple (1923)
as Peter Marchmont / Victor Cromport
The Sheriff's Baby (1913)
as First Bandit
The Unknown Soldier (1926)
as John Phillips
The Long Lane's Turning (1919)
as Harry Sevier
Men in White (1934)
as enry B. Walthall
Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927)
as Van Denbosch
The Oath and the Man (1910)
as Henri Prevost
The Plastic Age (1925)
as Henry Carver
Is There Justice? (1931)
as District Attorney John Raymond
The Last Outlaw (1936)
as Cal Yates
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
In the Border States (1910)
as Confederate Corporal
The Mended Lute (1909)
as Indian
Strongheart (1914)
as Soangataha / Strongheart
My Baby (1912)
as The Husband
The Great Love (1918)
as Sir Roger Brighton
Headline Shooter (1933)
as Judge Beacon (uncredited)
City Park (1934)
as Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome
The Kid (1910)
as Walter Holden
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
as Roger Chillingworth
The Whispering Shadow (1933)
as J. D. Bradley
Pranks (1909)
as Sunbather
Freedom of the Press (1928)
as John Ballard
Her Forgotten Past (1933)
as Mr. Maynard
Strange Interlude (1932)
as Professor Leeds
Death's Marathon (1913)
as The Husband
So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
as In Club
Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913)
as The Young Woman's Fiance
Self Defense (1932)
as Doctor Borden
Rose o' Salem Town (1910)
as The Trapper
Stark Mad (1929)
as Capt. Rhodes - Yacht Commander
The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)
as The Householder's Weakling Brother
In Life's Cycle (1910)
as Vincent, as an Adult
Pillars of Society (1916)
as Karsten Bernick
Temple Tower (1930)
as Blackton
Two Men of the Desert (1913)
as First Partner
Hotel Continental (1932)
as Winthrop
The Thread of Destiny (1910)
as Estrada
In the Aisles of the Wild (1912)
as Jim Watson
Dark Hazard (1934)
as Schultz
Kentucky Pride (1925)
as Mr. Beaumont
The Informer (1912)
as The False Brother
Speakeasy (1929)
as Piano player
Oil and Water (1913)
as The Idealist
The Way of the World (1910)
Actor
Friends (1912)
as Dandy Jack
The Golden Bed (1925)
as Col. Peake
The Sealed Room (1909)
as The Minstrel
A Summer Idyll (1910)
Actor
The Newlyweds (1910)
as A Friend / At Station Reception
Beggars in Ermine (1934)
as Marchant the Blind Man
Love Time (1934)
as Duke Johann von Hatzfeld
London After Midnight (2002)
as Sir James Hamlin (archive footage)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)
as Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)
as Jonas Deering
His Robe of Honor (1918)
as Julian Randolph
Boy of Mine (1923)
as William Latimer
The Lady and the Mouse (1913)
as The First Rival
Police Court (1932)
as Nathaniel "Nat" Barry
Alias Mary Smith (1932)
as Atwell
The Strange Case of Mary Page (1916)
as Phil Langdon, Attorney
A Gambler's Honor (1913)
as Beth's Brother
Hold Your Man (1933)
as Clergyman in Alternate Version (uncredited)
Lord Chumley (1914)
as Lord Chumley
Anybody's Blonde (1931)
as Mr. Evans
Ramona (1910)
as Alessandro
The Outer Edge (1915)
as Dr. Rownlee
The One She Loved (1912)
as The Husband
The Woman on the Jury (1924)
as Prosecuting Attorney
His Last Burglary (1910)
Actor
The Phantom in the House (1929)
as Boyd Milburn
The Able-Minded Lady (1922)
as Breezy Bright
The Mine with the Iron Door (1936)
as David Burton
From Headquarters (1929)
as Buffalo Bill Ryan
One Clear Call (1922)
as Henry Garnett
My Hero (1912)
as Indian Charlie
The Tenderfoot's Money (1913)
as The Prospector
The Tenderfoot's Triumph (1910)
as A Horse Thief
The Armorer’s Daughter (1910)
as Macennas
The Slave (1909)
as Alachus' Friend
A Strange Meeting (1909)
as A Thief
Klondike (1932)
as Mark Armstrong
The Barrier (1926)
as Gale Gaylord
The Long Chance (1922)
as Harley P. Hennage
The Face at the Window (1910)
as Ralph Bradford
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)
as Bill
In Old California (1910)
as Perdita's Son
Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
as Bob Leadly
The Long Arm of Mannister (1919)
as George Mannister
The Honor of His Family (1910)
as George Pickett Jr.
The Murder in the Museum (1934)
as Bernard Latham Wayne, alias Prof. Mysto
The Gangsters of New York (1914)
as Porky Dugan
The God Within (1912)
as The Woodsman
The Girl Who Wouldn't Work (1925)
as William Hale
Ghosts (1915)
as Captain Alving / Oswald
The Confession (1920)
as Father Bartlett
The Switchtower (1913)
as The Switchman
Black Magic (1929)
as Dr. Bradbroke
A Child of the Ghetto (1910)
as The Farmer
The Little Darling (1909)
as In Boarding House
The Little Tease (1913)
as The Valley Man
Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
as The Father
The Broken Locket (1909)
as Mexican Man
The Cloister’s Touch (1910)
as The Father
The Perfidy of Mary (1913)
as The Poet
The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
as Charles Randolph - The Confederate Soldier
Helldorado (1935)
as Abner Meadows
Kit Carson Over the Great Divide (1925)
as Dr. Samuel Webb
Blaze o' Glory (1929)
as Burke
The Face on the Barroom Floor (1923)
as Robert Stevens
A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
as Arthur Rogers (uncredited)
The False Faces (1919)
as Michael Lanyard
Tol'able David (1930)
as Amos Hatburn
Fighting Love (1927)
as Filipo Navarro
Gold Is Not All (1910)
as Man at Party
The Flaming Signal (1933)
as Rev. Mr. James
A Flash of Light (1910)
as Younger John Rogers
Hearts in Bondage (1936)
as Capt. Buchanan
Fools of Fate (1909)
Actor
The Circular Path (1915)
as Reverend Darwin Kirby
The Jazz Age (1929)
as Mr Maxwell
The Misleading Lady (1916)
as Jack Craiger
In Old California (1929)
as Don Pedro De León
The Green-Eyed Devil (1914)
Actor
In Little Italy (1909)
as Victor Ratazzi
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908)
as Woodsman
Modern Husbands (1919)
as Stephen Duane
The Sting of Victory (1916)
as David Whiting / Walker Whiting
Getting Even (1909)
as Miner
Everybody's Acting (1926)
as Thorpe
The Boomerang (1919)
as George Gray
The Awakening of Donna Isolla (1914)
as The President of the Republic
A Woman in the Ultimate (1913)
as Badger Gang Member
Gimme (1923)
as John McGimsey
Broken Ways (1913)
as The Road Agent
They Would Elope (1909)
Actor
For His Sake (1911)
Actor
Pippa Passes (1909)
Actor
Rod of Wrath (1915)
as Erickson's Son
The Two Brothers (1910)
as Pedro
The Mysterious Shot (1914)
as The Gopher
The Love Trader (1930)
as Captain Adams
The Day After (1909)
as Party Guest
A Light in the Window (1927)
as Johann Graff
Wilful Peggy (1910)
as The Lord
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
as A Psalm Singer
The Iconoclast (1910)
Actor
The Converts (1910)
Actor
The Call (1910)
as Billy Harvey
The Command from Galilee (1911)
as The Lover
Three Faces East (1926)
as George Bennett
The Gray of the Dawn (1910)
Actor
The Floor Above (1914)
as Stephen Pryde
The Old Man (1914)
as The Old Man
During the Round-Up (1913)
as The Stranger
A Splendid Hazard (1920)
as Karl Breitman
The Gold Seekers (1910)
as The Prospector
The Heart of an Outlaw (1909)
as The Mexican Lover
Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet (1910)
Actor
The Odalisque (1914)
as Joe, in love with May
Retribution (1928)
as Henry / Tommy Mooney
Thou Shalt Not (1910)
Actor
The Wanderer (1913)
as The Wanderer
The Stolen Loaf (1913)
as The Poor Man
On the Reef (1910)
as Mr. Wilson
Her Mother's Oath (1913)
as The Actor