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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.
Movie | The Sin Ship | Captain Sam McVey | 1931-04-18 |
Movie | Danger Lights | Dan Thorn | 1931-01-09 |
Movie | Gentleman's Fate | Frank Tomasulo | 1931-03-07 |
Movie | All Quiet on the Western Front | Stanislas 'Kat' Katczinsky | 1930-04-29 |
Movie | The Ship from Shanghai | Ted | 1930-01-31 |
Movie | The Silver Horde | George Balt | 1930-10-24 |
Movie | Square Shoulders | John 'Slag' Collins | 1929-03-10 |
Movie | Wolf Song | Gullion | 1929-03-29 |
Movie | Frozen Justice | Duke | 1929-10-13 |
Movie | Condemned | Jacques Duval | 1929-11-03 |
Movie | The Racket | Nick Scarsi | 1928-11-01 |
Movie | Tempest | Sergeant Bulba | 1928-05-27 |
Movie | The Awakening | Le Bete | 1928-11-17 |
Movie | Two Arabian Knights | Peter O'Gaffney | 1927-09-23 |
Movie | Sorrell and Son | Buck | 1927-12-02 |
Movie | America | Captain Hare | 1924-02-21 |
Movie | Unseeing Eyes | Laird | 1923-11-18 |
Movie | Little Old New York | The Hoboken Terror | 1923-08-01 |
Movie | Sherlock Holmes | Craigin | 1922-03-07 |
Movie | The Face in the Fog | Petrus | 1922-10-07 |
Movie | Orphans of the Storm | Executioner (uncredited) | 1921-12-28 |
Movie | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Music Hall Proprietor | 1920-03-18 |
Movie | The Test of Honor | Man Devil in dream (uncredited) | 1919-04-16 |
Movie | The House of Hate | Patch-eye Pete | 1918-01-02 |
Movie | The End of the Tour | 1917-01-29 | |
Movie | The Belle of the Season | Johnson | 1917-07-23 |