Name
Louis Wolheim
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1880-03-27
Deathday
1931-02-18 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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
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When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are a...
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A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll....
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Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with ...
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A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend....
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Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped ...
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France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised togethe...
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During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling ove...
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A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy...
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An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother w...
- 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front as Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky
- 1920 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Music Hall Proprietor
- 1923 The Last Moment as The Finn
- 1924 The Story Without a Name as Kurder
- 1917 The Eternal Mother as Bucky McGhee (as Louis R. Wolheim)
- 1928 The Racket as Nick Scarsi
- 1918 The Poor Rich Man as Wrestler
- 1919 The Test of Honor as Man Devil in dream (uncredited)
- 1924 The Uninvited Guest as Jan Boomer
- 1922 Sherlock Holmes as Craigin
- 1918 The Eyes of Mystery as Brad Tilton
- 1917 The End of the Tour
- 1928 Tempest as Sergeant Bulba
- 1917 The Avenging Trail as Lefty Reed
- 1929 Condemned! as Jacques Duval
- 1930 The Silver Horde as George Balt
- 1916 The Brand of Cowardice as Cpl. Mallin
- 1917 The Millionaire's Double as Bob Holloway
- 1924 America as Captain Hare
- 1931 Danger Lights as Dan Thorn
- 1931 Gentleman's Fate as Frank Tomasulo
- 1929 Wolf Song as Gullion
- 1931 The Sin Ship as Captain Sam McVey
- 1930 The Ship from Shanghai as Ted
- 1928 The Awakening as Le Bete
- 1923 Unseeing Eyes as Laird
- 1921 Orphans of the Storm as Executioner (uncredited)
- 1927 Two Arabian Knights as Peter O'Gaffney
- 1923 Little Old New York as The Hoboken Terror
- 1918 A Pair of Cupids as Dirk Thomas
- 1918 The House of Hate as Patch-eye Pete
- 1927 Sorrell and Son as Buck
- 1929 Square Shoulders as Slag
- 1921 Number 17
- 1922 The Face in the Fog as Petrus
- 1918 Opportunity as Prizefight spectator
- 1929 Frozen Justice as Duke
- 1917 The Belle of the Season as Johnson
- 1916 Dorian's Divorce as Capt. Ross (as L. Robert Wolheim)
- 1921 Experience as Crime
- 1915 The Romance of Elaine
- 1923 The Go-Getter as Daniel Silver
- 1925 Lover's Island as Capt. Joshua Dawson
- 1923 Enemies of Women
- 1916 The Sunbeam as Biff - the Brute
- 1928 The Shady Lady as Professor Holbrook
- 1920 A Manhattan Knight as Mangus O'Shea
- 1918 Peg of the Pirates as Flatnose Tim
