Louis Wolheim

Louis Wolheim

Born: March 27, 1880
Died: February 18, 1931
in New York City, New York, USA
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.

Movies for Louis Wolheim...

The Sin Ship
Title: The Sin Ship
Character: Captain Sam McVey
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
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Gentleman's Fate
Title: Gentleman's Fate
Character: Frank Tomasulo
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Danger Lights
Title: Danger Lights
Character: Dan Thorn
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
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The Silver Horde
Title: The Silver Horde
Character: George Balt
Released: October 24, 1930
Type: Movie
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Stanislas 'Kat' Katczinsky
Released: April 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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The Ship from Shanghai
Title: The Ship from Shanghai
Character: Ted
Released: January 31, 1930
Type: Movie
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
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Condemned
Title: Condemned
Character: Jacques Duval
Released: November 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
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Frozen Justice
Title: Frozen Justice
Character: Duke
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Drama set in Alaska
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Wolf Song
Title: Wolf Song
Character: Gullion
Released: March 29, 1929
Type: Movie
In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he meets Lola, a beautiful Mexican girl from a proud and rich family. They fall in love and he persuades her to elope with him. After they get married, Sam is torn between his love for Lola and his yearn for traveling.
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Square Shoulders
Title: Square Shoulders
Character: John 'Slag' Collins
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Character: Le Bete
Released: November 17, 1928
Type: Movie
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: Nick Scarsi
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
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Tempest
Title: Tempest
Character: Sergeant Bulba
Released: May 27, 1928
Type: Movie
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
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Sorrell and Son
Title: Sorrell and Son
Character: Buck
Released: December 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
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Two Arabian Knights
Title: Two Arabian Knights
Character: Peter O'Gaffney
Released: September 23, 1927
Type: Movie
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.
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The Story Without a Name
Title: The Story Without a Name
Character: Kurder
Released: October 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma wants to get his hands on the invention and he sends his henchmen to attack Holt in his laboratory.
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America
Title: America
Character: Captain Hare
Released: February 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
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The Uninvited Guest
Title: The Uninvited Guest
Character: Jan Boomer
Released: February 11, 1924
Type: Movie
Olive Granger, an heiress survives a shipwreck in the South Seas and is washed ashore an island along with international crooks Irene Carlton and Fred Morgan, who steal her credentials and escape to America, where Irene poses as Olive. Paul Patterson and Jan Boomer, divers, find Olive abandoned in a cave and fight through the jungle in competition for the girl. While diving for pearls, the treacherous Boomer dies in the clutching coils of a giant octopus. Olive and Paul arrive in New York, expose the impostors, and get married.
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Unseeing Eyes
Title: Unseeing Eyes
Character: Laird
Released: November 18, 1923
Type: Movie
The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: The Hoboken Terror
Released: August 1, 1923
Type: Movie
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
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The Last Moment
Title: The Last Moment
Character: The Finn
Released: June 7, 1923
Type: Movie
The Last Moment is a silent film now considered lost.
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The Face in the Fog
Title: The Face in the Fog
Character: Petrus
Released: October 7, 1922
Type: Movie
Boston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of terrorists is after the jewels.
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Sherlock Holmes
Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Craigin
Released: March 7, 1922
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective investigates an alleged theft, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.
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Orphans of the Storm
Title: Orphans of the Storm
Character: Executioner (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1921
Type: Movie
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Music Hall Proprietor
Released: March 18, 1920
Type: Movie
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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The Test of Honor
Title: The Test of Honor
Character: Man Devil in dream (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1919
Type: Movie
After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.
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The Poor Rich Man
Title: The Poor Rich Man
Character: Wrestler
Released: December 23, 1918
Type: Movie
Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, leads a fine upstanding life -- or at least he appears to, so he can curry favor with his wealthy uncle, Vantyne's father. One day, the senior Carter, fed up with his son's antics, decides to play a trick on both Vantyne and Teddy. The old man and his lawyer go off on a hunting trip, and then the lawyer returns with news that Carter was killed in an accident.
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A Pair of Cupids
Title: A Pair of Cupids
Character: Dirk Thomas
Released: July 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Henry Burgess favors a match between his ward, Virginia Parke, and his nephew, Peter Warburton, but she is only interested in her poodle, Frou Frou, and Peter devotes all of his attention to his business. To bring them together, Uncle Henry rents twin babies of the laundrywoman, Bridget McGroghan, placing one on Peter's doorstep and the other on Virginia's. Each discovering that the other has a baby, Peter and Virginia soon begin to share their views on child rearing and matrimony, and are about to become engaged when the babies disappear. Michael McGroghan, the twins' father, hires a pair of crooks to kidnap the babies so that he may collect the $25,000 bond that has been put up by Henry for their safe return. Peter, however, tracks down the kidnappers, and after the infants are returned to their grateful mother, he and Virginia look forward to having their own babies. (from the AFI)
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The Eyes of Mystery
Title: The Eyes of Mystery
Character: Brad Tilton
Released: January 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Carma Carmichael, who lives with her uncle Quincy, is kidnapped by her renegade father Roger and taken to his ancestral Southern home. Uncle Quincy sends young Jack Carrington to investigate and goes into hiding, leading the Carmichaels to believe he is dead. Carma is at first suspicious of Jack's intentions but soon learns that the man who abducted her is actually an impostor who had murdered her father and now lives in the plantation with a group of thugs. Despite "Roger's" attempts to take Jack's life, the young man incites the thugs against him and they attack the house.
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The House of Hate
Title: The House of Hate
Character: Patch-eye Pete
Released: January 2, 1918
Type: Movie
A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...
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The Avenging Trail
Title: The Avenging Trail
Character: Lefty Reed
Released: December 31, 1917
Type: Movie
Lumberjack Gaston Olaf is newly arrived in the lumber camp of Havens Falls, but it isn't long before he finds himself coming to the rescue of the lovely Rose Havens, who is being pursued by the nasty Lefty Red.
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The Eternal Mother
Title: The Eternal Mother
Character: Bucky McGhee (as Louis R. Wolheim)
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Maris, having married Lynch, a worthless man who deserts her, taking their daughter Felice with him, marries mill owner Dwight Alden after receiving notification that her husband and child are dead. Discovering that Alden employs child labor, Maris, assisted by the village minister, tries to persuade him that this is wrong, but he will tolerate no interference in his business.
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The Belle of the Season
Title: The Belle of the Season
Character: Johnson
Released: July 23, 1917
Type: Movie
The Belle of the Season is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film, directed by S. Rankin Drew, and stars Emmy Wehlen, S. Rankin Drew, and Walter Hitchcock.
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The Millionaire's Double
Title: The Millionaire's Double
Character: Bob Holloway
Released: April 30, 1917
Type: Movie
After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in Europe. After hearing of his wife's death years later, he returns home but finds it lonely there and heads West. While he is gone his house is robbed, and the leader of the crooks, Richard Glendo, leaves Bennington's coat and identification on an East River pier. The newspapers pick up on this and announce Bennington's "suicide." Since he is now officially deceased, Bennington decides to start life all over again -- but first he must foil a scheme by a gang of con artists, who have forced pretty Constance Brent to pose as Bennington's widow so that they can lay claim to his estate.
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The End of the Tour
Title: The End of the Tour
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.
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The Brand of Cowardice
Title: The Brand of Cowardice
Character: Cpl. Mallin
Released: October 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Cyril Hamilton is a chicken-hearted easterner who heads west. He makes up for his past misdeeds by rescuing a Cavalry colonel's daughter Marcia West from Mexican bandidos.
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Dorian's Divorce
Title: Dorian's Divorce
Character: Capt. Ross (as L. Robert Wolheim)
Released: June 5, 1916
Type: Movie
Wealthy clubman Richard Dorian is a lighthearted soul who can't seem to take anything seriously, including his wife. Even when they decide to divorce, he meets the lawyers with a smile. When one of the attorneys suggests a charge of brutality, Mrs. Dorian points out that it is ludicrous. Dorian offers to have a party on his yacht, during which he will try very hard to be brutal to her to give her grounds for the divorce. Among the partygoers are Mrs. Dorian's guardian and Morgan, a smuggler who is buying the yacht. The guardian, who has squandered Mrs. Dorian's money on the stock market, kills himself. Dorian thinks that his wife killed him, gallantly takes the blame himself, and dives overboard. He becomes a tramp and is shanghaied by Morgan's men to become a stoker on his former yacht. Dorian's steward, Puck, is still onboard, and he tells Dorian that the guardian committed suicide.