Cullen Landis
Biografia
Cullen Landis (July 9, 1896 – August 26, 1975) was an American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early ears of the silent film era. James Cullen Landis was the middle of three siblings (two sons and a daughter) raised by Lulan and Margaret (née Cullen) Landis in Nashville, Tennessee, where his father supported his family as a stock broker. As a boy, James was a train enthusiast and dreamed to be an railroad engineer. Though the ambition eventually faded, his interest in railroads did not, and some years later he helped design for himself a model train set powered by steam. He began working in the fledgling film industry at age 18 around the time his older sister, Margaret Landis, appeared in her first film. In 1928 Cullen Landis starred in the first ‘all talking’ motion picture, Lights of New York. He once confided in a friend that talkies were perfect for musicals and that he was no "song and dance man". He left Hollywood for Detroit in 1930 to produce and direct industrial films for automobile companies. Landis began as a movie director, only turning to acting after his lead player broke a leg and it was discovered that the actor’s costumes fit him. He went on to become one of the more popular lead actors of the silent era, appearing in some one hundred films over 14 years. During World War II, he served as a captain with US Army Signal Corps producing training films in the South Pacific. By war’s end he was twice decorated and promoted to major. In the post war years he made documentaries for the US State Department that took him to the far corners of the world. James Cullen Landis died on August 28, 1975, aged 79, at a nursing home in Bloomfield, Michigan, three months after the death of his wife, Jane. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmografia
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
Film • 1943
jako Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Convict's Code
Film • 1930
jako Kenneth Avery
The Little Wild Girl
Film • 1928
jako Jules Barbier
Lights of New York
Film • 1928
jako Eddie Morgan
Out with the Tide
Film • 1928
jako John Templeton
A Midnight Adventure
Film • 1928
jako Fred Nicholson
The Devil's Skipper
Film • 1928
jako John Dubray
The Broken Mask
Film • 1928
jako Pertio
On to Reno
Film • 1928
jako Bud
Two to One
Film • 1927
jako George Minafer
Broadway After Midnight
Film • 1927
jako Jimmy Crestmore
Finnegan's Ball
Film • 1927
jako Flannigan Jr.
We're All Gamblers
Film • 1927
jako Georgie McCarver
Life in Hollywood No. 5
Film • 1927
The Fighting Failure
Film • 1926
jako Denny O'Brien
The Smoke Eaters
Film • 1926
jako Ed
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Film • 1926
jako Victor McQuade
Frenzied Flames
Film • 1926
jako Danny Grovan
Christine of the Big Tops
Film • 1926
jako Bob Hastings
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Film • 1926
jako Davy Crockett
The Dixie Flyer
Film • 1926
jako 'Sunrise' Smith
My Old Dutch
Film • 1926
jako Herbert Brown
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Film • 1926
jako Gordon Kent
Perils of the Coast Guard
Film • 1926
jako Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
The Midnight Flyer
Film • 1925
jako David Henderson
Peacock Feathers
Film • 1925
jako Jerry Chandler
An Enemy of Men
Film • 1925
jako Doctor Phil
Wasted Lives
Film • 1925
jako John Grayson
A Broadway Butterfly
Film • 1925
jako Ronald Steel
Pampered Youth
Film • 1925
jako George Minafer
Cheap Kisses
Film • 1924
jako Donald Dillingham
Born Rich
Film • 1924
jako Jack Le Moyne
One Law for the Woman
Film • 1924
jako Ben Martin
A Girl of the Limberlost
Film • 1924
jako Hart Henderson
The Fighting Coward
Film • 1924
jako Tom Rumford
The Man Life Passed By
Film • 1923
jako Harold Trevis
The Midnight Alarm
Film • 1923
jako Chaser
Masters of Men
Film • 1923
jako Dick Halpin
Soul of the Beast
Film • 1923
jako Paul Nadeau
Pioneer Trails
Film • 1923
jako Jack Dale / Jack Plains
Crashin' Thru
Film • 1923
jako Cons Saunders
The Famous Mrs. Fair
Film • 1923
jako Alan Fair
Dollar Devils
Film • 1923
jako Jim Biggers
The Fog
Film • 1923
jako Nathan Forge
Forsaking All Others
Film • 1922
jako Oliver Newell
Love in the Dark
Film • 1922
jako Tim O'Brien
Youth to Youth
Film • 1922
jako Page Brookins
Remembrance
Film • 1922
jako Seth Smith
Gay and Devilish
Film • 1922
jako Peter Armitage
Watch Your Step
Film • 1922
jako Elmer Slocum
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
Film • 1922
Man With Two Mothers
Film • 1922
Voices of the City
Film • 1921
jako Jimmy
The Infamous Miss Revell
Film • 1921
jako Max Hildreth
The Ace of Hearts
Film • 1921
jako Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
The Old Nest
Film • 1921
jako Jim at 22-32
Snowblind
Film • 1921
jako Pete Garth
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Film • 1921
jako Rab
It's a Great Life
Film • 1920
jako Stoddard
Going Some
Film • 1920
jako J. Wallingford Speed
Pinto
Film • 1920
jako Bob DeWitt
Jinx
Film • 1919
jako Slicker Evans
Almost a Husband
Film • 1919
jako Jerry Wilson
Upstairs
Film • 1919
jako Lemuel Stallings
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Film • 1919
jako Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
Where the West Begins
Film • 1919
jako Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
Cupid In Quarantine
Film • 1918
jako The Boyfriend
Her Rustic Romeo
Film • 1918
jako Jack
Over the Garden Wall
Film • 1918
jako Jack
Somebody's Widow
Film • 1918
jako Jack Random
Who Is Number One?
Film • 1917
jako Tommy Hale
Sunny Jane
Film • 1917
jako Thomas