Richard Barthelmess

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

131

Movies

Born: May 8, 1895 – August 17, 1963
From: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an Oscar-nominated silent film star. Barthelmess was educated at Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack and Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut. His father died when he was a baby and his mother, Caroline Harris , was a stage actress, so he worked in theatres in his early days, between schooling, doing "walk-ons". This led to acting in college, doing amateur productions. Russian actress Alla Nazimova, a friend of the family, had been taught English by Barthelmess's mother. Nazimova in return convinced Barthelmess to try acting professionally and he made his first film appearance in 1916 in the serial Gloria's Romance as an extra. At this time he also appeared as a supporting player in several films starring Marguerite Clark. His next role, in War Brides opposite Alla Nazimova, attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offered him several important roles, finally casting him opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920). He soon became one of Hollywood's highest paid performers, starring in such classics as The Patent Leather Kid (1927) and The Noose (1928); he was nominated for Best Actor at the first Academy Awards for his performance in both these films, and he won a Special Citation for producing The Patent Leather Kid. He founded his own production company, Inspiration Film Company, together with Charles Duell and Henry King. One of their films, Tol'able David (1921), in which Barthelmess starred as a teenage mailman who finds courage, was a major success. With the advent of the sound era, Barthelmess' fortunes changed. He made several films in the new medium, most notably Son of the Gods (1930), The Dawn Patrol (1930), The Last Flight (1931), and The Cabin in the Cotton (1932), Central Airport (1933), and a supporting role as Rita Hayworth's character's husband in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Barthelmess , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

89 films

Shore Leave

19255.0

Only Angels Have Wings

19397.3

The Spoilers

19426.2

The Show of Shows

19296.6

Just a Song at Twilight

19168.0

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

19196.9

Soul-Fire

192510.0

Scarlet Seas

19284.0

The Tingler

19596.4

Fury

19239.5

The Stolen Jools

19315.6

Peppy Polly

19198.0

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

19617.0

Wild Primrose

19187.0

Heroes for Sale

19337.1

Sonny

192210.0

Central Airport

19336.0

Boots

19194.0

Way Down East

19206.9

Sunshine Nan

1918

Ranson's Folly

19267.2

New Toys

19257.0

Three Men and a Girl

19198.0

Twenty-One

19238.0

The Seven Swans

1917

Seeing Stars

19224.9

The Mayor of 44th Street

19425.0

The Dawn Patrol

19306.7

The Eternal Sin

1917

Tol'able David

19217.0

The Fighting Blade

19237.0

A Modern Hero

19347.0

The Enchanted Cottage

19247.2

Son of the Gods

19306.3

I'll Get Him Yet

19198.0

The Man Who Talked Too Much

19406.4

For Valour

1917

The Bright Shawl

19237.0

The Amateur Gentleman

19267.0

Bab's Diary

1917

Massacre

19345.5

Alias the Doctor

19326.0

The Finger Points

19316.4

Scarlet Days

19196.0

The Last Flight

19316.5

The White Black Sheep

19267.0

The Beautiful City

19259.0

Just Suppose

19266.3

Weary River

19295.8

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

War Brides

19166.0

The Valentine Girl

1917

The Moral Code

19171.0

The Cabin in the Cotton

19326.3

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

1921

The Soul of a Magdalen

1917

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

19264.2

Hit-the-Trail Holliday

1918

Spy of Napoleon

19368.0

The Lash

19306.5

The Girl Who Stayed at Home

19194.8

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

19289.0

Nearly Married

1917

The Drop Kick

19275.3

Starlit Days at the Lido

19355.7

The Noose

19287.7

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

199810.0

The Great Chase

19626.4

Wheel of Chance

19288.0

The Streets of Illusion

1917

The Bond Boy

19239.0

Young Nowheres

19298.0

The Voice of Hollywood

1930

Midnight Alibi

19346.7

Camille

1917

The Patent Leather Kid

19276.1

How to Break 90 #1: The Grip

19337.5

The Love Flower

19204.7

Drag

19296.7

Four Hours to Kill!

19355.7

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'

19318.0

The Idol Dancer

19205.7

The Hope Chest

19188.0

Classmates

19247.0

The Seventh Day

19226.9

Out of the Ruins

19288.0

Rich Man, Poor Man

1918

Experience

19218.0

Bab's Burglar

1917