Richard Arlen

Acting · 1.3 popularity

Age

126

Movies

154

Born: August 30, 1899 – March 28, 1976
From: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Biography

Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore) was an American film and television actor. He served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps during World War I. After the war, he went to the oilfields of Texas and Oklahoma and found work as a tool boy. He was thereafter a messenger and sporting editor of a newspaper before going to Los Angeles to act in films, but no producer wanted him. He was a delivery boy for a film laboratory when the motorcycle which he was riding landed him a broken leg outside the Paramount Pictures lot. A sympathetic film director gave him his start as an extra. He appeared at first in silent films before making the transition to talkies. His first important film role was in Vengeance of the Deep. He took time out from his Hollywood career to teach as a United States Army Air Forces flight instructor in World War II. Arlen is best known for his role as a pilot in the Academy Award-winning Wings with Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, and his second wife, Jobyna Ralston, whom he married in 1927. He was among the more famous residents of the celebrity enclave, Toluca Lake, California. He married New York socialite, Margaret Kinsella, in 1946. In 1939, Universal teamed him with Andy Devine for a series of 14 B-pictures, mostly action-comedies with heavy reliance on stock footage from larger-scale films. They are informally known as the "Aces of Action" series, which is how the stars were billed in the trailers. When Arlen left the studio in 1941, the series continued with Devine teamed with a variety of other actors. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Arlen was active in television, having guest starred in several anthology series, including Playhouse 90, The Loretta Young Show, The 20th Century Fox Hour, and in three episodes of the series about clergymen, Crossroads. In 1960, Arlen was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star at 6755 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the film industry. In 1968, he appeared on Petticoat Junction playing himself. The episode was called "Wings" and it was in direct reference to the 1927 silent movie Wings. Arlen appeared in westerns, such as Lawman, Branded, Bat Masterson, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Wagon Train, and Yancy Derringer, and in such drama/adventure programs as Ripcord, Whirlybirds, Perry Mason, The New Breed, Coronado 9, and Michael Shayne.

Works

154 films

Wings

19277.2

Warlock

19596.8

Island of Lost Souls

19326.9

Alice in Wonderland

19336.1

Tropic Fury

19395.5

The Best Man

19647.3

The Bounty Killer

19656.0

The Mountain

19566.9

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

19764.3

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10

1934

Hollywood Hobbies

19357.0

Town Tamer

19656.8

Johnny Reno

19666.5

Beggars of Life

19287.1

Black Spurs

19656.3

Thunderbolt

19295.7

Hell and High Water

19337.0

You'd Be Surprised

19267.0

Apache Uprising

19656.4

The Horror Show

19793.4

Soaring Stars

1942

Young Fury

19645.6

The Human Duplicators

19653.7

Law of the Lawless

19646.5

College Humor

19335.6

Flaming Feather

19526.2

Fort Utah

19674.3

In the Name of Love

192510.0

Rolled Stockings

19278.0

Silver City

19516.6

Waco

19666.7

Kansas Raiders

19506.0

Come On, Marines!

19345.6

Buckskin

19685.5

Murder in Greenwich Village

19375.8

Hostile Guns

19675.6

Artists & Models

19376.3

The All-American

19326.5

She Made Her Bed

19344.5

Sally in Our Alley

192710.0

The Man I Love

19295.5

Road to Nashville

19666.0

Paramount on Parade

19306.1

Gun Smoke

19316.7

Hurricane Smith

19526.4

Wayward

19326.3

Hot Steel

19407.5

Golden Harvest

19336.5

Let 'em Have It

19357.6

Cavalry Command

19585.4

Straight, Place and Show

19387.0

Sex and the College Girl

19646.0

Only Saps Work

19306.0

Tiger Shark

19326.5

The Virginian

19295.8

The Sea God

19305.5

Hidden Guns

19565.7

The Leather Pushers

19408.0

The Young and the Brave

19636.3

Timber Queen

19446.0

Ladies of the Mob

192810.0

The Blazing Forest

19526.5

Three Cornered Moon

19336.0

Caught

19317.5

The Great Barrier

19377.5

The Last Time I Saw Archie

19616.3

The Lady and the Monster

19446.0

Song of the Eagle

193310.0

Hollywood

19239.0

Wildcat

19425.7

Red Tomahawk

19676.8

Old Ironsides

19266.4

Ready for Love

19346.2

Dangerous Curves

19296.6

Child of Trouble

1957

Blonde Blackmailer

19558.0

When My Baby Smiles at Me

19485.5

The Shepherd of the Hills

19647.0

Flying Blind

19414.6

Minesweeper

19435.2

Behind the Front

19266.2

Identity Unknown

19455.4

To the Shores of Hell

19666.0

The Sky's the Limit

197510.0

The Big Bonanza

19446.3

That's My Baby!

19445.6

Power Dive

19414.5

The Return of Wildfire

19488.0

The French Key

19466.5

The Coast of Folly

19258.0

The Light of Western Stars

19305.2

No Time to Marry

19387.0

A Whale of a Tale

19764.8

The Lawyer's Secret

19316.2

Three Live Ghosts

19366.0

Storm Over Lisbon

19445.4

The Crawling Hand

19633.2

Helldorado

19359.0

Feel My Pulse

19286.6

Call of The Yukon

19386.0

Legion of Lost Flyers

19395.0

Dangerous Paradise

19304.2

A Dangerous Game

19417.0

Secret Valley

19375.3

Submarine Alert

19434.8

Forced Landing

19416.0

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

19398.0

Danger On Wheels

19404.6

Padlocked

19267.0

The Secret Call

19317.7

Accomplice

19465.8

Aerial Gunner

19435.0

Under the Tonto Rim

19287.0

Burning Up

19305.3

A Letter From Bataan

19425.2

Alaska Highway

19436.3

Black Diamonds

19407.0

Missing Daughters

19394.3

Raiders of the Desert

19418.0

The Calling of Dan Matthews

19354.7

Devil's Point

19547.0

The Border Legion

193010.0

Quicksands

19237.0

Mutiny in the Arctic

19417.5

Swing with Bing

19406.5

Grand Canyon

194910.0

The Conquering Horde

19317.0

The Four Feathers

19295.0

The Blood Ship

19277.7

The Santa Fe Trail

19306.3

Rogue's Gallery

19687.0

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

1932

She's a Sheik

19278.0

Sky Bride

19328.0

Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess

2012

The Man from Montreal

19394.9

The Phantom Speaks

19455.7

The Devil's Pipeline

19407.0

The Mine with the Iron Door

19369.0

Men of the Timberland

19418.0

Hollywood on Parade No. A-6

19334.5

Wrecking Crew

19427.0

The Enchanted Hill

19269.0

Raymie

19606.0

Touchdown!

19318.0

Buffalo Bill Rides Again

19476.0

Guilty as Hell

19326.7

Lucky Devils

19414.0

Manhattan Cocktail

19288.0

Torpedo Boat

19427.5

Figures Don't Lie

192710.0

Sabre Jet

19537.0

Speed to Spare

19486.7

How to Break 90 #4: Downswing

19338.0