Wilfred Lucas

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

155

Movies

277

Born: January 29, 1871 – December 13, 1940
From: Norfolk, Ontario, Canada

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wilfred Lucas (January 30, 1871 – December 13, 1940) was a Canadian-born American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter. Wilfred Lucas made his Broadway debut in 1904, playing in both the The Blue Grass Handicap and The Superstition of Sue. Following his 1906 role in the highly successful play The Chorus Lady, he was recruited to the fledgling Biograph Studios by D. W. Griffith. At the time, the film business was still looked down upon by many members of the theatrical community. In her 1925 book titled When the Movies Were Young, Griffith's wife, actress Linda Arvidson, told the story of the early days at Biograph Studios. In it, she referred to Lucas as the "first real grand actor, democratic enough to work in Biograph movies." In 1908 Lucas made his motion picture debut in Griffith's The Greaser's Gauntlet, appearing in more than 50 of these short (usually 17 minutes) films over the next two years. In 1910 while still acting, he wrote the script for Griffith's film Sunshine Sue, which was followed by many more scripts by 1924. Lucas also began directing in 1912 with Griffith on An Outcast Among Outcasts, and directed another 44 films over the next 20 years. In early 1916 he starred as John Carter in Acquitted, about which Photoplay wrote, "No single performance in the records of active photography has surpassed his visualization of the humble book-keeper in Acquitted." Later in 1916 he appeared in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance. Part of the group of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, Lucas became friends and sometimes starred with Mary Pickford, Sam De Grasse, and Marie Dressler. Canadian-born director Mack Sennett hired him to both direct and act in a large number of films at his Keystone Studios. Lucas made the successful transition from silent film to sound. While working in Hollywood, in 1926 he returned to the stage, performing in several Broadway plays. He later appeared as a foil for Laurel and Hardy in their feature films Pardon Us and A Chump at Oxford. During his long career, Wilfred Lucas appeared in more than 375 films. Although for a time he was cast in leading roles, he became very successful as secondary and minor characters, making a good living in the film industry for more than three decades.

Works

277 films

Modern Times

19368.3

Waterloo Bridge

19407.5

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

19397.8

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

19167.1

The Westland Case

19376.7

Cleopatra

19346.1

Marked Woman

19376.6

Dodge City

19396.9

Dishonored

19316.9

Pardon Us

19316.4

Santa Fe Trail

19405.8

The Baroness and the Butler

19385.3

The Sea Wolf

19417.2

Naughty Marietta

19355.5

The Devil's Brother

19336.8

Edison, the Man

19406.8

Hello Sister

19303.0

The Prisoner of Shark Island

19366.9

One Night of Love

19345.5

Her Sacrifice

192610.0

They Drive by Night

19406.9

Zenobia

19395.0

Black Legion

19376.6

Les Misérables

19357.1

Just Imagine

19305.8

Virginia City

19406.3

Those Who Dance

19306.2

Careless Lady

19325.8

The Fighting 69th

19405.8

Each Dawn I Die

19396.8

Breakdowns of 1938

19385.8

Jazzmania

192310.0

The Devil-Doll

19366.8

Men Call It Love

19316.0

The Shadow of Lightning Ridge

19207.0

A Chump at Oxford

19406.9

Call Her Savage

19325.8

House of Mystery

19318.5

What Price Hollywood?

19326.8

The Renunciation

19094.4

Madam Satan

19305.9

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

19095.2

Free Wheeling

19327.6

The Spanish Jade

1915

The Country Doctor

19366.5

The Nest

20269.0

Through the Back Door

19216.5

Midnight Mary

19336.8

Down on the Farm

193810.0

Burnt Fingers

192710.0

The Arizona Kid

19307.0

Women Without Names

19404.7

Beloved Enemy

19366.3

Lucky Larrigan

19329.0

Brother Orchid

19406.6

Raffles

19396.2

The White Angel

19367.2

Frisco Kid

19357.0

A Dispatch from Reuters

19406.3

Millie

19315.3

The Mayor of Hell

19337.0

Navy Blue and Gold

19375.8

The Co-respondent

1917

Idol of the Crowds

19375.1

Four Wives

19395.5

Trilby

192310.0

The Breaking Point

19215.0

The Dragon Murder Case

19345.9

Nick Carter, Master Detective

19396.0

High Tension

19365.8

The Intruder

19334.6

The Three Musketeers

19335.7

The Blind Princess and the Poet

1911

Just Like a Woman

1912

Triple Justice

19407.5

The Diamond Star

1911

Gentleman Burglar

1914

The Massacre

19125.9

Four Daughters

19386.6

The Preview Murder Mystery

19365.8

The Mask of Lopez

19248.0

Big City Blues

19325.8

We Who Are About to Die

19377.0

The House on 56th Street

19335.3

Can a Woman Love Twice?

192310.0

The Failure

19114.0

Prairie Thunder

19374.3

Love in the Hills

1911

The Marshal Of Mesa City

19397.5

Devil and the Deep

19325.0

Vagabond Lady

19357.2

Missing Witnesses

19377.0

Women in the Wind

19396.8

The Jackeroo of Coolabong

19209.0

Home Folks

1912

Lawyer Man

19326.1

Graft

19315.0

Sins of Ambition

1917

Talent Scout

19376.7

The Indian Brothers

19114.0

The Devil Horse

19325.7

The Sorrows of Satan

19267.2

Criminal Lawyer

19376.5

Cross-Examination

19325.1

Safety in Numbers

19387.0

His Trust

19114.1

A Broadway Butterfly

19258.0

Strange People

19335.8

Legion of the Lawless

19406.2

The Best of Laurel and Hardy

19688.0

Show Them No Mercy!

19357.5

Macbeth

1916

The Midnight Patrol

193210.0

Stranded

19356.0

The Dark Horse

19327.4

The Snob Buster

19259.0

Brute Force

19145.3

Human Cargo

19367.5

The Kentucky Derby

19227.5

Love on a Bet

19367.0

Over the Wall

19385.7

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

19245.0

Apples to You!

19347.7

The New Dress

1911

Chatterbox

19367.0

Rich Man's Folly

19315.2

The Man Without a Country

19376.1

Mile a Minute Love

19377.0

A Strange Meeting

19094.3

Night Spot

19384.6

Kind Lady

19356.8

Almost a Gentleman

19398.0

Women in Hiding

19407.0

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

19257.0

The Primal Call

19114.0

The Super Snooper

19377.0

Tear Gas Squad

19405.3

She Loved a Fireman

19377.5

Land Beyond the Law

19378.5

Hot Water

19376.5

The Daredevil Drivers

19386.0

The Two Paths

1911

The Spanish Gypsy

1911

The Galloping Ghost

19314.7

Upperworld

19346.1

Varsity Show

19376.8

The Rocky Road

19104.0

The Sorrowful Example

1911

Phantom Thunderbolt

19334.6

The Thief and the Girl

1911

The Phantom

19314.0

Flesh and Blood

19226.2

His Trust Fulfilled

19113.7

Mary Stevens, M.D.

19336.2

You Said a Mouthful

19325.8

As No Man Has Loved

19257.0

Blazing Sixes

19378.0

The Arizonian

19358.0

The Big Cage

19338.0

The Valley of Hate

19247.0

Brother Rat

19386.0

Swords and Hearts

19114.6

California Mail

19364.9

How Baxter Butted In

192510.0

The Fatal Mistake

19249.0

A Terrible Discovery

1911

Fighting Blood

19116.3

The Girl of the Golden West

19238.0

Valley of Hate

19246.0

Passion's Pathway

19249.0

The Broken Cross

1911

A Temporary Truce

19124.0

Heroes of the Street

19228.0

The Return of Chandu

19344.8

The Sphinx

19335.1

A Man to Remember

19386.7

A Tender-Hearted Crook

1913

Advice to the Lovelorn

19337.3

The Unwritten Law

19328.0

Cock o' the Walk

19303.9

The Age for Love

19319.0

The Making of a Man

19116.3

I Cover the Waterfront

19335.1

Sister to Judas

19329.0

The Girls and Daddy

19093.0

Enoch Arden: Part II

19115.6

The Day the Bookies Wept

19397.5

Young Donovan's Kid

193110.0

The Declaration of Independence

19386.7

Chandu on the Magic Island

19355.2

Shrimps for a Day

19346.8

The Bad Lands

19259.0

Racetrack

19337.0

Winning Back His Love

19104.0

A Wild Girl of the Sierras

1916

Riders of the Purple Sage

19256.1

Red Noses

19327.5

Looser Than Loose

19306.0

The Lily and the Rose

1915

Acquitted

1916

A Woman Scorned

1911

The Moth

1934

Give Me Liberty

19366.4

The Girl from Nowhere

19196.0

A Sailor’s Heart

1912

Enoch Arden

19116.0

The Widow and the Widower

1913

The Price She Paid

19245.3

The Greaser's Gauntlet

19081.0

The Secrets of Wu Sin

19326.5

The Transformation of Mike

19124.3

The Beautiful Liar

192110.0

Man's Genesis

19124.6

Fisher Folks

1911

The Miser's Heart

19116.0

Homicide Squad

19318.0

The Greatest Menace

19238.0

Convicted

19315.0

Stormy

19357.0

The Fighting Sap

19249.0

Love Time

193410.0

The Food Gamblers

1917

Rip Roaring Riley

19359.0

Freshman Year

193810.0

Souls Triumphant

1917

The Long Road

1911

A Pueblo Legend

1912

Fate's Interception

1912

Madame Rex

1911

When a Man Loves

19114.0

The Taming of the Shrew

19084.9

Across the Dead-Line

19228.0

Hell-to-Pay Austin

1916

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

1912

Youth's Gamble

19259.0

Love Your Neighbor

19307.0

The Tabasco Kid

19327.0

Midnight Blunders

19365.0

Paid Back

19229.0

The Honor of Thieves

19091.5

Air Fright

19336.3

The Wood Nymph

1916

A Woman of Pleasure

19198.0

Pure Gold and Dross

1913

The Lonedale Operator

19116.1

The Westerners

19199.0

The Rose of Kentucky

19115.6

Daughters of Pleasure

19248.0

The Hushed Hour

19198.0

A Love Sublime

1917

Enoch Arden: Part I

19115.6

What Shall We Do with Our Old?

19115.5

North of Nevada

19249.0

Lightning Romance

19249.0

His Daughter

19114.0

What Every Woman Wants

19194.0

The Fighting Breed

19218.0

Big Ears

19315.4

Heart Beats of Long Ago

19115.0

Cyclone Cavalier

192510.0

Soldiers of Fortune

19197.0

Jim Bludso

1917

When Kings Were the Law

1912

Racing for Life

19249.0

The Girl and the Outlaw

19083.0

Hands Up!

1917

Under Burning Skies

19124.7

The Microscope Mystery

1916

Stranger in Town

19315.0

The Man from Kangaroo

19206.3

Angkor

19355.3

The Girl and Her Trust

19126.3

Empty Holsters

19378.0

Billy's Stratagem

19125.0

One a Minute

19217.3

The Judgment House

1917

Stockholm ”Queen of the Baltic”

1932