Known For
Acting
Born
May 08, 1895
Died
Aug 17, 1963
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
90 titles
Richard Barthelmess
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.
Known For
Filmography
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
The Yellow Man (archive footage)
The Great Chase
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
The Tingler
David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Oscars
The Mayor of 44th Street
Ed Kirby
The Spoilers
Bronco Kid
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Talked Too Much
J.B. Roscoe
Only Angels Have Wings
Bat MacPherson
Spy of Napoleon
Gerard de Lanoy
Starlit Days at the Lido
Self
Four Hours to Kill!
Tony Mako
Midnight Alibi
Lance McGowan
A Modern Hero
Pierre Radier aka Paul Rader
Massacre
Chief Joe Thunderhorse
Heroes for Sale
Tom Holmes
How to Break 90 #1: The Grip
Himself
Central Airport
James 'Jim' Blaine
The Cabin in the Cotton
Marvin Blake
Alias the Doctor
Karl Brenner
The Last Flight
Cary Lockwood
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'
The Finger Points
Breckenridge 'Breck' Lee
The Stolen Jools
Richard Barthelmess
The Lash
Francisco Delfino 'Pancho'
The Voice of Hollywood
The Dawn Patrol
Dick Courtney
Son of the Gods
Sam Lee
The Show of Shows
Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
Young Nowheres
Albert 'Binky' Whalen
Drag
David Carroll
Weary River
Jerry Larrabee
Out of the Ruins
Lt. Pierre Dumont
Wheel of Chance
Nicolai Turkeltaub
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Chad Buford
The Noose
Nickie Elkins
Scarlet Seas
Steven Dunkin
The Drop Kick
Jack Hamill
The Patent Leather Kid
Patent Leather Kid
The White Black Sheep
Robert Kincarin
The Amateur Gentleman
Barnabas Barty
Ranson's Folly
Lt. Ranson
Just Suppose
Prince Rupert of Koronia
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Gaston
The Beautiful City
Tony Gillardi
Shore Leave
D.X. (Bilge) Smith
Soul-Fire
Eric Fane
New Toys
Will Webb
Classmates
Duncan Irving Jr