Louis Wolheim
Birthday: 1880-03-27
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as an extra in the Wharton studio but never received much attention. Barrymore had only to look at him once to realize that Wolheim's face was his fortune. Through Barrymore, Wolheim gained an entree into New York theatrical life. On the legitimate stage he made a great success in "Welcome Wing" and "The Hairy Ape", climaxing these plays by his triumph in "What Price Glory". Louis Wolheim died in Los Angeles, California on 18 February 1931, the result of stomach cancer.
Movies
All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend....
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The Last Moment
Hercules Napoleon Cameron, who finds his adventure in books, is searching the waterfront with Alice ...
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The Story Without a Name
Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. Internati...
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The Eternal Mother
Maris, having married Lynch, a worthless man who deserts her, taking their daughter Felice with him,...
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The Racket
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Arch...
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The Poor Rich Man
Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, lead...
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The Test of Honor
After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two peop...
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The Uninvited Guest
Olive Granger, an heiress survives a shipwreck in the South Seas and is washed ashore an island alon...
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out ...
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The Eyes of Mystery
Carma Carmichael, who lives with her uncle Quincy, is kidnapped by her renegade father Roger and tak...
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The End of the Tour
A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behi...
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Tempest
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other off...
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The Avenging Trail
Lumberjack Gaston Olaf is newly arrived in the lumber camp of Havens Falls, but it isn't long before...
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Condemned!
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife o...
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The Silver Horde
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll....
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The Brand of Cowardice
Cyril Hamilton is a chicken-hearted easterner who heads west. He makes up for his past misdeeds by r...
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The Millionaire's Double
After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in Europe. A...
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Danger Lights
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight ...
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Wolf Song
In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for th...
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The Sin Ship
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and he...
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The Ship from Shanghai
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward,...
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The Awakening
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Tur...
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Unseeing Eyes
The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue....
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Orphans of the Storm
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as siste...
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Two Arabian Knights
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beauti...
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Little Old New York
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has die...
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A Pair of Cupids
Henry Burgess favors a match between his ward, Virginia Parke, and his nephew, Peter Warburton, but ...
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The House of Hate
A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murder...
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Sorrell and Son
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband a...
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Square Shoulders
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, ...
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The Face in the Fog
Boston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of ter...
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Opportunity
When Mary’s father refuses to let her attend a prize fight because he thinks it’s undignified for a ...
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Frozen Justice
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The Belle of the Season
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Dorian's Divorce
Wealthy clubman Richard Dorian is a lighthearted soul who can't seem to take anything seriously, inc...
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Experience
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The Romance of Elaine
The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, ali...
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The Go-Getter
Bill Peck is discharged from an army hospital and goes in search of a job. Cappy Ricks hires Bill, b...
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Lover's Island
Clemmy Dawson, the daughter of a sea captain, lives in a small fishing village, where, in the summer...
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Enemies of Women
The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into...
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The Sunbeam
Big-hearted Prue, living in the slums, and Danny O'Maddigan, a reformed crook, want to buy a birthda...
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The Shady Lady
The Shady Lady is a 1928 sound part-talkie American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith....
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