Richard Arlen
Birthday: 1899-08-30
Place of Birth: 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.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
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Wings
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The Virginian
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Warlock
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The Coast of Folly
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In the Name of Love
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Accomplice
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The Crawling Hand
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Beggars of Life
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Helldorado
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Identity Unknown
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Sabre Jet
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Johnny Reno
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Red Tomahawk
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The Four Feathers
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The Man I Love
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Storm Over Lisbon
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The Big Bonanza
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The Light of Western Stars
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Blonde Blackmailer
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Guilty as Hell
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Dangerous Curves
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The Lady and the Monster
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Artists & Models
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Rogue's Gallery
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Let 'em Have It
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When My Baby Smiles at Me
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Only Saps Work
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Young Fury
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College Humor
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Buckskin
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Call of The Yukon
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Apache Uprising
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Three Live Ghosts
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Law of the Lawless
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Black Spurs
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Speed to Spare
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That's My Baby!
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The Man from Montreal
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Ladies of the Mob
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Secret Valley
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The Lawyer's Secret
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Straight, Place and Show
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Dangerous Paradise
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The Blazing Forest
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Aerial Gunner
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Wildcat
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Hostile Guns
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A Dangerous Game
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Burning Up
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The Human Duplicators
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Hurricane Smith
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Timber Queen
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Town Tamer
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The Phantom Speaks
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Manhattan Cocktail
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Lucky Devils
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The Devil's Pipeline
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Behind the Front
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The Border Legion
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To the Shores of Hell
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Flaming Feather
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Hidden Guns
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Alaska Highway
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Power Dive
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Forced Landing
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Silver City
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A Letter From Bataan
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
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Old Ironsides
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The Day of the Trumpet
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Ready for Love
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. ...
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Buffalo Bill Rides Again
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Swing with Bing
A short-subject golf film at the fourth annual Bing Crosby Pro-Am at Rancho Santa Fe....
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Hell and High Water
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Raymie
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You'd Be Surprised
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The Mountain
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The Young and the Brave
A drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make their w...
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Mutiny in the Arctic
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Raiders of the Desert
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No Time to Marry
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficu...
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Missing Daughters
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-ha...
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Tropic Fury
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation....
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Legion of Lost Flyers
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of the...
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Danger On Wheels
During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Luc...
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The Leather Pushers
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She Made Her Bed
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Flying Blind
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Song of the Eagle
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over th...
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Torpedo Boat
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The Bounty Killer
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The Mine with the Iron Door
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Caught
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The Sea God
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pac...
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The Return of Wildfire
In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell th...
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Murder in Greenwich Village
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pu...
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Wayward
Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Fa...
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Sex and the College Girl
This early 1960s film depicts the trivial pursuits and relationships of two college age girls on a w...
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Fort Utah
An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich h...
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Black Diamonds
A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proc...
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Paramount on Parade
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre...
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Hot Steel
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Tro...
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the d...
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Kansas Raiders
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's...
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Golden Harvest
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious ...
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The Secret Call
The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy ...
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Gun Smoke
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She's a Sheik
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Sky Bride
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Waco
Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who di...
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Come On, Marines!
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Wrecking Crew
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a build...
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Devil's Point
A Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers....
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How to Break 90 #4: Downswing
Bobby Jones teaches proper downswing technique with the help of some ancient ghosts....
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The Santa Fe Trail
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The Conquering Horde
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Sally in Our Alley
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The Blood Ship
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Figures Don't Lie
Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene p...
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Men of the Timberland
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of...
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Hollywood Hobbies
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The Enchanted Hill
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The Best Man
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Touchdown!
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs....
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Under the Tonto Rim
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmead...
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A Whale of a Tale
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The Sky's the Limit
A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly....
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Grand Canyon
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
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The French Key
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Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
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