Henry B. Walthall

Henry B. Walthall

Birthday: 1878-03-15

Place of Birth: Shelby County, Alabama, USA

Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In New York in 1901, Walthall won a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker. He performed in the play for three years, in New York and on tour. With the company of Henry Miller he gained recognition on Broadway in plays including Pippa Passes, The Only Way and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906–08). His fellow cast member James Kirkwood introduced Walthall to D. W. Griffith, and at the conclusion of that engagement, Walthall joined the Biograph Company. His career in movies began in 1909 at Biograph Studios in New York with a leading role in the film A Convict's Sacrifice. This film also featured James Kirkwood, and was directed by D. W. Griffith, a director that played a huge part in Walthall's rise to stardom. As the industry grew in size and popularity, Griffith emerged as a director and Walthall found himself a mainstay of the Griffith company, frequently working alongside such Griffith regulars as Owen Moore, Kate Bruce, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Bobby Harron and Jack and Mary Pickford. He followed Griffith's departure from New York's Biograph to California's Reliance-Majestic Studios in 1913. After a few months with Reliance, he joined Pathé for a short period. He decided to go into the producing business and formed The Union Feature Film Company, the first to be devoted entirely to full-length films. The venture was not successful, however, and he again became associated with Griffith's company. Given the relatively short length of films in the early years, Walthall frequently found himself cast in dozens of films each year. He gained national attention in 1915 for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in Griffith's highly influential and controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation. Walthall's portrayal of a Confederate veteran rounding up the Ku Klux Klan won him large-scale fame, and Walthall was soon able to emerge as a leading actor in the years leading up to the 1920s, parting ways with Griffith. Walthall continued working in films through the 1920s, appearing in The Plastic Age with Gilbert Roland and Clara Bow. He portrayed Roger Chillingworth in Victor Seastrom's 1926 adaptation of The Scarlet Letter opposite Lillian Gish. Walthall continued his career into the 1930s. After his performance in director John Ford's 1934 film Judge Priest starring Will Rogers he enjoyed a golden period of his career. He portrayed Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman. In 1936 he appeared as Marcel in The Devil-Doll. He was gravely ill during his final film, China Clipper. Frank Capra wanted Walthall to portray the High Lama in his 1937 film, Lost Horizon. "Frail and failing, he died before we could test him," Capra wrote. Walthall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.

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Blaze o' Glory

On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the...

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The Strange Case of Mary Page
The Strange Case of Mary Page

A 15-episode dramatic action movie serial only two of which survive....

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The Garden Murder Case
The Garden Murder Case

Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance susp...

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The Slave
The Slave

A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to...

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The Woman on the Jury
The Woman on the Jury

The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had...

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The Little Darling
The Little Darling

This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple fol...

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The Call
The Call

Edith Lawson is engaged as the star dancer of a traveling tent show. Her circus name is Fatima. Bill...

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The Command from Galilee
The Command from Galilee

A 1911 short starring Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard and Henry B. Walthall. it is now considered ...

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For His Sake
For His Sake

To save her artist lover from starvation, a young girl weds a rich old man, who buys his pictures. N...

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The Awakening of Donna Isolla
The Awakening of Donna Isolla

Beatrice, an artist in the city, goes to a fishing village to find inspiration for her paintings. Sh...

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Souls Courageous
Souls Courageous

Isabel Bradford, an orphan, keeps house for her grandfather, her sisters Ina and Marie, 18 and 10 ye...

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The Armorer’s Daughter
The Armorer’s Daughter

Set in Rome, during the feudal period. The heroine, the daughter of an armor manufacturer, is in lov...

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The Gray of the Dawn
The Gray of the Dawn

A young society swain is stolen away from the young blind girl he loves by a rapacious queen of the ...

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In Little Italy
In Little Italy

Marie has two suitors. She accepts Victor and rejects Tony, who stabs Victor in a fit of jealousy. W...

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The Cloister’s Touch
The Cloister’s Touch

A peasant family comprising the father, mother and little boy child are happy in their own sphere un...

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On the Reef
On the Reef

Grace Wallace was the only child of a widow of decidedly meager means. Mr. Rupert Howland, a widower...

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Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet
Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet

A 1910 short directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Marion Leonard....

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The Long Lane's Turning
The Long Lane's Turning

When brilliant lawyer Harry Sevier, an alcoholic, cannot cope with the prosecution's tactics, his in...

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In the Border States
In the Border States

During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leav...

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Parted Curtains
Parted Curtains

A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. B...

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They Would Elope
They Would Elope

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into...

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Humdrum Brown
Humdrum Brown

Love and double-crosses at the bank....

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The Able-Minded Lady
The Able-Minded Lady

An easy-going cowboy is forced to work on the ranch of a bossy 'able-minded' three-time widow who ha...

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Self Defense
Self Defense

Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman...

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Rod of Wrath
Rod of Wrath

Wolf Erickson, captain of the "hell ship" Ellen Miller, returns to port after a very successful voya...

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The Outer Edge
The Outer Edge

A physician is dragged down to the depths by the drug habit, losing position and wealth. After pawni...

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The Circular Path
The Circular Path

Reverend Darwin Kirby falls in love with a woman described as fond of "all the gaieties of life". Sh...

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Temper
Temper

Driven from home because of his father’s temper, 20-year-old Frank Bradbury struggles to control his...

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The Newlyweds
The Newlyweds

A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two se...

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The Boomerang
The Boomerang

Millionaire meat packer Peter Cameron, greedy for more money and power, maneuvers an alliance betwee...

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The Tenderfoot's Triumph
The Tenderfoot's Triumph

"It's in the surprise" that great plays are made and battles won, and our tenderfoot friend, appreci...

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The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age

When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, ...

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Single Wives
Single Wives

As her first wedding anniversary approaches, a young wife begins to believe that her husband doesn't...

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His Robe of Honor
His Robe of Honor

Julian Randolph, a disreputable lawyer, gains an ad interim appointment to the Supreme bench as a re...

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