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Louis Wolheim

Louis Wolheim

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.

On screen

  • Danger Lights
  • Gentleman's Fate
  • The Sin Ship
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Silver Horde
  • The Ship from Shanghai
  • Condemned!
  • Wolf Song
  • Square Shoulders
  • Frozen Justice
  • The Racket
  • Tempest
  • The Awakening
  • The Shady Lady
  • Two Arabian Knights
  • Sorrell and Son
  • The Story Without a Name
  • The Uninvited Guest
  • America
  • The Last Moment
  • Unseeing Eyes
  • Little Old New York
  • The Go-Getter
  • Enemies of Women
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • The Face in the Fog
  • Orphans of the Storm
  • Number 17
  • Experience
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • A Manhattan Knight
  • The Test of Honor
  • The Poor Rich Man
  • The Eyes of Mystery
  • The House of Hate
  • Peg of the Pirates
  • The Eternal Mother
  • The End of the Tour
  • The Avenging Trail
  • The Millionaire's Double
  • The Brand of Cowardice
  • Dorian's Divorce
  • The Sunbeam
  • The Romance of Elaine

Behind the camera

  • The Sin Ship
  • Together
  • The Greatest Power

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