Cullen Landis

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1896-07-09

Deathday 1975-08-26 (79 years old)

Place of Birth Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Also Known As James Cullen Landis, J. Cullen Landis

Cullen Landis

Biography

Cullen Landis (July 9, 1896 – August 26, 1975) was an American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early ears of the silent film era. James Cullen Landis was the middle of three siblings (two sons and a daughter) raised by Lulan and Margaret (née Cullen) Landis in Nashville, Tennessee, where his father supported his family as a stock broker. As a boy, James was a train enthusiast and dreamed to be an railroad engineer. Though the ambition eventually faded, his interest in railroads did not, and some years later he helped design for himself a model train set powered by steam. He began working in the fledgling film industry at age 18 around the time his older sister, Margaret Landis, appeared in her first film. In 1928 Cullen Landis starred in the first ‘all talking’ motion picture, Lights of New York. He once confided in a friend that talkies were perfect for musicals and that he was no "song and dance man". He left Hollywood for Detroit in 1930 to produce and direct industrial films for automobile companies. Landis began as a movie director, only turning to acting after his lead player broke a leg and it was discovered that the actor’s costumes fit him. He went on to become one of the more popular lead actors of the silent era, appearing in some one hundred films over 14 years. During World War II, he served as a captain with US Army Signal Corps producing training films in the South Pacific. By war’s end he was twice decorated and promoted to major. In the post war years he made documentaries for the US State Department that took him to the far corners of the world. James Cullen Landis died on August 28, 1975, aged 79, at a nursing home in Bloomfield, Michigan, three months after the death of his wife, Jane. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

Actor

1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World

as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

1930
Convict's Code

as Kenneth Avery

1928
The Little Wild Girl

as Jules Barbier

1928
Lights of New York

as Eddie Morgan

1928
The Devil's Skipper

as John Dubray

1928
The Broken Mask

as Pertio

1928
On to Reno

as Bud

1927
Two to One

as George Minafer

1927
We're All Gamblers

as Georgie McCarver

1926
The Fighting Failure

as Denny O'Brien

1926
Frenzied Flames

as Danny Grovan

1926
1926
The Dixie Flyer

as 'Sunrise' Smith

1926
My Old Dutch

as Herbert Brown

1925
The Midnight Flyer

as David Henderson

1925
Peacock Feathers

as Jerry Chandler

1925
Wasted Lives

as John Grayson

1925
A Broadway Butterfly

as Ronald Steel

1925
Pampered Youth

as George Minafer

1924
Cheap Kisses

as Donald Dillingham

1924
Born Rich

as Jack Le Moyne

1924
One Law for the Woman

as Ben Martin

1924
A Girl of the Limberlost

as Hart Henderson

1924
The Fighting Coward

as Tom Rumford

1923
The Man Life Passed By

as Harold Trevis

1923
1923
Soul of the Beast

as Paul Nadeau

1923
Pioneer Trails

as Jack Dale / Jack Plains

1923
Crashin' Thru

as Cons Saunders

1923
1923
The Fog

as Nathan Forge

1922
Forsaking All Others

as Oliver Newell

1922
Remembrance

as Seth Smith

1922
Gay and Devilish

as Peter Armitage

1922
Watch Your Step

as Elmer Slocum

1921
1921
The Ace of Hearts

as Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)

1921
The Old Nest

as Jim at 22-32

1921
Snowblind

as Pete Garth

1920
It's a Great Life

as Stoddard

1920
Pinto

as Bob DeWitt

1919
Jinx

as Slicker Evans

1919
Almost a Husband

as Jerry Wilson

1919
Upstairs

as Lemuel Stallings

1919
The Outcasts of Poker Flat

as Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst

1919
Where the West Begins

as Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)

1918
Cupid In Quarantine

as The Boyfriend

1918
1918
Somebody's Widow

as Jack Random

1917
Who Is Number One?

as Tommy Hale

1917
Sunny Jane

as Thomas

Director

1940