Richard Barthelmess
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1895-05-08
Deathday 1963-08-17 (68 years old)
Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As Richard Semler Barthelmess, Richard S. Barthelmess, Richard Semler Barthelemys
Richard Barthelmess
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an Oscar-nominated silent film star. Barthelmess was educated at Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack and Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut. His father died when he was a baby and his mother, Caroline Harris , was a stage actress, so he worked in theatres in his early days, between schooling, doing "walk-ons". This led to acting in college, doing amateur productions. Russian actress Alla Nazimova, a friend of the family, had been taught English by Barthelmess's mother. Nazimova in return convinced Barthelmess to try acting professionally and he made his first film appearance in 1916 in the serial Gloria's Romance as an extra. At this time he also appeared as a supporting player in several films starring Marguerite Clark. His next role, in War Brides opposite Alla Nazimova, attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offered him several important roles, finally casting him opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920). He soon became one of Hollywood's highest paid performers, starring in such classics as The Patent Leather Kid (1927) and The Noose (1928); he was nominated for Best Actor at the first Academy Awards for his performance in both these films, and he won a Special Citation for producing The Patent Leather Kid. He founded his own production company, Inspiration Film Company, together with Charles Duell and Henry King. One of their films, Tol'able David (1921), in which Barthelmess starred as a teenage mailman who finds courage, was a major success. With the advent of the sound era, Barthelmess' fortunes changed. He made several films in the new medium, most notably Son of the Gods (1930), The Dawn Patrol (1930), The Last Flight (1931), and The Cabin in the Cotton (1932), Central Airport (1933), and a supporting role as Rita Hayworth's character's husband in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Barthelmess , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as The Yellow Man (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Ed Kirby
as Bronco Kid
as Self (archive footage)
as J.B. Roscoe
as Bat Mac Pherson
as Gerard de Lanoy
as Self
as Tony Mako
as Lance McGowan
as Pierre Radier aka Paul Rader
as Chief Joe Thunderhorse
as Tom Holmes
as Himself
as James 'Jim' Blaine
as Marvin Blake
as Karl Brenner
as Cary Lockwood
as Breckenridge 'Breck' Lee
as Richard Barthelmess
as Francisco Delfino 'Pancho'
as Dick Courtney
as Sam Lee
as Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
as Albert 'Binky' Whalen
as David Carroll
as Jerry Larrabee
as Lt. Pierre Dumont
as Nicolai Turkeltaub
as Chad Buford
as Nickie Elkins
as Steven Dunkin
as Jack Hamill
as Patent Leather Kid
as Barnabas Barty
as Lt. Ranson
as Prince Rupert of Koronia
as Gaston
as Tony Gillardi
as D.X. (Bilge) Smith
as Eric Fane
as Will Webb
as Duncan Irving Jr
as Oliver Bashforth
as Julian McCullough
as Karl Van Kerstenbroock
as Peter Newbolt (father) / John Newbolt
as Charles Abbott
as Boy Leyton
as Self
as Sonny Crosby / Joe
as John Alden Jr.
as David Kinemon
as Youth
as Himself
as David Bartlett
as Bruce Sanders
as Dan McGuire
as Don Maria Alvarez
as Scoop McCready
as Cheng Huan
as Dr. James Merritt
as Ralph Grey
as Everett White
as Tom Ballantyne
as Bobby Jason
as Bayard Varick
as Henry Nobbs
as Dick Griffon
as Tommy Gray
as Tommy Gray
as Gennaro
as George Turner
as Arno
Producer
as Producer