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

1998
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

as The Yellow Man (archive footage)

1965
The Love Goddesses

as (archive footage)

1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1959
The Tingler

as David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)

1942
1942
The Spoilers

as Bronco Kid

1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

as Self (archive footage)

1940
1939
Only Angels Have Wings

as Bat Mac Pherson

1936
Spy of Napoleon

as Gerard de Lanoy

1935
Four Hours to Kill!

as Tony Mako

1934
Midnight Alibi

as Lance McGowan

1934
A Modern Hero

as Pierre Radier aka Paul Rader

1934
Massacre

as Chief Joe Thunderhorse

1933
Heroes for Sale

as Tom Holmes

1933
Central Airport

as James 'Jim' Blaine

1932
The Cabin in the Cotton

as Marvin Blake

1932
Alias the Doctor

as Karl Brenner

1931
The Last Flight

as Cary Lockwood

1931
The Finger Points

as Breckenridge 'Breck' Lee

1931
The Stolen Jools

as Richard Barthelmess

1930
The Lash

as Francisco Delfino 'Pancho'

1930
The Dawn Patrol

as Dick Courtney

1930
Son of the Gods

as Sam Lee

1929
Show of Shows

as Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)

1929
Young Nowheres

as Albert 'Binky' Whalen

1929
Drag

as David Carroll

1929
Weary River

as Jerry Larrabee

1928
Out of the Ruins

as Lt. Pierre Dumont

1928
Wheel of Chance

as Nicolai Turkeltaub

1928
The Noose

as Nickie Elkins

1928
Scarlet Seas

as Steven Dunkin

1927
The Drop Kick

as Jack Hamill

1927
The Patent Leather Kid

as Patent Leather Kid

1926
The Amateur Gentleman

as Barnabas Barty

1926
Ranson's Folly

as Lt. Ranson

1926
Just Suppose

as Prince Rupert of Koronia

1925
The Beautiful City

as Tony Gillardi

1925
Shore Leave

as D.X. (Bilge) Smith

1925
Soul-Fire

as Eric Fane

1925
New Toys

as Will Webb

1924
Classmates

as Duncan Irving Jr

1924
The Enchanted Cottage

as Oliver Bashforth

1923
Twenty-One

as Julian McCullough

1923
The Fighting Blade

as Karl Van Kerstenbroock

1923
The Bond Boy

as Peter Newbolt (father) / John Newbolt

1923
The Bright Shawl

as Charles Abbott

1923
Fury

as Boy Leyton

1922
Seeing Stars

as Self

1922
Sonny

as Sonny Crosby / Joe

1922
The Seventh Day

as John Alden Jr.

1921
Tol'able David

as David Kinemon

1921
Experience

as Youth

1920
Way Down East

as David Bartlett

1920
The Love Flower

as Bruce Sanders

1920
The Idol Dancer

as Dan McGuire

1919
Scarlet Days

as Don Maria Alvarez

1919
I'll Get Him Yet

as Scoop McCready

1919
Broken Blossoms

as Cheng Huan

1919
Peppy Polly

as Dr. James Merritt

1919
1919
Boots

as Everett White

1918
The Hope Chest

as Tom Ballantyne

1918
Rich Man, Poor Man

as Bayard Varick

1917
For Valour

as Henry Nobbs

1917
Nearly Married

as Dick Griffon

1917
Bab's Burglar

as Tommy Gray

1917
Bab's Diary

as Tommy Gray

1917
The Eternal Sin

as Gennaro

1916
War Brides

as Arno

Producer

1925
Soul-Fire

as Producer