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Louis Wolheim is a Actor and Director American born on 27 march 1880 at New York City (USA)

Louis Wolheim

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Birth name Louis Robert Wolheim
Nationality USA
Birth 27 march 1880 at New York City (USA)
Death 18 february 1931 (at 50 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Louis R. Wolheim (March 28, 1880 – February 18, 1931) was an American actor, of both stage and screen, whose rough physical appearance relegated him to roles mostly of thugs or villains in the movies, but whose talent allowed him to flourish on stage. His career was mostly contained during the silent era of the film industry, due to his untimely death at the age of 50 in 1931.

Biography

Au cinéma, Louis Wolheim débute dans deux courts métrages muets sortis en 1914 et contribue en tout à cinquante-six films américains (une dizaine parlants). Les deux derniers sortent en 1931 — peu après sa mort prématurée, d'un cancer —, dont The Sin Ship (avec Mary Astor et Ian Keith) qu'il réalise, expérience restée unique.

Entretemps, il apparaît notamment dans Les Deux Orphelines de D. W. Griffith (avec Lillian et Dorothy Gish), ainsi que dans trois réalisations de Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights (1927, avec William Boyd, Mary Astor et Ian Keith), The Racket (1928, avec Thomas Meighan et Marie Prevost) et À l'Ouest, rien de nouveau (1930, avec Lew Ayres et John Wray).

Fait particulier, il tourne neuf films muets (le premier en 1915) avec Lionel Barrymore. Leur dernier ensemble est Pour l'indépendance de D.W. Griffith (1924, avec également Neil Hamilton et Erville Alderson).

Au théâtre, Louis Wolheim joue à Broadway dans neuf pièces, entre 1919 et 1925. À l'occasion des deux premières, The Jest (1919-1920) et The Letter of the Law (adaptation de La Robe rouge d'Eugène Brieux, 1920), il retrouve Lionel Barrymore. Celui-ci l'avait encouragé à venir sur les planches new-yorkaises, où son rôle majeur est sans doute celui de Robert 'Yank' Smith dans Le Singe velu d'Eugene O'Neill, en 1922.

Sa dernière pièce à Broadway est What Price Glory de Maxwell Anderson et Laurence Stallings (1924-1925, avec Luis Alberni, Brian Donlevy), qui sera portée à l'écran sous le même titre, en 1926 (réalisation de Raoul Walsh) puis en 1952 (réalisation de John Ford). De plus, cultivé et polyglotte (n'étant qu'en apparence une « brute épaisse »), il collabore à l'adaptation de deux pièces, dont La Griffe d'Henri Bernstein (représentée en 1921-1922 sous le titre The Claw).

Notons encore que dans la pièce The Jest pré-citée, il a aussi comme partenaire John Barrymore (frère de Lionel), avec lequel il tournera trois films muets, Docteur Jekyll et M. Hyde de John S. Robertson (1920), Sherlock Holmes d'Albert Parker (1922) et enfin La Tempête de Sam Taylor (1928).

Best films

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
(Actor)
The Awakening (1928)
(Actor)
Two Arabian Knights (1927)
(Actor)
The Racket (1928)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Louis Wolheim (38 films)

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The Sin Ship, 1h5
Directed by Louis Wolheim, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Astor, Ian Keith, Louis Wolheim, Hugh Herbert, Russ Powell, Alan Roscoe
Roles Captain Sam McVey
Rating55% 2.763992.763992.763992.763992.76399
Smiley Marsden (Ian Keith) is a bank-robber on the run from the police, with his moll, Frisco Kitty (Mary Astor). Cornered, they arrive at the San Francisco docks, where they convince the captain of a small cargo ship, Sam McVeigh (Louis Wolheim), to take them aboard on his run to Mexico, mostly because he is enchanted with Kitty. Marsden is posing as a minister. As the ship sets sail, every sailor aboard lusts after Kitty, none more so than the captain. One night, when inebriated, he corners Kitty in his cabin and begins to force himself on her. She stops him by basically telling him that he is better than that, which makes him do some deep soul-searching. During the rest of the voyage, Kitty manages to fend off the rest of the crew, with the help of the disarmed captain.
Gentleman's Fate, 1h30
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams, Anita Page, Marie Prevost, John Miljan
Roles Frank Tomasulo
Rating63% 3.1968853.1968853.1968853.1968853.196885
Jack Thomas has grown up in the belief that he was an orphan. His guardian tells him that he has an elder brother (Frank Tomasulo) and a dying father. They are both in the liquor business prohibition era.
All Quiet on the Western Front, 2h32
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Louis Wolheim, Richard Alexander, Lew Ayres, John Wray, William Bakewell, Ben Alexander
Roles Stanislas 'Kat' Katczinsky
Rating80% 4.048094.048094.048094.048094.04809
Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and "saving the Fatherland". On the brink of becoming men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss, who bluntly informs them, "You're going to be soldiers—and that's all."
Danger Lights, 1h14
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Hugh Herbert, Robert Edeson, Frank Sheridan
Roles Dan Thorn
Rating60% 3.048273.048273.048273.048273.04827
Louis Wolheim plays the boss of the railroad yard in Miles City, Montana. The film opens with a landslide across the tracks in Montana, and a repair crew is dispatched to clear the tracks. Several hobos are lounging nearby and are put to work helping the repair crew. One of the hobos, played by Robert Armstrong, is discovered to have been a former railroad engineer who lost his job due to insubordination. He is given a new job for the railroad by the yard boss, but quickly falls in love with the boss's fiancée, played by Jean Arthur.
The Silver Horde, 1h15
Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Joel McCrea, Raymond Hatton, Jean Arthur, Dick Curtis
Roles George Balt
Rating58% 2.900452.900452.900452.900452.90045
In the Alaska wilderness, Boyd Emerson and Fraser, arrive by dogsled at a village. They are puzzled to receive a chilly welcome from its inhabitants. Frustrated, Boyd gets into a fight with local George Balt, which is broken up by Cherry Malotte. She invites the newcomers to dinner. She explains that they have stumbled into a bitter struggle between two rival fishing groups, hers and Fred Marsh's.
Wolf Song
Wolf Song (1929)
, 1h20
Directed by Victor Fleming, Henry Hathaway, Lucien Hubbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Lupe Vélez, Louis Wolheim, Ann Brody, Michael Vavitch, Russ Columbo
Roles Gullion
Rating65% 3.264473.264473.264473.264473.26447
Sam Lash (Gary Cooper) is a fur trapper with a randy reputation when it comes to women. But when Sam meets tempestuous Mexican damsel Lola Salazar (Velez), he falls deeply in love for the first time in his life. Lola's aristocratic father Don Solomon (Michael Vavitch) disapproves of the romance, forcing Sam to kidnap the girl and high-tail it to the mountains. After a brief period of marital contentment, Sam gets restless and leaves Lola, preferring the company of his trapper pals Gullion (Louis Wolheim) and Rube (Constantin Romanoff). But he relents and returns to his bride -- making short work of his bitter enemy, Indian leader Black Wolf (George Rigas).
Tempest
Tempest (1928)
, 1h51
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Victor Tourjanski, Sam Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, George Fawcett, Louis Wolheim, Boris de Fast, Ullrich Haupt
Roles Sergeant Bulba
Rating67% 3.386873.386873.386873.386873.38687
The film is set during final days of Czarist Russia and revolves around a peasant who rises through the ranks of the Russian army ending up a Lieutenant. His life is made increasingly difficult by the aristocrats and officers around him who are resentful of his progress. He then finds himself rejected by a princess he falls in love with and, having been caught in her room, is put in prison. There he is stripped of his rank but soon after the Russian Civil War starts and as a result of the Red Terror the tables are turned.
Two Arabian Knights, 1h32
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim, Ian Keith, Boris Karloff, Michael Vavitch
Roles Peter O'Gaffney
Rating66% 3.3407453.3407453.3407453.3407453.340745
During the First World War, two American soldiers become trapped in no man's land. Expecting to die, W. Daingerfield Phelps III (William Boyd) decides to fulfill his fondest desire: to beat up his sergeant since training camp, Peter O'Gaffney (Louis Wolheim). While they are brawling, the Germans sneak up and capture them.
America
America (1924)
, 2h21
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Carol Dempster, Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Charles Emmett Mack, Charles Bennett, Frank McGlynn Sr.
Roles Captain Hare
Rating62% 3.142833.142833.142833.142833.14283
The story shifts between the British up in Northern New York, and the colonial patriots in Massachusetts and Virginia. Up in New York, a little remembered sub-plot takes place. British general Captain Walter Butler (Lionel Barrymore), a loyal and ruthless supporter to the king, leads the Iroquois Native Americans in viciously barraging attacks at the settlers who are siding with the Revolution.
Isn't Life Wonderful, 2h
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Carol Dempster, Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Helen Lowell, Marcia Harris, Frank Puglia
Rating67% 3.3850153.3850153.3850153.3850153.385015
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga (Carol Dempster) is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul (Neil Hamilton). Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.