Louis Wolheim
Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography 48
Movies (48)
The Sin Ship1931Captain Sam McVey
Gentleman's Fate1931Frank Tomasulo
Danger Lights1931Dan Thorn
The Silver Horde1930George Balt
All Quiet on the Western Front1930Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky
The Ship from Shanghai1930Ted
Condemned!1929Jacques Duval
Frozen Justice1929Duke
Wolf Song1929Gullion
Square Shoulders1929Slag
The Shady Lady1928Professor Holbrook
The Awakening1928Le Bete
The Racket1928Nick Scarsi
Tempest1928Sergeant Bulba
Sorrell and Son1927Buck
Two Arabian Knights1927Peter O'Gaffney- Lover's Island1925Capt. Joshua Dawson
The Story Without a Name1924Kurder
America1924Captain Hare
The Uninvited Guest1924Jan Boomer
Unseeing Eyes1923Laird
Little Old New York1923The Hoboken Terror
The Last Moment1923The Finn
Enemies of Women1923
The Go-Getter1923Daniel Silver
The Face in the Fog1922Petrus
Sherlock Holmes1922Craigin
Orphans of the Storm1921Executioner (uncredited)
Experience1921Crime
Number 171921