Cullen Landis

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: Acting

Born: Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 1896-07-09

Died: 1975-08-26

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1917	Sunny Jane	Thomas	0
2	1917	Who Is Number One?	Tommy Hale	0
3	1918	Somebody's Widow	Jack Random	0
4	1918	Over the Garden Wall	Jack	0
5	1918	Her Rustic Romeo	Jack	0
6	1918	Cupid In Quarantine	The Boyfriend	50
7	1919	Where the West Begins	Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)	0
8	1919	The Outcasts of Poker Flat	Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst	40
9	1919	Upstairs	Lemuel Stallings	0
10	1919	Almost a Husband	Jerry Wilson	0
11	1919	Jinx	Slicker Evans	0
12	1920	Pinto	Bob DeWitt	0
13	1920	It's a Great Life	Stoddard	0
14	1921	Bunty Pulls the Strings	Rab	0
15	1921	Snowblind	Pete Garth	0
16	1921	The Old Nest	Jim at 22-32	0
17	1921	The Ace of Hearts	Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)	65
18	1921	Voices of the City	Jimmy	0
19	1922	Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?		0
20	1922	Watch Your Step	Elmer Slocum	0
21	1922	Gay and Devilish	Peter Armitage	0
22	1922	Remembrance	Seth Smith	0
23	1922	Love in the Dark	Tim O'Brien	0
24	1922	Forsaking All Others	Oliver Newell	0
25	1923	The Fog	Nathan Forge	0
26	1923	The Famous Mrs. Fair	Alan Fair	0
27	1923	Crashin' Thru	Cons Saunders	0
28	1923	Pioneer Trails	Jack Dale / Jack Plains	50
29	1923	Soul of the Beast	Paul Nadeau	60
30	1923	Masters of Men	Dick Halpin	0
31	1923	The Midnight Alarm	Chaser	0
32	1923	The Man Life Passed By	Harold Trevis	10
33	1924	The Fighting Coward	Tom Rumford	48
34	1924	A Girl of the Limberlost	Hart Henderson	0
35	1924	One Law for the Woman	Ben Martin	0
36	1924	Born Rich	Jack Le Moyne	10
37	1924	Cheap Kisses	Donald Dillingham	0
38	1925	Pampered Youth	George Minafer	0
39	1925	A Broadway Butterfly	Ronald Steel	0
40	1925	Wasted Lives	John Grayson	0
41	1925	Peacock Feathers	Jerry Chandler	0
42	1925	The Midnight Flyer	David Henderson	0
43	1926	With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail	Gordon Kent	40
44	1926	My Old Dutch	Herbert Brown	0
45	1926	The Dixie Flyer	'Sunrise' Smith	0
46	1926	With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo	Davy Crockett	0
47	1926	Christine of the Big Tops	Bob Hastings	80
48	1926	Frenzied Flames	Danny Grovan	0
49	1926	The Smoke Eaters	Ed	0
50	1926	The Fighting Failure	Denny O'Brien	0
51	1927	Life in Hollywood No. 5		0
52	1927	We're All Gamblers	Georgie McCarver	0
53	1927	Two to One	George Minafer	0
54	1928	The Broken Mask	Pertio	0
55	1928	On to Reno	Bud	60
56	1928	The Devil's Skipper	John Dubray	0
57	1928	Lights of New York	Eddie Morgan	54
58	1928	The Little Wild Girl	Jules Barbier	0
59	1930	Convict's Code	Kenneth Avery	0
60	1943	The Voice That Thrilled the World	Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)	53

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1917