Richard Barthelmess

Richard Barthelmess

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: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1895-05-08

Died: 1963-08-17

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1916	War Brides	Arno	60
2	1916	Just a Song at Twilight	George Turner	0
3	1917	The Eternal Sin	Gennaro	0
4	1917	Camille		0
5	1917	Bab's Diary	Tommy Gray	0
6	1917	Bab's Burglar	Tommy Gray	0
7	1917	Nearly Married	Dick Griffon	0
8	1917	For Valour	Henry Nobbs	0
9	1918	Rich Man, Poor Man	Bayard Varick	0
10	1918	Hit-the-Trail Holliday	Bobby Jason	0
11	1918	The Hope Chest	Tom Ballantyne	0
12	1919	Boots	Everett White	0
13	1919	The Girl Who Stayed at Home	Ralph Grey	48
14	1919	Peppy Polly	Dr. James Merritt	0
15	1919	Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl	Cheng Huan	69
16	1919	I'll Get Him Yet	Scoop McCready	0
17	1919	Scarlet Days	Don Maria Alvarez	58
18	1920	The Idol Dancer	Dan McGuire	52
19	1920	The Love Flower	Bruce Sanders	45
20	1920	Way Down East	David Bartlett	70
21	1921	Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)	Himself	0
22	1921	Experience	Youth	0
23	1921	Tol'able David	David Kinemon	69
24	1922	The Seventh Day	John Alden Jr.	62
25	1922	Sonny	Sonny Crosby / Joe	0
26	1922	Seeing Stars	Self	49
27	1923	Fury	Boy Leyton	90
28	1923	The Bright Shawl	Charles Abbott	0
29	1923	The Bond Boy	Peter Newbolt (father) / John Newbolt	0
30	1923	The Fighting Blade	Karl Van Kerstenbroock	0
31	1923	Twenty-One	Julian McCullough	0
32	1924	The Enchanted Cottage	Oliver Bashforth	65
33	1924	Classmates	Duncan Irving Jr	0
34	1925	New Toys	Will Webb	0
35	1925	Soul-Fire	Eric Fane	0
36	1925	Shore Leave	D.X. (Bilge) Smith	52
37	1925	The Beautiful City	Tony Gillardi	0
38	1926	Camille: The Fate of a Coquette	Gaston	40
39	1926	Just Suppose	Prince Rupert of Koronia	55
40	1926	Ranson's Folly	Lt. Ranson	62
41	1926	The Amateur Gentleman	Barnabas Barty	0
42	1927	The Patent Leather Kid	Patent Leather Kid	62
43	1927	The Drop Kick	Jack Hamill	43
44	1928	Scarlet Seas	Steven Dunkin	35
45	1928	The Noose	Nickie Elkins	70
46	1928	The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come	Chad Buford	0
47	1928	Wheel of Chance	Nicolai Turkeltaub	0
48	1928	Out of the Ruins	Lt. Pierre Dumont	0
49	1929	Weary River	Jerry Larrabee	57
50	1929	Drag	David Carroll	60
51	1929	Young Nowheres	Albert 'Binky' Whalen	0
52	1929	The Show of Shows	Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)	55
53	1930	Son of the Gods	Sam Lee	56
54	1930	The Dawn Patrol	Dick Courtney	67
55	1930	The Voice of Hollywood		0
56	1930	The Lash	Francisco Delfino 'Pancho'	53
57	1931	The Stolen Jools	Richard Barthelmess	56
58	1931	The Finger Points	Breckenridge 'Breck' Lee	66
59	1931	How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'		0
60	1931	The Last Flight	Cary Lockwood	64
61	1932	Alias the Doctor	Karl Brenner	57
62	1932	The Cabin in the Cotton	Marvin Blake	63
63	1933	Central Airport	James 'Jim' Blaine	61
64	1933	How to Break 90 #1: The Grip	Himself	0
65	1933	Heroes for Sale	Tom Holmes	70
66	1934	Massacre	Chief Joe Thunderhorse	58
67	1934	A Modern Hero	Pierre Radier aka Paul Rader	70
68	1934	Midnight Alibi	Lance McGowan	60
69	1935	Four Hours to Kill!	Tony Mako	50
70	1935	Starlit Days at the Lido	Self	50
71	1936	Spy of Napoleon	Gerard de Lanoy	0
72	1939	Only Angels Have Wings	Bat MacPherson	73
73	1940	The Man Who Talked Too Much	J.B. Roscoe	60
74	1942	Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)	Self (archive footage)	0
75	1942	The Spoilers	Bronco Kid	62
76	1942	The Mayor of 44th Street	Ed Kirby	43
77	1959	The Tingler	David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)	64
78	1961	The Legend of Rudolph Valentino	Self (archive footage)	0
79	1962	The Great Chase		62
80	1998	Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists	The Yellow Man (archive footage)	0

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Vote Average

1916