Henry B. Walthall

Henry B. Walthall

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In New York in 1901, Walthall won a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker. He performed in the play for three years, in New York and on tour. With the company of Henry Miller he gained recognition on Broadway in plays including Pippa Passes, The Only Way and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906–08). His fellow cast member James Kirkwood introduced Walthall to D. W. Griffith, and at the conclusion of that engagement, Walthall joined the Biograph Company. His career in movies began in 1909 at Biograph Studios in New York with a leading role in the film A Convict's Sacrifice. This film also featured James Kirkwood, and was directed by D. W. Griffith, a director that played a huge part in Walthall's rise to stardom. As the industry grew in size and popularity, Griffith emerged as a director and Walthall found himself a mainstay of the Griffith company, frequently working alongside such Griffith regulars as Owen Moore, Kate Bruce, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Bobby Harron and Jack and Mary Pickford. He followed Griffith's departure from New York's Biograph to California's Reliance-Majestic Studios in 1913. After a few months with Reliance, he joined Pathé for a short period. He decided to go into the producing business and formed The Union Feature Film Company, the first to be devoted entirely to full-length films. The venture was not successful, however, and he again became associated with Griffith's company. Given the relatively short length of films in the early years, Walthall frequently found himself cast in dozens of films each year. He gained national attention in 1915 for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in Griffith's highly influential and controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation. Walthall's portrayal of a Confederate veteran rounding up the Ku Klux Klan won him large-scale fame, and Walthall was soon able to emerge as a leading actor in the years leading up to the 1920s, parting ways with Griffith. Walthall continued working in films through the 1920s, appearing in The Plastic Age with Gilbert Roland and Clara Bow. He portrayed Roger Chillingworth in Victor Seastrom's 1926 adaptation of The Scarlet Letter opposite Lillian Gish. Walthall continued his career into the 1930s. After his performance in director John Ford's 1934 film Judge Priest starring Will Rogers he enjoyed a golden period of his career. He portrayed Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman. In 1936 he appeared as Marcel in The Devil-Doll. He was gravely ill during his final film, China Clipper. Frank Capra wanted Walthall to portray the High Lama in his 1937 film, Lost Horizon. "Frail and failing, he died before we could test him," Capra wrote. Walthall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.

Known For: Acting

Born: Shelby County, Alabama, USA, 1878-03-15

Died: 1936-06-17

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1908	Rescued from an Eagle's Nest	Woodsman	55
2	1909	The Slave	Alachus' Friend	42
3	1909	A Strange Meeting	A Thief	43
4	1909	The Mended Lute	Indian	46
5	1909	They Would Elope		51
6	1909	Pranks	Sunbather	25
7	1909	The Little Darling	In Boarding House	45
8	1909	The Sealed Room	The Minstrel	51
9	1909	1776, or The Hessian Renegades		52
10	1909	Getting Even	Miner	38
11	1909	The Broken Locket	Mexican Man	35
12	1909	In Old Kentucky	Robert, the Confederate son	15
13	1909	Pippa Passes		54
14	1909	Fools of Fate		44
15	1909	A Corner in Wheat	Wheat King's Assistant	61
16	1909	A Trap for Santa Claus	Arthur Rogers (uncredited)	55
17	1909	In Little Italy	Victor Ratazzi	20
18	1909	The Day After	Party Guest	28
19	1909	The Heart of an Outlaw	The Mexican Lover	20
20	1910	His Last Burglary		0
21	1910	On the Reef	Mr. Wilson	0
22	1910	The Call	Billy Harvey	30
23	1910	The Honor of His Family	George Pickett Jr.	0
24	1910	The Cloister’s Touch	The Father	30
25	1910	The Converts		0
26	1910	Thou Shalt Not		0
27	1910	The Thread of Destiny	Estrada	0
28	1910	In Old California	Perdita's Son	0
29	1910	The Way of the World		0
30	1910	The Gold Seekers		0
31	1910	The Kid	Walter Holden	0
32	1910	Love Among the Roses	The Lord	47
33	1910	The Face at the Window		0
34	1910	The Two Brothers	Pedro	0
35	1910	Ramona	Alessandro	47
36	1910	A Child of the Ghetto	The Farmer	45
37	1910	In the Border States	Confederate Corporal	55
38	1910	A Flash of Light	Younger John Rogers	50
39	1910	The Call to Arms	The Lord	40
40	1910	The House with Closed Shutters	Charles Randolph - The Confederate Soldier	53
41	1910	The Usurer	One of the Second Debtors	50
42	1910	The Sorrows of the Unfaithful	Bill	0
43	1910	Wilful Peggy	The Lord	50
44	1910	A Summer Idyll		0
45	1910	In Life's Cycle	Vincent, as an Adult	0
46	1910	The Oath and the Man	Henri Prevost	45
47	1910	Rose o' Salem Town	The Trapper	52
48	1910	The Iconoclast		0
49	1910	The Gray of the Dawn		0
50	1910	The Armorer’s Daughter	Macennas	0
51	1910	Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet		0
52	1911	The Command from Galilee	The Lover	0
53	1911	Souls Courageous		0
54	1911	For His Sake		0
55	1912	Two Daughters of Eve	The Father	0
56	1912	Friends	Dandy Jack	55
57	1912	So Near, Yet So Far	In Club	59
58	1912	A Feud in the Kentucky Hills	A Psalm Singer	45
59	1912	In the Aisles of the Wild	Jim Watson	0
60	1912	The One She Loved	The Husband	0
61	1912	My Baby	The Husband	48
62	1912	The Informer	The False Brother	0
63	1912	Brutality	Actor In Oliver Twist	0
64	1912	My Hero	Indian Charlie	0
65	1912	The Burglar’s Dilemma	The Householder's Weakling Brother	53
66	1912	The God Within	The Woodsman	0
67	1913	Three Friends	The Husband	50
68	1913	Oil and Water	The Idealist	0
69	1913	Love in an Apartment Hotel	The Young Woman's Fiance	0
70	1913	Broken Ways	The Road Agent	0
71	1913	The Sheriff's Baby	First Bandit	50
72	1913	The Perfidy of Mary	The Poet	0
73	1913	The Little Tease	The Valley Man	50
74	1913	The Lady and the Mouse	The First Rival	0
75	1913	If We Only Knew	The Father	0
76	1913	The Wanderer	The Wanderer	55
77	1913	The Tenderfoot's Money	The Prospector	0
78	1913	The Stolen Loaf	The Poor Man	0
79	1913	Death's Marathon	The Husband	57
80	1913	The Switchtower	The Switchman	50
81	1913	Her Mother's Oath	The Actor	0
82	1913	A Gambler's Honor	Beth's Brother	0
83	1913	During the Round-Up	The Stranger	0
84	1913	The Mirror	The Station Agent	0
85	1913	Two Men of the Desert	First Partner	0
86	1913	A Woman in the Ultimate	Badger Gang Member	0
87	1913	The Battle at Elderbush Gulch	The Indian Chief's Son	59
88	1914	The Awakening of Donna Isolla	The President of the Republic	0
89	1914	The Gangsters of New York	Porky Dugan	0
90	1914	Classmates	Duncan Irving	0
91	1914	The Green-Eyed Devil		0
92	1914	Judith of Bethulia	Holofernes	62
93	1914	Strongheart	Soangataha / Strongheart	50
94	1914	The Floor Above	Stephen Pryde	0
95	1914	The Mysterious Shot	The Gopher	0
96	1914	The Old Man	The Old Man	0
97	1914	The Mountain Rat	Douglas Williams	0
98	1914	Home, Sweet Home	John Howard Payne	53
99	1914	Lord Chumley	Lord Chumley	70
100	1914	The Avenging Conscience	The Nephew	61
101	1914	The Odalisque	Joe, in love with May	0
102	1915	Rod of Wrath	Erickson's Son	0
103	1915	The Birth of a Nation	Col. Ben Cameron	60
104	1915	Ghosts	Captain Alving / Oswald	45
105	1915	Temper	Frank Bradbury	0
106	1915	The Circular Path	Reverend Darwin Kirby	0
107	1915	The Outer Edge	Dr. Rownlee	0
108	1915	The Raven	Edgar Allan Poe	65
109	1916	The Misleading Lady	Jack Craiger	0
110	1916	The Strange Case of Mary Page	Phil Langdon, Attorney	0
111	1916	Pillars of Society	Karsten Bernick	0
112	1918	Humdrum Brown	Hector 'Humdrum' Brown	0
113	1918	The Great Love	Sir Roger Brighton	0
114	1919	The Long Lane's Turning		0
115	1919	The False Faces	Michael Lanyard	50
116	1919	Modern Husbands	Stephen Duane	0
117	1919	The Long Arm of Mannister	George Mannister	0
118	1920	The Confession	Father Bartlett	50
119	1920	Parted Curtains	Joe Jenkins	0
120	1920	A Splendid Hazard	Karl Breitman	0
121	1921	Flower of the North	Philip Whitemore	0
122	1922	The Able-Minded Lady	Breezy Bright	0
123	1922	One Clear Call	Henry Garnett	0
124	1922	The Kickback	Aaron Price	0
125	1922	The Long Chance	Harley P. Hennage	0
126	1923	The Face on the Barroom Floor	Robert Stevens	50
127	1923	Gimme	John McGimsey	0
128	1923	The Unknown Purple	Peter Marchmont / Victor Cromport	0
129	1923	Boy of Mine	William Latimer	0
130	1924	The Woman on the Jury	Prosecuting Attorney	0
131	1925	The Golden Bed	Col. Peake	35
132	1925	The Girl Who Wouldn't Work	William Hale	0
133	1925	Kit Carson Over the Great Divide	Dr. Samuel Webb	0
134	1925	Kentucky Pride	Mr. Beaumont	59
135	1925	The Plastic Age	Henry Carver	59
136	1926	Three Faces East	George Bennett	0
137	1926	The Barrier	Gale Gaylord	60
138	1926	The Unknown Soldier	John Phillips	0
139	1926	The Road to Mandalay	Father James	61
140	1926	Everybody's Acting	Thorpe	0
141	1927	The Scarlet Letter	Roger Prynne aka Roger Chillingworth	73
142	1927	Fighting Love	Filipo Navarro	0
143	1927	Wings	Mr. Armstrong	72
144	1927	Love Me and the World Is Mine	Van Denbosch	0
145	1927	A Light in the Window	Johann Graff	0
146	1927	London After Midnight	Sir James Hamlin	66
147	1928	Retribution	Henry / Tommy Mooney	0
148	1928	Freedom of the Press	John Ballard	0
149	1929	Stark Mad	Capt. Rhodes - Yacht Commander	30
150	1929	Speakeasy	Piano player	50
151	1929	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Father Juniper	73
152	1929	From Headquarters	Buffalo Bill Ryan	0
153	1929	The River of Romance	General Jeff Rumford	0
154	1929	Black Magic	Dr. Bradbroke	0
155	1929	The Phantom in the House	Boyd Milburn	46
156	1929	The Trespasser	Fuller	66
157	1929	Blaze o' Glory	Burke	0
158	1930	Temple Tower	Blackton	0
159	1930	The Love Trader	Captain Adams	0
160	1930	Abraham Lincoln	Colonel Marshall	54
161	1930	Tol'able David	Amos Hatburn	70
162	1931	Anybody's Blonde	Mr. Evans	0
163	1932	Police Court	Nathaniel "Nat" Barry	50
164	1932	Hotel Continental	Winthrop	60
165	1932	Alias Mary Smith	Atwell	50
166	1932	Chandu the Magician	Robert Regent	63
167	1932	Ride Him, Cowboy	John Gaunt	47
168	1932	Klondike	Mark Armstrong	47
169	1932	The Cabin in the Cotton	Eph Clinton	63
170	1932	Me and My Gal	Sarge	65
171	1932	Central Park	Eby	52
172	1932	Self Defense	Doctor Borden	0
173	1932	Strange Interlude	Professor Leeds	57
174	1933	42nd Street	Stage Actor (uncredited)	69
175	1933	The Whispering Shadow	J. D. Bradley	44
176	1933	Somewhere in Sonora	Bob Leadly	50
177	1933	Hold Your Man	Clergyman in Alternate Version (uncredited)	61
178	1933	The Flaming Signal	Rev. Mr. James	50
179	1933	Headline Shooter	Judge Beacon (uncredited)	58
180	1933	Her Forgotten Past	Mr. Maynard	60
181	1933	The Wolf Dog	Jim Courtney	78
182	1933	The Sin of Nora Moran	Father Ryan	55
183	1934	Dark Hazard	Schultz	54
184	1934	Beggars in Ermine	Marchant the Blind Man	63
185	1934	Men in White	enry B. Walthall	60
186	1934	Viva Villa!	Francisco Madero	63
187	1934	City Park	Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome	0
188	1934	The Murder in the Museum	Bernard Latham Wayne, alias Prof. Mysto	44
189	1934	Judge Priest	Reverend Ashby Brand	64
190	1934	The Scarlet Letter	Roger Chillingworth	49
191	1934	The Lemon Drop Kid	Jonas Deering	50
192	1934	A Girl of the Limberlost	Dr. Amon	10
193	1934	Love Time	Duke Johann von Hatzfeld	0
194	1935	Helldorado	Abner Meadows	0
195	1935	Dante's Inferno	Pop McWade	62
196	1935	A Tale of Two Cities	Dr. Manette	68
197	1936	The Garden Murder Case	Dr. Garden	55
198	1936	The Mine with the Iron Door	David Burton	0
199	1936	Hearts in Bondage	Capt. Buchanan	44
200	1936	The Last Outlaw	Cal Yates	55
201	1936	The Devil-Doll	Marcel	68
202	1936	China Clipper	Dad Brunn	56
203	1942	Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)	Self (archive footage)	0
204	1975	Black Shadows on a Silver Screen	Self (archive footage)	0
205	1998	Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists	Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)	0
206	2002	London After Midnight	Sir James Hamlin (archive footage)	69
207	2019	I Am Not a Racist	Ben	0

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