Cullen Landis
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 9, 1896
- Died
- August 26, 1975 (aged 79)
- Birthplace
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Biography
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
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Filmography
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Movie · as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Convict's Code
Movie · as Kenneth Avery
The Little Wild Girl
Movie · as Jules Barbier
Lights of New York
Movie · as Eddie Morgan
The Broken Mask
Movie · as Pertio
On to Reno
Movie · as Bud
The Devil's Skipper
Movie · as John Dubray
A Midnight Adventure
Movie · as Fred Nicholson
Out with the Tide
Movie · as John Templeton
Two to One
Movie · as George Minafer
Life in Hollywood No. 5
Movie
We're All Gamblers
Movie · as Georgie McCarver
Broadway After Midnight
Movie · as Jimmy Crestmore
Finnegan's Ball
Movie · as Flannigan Jr.
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Movie · as Davy Crockett
The Dixie Flyer
Movie · as 'Sunrise' Smith
My Old Dutch
Movie · as Herbert Brown
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Movie · as Gordon Kent
Christine of the Big Tops
Movie · as Bob Hastings
The Fighting Failure
Movie · as Denny O'Brien
Frenzied Flames
Movie · as Danny Grovan
The Smoke Eaters
Movie · as Ed
Perils of the Coast Guard
Movie · as Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Movie · as Victor McQuade
Wasted Lives
Movie · as John Grayson
The Midnight Flyer
Movie · as David Henderson
Peacock Feathers
Movie · as Jerry Chandler
Pampered Youth
Movie · as George Minafer
A Broadway Butterfly
Movie · as Ronald Steel
An Enemy of Men
Movie · as Doctor Phil
One Law for the Woman
Movie · as Ben Martin
Born Rich
Movie · as Jack Le Moyne
A Girl of the Limberlost
Movie · as Hart Henderson
The Fighting Coward
Movie · as Tom Rumford
Cheap Kisses
Movie · as Donald Dillingham
Crashin' Thru
Movie · as Cons Saunders
The Midnight Alarm
Movie · as Chaser
The Famous Mrs. Fair
Movie · as Alan Fair
Soul of the Beast
Movie · as Paul Nadeau
The Man Life Passed By
Movie · as Harold Trevis
The Fog
Movie · as Nathan Forge
Pioneer Trails
Movie · as Jack Dale / Jack Plains
Masters of Men
Movie · as Dick Halpin
Dollar Devils
Movie · as Jim Biggers
Gay and Devilish
Movie · as Peter Armitage
Watch Your Step
Movie · as Elmer Slocum
Remembrance
Movie · as Seth Smith
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
Movie
Forsaking All Others
Movie · as Oliver Newell
Love in the Dark
Movie · as Tim O'Brien
Youth to Youth
Movie · as Page Brookins
Man With Two Mothers
Movie
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Movie · as Rab
Snowblind
Movie · as Pete Garth
The Old Nest
Movie · as Jim at 22-32
The Ace of Hearts
Movie · as Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
Voices of the City
Movie · as Jimmy
The Infamous Miss Revell
Movie · as Max Hildreth
Pinto
Movie · as Bob DeWitt
It's a Great Life
Movie · as Stoddard
Going Some
Movie · as J. Wallingford Speed
Almost a Husband
Movie · as Jerry Wilson
Upstairs
Movie · as Lemuel Stallings
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Movie · as Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
Where the West Begins
Movie · as Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
Jinx
Movie · as Slicker Evans
Over the Garden Wall
Movie · as Jack
Somebody's Widow
Movie · as Jack Random
Her Rustic Romeo
Movie · as Jack
Cupid In Quarantine
Movie · as The Boyfriend
Who Is Number One?
Movie · as Tommy Hale
Sunny Jane
Movie · as Thomas