Louis Wolheim
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Stanislas 'Kat' Katczinsky 1930
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Music Hall Proprietor 1920
Orphans of the Storm
as Executioner (uncredited) 1921
The Racket
as Nick Scarsi 1928
Two Arabian Knights
as Peter O'Gaffney 1927
Sherlock Holmes
as Craigin 1922
Danger Lights
as Dan Thorn 1931
Tempest
as Sergeant Bulba 1928
Condemned!
as Jacques Duval 1929
The Silver Horde
as George Balt 1930
Little Old New York
as The Hoboken Terror 1923
America
as Captain Hare 1924
Wolf Song
as Gullion 1929
Gentleman's Fate
as Frank Tomasulo 1931
The Sin Ship
as Captain Sam McVey 1931
The House of Hate
as Patch-eye Pete 1918
The Test of Honor
as Man Devil in dream (uncredited) 1919