Discover
From Wikipedia
Cullen Landis (July 9, 1896 – August 26, 1975) was an
American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early
years 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.
Birth Name
James Cullen Landis
Born
Thursday, 09 July 1896
Died
Tuesday, 26 August 1975
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
---|
Convict's Code | Kenneth Avery | 1930 |
The Midnight Adventure | Fred Nicholson | 1929 |
The Little Wild Girl | Jules Barbier | 1928 |
Lights of New York | Eddie Morgan | 1928 |
The Devil's Skipper | John Dubray | 1928 |
The Broken Mask | Pertio | 1928 |
On to Reno | Bud | 1927 |
Broadway After Midnight | Jimmy Crestmore | 1927 |
Finnegan's Ball | Flannigan Jr | 1927 |
We're All Gamblers | Georgie McCarver | 1927 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
---|
Convict's Code | Kenneth Avery | 1930 |
The Midnight Adventure | Fred Nicholson | 1929 |
The Little Wild Girl | Jules Barbier | 1928 |
Lights of New York | Eddie Morgan | 1928 |
The Devil's Skipper | John Dubray | 1928 |
The Broken Mask | Pertio | 1928 |
On to Reno | Bud | 1927 |
Broadway After Midnight | Jimmy Crestmore | 1927 |
Finnegan's Ball | Flannigan Jr | 1927 |
We're All Gamblers | Georgie McCarver | 1927 |
Life in Hollywood No. 5 | 1927 | |
Heroes of the Night | Joe Riley | 1927 |
Two to One | George Minafer | 1927 |
The Fighting Failure | Denny O'Brien | 1926 |
A Horse on Broadway | Jeffrey | 1926 |
Sweet Rosie O'Grady | Victor McQuade | 1926 |
Frenzied Flames | Danny Grovan | 1926 |
Jack O'Hearts | Jack Farber | 1926 |
Christine of the Big Tops | Bob Hastings | 1926 |
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo | Davy Crockett | 1926 |
The Dixie Flyer | 'Sunrise' Smith | 1926 |
Then Came the Woman | Bob Morris | 1926 |
My Old Dutch | Herbert Brown | 1926 |
Winning the Futurity | Luke Allen | 1926 |
Perils of the Coast Guard | Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris | 1926 |
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail | Gordon Kent | 1926 |
The Midnight Flyer | David Henderson | 1925 |
A Broadway Butterfly | Ronald Steel | 1925 |
The Mansion of Aching Hearts | Bill Smith | 1925 |
Pampered Youth | George Minafer | 1925 |
Easy Money | Bud Parsons | 1925 |
Cheap Kisses | Donald Dillingham | 1924 |
Born Rich | Jack Le Moyne | 1924 |
One Law for the Woman | Ben Martin | 1924 |
A Girl of the Limberlost | Hart Henderson | 1924 |
The Man Life Passed By | Harold Trevis | 1923 |
Pioneer Trails | Jack Dale / Jack Plains | 1923 |
The Midnight Alarm | Chaser | 1923 |
The Fog | Nathan Forge | 1923 |
Soul of the Beast | Paul Nadeau | 1923 |
The Ace of Hearts | Young Man in Restaurant | 1923 |
The Famous Mrs. Fair | Alan Fair | 1923 |
Dollar Devils | Jim Biggers | 1923 |
Love in the Dark | Tim O'Brien | 1922 |
Youth to Youth | Page Brookins | 1922 |
Remembrance | Seth Smith | 1922 |
Gay and Devilish | Peter Armitage | 1922 |
Watch Your Step | Elmer Slocum | 1922 |
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight? | Garry Beecher | 1922 |
Voices of the City | Jimmy | 1921 |
The Infamous Miss Revell | Max Hildreth | 1921 |
Pinto | Bob DeWitt | 1920 |
Going Some | J. Wallingford Speed | 1920 |
Jinx | Slicker Evans | 1919 |
The Girl from Outside | The Curly Kid | 1919 |
Almost a Husband | Jerry Wilson | 1919 |
Upstairs | Lemuel Stallings | 1919 |
Somebody's Widow | Jack Random | 1918 |
The Mainspring | Bellamy Hardor | 1917 |
Sunny Jane | Thomas | 1917 |
Joy and the Dragon | Slinky Joe | 1916 |