7.8
7.8
The Wolf Dog
1933
as Jim Courtney
Henry B. Walthall
Acting
Born:March 15, 1878
Died:June 17, 1936(aged 58)
Birthplace:Shelby County, Alabama, USA
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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.
Filmography (205 movies)
7.3
7.3
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1929
as Father Juniper
7.2
7.2
Wings
1927
as Mr. Armstrong
7.1
7.1
The Scarlet Letter
1927
as Roger Prynne aka Roger Chillingworth
7.0
7.0
Tol'able David
1930
as Amos Hatburn
7.0
7.0
Lord Chumley
1914
as Lord Chumley
6.9
6.9
London After Midnight
2002
as Sir James Hamlin (archive footage)
6.8
6.8
The Devil-Doll
1936
as Marcel
6.8
6.8
A Tale of Two Cities
1935
as Dr. Manette
6.6
6.6
The Trespasser
1929
as Fuller
6.5
6.5
London After Midnight
1927
as Sir James Hamlin
6.5
6.5
The Raven
1915
as Edgar Allan Poe
6.4
6.4
Judge Priest
1934
as Reverend Ashby Brand
6.3
6.3
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932
as Eph Clinton
6.3
6.3
Chandu the Magician
1932
as Robert Regent
6.3
6.3
Beggars in Ermine
1934
as Marchant the Blind Man
6.3
6.3
Me and My Gal
1932
as Sarge
6.2
6.2
Viva Villa!
1934
as Francisco Madero
6.2
6.2
Dante's Inferno
1935
as Pop McWade
6.2
6.2
Judith of Bethulia
1914
as Holofernes
6.1
6.1
Hold Your Man
1933
as Clergyman in Alternate Version (uncredited)
6.1
6.1
The Avenging Conscience
1914
as The Nephew
6.1
6.1
The Road to Mandalay
1926
as Father James
6.1
6.1
A Corner in Wheat
1909
as Wheat King's Assistant
6.0
6.0
The Barrier
1926
as Gale Gaylord
6.0
6.0
Her Forgotten Past
1933
as Mr. Maynard
6.0
6.0
Men in White
1934
as enry B. Walthall
6.0
6.0
The Plastic Age
1925
as Henry Carver
6.0
6.0
Hotel Continental
1932
as Winthrop
6.0
6.0
The Birth of a Nation
1915
as Col. Ben Cameron
5.9
5.9
So Near, Yet So Far
1912
as In Club
5.9
5.9
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
1913
as The Indian Chief's Son
5.9
5.9
Kentucky Pride
1925
as Mr. Beaumont
5.7
5.7
Death's Marathon
1913
as The Husband
5.6
5.6
China Clipper
1936
as Dad Brunn
5.5
5.5
My Baby
1912
as The Husband
5.5
5.5
In the Border States
1910
as Confederate Corporal
5.5
5.5
A Trap for Santa Claus
1909
as Arthur Rogers (uncredited)
5.5
5.5
The Wanderer
1913
as The Wanderer
5.5
5.5
Friends
1912
as Dandy Jack
5.5
5.5
The Last Outlaw
1936
as Cal Yates
5.5
5.5
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
1908
as Woodsman
5.4
5.4
Pippa Passes
1909
5.4
5.4
Dark Hazard
1934
as Schultz
5.4
5.4
The Sin of Nora Moran
1933
as Father Ryan
5.3
5.3
Strange Interlude
1932
as Professor Leeds
5.3
5.3
The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912
as The Householder's Weakling Brother
5.3
5.3
The House with Closed Shutters
1910
as Charles Randolph - The Confederate Soldier
5.2
5.2
Central Park
1932
as Eby
5.2
5.2
Rose o' Salem Town
1910
as The Trapper
5.2
5.2
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909
5.2
5.2
The Garden Murder Case
1936
as Dr. Garden
5.1
5.1
They Would Elope
1909
5.0
5.0
The Confession
1920
as Father Bartlett
5.0
5.0
The Switchtower
1913
as The Switchman
5.0
5.0
Wilful Peggy
1910
as The Lord
5.0
5.0
Strongheart
1914
as Soangataha / Strongheart
5.0
5.0
Somewhere in Sonora
1933
as Bob Leadly
5.0
5.0
Police Court
1932
as Nathaniel "Nat" Barry
5.0
5.0
Home, Sweet Home
1914
as John Howard Payne
5.0
5.0
The False Faces
1919
as Michael Lanyard
5.0
5.0
The Flaming Signal
1933
as Rev. Mr. James
5.0
5.0
Alias Mary Smith
1932
as Atwell
5.0
5.0
A Flash of Light
1910
as Younger John Rogers
5.0
5.0
Three Friends
1913
as The Husband
5.0
5.0
The Lemon Drop Kid
1934
as Jonas Deering
5.0
5.0
The Little Tease
1913
as The Valley Man
5.0
5.0
Speakeasy
1929
as Piano player
5.0
5.0
The Sheriff's Baby
1913
as First Bandit
5.0
5.0
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1923
as Robert Stevens
4.9
4.9
The Sealed Room
1909
as The Minstrel
4.8
4.8
Ramona
1910
as Alessandro
4.7
4.7
Love Among the Roses
1910
as The Lord
4.7
4.7
Klondike
1932
as Mark Armstrong
4.7
4.7
Ride Him, Cowboy
1932
as John Gaunt
4.6
4.6
The Mended Lute
1909
as Indian
4.6
4.6
The Scarlet Letter
1934
as Roger Chillingworth
4.5
4.5
Ghosts
1915
as Captain Alving / Oswald
4.5
4.5
A Child of the Ghetto
1910
as The Farmer
4.5
4.5
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912
as A Psalm Singer
4.5
4.5
The Oath and the Man
1910
as Henri Prevost
4.4
4.4
The Little Darling
1909
as In Boarding House
4.4
4.4
The Whispering Shadow
1933
as J. D. Bradley
4.4
4.4
Hearts in Bondage
1936
as Capt. Buchanan
4.4
4.4
Fools of Fate
1909
4.3
4.3
A Strange Meeting
1909
as A Thief
4.2
4.2
The Slave
1909
as Alachus' Friend
4.0
4.0
The River of Romance
1929
as General Jeff Rumford
4.0
4.0
The Phantom in the House
1929
as Boyd Milburn
4.0
4.0
The Call to Arms
1910
as The Lord
3.8
3.8
The Murder in the Museum
1934
as Bernard Latham Wayne, alias Prof. Mysto
3.8
3.8
Getting Even
1909
as Miner
3.5
3.5
The Broken Locket
1909
as Mexican Man
3.0
3.0
Stark Mad
1929
as Capt. Rhodes - Yacht Commander
3.0
3.0
The Cloister’s Touch
1910
as The Father
3.0
3.0
The Call
1910
as Billy Harvey
2.8
2.8
The Day After
1909
as Party Guest
2.7
2.7
The Golden Bed
1925
as Col. Peake
2.5
2.5
Pranks
1909
as Sunbather
2.0
2.0
The Heart of an Outlaw
1909
as The Mexican Lover
2.0
2.0
In Little Italy
1909
as Victor Ratazzi
1.5
1.5
In Old Kentucky
1909
as Robert, the Confederate son
1.0
1.0
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934
as Dr. Amon
Black Magic
1929
as Dr. Bradbroke
Pillars of Society
1916
as Karsten Bernick
In Old California
1910
as Perdita's Son
The Thread of Destiny
1910
as Estrada
Flower of the North
1921
as Philip Whitemore
Broken Ways
1913
as The Road Agent
His Last Burglary
1910
Temper
1915
as Frank Bradbury
From Headquarters
1929
as Buffalo Bill Ryan
The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
1925
as William Hale
Freedom of the Press
1928
as John Ballard
The Boomerang
1919
as George Gray
Two Men of the Desert
1913
as First Partner
The Jazz Age
1929
as Mr Maxwell
Love Me and the World Is Mine
1927
as Van Denbosch
Parted Curtains
1920
as Joe Jenkins
Oil and Water
1913
as The Idealist
The Love Trader
1930
as Captain Adams
Boy of Mine
1923
as William Latimer
The Lady and the Mouse
1913
as The First Rival
Two Daughters of Eve
1912
as The Father
In the Aisles of the Wild
1912
as Jim Watson
During the Round-Up
1913
as The Stranger
The Green-Eyed Devil
1914
The Kid
1910
as Walter Holden
Fighting Love
1927
as Filipo Navarro
Helldorado
1935
as Abner Meadows
Blaze o' Glory
1929
as Burke
The Strange Case of Mary Page
1916
as Phil Langdon, Attorney
The Woman on the Jury
1924
as Prosecuting Attorney
On the Reef
1910
as Mr. Wilson
Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet
1910
The Armorer’s Daughter
1910
as Macennas
The Gray of the Dawn
1910
The Command from Galilee
1911
as The Lover
For His Sake
1911
The Awakening of Donna Isolla
1914
as The President of the Republic
Souls Courageous
1911
The Long Lane's Turning
1919
as Harry Sevier
Humdrum Brown
1918
as Hector 'Humdrum' Brown
The Able-Minded Lady
1922
as Breezy Bright
A Light in the Window
1927
as Johann Graff
The Tenderfoot's Triumph
1910
as A Horse Thief
Single Wives
1924
as Franklin Dexter
My Hero
1912
as Indian Charlie
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913
as The Young Woman's Fiance
If We Only Knew
1913
as The Father
The Tenderfoot's Money
1913
as The Prospector
The Stolen Loaf
1913
as The Poor Man
A Gambler's Honor
1913
as Beth's Brother
The Mirror
1913
as The Station Agent
The Odalisque
1914
as Joe, in love with May
The Misleading Lady
1916
as Jack Craiger
Modern Husbands
1919
as Stephen Duane
The Mysterious Shot
1914
as The Gopher
The Perfidy of Mary
1913
as The Poet
A Splendid Hazard
1920
as Karl Breitman
The Unknown Purple
1923
as Peter Marchmont / Victor Cromport
Three Faces East
1926
as George Bennett
Her Mother's Oath
1913
as The Actor
The Floor Above
1914
as Stephen Pryde
The Mountain Rat
1914
as Douglas Williams
The Gangsters of New York
1914
as Porky Dugan
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
1910
as Bill
The Informer
1912
as The False Brother
The One She Loved
1912
as The Husband
Brutality
1912
as Actor In Oliver Twist
The God Within
1912
as The Woodsman
Gimme
1923
as John McGimsey
The Old Man
1914
as The Old Man
One Clear Call
1922
as Henry Garnett
The Long Chance
1922
as Harley P. Hennage
In Life's Cycle
1910
as Vincent, as an Adult
Everybody's Acting
1926
as Thorpe
Love Time
1934
as Duke Johann von Hatzfeld
The Iconoclast
1910
A Summer Idyll
1910
The Honor of His Family
1910
as George Pickett Jr.
I Am Not a Racist
2019
as Ben
His Robe of Honor
1918
as Julian Randolph
City Park
1934
as Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome
Rod of Wrath
1915
as Erickson's Son
The Face at the Window
1910
The Gold Seekers
1910
The Way of the World
1910
Classmates
1914
as Duncan Irving
The Kickback
1922
as Aaron Price
The Long Arm of Mannister
1919
as George Mannister
Thou Shalt Not
1910
The Outer Edge
1915
as Dr. Rownlee
Anybody's Blonde
1931
as Mr. Evans
The Converts
1910
The Circular Path
1915
as Reverend Darwin Kirby
Temple Tower
1930
as Blackton
The Great Love
1918
as Sir Roger Brighton
A Woman in the Ultimate
1913
as Badger Gang Member
Self Defense
1932
as Doctor Borden
The Mine with the Iron Door
1936
as David Burton
Kit Carson Over the Great Divide
1925
as Dr. Samuel Webb
The Unknown Soldier
1926
as John Phillips
The Two Brothers
1910
as Pedro
Retribution
1928
as Henry / Tommy Mooney
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