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Film & TV
New York City, New York, USA
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…
Known for
- Danger Lights — Dan Thorn1931
- Gentleman's Fate — Frank Tomasulo1931
- The Sin Ship — Captain Sam McVey1931
- All Quiet on the Western Front — Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky1930
- The Silver Horde — George Balt1930
- The Ship from Shanghai — Ted1930
- Condemned! — Jacques Duval1929
- Wolf Song — Gullion1929
- Square Shoulders — Slag1929
- Frozen Justice — Duke1929
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- Cornell University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Mary Astor-Louis Wolheim in Two Arabian Knights.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1880-03-28
- date of death
- 1931-02-18
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- place of burial
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Louis Wolheim
- start of work period
- 1914-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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