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