Acting
Cullen Landis
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
Filmography
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Film · 1943
Convict's Code
Film · 1930
The Little Wild Girl
Film · 1928
Lights of New York
Film · 1928
The Broken Mask
Film · 1928
On to Reno
Film · 1928
The Devil's Skipper
Film · 1928
A Midnight Adventure
Film · 1928
Out with the Tide
Film · 1928
Two to One
Film · 1927
Life in Hollywood No. 5
Film · 1927
We're All Gamblers
Film · 1927
Broadway After Midnight
Film · 1927
Finnegan's Ball
Film · 1927
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Film · 1926
The Dixie Flyer
Film · 1926
My Old Dutch
Film · 1926
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Film · 1926
Christine of the Big Tops
Film · 1926
The Fighting Failure
Film · 1926
Frenzied Flames
Film · 1926
The Smoke Eaters
Film · 1926
Perils of the Coast Guard
Film · 1926
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Film · 1926
Wasted Lives
Film · 1925
The Midnight Flyer
Film · 1925
Peacock Feathers
Film · 1925
Pampered Youth
Film · 1925
A Broadway Butterfly
Film · 1925
An Enemy of Men
Film · 1925
One Law for the Woman
Film · 1924
Born Rich
Film · 1924
A Girl of the Limberlost
Film · 1924
The Fighting Coward
Film · 1924
Cheap Kisses
Film · 1924
Crashin' Thru
Film · 1923
The Midnight Alarm
Film · 1923
The Famous Mrs. Fair
Film · 1923
Soul of the Beast
Film · 1923
The Man Life Passed By
Film · 1923
The Fog
Film · 1923
Pioneer Trails
Film · 1923
Masters of Men
Film · 1923
Dollar Devils
Film · 1923
Gay and Devilish
Film · 1922
Watch Your Step
Film · 1922
Remembrance
Film · 1922
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
Film · 1922
Forsaking All Others
Film · 1922
Love in the Dark
Film · 1922
Youth to Youth
Film · 1922
Man With Two Mothers
Film · 1922
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Film · 1921
Snowblind
Film · 1921
The Old Nest
Film · 1921
Voices of the City
Film · 1921
The Ace of Hearts
Film · 1921
The Infamous Miss Revell
Film · 1921
Pinto
Film · 1920
It's a Great Life
Film · 1920
Going Some
Film · 1920
Almost a Husband
Film · 1919
Upstairs
Film · 1919
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Film · 1919
Where the West Begins
Film · 1919
Jinx
Film · 1919
Over the Garden Wall
Film · 1918
Somebody's Widow
Film · 1918
Her Rustic Romeo
Film · 1918
Cupid In Quarantine
Film · 1918
Who Is Number One?
Film · 1917
Sunny Jane
Film · 1917