Louis Wolheim
Known for Acting
Biography
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 that Wolheim's face was his fortune. Through Barrymore, Wolheim gained an entree into New York theatrical life. On the legitimate stage he made a great success in "Welcome Wing" and "The Hairy Ape", climaxing these plays by his triumph in "What Price Glory". Louis Wolheim died in Los Angeles, California on 18 February 1931, the result of stomach cancer.
Filmography
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930
as Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920
as Music Hall Proprietor
Sorrell and Son
1927
as Buck
The Ship from Shanghai
1930
as Ted
The Racket
1928
as Nick Scarsi
America
1924
as Captain Hare
Orphans of the Storm
1921
as Executioner (uncredited)
Two Arabian Knights
1927
as Peter O'Gaffney
Wolf Song
1929
as Gullion
Enemies of Women
1923
The Awakening
1928
as Le Bete
Sherlock Holmes
1922
as Craigin
The End of the Tour
1917
The House of Hate
1918
as Patch-eye Pete
Frozen Justice
1929
as Duke
The Face in the Fog
1922
as Petrus
Square Shoulders
1929
as Slag
Danger Lights
1931
as Dan Thorn
The Romance of Elaine
1915
Gentleman's Fate
1931
as Frank Tomasulo