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Richard Semler “Dick” Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an Oscar-nominated silent film star.
Barthelmess was educated at Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack and Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut. His father died when he was a baby and his mother, Caroline Harris , was a stage actress, so he worked in theatres in his early days, between schooling, doing “walk-ons”. This led to acting in college, doing amateur productions. Russian actress Alla Nazimova, a friend of the family, had been taught English by Barthelmess’s mother. Nazimova in return convinced Barthelmess to try acting professionally and he made his first film appearance in 1916 in the serial Gloria’s Romance as an extra. At this time he also appeared as a supporting player in several films starring Marguerite Clark. His next role, in War Brides opposite Alla Nazimova, attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offered him several important roles, finally casting him opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920).
He soon became one of Hollywood’s highest paid performers, starring in such classics as The Patent Leather Kid (1927) and The Noose (1928); he was nominated for Best Actor at the first Academy Awards for his performance in both these films, and he won a Special Citation for producing The Patent Leather Kid. He founded his own production company, Inspiration Film Company, together with Charles Duell and Henry King. One of their films, Tol’able David (1921), in which Barthelmess starred as a teenage mailman who finds courage, was a major success.
With the advent of the sound era, Barthelmess’ fortunes changed. He made several films in the new medium, most notably Son of the Gods (1930), The Dawn Patrol (1930), The Last Flight (1931), and The Cabin in the Cotton (1932), Central Airport (1933), and a supporting role as Rita Hayworth’s character’s husband in Only Angels Have Wings (1939).
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Richard Barthelmess Biography / Wiki
| Name | Richard Barthelmess |
| Also Know | Richard Semler Barthelmess, Richard S. Barthelmess |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1895-05-09 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 68 |
| Deathday | 1963-08-17 |
Richard Barthelmess Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Cabin in the Cotton | Marvin Blake | 1932-09-26 | Sharecropper’s son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance…. |
| Heroes for Sale | Tom Holmes | 1933-06-17 | Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his batt… |
| The Dawn Patrol | Dick Courtney | 1930-07-10 | World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons a… |
| Tol’able David | David Kinemon | 1921-12-31 | Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother’s place as mail carrier for t… |
| The Patent Leather Kid | Patent Leather Kid | 1927-09-01 | The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring… particularly for the United S… |
| The Last Flight | Cary Lockwood | 1931-08-29 | Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, w… |
| Central Airport | James ‘Jim’ Blaine | 1933-04-15 | Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins…. |
| Four Hours to Kill! | Tony Mako | 1935-04-11 | A detective who has “four hours to kill” before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a… |
| The Noose | Nickie Elkins | 1928-01-29 | In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has … |
| Son of the Gods | Sam Lee | 1930-03-09 | The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but e… |
| Midnight Alibi | Lance McGowan | 1934-07-12 | An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend’s racketeer father…. |
| Scarlet Days | Don Maria Alvarez | 1919-11-18 | Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Bec… |
| The Seventh Day | John Alden Jr. | 1922-02-06 | A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs. The engaged couple Reggie a… |
| The Enchanted Cottage | Oliver Bashforth | 1924-03-23 | The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who p… |
| A Modern Hero | Pierre Radier aka Paul Rader | 1934-04-21 | A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others…. |
| Massacre | Chief Joe Thunderhorse | 1934-01-20 | Rodeo stunt rider Richard Barthelmess (as Joe “Chief” Thunder-Horse) thrills crowds at the Chicago “World’s Fair” celebrating a century of progress in… |
| The Drop Kick | Jack Hamill | 1927-09-25 | College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself…. |
| Shore Leave | D.X. (Bilge) Smith | 1925-09-05 | “Bilge” Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a boyfri… |
| The Lash | Francisco Delfino ‘Pancho’ | 1930-12-14 | A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans…. |
| The Bright Shawl | Charles Abbott | 1923-04-22 | Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves…. |
| Weary River | Jerry Larrabee | 1929-02-10 | A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations … |
| The Finger Points | Breckenridge ‘Breck’ Lee | 1931-04-11 | Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on… |
| Alias the Doctor | Karl Brenner | 1932-03-06 | Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while S… |
| Scarlet Seas | Steven Dunkin | 1928-01-12 | A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long a… |
| Drag | David Carroll | 1929-07-21 | 1928-29 film directed by Frank Lloyd. It was an Oscar nominee for Best Director in the second year of the Academy Awards. The story concerns a man’s … |
| The Idol Dancer | Dan McGuire | 1920-03-21 | A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who w… |
| Classmates | Duncan Irving Jr | 1924-11-19 | Duncan, the son of a village postmaster, is in love with Sylvia, daughter of a rich and snobbish family. He enrolls at West Point but ends up having a… |
| Soul-Fire | Eric Fane | 1925-05-30 | Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in … |
| Young Nowheres | Albert ‘Binky’ Whalen | 1929-10-20 | Young Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach…. |
| Sonny | Sonny Crosby / Joe | 1922-05-22 | A 1922 film…. |
| The Beautiful City | Tony Gillardi | 1925-10-25 | For their mother’s sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brother’s gangster boss…. |
| The Fighting Blade | Karl Van Kerstenbroock | 1923-09-10 | In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around ‘olde Oxford towne’, Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hi… |
| The Amateur Gentleman | Barnabas Barty | 1926-08-14 | Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortine… |
| New Toys | Will Webb | 1925-02-16 | A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer…. |
| Ranson’s Folly | Lt. Ranson | 1926-05-30 | U. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as “The Red Rider,” and boasts to his fellow officers that he could hold up a… |
| Out of the Ruins | Lt. Pierre Dumont | 1928-08-19 | He hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the shadow of a great love-never to realize it until he m… |
| Just Suppose | Prince Rupert of Koronia | 1926-01-10 | … |
| Twenty-One | Julian McCullough | 1923-12-17 | Twenty-One is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson and starring Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill and Joe King…. |
| Experience | Youth | 1921-08-07 | Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure an… |
| The Bond Boy | Peter Newbolt (father) / John Newbolt | 1923-05-23 | For the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie Chase tires of the difficult life her husband has forced… |
| Fury | Boy Leyton | 1923-01-01 | Fury is a 1923 silent film… |
| Spy of Napoleon | Gerard de Lanoy | 1936-09-09 | Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government…. |
| Broken Blossoms | Cheng Huan | 1919-05-13 | The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live…. |
| Way Down East | David Bartlett | 1920-09-03 | A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out … |
| The Love Flower | Bruce Sanders | 1920-08-21 | A man murders his wife’s lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls… |
| The Stolen Jools | Richard Barthelmess | 1931-04-04 | Famous actress Norma Shearer’s jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuber… |
| Rich Man, Poor Man | Bayard Varick | 1918-04-22 | Born and raised in poverty, Marguerite Clark has learned to expect very little out of life and thus is rather surprised to learn that she is the niece… |
| Boots | Everett White | 1919-02-16 | Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and adventu… |
| Peppy Polly | Dr. James Merritt | 1919-04-06 | Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the institution, after the committee charged with the … |
| Only Angels Have Wings | Bat Mac Pherson | 1939-05-15 | Geoff Carter is the head of a crumbling air freight service in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a descredited aviator who a… |
| Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) | Himself | 1921-02-22 | Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others…. |
| The Hope Chest | Tom Ballantyne | 1918-12-29 | Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer’s candy shop, where she delights the custo… |
| I’ll Get Him Yet | Scoop McCready | 1919-05-25 | A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealth…. |
| The Man Who Talked Too Much | J.B. Roscoe | 1940-07-16 | A young law graduate joins his older brother’s legal practice, only to discover the firm’s clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman’s 194… |
| The Mayor of 44th Street | Ed Kirby | 1942-10-15 | In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately,… |
| The Girl Who Stayed at Home | Ralph Grey | 1919-03-23 | Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father’s friend, a Civil war veteran not … |
| How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: ‘The Putter’ | 1931-04-18 | Bobby Jones gives Frank Craven some helpful tips on his short game…. | |
| War Brides | Arno | 1916-01-02 | Joan is loved by a young man of the village and they are married. In a few weeks the husband, a soldier, is sent to the war-front along with his three… |
| The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 | This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change… |
| Nearly Married | Dick Griffon | 1917-11-18 | Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title…. |
| The Spoilers | Bronco Kid | 1942-06-11 | When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle wit… |
| The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage) | 1961-05-24 | A documentary of Hollywood’s first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death…. |
| Bab’s Diary | Tommy Gray | 1917-10-07 | Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named Ha… |
| Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage) | 1942-01-01 | The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died… |
| Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists | (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 | The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and … |
| Camille | 1917-09-30 | Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand’s father begs her not to ruin his hop… | |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Himself | 1963-07-01 | A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood…. |
| Starlit Days at the Lido | Self | 1935-09-28 | Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood’s Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon wit… |
| Camille: The Fate of a Coquette | Gaston | 1926-01-01 | A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Pa… |
| Show of Shows | Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited) | 1929-11-21 | It’s 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen … |
Richard Barthelmess Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Soul-Fire | Producer | 1925-05-30 | Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in … |
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