Cullen Landis

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1896-07-09 (79 years old)

Deathday

1975-08-26

Place of Birth

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Cullen Landis

Biography

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 indu...

Acting

1930

Convict's Code

as Kenneth Avery

1925

Wasted Lives

as John Grayson

1922

Gay and Devilish

as Peter Armitage

1928

The Little Wild Girl

as Jules Barbier

1927

Two to One

as George Minafer

1924

1925

The Midnight Flyer

as David Henderson

1924

Born Rich

as Jack Le Moyne

1923

Crashin' Thru

as Cons Saunders

1928

Lights of New York

as Eddie Morgan

1921

Snowblind

as Pete Garth

1921

The Old Nest

as Jim at 22-32

1923

1919

Almost a Husband

as Jerry Wilson

1920

Pinto

as Bob DeWitt

1917

Who Is Number One?

as Tommy Hale

1922

Watch Your Step

as Elmer Slocum

1922

Remembrance

as Seth Smith

1917

Sunny Jane

as Thomas

1919

Upstairs

as Lemuel Stallings

1923

1923

Soul of the Beast

as Paul Nadeau

1918

Somebody's Widow

as Jack Random

1928

1918

1926

The Dixie Flyer

as 'Sunrise' Smith

1926

My Old Dutch

as Herbert Brown

1926

1921

The Ace of Hearts

as Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)

1921

1924

A Girl of the Limberlost

as Hart Henderson

1924

The Fighting Coward

as Tom Rumford

1923

The Man Life Passed By

as Harold Trevis

1925

Peacock Feathers

as Jerry Chandler

1919

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

as Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst

1925

Pampered Youth

as George Minafer

1918

Cupid In Quarantine

as The Boyfriend

1927

We're All Gamblers

as Georgie McCarver

1928

1919

Where the West Begins

as Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)

1928

The Devil's Skipper

as John Dubray

1925

A Broadway Butterfly

as Ronald Steel

1926

The Fighting Failure

as Denny O'Brien

1926

Frenzied Flames

as Danny Grovan

1943

The Voice That Thrilled the World

as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

1923

The Fog

as Nathan Forge

1923

Pioneer Trails

as Jack Dale / Jack Plains

1924

Cheap Kisses

as Donald Dillingham

1920

1922

Forsaking All Others

as Oliver Newell

1919

Jinx

as Slicker Evans

1922

Love in the Dark

as Tim O'Brien

1923

Masters of Men

as Dick Halpin

1921

Production

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