Louis Wolheim
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1880-03-27 (51 years old)
Deathday
1931-02-18
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Louis Robert Wolheim
Louis R. Wolheim
L. Robert Wolheim
Louis Walheim
L. Walheim
Louis W. Wolheim
Louis Wolheim
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...
Acting
1930
as Stanislas 'Kat' Katczinsky
1920
as Music Hall Proprietor
1923
as The Finn
1924
as Kurder
1917
as Bucky McGhee (as Louis R. Wolheim)
1928
as Nick Scarsi
1918
as Wrestler
1919
as Man Devil in dream (uncredited)
1924
as Jan Boomer
1922
as Craigin
1918
as Brad Tilton
1928
as Sergeant Bulba
1917
as Lefty Reed
1929
as Jacques Duval
1930
as George Balt
1916
as Cpl. Mallin
1917
as Bob Holloway
1924
as Captain Hare
1931
as Dan Thorn
1931
as Frank Tomasulo
1929
as Gullion
1931
as Captain Sam McVey
1930
as Ted
1928
as Le Bete
1923
as Laird
1921
as Executioner (uncredited)
1927
as Peter O'Gaffney
1923
as The Hoboken Terror
1918
as Dirk Thomas
1918
as Patch-eye Pete
1927
as Buck
1929
as Slag
1921
1922
as Petrus
1918
as Prizefight spectator
1929
as Duke
1917
as Johnson
1916
as Capt. Ross (as L. Robert Wolheim)
1921
as Crime
1923
as Daniel Silver
1925
as Capt. Joshua Dawson
1923
Production
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