Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-08-30 (77 years old)
Deathday
1976-03-28
Place of Birth
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Also known As
Van Mattimore
Dick Arlen
Sylvanus Richard Mattimore
Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore) was an American film and television actor. He served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps during World War I. After the war, he went to the oilfields of Texas and Oklahoma and found work as a tool boy. He was thereafter a messenger and sporting editor of a newspaper before going to Los Angeles to act in films, but no producer wanted him. He was a delivery boy for a film laboratory when the motorcycle which he was riding landed him a broken leg outside the Paramount Pictures lot. A sympathetic film director gave him his start as an extra. He appeared at first in silent films before makin...
1932
as Edward Parker
1932
as Self (uncredited)
1933
as Self
1933
as Cheshire Cat
1929
as Bob Moran
1979
as (archive footage)
1923
as Richard Arlen
1927
as David Armstrong
1929
as Steven 'Steve'
1959
as Bacon
1925
as Bather
1925
as Dumas Dufrayne
1946
as Simon Lash
1943
as Lewis J. 'Lee' Deerhold
1963
as Lee Barrenger
1928
as Her Problem
1933
as Dr. Alan Stevens
1943
as Richard Houston
1927
as Ralph Treadway
1928
as The Boy (Jim)
1935
as Art Ryan
1945
as Johnny March
1953
as Gen. Robert E 'Bob' Hale
1966
as Ned Duggan
1967
as Deadwood Telegrapher
1929
as Lt. Harry Faversham
1929
as Joe "Dum-Dum" Brooks
1944
as John Craig
1932
as Pipes Boley
1944
as Capt. Jed Kilton
1930
as Dick Bailey
1955
as Tony Pelassier
1932
as Frank C. Marsh
1929
as Larry Lee
1944
as Dr. Patrick Cory
1937
as Alan Townsend
1968
as Man in Club
1935
as Mal Stevens
1948
as Harvey Howell
1930
as Larry Payne
1964
as Sheriff Jenkins
1933
as Mondrake
1968
as Townsman
1938
as Gaston Rogers
1965
as Captain Gannon
1936
as William 'Bill' Jones, an alias of William Foster
1964
as Ben the Bartender
1965
as Pete
1948
as Cliff Jordan
1944
as Tim Jones
1939
as Clark Manning
1928
as Red
1937
as Lee Rogers
1931
as Joe Hart
1938
as Denny Paine
1930
as Heyst
1952
as Joe Morgan
1943
as Jon Davis
1961
as 'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
as Johnny Maverick
1967
as Sheriff Travis
1941
as Dick Williams
1930
as Lou Larrigan
1965
as National Intelligence
1937
as Hickey
1952
as Brundage
1944
as Russell Evans
1965
as Doctor Kent
1945
as Matt Fraser
1928
as Fred Tilden
1961
as Col. Edwin Martin
1941
as Dick McManus
1940
as Dick Talbot
1926
as Percy Brown
1930
as Jim Cleve
1966
as Brig. Gen. F.W. Ramsgate
1952
as Showdown Calhoun
1956
as Sheriff Ward Young
1943
as Woody Ormsby
1941
as Brad Farrell
1941
as Dan Kendall
1951
as Charles Storrs
1942
as Pvt. John W. Lewis
1939
as Capt. Robert Lawrence
1926
as Seaman (uncredited)
1958
as Sgt. Jim Heisler
1934
as Julian Barrow
1947
as Buffalo Bill
1940
as Himself
1933
as Capt J.J. Jericho
1960
as Chris Garber
1926
as Reporter (uncredited)
1956
as C. W. Rivial
1963
as Col. Ralph Holbein
1941
as Dick Barclay
1941
as Dick Manning
1938
as Perry Brown
1939
as Wally King
1939
as Dan Burton
1939
as Gene 'Loop' Gillan
1940
as "Lucky" Larry Taylor
1940
as Dick 'Kid' Roberts
1934
as Wild Bill Smith
1941
as Jim Clark
1933
as Bill Hoffman
1942
as Skinner Barnes
1965
as Matthew Ridgeway
1942
as Himself
1936
as Bob Harvey
1931
as Lt. Tom Colton
1930
as Phillip 'Pink' Barker
1948
as Dobe Williams
1937
as Steve Havens Jackson Jr.
1932
as David Frost
1964
as Charles Devon
1967
as Sam Tyler
1940
as Walter Norton
1930
as Hunter (Dream Girl)
1940
as Frank Stewart
1935
as Dan Matthews
1950
as Union Captain
1933
as Walt Martin
1931
as Tom Blake
1931
as Brad Farley
1927
as Capt. Colton
1932
as Bert 'Speed' Condon
1966
as Billy Kelly
1934
as Lucky Davis
1942
as Matt Carney
1954
as John 'Captain' Martin
1930
as Stan Hollister
1932
as Gary King
1931
as Dan McMasters
1927
as Jimmie Adams
1927
as John Shreve
1927
as Bob Blewe
1941
as Dick O'Hara
1935
as Himself
1926
as Link Halliwell
1964
as Sen. Oscar Anderson
1931
as Dan Curtis
1928
as Edd Denmeade
1976
as Mr. Monahan
1926
as 'Tubby' Clark
1975
as Grimes
1949
as Mike Adams
1976
as Silent Film Star 2
1946
as Himself (uncredited)
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