Richard Arlen

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-08-30 (77 years old)

Deathday

1976-03-28

Place of Birth

Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Richard Arlen

Biography

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...

Acting

1932

Island of Lost Souls

as Edward Parker

1932

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

as Self (uncredited)

1933

Alice in Wonderland

as Cheshire Cat

1929

Thunderbolt

as Bob Moran

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1923

Hollywood

as Richard Arlen

1927

Wings

as David Armstrong

1929

The Virginian

as Steven 'Steve'

1959

Warlock

as Bacon

1925

1925

In the Name of Love

as Dumas Dufrayne

1946

Accomplice

as Simon Lash

1943

Submarine Alert

as Lewis J. 'Lee' Deerhold

1963

The Crawling Hand

as Lee Barrenger

1928

Feel My Pulse

as Her Problem

1933

Three Cornered Moon

as Dr. Alan Stevens

1943

Minesweeper

as Richard Houston

1927

Rolled Stockings

as Ralph Treadway

1928

Beggars of Life

as The Boy (Jim)

1935

Helldorado

as Art Ryan

1945

Identity Unknown

as Johnny March

1953

Sabre Jet

as Gen. Robert E 'Bob' Hale

1966

Johnny Reno

as Ned Duggan

1967

Red Tomahawk

as Deadwood Telegrapher

1929

The Four Feathers

as Lt. Harry Faversham

1929

The Man I Love

as Joe "Dum-Dum" Brooks

1944

Storm Over Lisbon

as John Craig

1932

Tiger Shark

as Pipes Boley

1944

The Big Bonanza

as Capt. Jed Kilton

1930

1955

Blonde Blackmailer

as Tony Pelassier

1932

Guilty as Hell

as Frank C. Marsh

1929

Dangerous Curves

as Larry Lee

1944

The Lady and the Monster

as Dr. Patrick Cory

1937

Artists & Models

as Alan Townsend

1968

Rogue's Gallery

as Man in Club

1935

Let 'em Have It

as Mal Stevens

1948

1930

Only Saps Work

as Larry Payne

1964

Young Fury

as Sheriff Jenkins

1933

College Humor

as Mondrake

1968

Buckskin

as Townsman

1938

Call of The Yukon

as Gaston Rogers

1965

Apache Uprising

as Captain Gannon

1936

Three Live Ghosts

as William 'Bill' Jones, an alias of William Foster

1964

Law of the Lawless

as Ben the Bartender

1965

1948

Speed to Spare

as Cliff Jordan

1944

That's My Baby!

as Tim Jones

1939

The Man from Montreal

as Clark Manning

1937

Secret Valley

as Lee Rogers

1931

1938

1930

1952

The Blazing Forest

as Joe Morgan

1943

Aerial Gunner

as Jon Davis

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1942

Wildcat

as Johnny Maverick

1967

Hostile Guns

as Sheriff Travis

1941

A Dangerous Game

as Dick Williams

1930

Burning Up

as Lou Larrigan

1965

The Human Duplicators

as National Intelligence

1937

1952

Hurricane Smith

as Brundage

1944

Timber Queen

as Russell Evans

1965

Town Tamer

as Doctor Kent

1945

The Phantom Speaks

as Matt Fraser

1928

Manhattan Cocktail

as Fred Tilden

1961

The Last Time I Saw Archie

as Col. Edwin Martin

1941

Lucky Devils

as Dick McManus

1940

The Devil's Pipeline

as Dick Talbot

1926

Behind the Front

as Percy Brown

1930

The Border Legion

as Jim Cleve

1966

To the Shores of Hell

as Brig. Gen. F.W. Ramsgate

1952

Flaming Feather

as Showdown Calhoun

1956

Hidden Guns

as Sheriff Ward Young

1943

Alaska Highway

as Woody Ormsby

1941

Power Dive

as Brad Farrell

1941

Forced Landing

as Dan Kendall

1951

Silver City

as Charles Storrs

1942

A Letter From Bataan

as Pvt. John W. Lewis

1939

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

as Capt. Robert Lawrence

1926

Old Ironsides

as Seaman (uncredited)

1958

The Day of the Trumpet

as Sgt. Jim Heisler

1934

Ready for Love

as Julian Barrow

1947

1940

Swing with Bing

as Himself

1933

Hell and High Water

as Capt J.J. Jericho

1960

Raymie

as Chris Garber

1926

You'd Be Surprised

as Reporter (uncredited)

1956

The Mountain

as C. W. Rivial

1963

The Young and the Brave

as Col. Ralph Holbein

1941

Mutiny in the Arctic

as Dick Barclay

1941

Raiders of the Desert

as Dick Manning

1938

No Time to Marry

as Perry Brown

1939

Missing Daughters

as Wally King

1939

Tropic Fury

as Dan Burton

1939

Legion of Lost Flyers

as Gene 'Loop' Gillan

1940

Danger On Wheels

as "Lucky" Larry Taylor

1940

The Leather Pushers

as Dick 'Kid' Roberts

1934

She Made Her Bed

as Wild Bill Smith

1941

Flying Blind

as Jim Clark

1933

Song of the Eagle

as Bill Hoffman

1942

Torpedo Boat

as Skinner Barnes

1965

The Bounty Killer

as Matthew Ridgeway

1942

Soaring Stars

as Himself

1931

Caught

as Lt. Tom Colton

1930

The Sea God

as Phillip 'Pink' Barker

1948

The Return of Wildfire

as Dobe Williams

1937

Murder in Greenwich Village

as Steve Havens Jackson Jr.

1932

Wayward

as David Frost

1964

Sex and the College Girl

as Charles Devon

1967

Fort Utah

as Sam Tyler

1940

Black Diamonds

as Walter Norton

1930

Paramount on Parade

as Hunter (Dream Girl)

1940

Hot Steel

as Frank Stewart

1935

1950

Kansas Raiders

as Union Captain

1933

Golden Harvest

as Walt Martin

1931

The Secret Call

as Tom Blake

1931

Gun Smoke

as Brad Farley

1927

She's a Sheik

as Capt. Colton

1932

Sky Bride

as Bert 'Speed' Condon

1966

Waco

as Billy Kelly

1934

Come On, Marines!

as Lucky Davis

1942

Wrecking Crew

as Matt Carney

1954

Devil's Point

as John 'Captain' Martin

1930

The Santa Fe Trail

as Stan Hollister

1932

The All-American

as Gary King

1931

The Conquering Horde

as Dan McMasters

1927

Sally in Our Alley

as Jimmie Adams

1927

The Blood Ship

as John Shreve

1927

Figures Don't Lie

as Bob Blewe

1941

Men of the Timberland

as Dick O'Hara

1935

1926

The Enchanted Hill

as Link Halliwell

1964

The Best Man

as Sen. Oscar Anderson

1931

Touchdown!

as Dan Curtis

1928

Under the Tonto Rim

as Edd Denmeade

1976

A Whale of a Tale

as Mr. Monahan

1926

Padlocked

as 'Tubby' Clark

1975

1949

Grand Canyon

as Mike Adams

1946

The French Key

as Himself (uncredited)

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