Louis Wolheim
Also Known As: Louis Robert Wolheim, Louis R. Wolheim, L. Robert Wolheim, Louis Walheim, L. Walheim, Louis W. 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 Glory". Louis Wolheim died in Los Angeles, California on 18 February 1931, the result of stomach cancer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 27, 1880
Deathday: February 18, 1931
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Overview: When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-29
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-18
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The Last Moment
Overview: The Last Moment is a silent film now considered lost.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-07
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The Story Without a Name
Overview: Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma wants to get his hands on the invention and he sends his henchmen to attack Holt in his laboratory.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-27
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The Eternal Mother
Overview: Maris, having married Lynch, a worthless man who deserts her, taking their daughter Felice with him, marries mill owner Dwight Alden after receiving notification that her husband and child are dead. Discovering that Alden employs child labor, Maris, assisted by the village minister, tries to persuade him that this is wrong, but he will tolerate no interference in his business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-26
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The Racket
Overview: A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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The Poor Rich Man
Overview: Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, leads a fine upstanding life -- or at least he appears to, so he can curry favor with his wealthy uncle, Vantyne's father. One day, the senior Carter, fed up with his son's antics, decides to play a trick on both Vantyne and Teddy. The old man and his lawyer go off on a hunting trip, and then the lawyer returns with news that Carter was killed in an accident.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-23
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The Test of Honor
Overview: After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-16
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The Uninvited Guest
Overview: Olive Granger, an heiress survives a shipwreck in the South Seas and is washed ashore an island along with international crooks Irene Carlton and Fred Morgan, who steal her credentials and escape to America, where Irene poses as Olive. Paul Patterson and Jan Boomer, divers, find Olive abandoned in a cave and fight through the jungle in competition for the girl. While diving for pearls, the treacherous Boomer dies in the clutching coils of a giant octopus. Olive and Paul arrive in New York, expose the impostors, and get married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-11
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Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective investigates an alleged theft, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-07
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The Eyes of Mystery
Overview: Carma Carmichael, who lives with her uncle Quincy, is kidnapped by her renegade father Roger and taken to his ancestral Southern home. Uncle Quincy sends young Jack Carrington to investigate and goes into hiding, leading the Carmichaels to believe he is dead. Carma is at first suspicious of Jack's intentions but soon learns that the man who abducted her is actually an impostor who had murdered her father and now lives in the plantation with a group of thugs. Despite "Roger's" attempts to take Jack's life, the young man incites the thugs against him and they attack the house.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-21
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The End of the Tour
Overview: A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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Tempest
Overview: In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-27
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The Avenging Trail
Overview: Lumberjack Gaston Olaf is newly arrived in the lumber camp of Havens Falls, but it isn't long before he finds himself coming to the rescue of the lovely Rose Havens, who is being pursued by the nasty Lefty Red.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-31
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Condemned!
Overview: Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-03
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The Silver Horde
Overview: A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-24
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The Brand of Cowardice
Overview: Cyril Hamilton is a chicken-hearted easterner who heads west. He makes up for his past misdeeds by rescuing a Cavalry colonel's daughter Marcia West from Mexican bandidos.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-23
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The Millionaire's Double
Overview: After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in Europe. After hearing of his wife's death years later, he returns home but finds it lonely there and heads West. While he is gone his house is robbed, and the leader of the crooks, Richard Glendo, leaves Bennington's coat and identification on an East River pier. The newspapers pick up on this and announce Bennington's "suicide." Since he is now officially deceased, Bennington decides to start life all over again -- but first he must foil a scheme by a gang of con artists, who have forced pretty Constance Brent to pose as Bennington's widow so that they can lay claim to his estate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-30
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America
Overview: The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-21
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Danger Lights
Overview: Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-09
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Gentleman's Fate
Overview: A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-07
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Wolf Song
Overview: In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he meets Lola, a beautiful Mexican girl from a proud and rich family. They fall in love and he persuades her to elope with him. After they get married, Sam is torn between his love for Lola and his yearn for traveling.
Genres: Romance Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-29
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The Sin Ship
Overview: A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-18
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The Ship from Shanghai
Overview: On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-31
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The Awakening
Overview: A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-17
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Unseeing Eyes
Overview: The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-18
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Orphans of the Storm
Overview: France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-28
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Two Arabian Knights
Overview: During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation in 2016.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-23
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Little Old New York
Overview: An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-01
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A Pair of Cupids
Overview: Henry Burgess favors a match between his ward, Virginia Parke, and his nephew, Peter Warburton, but she is only interested in her poodle, Frou Frou, and Peter devotes all of his attention to his business. To bring them together, Uncle Henry rents twin babies of the laundrywoman, Bridget McGroghan, placing one on Peter's doorstep and the other on Virginia's. Each discovering that the other has a baby, Peter and Virginia soon begin to share their views on child rearing and matrimony, and are about to become engaged when the babies disappear. Michael McGroghan, the twins' father, hires a pair of crooks to kidnap the babies so that he may collect the $25,000 bond that has been put up by Henry for their safe return. Peter, however, tracks down the kidnappers, and after the infants are returned to their grateful mother, he and Virginia look forward to having their own babies. (from the AFI)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-29
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The House of Hate
Overview: A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-02
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Sorrell and Son
Overview: Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-02
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Square Shoulders
Overview: Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-10
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Face in the Fog
Overview: Boston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of terrorists is after the jewels.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-07
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Opportunity
Overview: When Mary’s father refuses to let her attend a prize fight because he thinks it’s undignified for a young lady she disgueses herself in her brother's clothes which sets in motion a series of misunderstandings that almost wreck a marriage and land Mary in jail but all works out in the end!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Frozen Justice
Overview: Drama set in Alaska
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-13
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The Belle of the Season
Overview: The Belle of the Season is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film, directed by S. Rankin Drew, and stars Emmy Wehlen, S. Rankin Drew, and Walter Hitchcock.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-23
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Dorian's Divorce
Overview: Wealthy clubman Richard Dorian is a lighthearted soul who can't seem to take anything seriously, including his wife. Even when they decide to divorce, he meets the lawyers with a smile. When one of the attorneys suggests a charge of brutality, Mrs. Dorian points out that it is ludicrous. Dorian offers to have a party on his yacht, during which he will try very hard to be brutal to her to give her grounds for the divorce. Among the partygoers are Mrs. Dorian's guardian and Morgan, a smuggler who is buying the yacht. The guardian, who has squandered Mrs. Dorian's money on the stock market, kills himself. Dorian thinks that his wife killed him, gallantly takes the blame himself, and dives overboard. He becomes a tramp and is shanghaied by Morgan's men to become a stoker on his former yacht. Dorian's steward, Puck, is still onboard, and he tells Dorian that the guardian committed suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-05
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Experience
Overview: 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 and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-07
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The Romance of Elaine
Overview: The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, alias Marcus Del Mar, threatening American democracy in general and master detective Craig Kennedy's designs for a new torpedo in particular. Whenever Doctor X has Elaine or Jameson in his grasp, they are inevitably saved in the nick of time by a mystery figure garbed in black.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-14
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The Go-Getter
Overview: Bill Peck is discharged from an army hospital and goes in search of a job. Cappy Ricks hires Bill, but gives him an seemingly impossible test of finding and buying a particular blue vase to prove he can handle a challenging job in China.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-08
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Lover's Island
Overview: Clemmy Dawson, the daughter of a sea captain, lives in a small fishing village, where, in the summer season, she meets Jack Avery, who is visiting a nearby resort. When Clemmy is later attacked by Sam Johnson, her father (who does not know the identity of the man who sought to force his attentions on Clemmy) vows that he will force the responsible man to marry her. Clemmy names Avery, and her father proceeds to make plans for a wedding. In the meantime, Clemmy discovers that Avery already has a fiancée and, with a change of heart, she runs off, taking refuge on Lover's Island. She makes plans to marry the villainous Sam, but Avery, realizing that he has come to love her, goes to Lover's Island, stops the wedding, and marries Clemmy himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-30
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Enemies of Women
Overview: The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he resumes his life of debauchery while World War I ravages the fields of Europe… (Partially lost film; reels 3 and 9 of a total of 11 are missing.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-15
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