Cast

Cullen Landis

Acting

Cast

Cullen Landis

Known for

Acting

Born

1896-07-09

From

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Died

1975-08-26

Also known as James Cullen Landis, J. 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 industry at age 18 around the time his older sister, Margaret Landis, appeared in her first film. In 1928 Cullen Landis starred in the first ‘all talking’ motion picture, Lights of New York. He once confided in a friend that talkies were perfect for musicals and that he was no "song and dance man". He left Hollywood for Detroit in 1930 to produce and direct industrial films for automobile companies. Landis began as a movie director, only turning to acting after his lead player broke a leg and it was discovered that the actor’s costumes fit him. He went on to become one of the more popular lead actors of the silent era, appearing in some one hundred films over 14 years. During World War II, he served as a captain with US Army Signal Corps producing training films in the South Pacific. By war’s end he was twice decorated and promoted to major. In the post war years he made documentaries for the US State Department that took him to the far corners of the world. James Cullen Landis died on August 28, 1975, aged 79, at a nursing home in Bloomfield, Michigan, three months after the death of his wife, Jane. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cullen Landis

Cullen Landis

Biography

Dollar Devils

Out with the Tide

Cheap Kisses

Snowblind

Youth to Youth

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

Going Some

Forsaking All Others

Broadway After Midnight

Her Rustic Romeo

A Broadway Butterfly

Gay and Devilish

Man With Two Mothers

A Midnight Adventure

The Fighting Coward

A Girl of the Limberlost

The Little Wild Girl

Finnegan's Ball

The Voice That Thrilled the World

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

The Ace of Hearts

Life in Hollywood No. 5

Crashin' Thru

Where the West Begins

Lights of New York

Born Rich

Voices of the City

Jinx

Love in the Dark

Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?

Remembrance

The Famous Mrs. Fair

Almost a Husband

Soul of the Beast

An Enemy of Men

Somebody's Widow

With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail

It's a Great Life

Perils of the Coast Guard

Cupid In Quarantine

Masters of Men

With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo

The Midnight Alarm

My Old Dutch

The Devil's Skipper

The Dixie Flyer

Pioneer Trails

Christine of the Big Tops

One Law for the Woman

The Infamous Miss Revell

We're All Gamblers

Bunty Pulls the Strings

Pinto

Frenzied Flames

Over the Garden Wall

The Smoke Eaters

The Midnight Flyer

On to Reno

Peacock Feathers

The Fighting Failure

Upstairs

The Old Nest

The Broken Mask

Watch Your Step

Two to One

Wasted Lives

Who Is Number One?

The Fog

Pampered Youth

The Man Life Passed By

Convict's Code

Sunny Jane