Cast

Richard Arlen

Acting

Cast

Richard Arlen

Known for

Acting

Born

1899-08-30

From

Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Died

1976-03-28

Also known as Van Mattimore, Dick Arlen, Sylvanus Richard Mattimore

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 making the transition to talkies. His first important film role was in Vengeance of the Deep. He took time out from his Hollywood career to teach as a United States Army Air Forces flight instructor in World War II. Arlen is best known for his role as a pilot in the Academy Award-winning Wings with Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, and his second wife, Jobyna Ralston, whom he married in 1927. He was among the more famous residents of the celebrity enclave, Toluca Lake, California. He married New York socialite, Margaret Kinsella, in 1946. In 1939, Universal teamed him with Andy Devine for a series of 14 B-pictures, mostly action-comedies with heavy reliance on stock footage from larger-scale films. They are informally known as the "Aces of Action" series, which is how the stars were billed in the trailers. When Arlen left the studio in 1941, the series continued with Devine teamed with a variety of other actors. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Arlen was active in television, having guest starred in several anthology series, including Playhouse 90, The Loretta Young Show, The 20th Century Fox Hour, and in three episodes of the series about clergymen, Crossroads. In 1960, Arlen was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star at 6755 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the film industry. In 1968, he appeared on Petticoat Junction playing himself. The episode was called "Wings" and it was in direct reference to the 1927 silent movie Wings. Arlen appeared in westerns, such as Lawman, Branded, Bat Masterson, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Wagon Train, and Yancy Derringer, and in such drama/adventure programs as Ripcord, Whirlybirds, Perry Mason, The New Breed, Coronado 9, and Michael Shayne.

Richard Arlen

Richard Arlen

Biography

Warlock

Tropic Fury

Wings

Beggars of Life

Wayward

Island of Lost Souls

Kansas Raiders

Hot Steel

Young Fury

Thunderbolt

Buckskin

The Sea God

Hollywood Hobbies

You'd Be Surprised

The Human Duplicators

Waco

Rolled Stockings

Blonde Blackmailer

Johnny Reno

Hell and High Water

In the Name of Love

She Made Her Bed

The Lady and the Monster

The Mountain

Alice in Wonderland

Soaring Stars

Law of the Lawless

Storm Over Lisbon

The Best Man

Sex and the College Girl

No Time to Marry

Ladies of the Mob

College Humor

The All-American

The Four Feathers

A Whale of a Tale

Paramount on Parade

Child of Trouble

Hurricane Smith

Danger On Wheels

Road to Nashville

The Big Bonanza

Tiger Shark

Murder in Greenwich Village

The Leather Pushers

Three Cornered Moon

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10

The Calling of Dan Matthews

The Phantom Speaks

Town Tamer

Black Diamonds

Rogue's Gallery

Aerial Gunner

Apache Uprising

Submarine Alert

The Bounty Killer

The Horror Show

The Last Time I Saw Archie

Song of the Eagle

Gun Smoke

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Red Tomahawk

Silver City

The Man I Love

The Great Barrier

Black Spurs

Hidden Guns

The Return of Wildfire

Legion of Lost Flyers

Grand Canyon

Guilty as Hell

To the Shores of Hell

Artists & Models

Flaming Feather

Hostile Guns

The Virginian

The Lawyer's Secret