Cullen Landis

Cullen Landis

Acting 1896-07-09 Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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

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1943 Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
1940 Director
1930 Kenneth Avery
1928 Jules Barbier
1928 Eddie Morgan
1928 Pertio
1928 Bud
1928 John Dubray
1927 George Minafer
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1927 Georgie McCarver
1927 Jimmy Crestmore
1927 Flannigan Jr.
1926 'Sunrise' Smith
1926 Herbert Brown
1926 Bob Hastings
1926 Denny O'Brien
1926 Danny Grovan
1926 Ed
1926 Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
1926 Victor McQuade
1925 John Grayson
1925 David Henderson
1925 Jerry Chandler
1925 George Minafer
1925 Ronald Steel
1925 Doctor Phil
1924 Ben Martin
1924 Jack Le Moyne
1924 Hart Henderson
1924 Tom Rumford
1924 Donald Dillingham
1923 Cons Saunders
1923 Chaser
1923 Alan Fair
1923 Paul Nadeau
1923 Harold Trevis
1923 Nathan Forge
1923 Jack Dale / Jack Plains
1923 Dick Halpin
1922 Peter Armitage
1922 Elmer Slocum
1922 Seth Smith
1922 Oliver Newell
1922 Tim O'Brien
1922 Page Brookins
1921 Pete Garth
1921 Jim at 22-32
1921 Jimmy
1921 Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
1921 Max Hildreth
1920 Bob DeWitt
1920 Stoddard
1920 J. Wallingford Speed
1919 Jerry Wilson
1919 Lemuel Stallings
1919 Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
1919 Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
1919 Slicker Evans
1918 Jack
1918 Jack Random
1918 Jack
1918 The Boyfriend
1917 Tommy Hale
1917 Thomas