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person_profile-Cullen Landis

Cullen Landis Died at age: 79

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Cullen Landis

Date of Birth:

Jul 09, 1896

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 26, 1975

Biography of

Cullen Landis

    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.

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Filmography of

Cullen Landis

Found 43 Movies in total

The Little Wild Girl

Jules Barbier ( Actor )

... 1928

Lights of New York

Eddie Morgan ( Actor )

... 1928

The Devil's Skipper

John Dubray ( Actor )

... 1928

The Broken Mask

Pertio ( Actor )

... 1928

On to Reno

Bud ( Actor )

... 1928

We're All Gamblers

Georgie McCarver ( Actor )

... 1927

The Fighting Failure

Denny O'Brien ( Actor )

... 1926

Christine of the Big Tops

Bob Hastings ( Actor )

... 1926

... 1926

The Dixie Flyer

'Sunrise' Smith ( Actor )

... 1926

... 1926

The Midnight Flyer

David Henderson ( Actor )

... 1925

Peacock Feathers

Jerry Chandler ( Actor )

... 1925

Wasted Lives

John Grayson ( Actor )

... 1925

A Broadway Butterfly

Ronald Steel ( Actor )

... 1925

Pampered Youth

George Minafer ( Actor )

... 1925

Cheap Kisses

Donald Dillingham ( Actor )

... 1924

Born Rich

Jack Le Moyne ( Actor )

... 1924

One Law for the Woman

Ben Martin ( Actor )

... 1924

The Fighting Coward

Tom Rumford ( Actor )

... 1924

The Man Life Passed By

Harold Trevis ( Actor )

... 1923

The Midnight Alarm

Chaser ( Actor )

... 1923

Soul of the Beast

Paul Nadeau ( Actor )

... 1923

Crashin' Thru

Cons Saunders ( Actor )

... 1923

The Famous Mrs. Fair

Alan Fair ( Actor )

... 1923

The Fog

Nathan Forge ( Actor )

... 1923

Forsaking All Others

Oliver Newell ( Actor )

... 1922

Remembrance

Seth Smith ( Actor )

... 1922

Gay and Devilish

Peter Armitage ( Actor )

... 1922

Watch Your Step

Elmer Slocum ( Actor )

... 1922

Voices of the City

Jimmy ( Actor )

... 1921

The Ace of Hearts

Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1921

The Old Nest

Jim at 22-32 ( Actor )

... 1921

Snowblind

Pete Garth ( Actor )

... 1921

... 1921

It's a Great Life

Stoddard ( Actor )

... 1920

Pinto

Bob DeWitt ( Actor )

... 1920

Jinx

Slicker Evans ( Actor )

... 1919

Almost a Husband

Jerry Wilson ( Actor )

... 1919

Upstairs

Lemuel Stallings ( Actor )

... 1919

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst ( Actor )

... 1919

Where the West Begins

Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis) ( Actor )

... 1919

... 1917