
Louis Wolheim
Known for: Acting
Born: March 27, 1880
Died: February 18, 1931
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 theat…
Known for

All Quiet on the Western Front
1930

Danger Lights
1931

The Sin Ship
1931

The Racket
1928

The Silver Horde
1930

Gentleman's Fate
1931

Square Shoulders
1929

The Last Moment
1923

The Uninvited Guest
1924

Tempest
1928

Condemned!
1929

Wolf Song
1929

The Awakening
1928

Unseeing Eyes
1923

Two Arabian Knights
1927

Frozen Justice
1929

The Go-Getter
1923
Lover's Island
1925

The Shady Lady
1928

The Story Without a Name
1924

The Eternal Mother
1917

The Millionaire's Double
1917
The Belle of the Season
1917

Dorian's Divorce
1916

Sherlock Holmes
1922

The Avenging Trail
1917

Number 17
1921

The Face in the Fog
1922

The Poor Rich Man
1918

The Eyes of Mystery
1918

The Ship from Shanghai
1930

Little Old New York
1923

Peg of the Pirates
1918

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920

The Brand of Cowardice
1916
Opportunity
1918

Sorrell and Son
1927

The Sunbeam
1916

A Manhattan Knight
1920

The Test of Honor
1919
A Pair of Cupids
1918

The House of Hate
1918

The Romance of Elaine
1915

The End of the Tour
1917

Enemies of Women
1923

Orphans of the Storm
1921

America
1924

Experience
1921