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
Known For
Kenneth Avery
Convict's Code
John Grayson
Wasted Lives
Peter Armitage
Gay and Devilish
Jules Barbier
The Little Wild Girl
Rab
Bunty Pulls the Strings
George Minafer
Two to One
Ben Martin
One Law for the Woman
Jack
Over the Garden Wall
Life in Hollywood No. 5
Davy Crockett
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
David Henderson
The Midnight Flyer
Jack Le Moyne
Born Rich
Cons Saunders
Crashin' Thru
Eddie Morgan
Lights of New York
Pete Garth
Snowblind
Jim at 22-32
The Old Nest
Chaser
The Midnight Alarm
Jerry Wilson
Almost a Husband
Bob DeWitt
Pinto
Tommy Hale
Who Is Number One?
Elmer Slocum
Watch Your Step
Seth Smith
Remembrance
Thomas
Sunny Jane
Lemuel Stallings
Upstairs
Alan Fair
The Famous Mrs. Fair
Paul Nadeau
Soul of the Beast
Jack Random
Somebody's Widow
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
Pertio
The Broken Mask
Jack
Her Rustic Romeo
'Sunrise' Smith
The Dixie Flyer
Herbert Brown
My Old Dutch
Gordon Kent
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Bob Hastings
Christine of the Big Tops
Jimmy
Voices of the City
Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
The Ace of Hearts
Hart Henderson
A Girl of the Limberlost
Tom Rumford
The Fighting Coward
Harold Trevis
The Man Life Passed By
Jerry Chandler
Peacock Feathers
Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
George Minafer
Pampered Youth
The Boyfriend
Cupid In Quarantine
Georgie McCarver
We're All Gamblers
Bud
On to Reno
Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
Where the West Begins
John Dubray
The Devil's Skipper
Ronald Steel
A Broadway Butterfly
Denny O'Brien
The Fighting Failure
Danny Grovan
Frenzied Flames
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Nathan Forge
The Fog
Jack Dale / Jack Plains
Pioneer Trails
Donald Dillingham
Cheap Kisses
Stoddard
It's a Great Life
Oliver Newell
Forsaking All Others
Slicker Evans
Jinx
Tim O'Brien
Love in the Dark
Dick Halpin
Masters of Men
Ed
The Smoke Eaters
Max Hildreth
The Infamous Miss Revell
Doctor Phil
An Enemy of Men
Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
Perils of the Coast Guard
Jimmy Crestmore
Broadway After Midnight
Page Brookins
Youth to Youth
Victor McQuade
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
66
Gender
Male
Birthday
1896-07-09
Place of Birth
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Also Known As
James Cullen Landis