Wilfred Lucas

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

155

Movies

277

Born: January 29, 1871 – December 13, 1940
From: Norfolk, Ontario, Canada

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wilfred Lucas (January 30, 1871 – December 13, 1940) was a Canadian-born American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter. Wilfred Lucas made his Broadway debut in 1904, playing in both the The Blue Grass Handicap and The Superstition of Sue. Following his 1906 role in the highly successful play The Chorus Lady, he was recruited to the fledgling Biograph Studios by D. W. Griffith. At the time, the film business was still looked down upon by many members of the theatrical community. In her 1925 book titled When the Movies Were Young, Griffith's wife, actress Linda Arvidson, told the story of the early days at Biograph Studios. In it, she referred to Lucas as the "first real grand actor, democratic enough to work in Biograph movies." In 1908 Lucas made his motion picture debut in Griffith's The Greaser's Gauntlet, appearing in more than 50 of these short (usually 17 minutes) films over the next two years. In 1910 while still acting, he wrote the script for Griffith's film Sunshine Sue, which was followed by many more scripts by 1924. Lucas also began directing in 1912 with Griffith on An Outcast Among Outcasts, and directed another 44 films over the next 20 years. In early 1916 he starred as John Carter in Acquitted, about which Photoplay wrote, "No single performance in the records of active photography has surpassed his visualization of the humble book-keeper in Acquitted." Later in 1916 he appeared in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance. Part of the group of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, Lucas became friends and sometimes starred with Mary Pickford, Sam De Grasse, and Marie Dressler. Canadian-born director Mack Sennett hired him to both direct and act in a large number of films at his Keystone Studios. Lucas made the successful transition from silent film to sound. While working in Hollywood, in 1926 he returned to the stage, performing in several Broadway plays. He later appeared as a foil for Laurel and Hardy in their feature films Pardon Us and A Chump at Oxford. During his long career, Wilfred Lucas appeared in more than 375 films. Although for a time he was cast in leading roles, he became very successful as secondary and minor characters, making a good living in the film industry for more than three decades.

Works

277 films

Modern Times

19368.3

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

19397.8

Waterloo Bridge

19407.5

The Westland Case

19376.7

The Baroness and the Butler

19385.3

Dodge City

19396.9

Dishonored

19316.9

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

19167.1

Marked Woman

19376.6

Pardon Us

19316.4

Cleopatra

19346.1

Santa Fe Trail

19405.8

Les Misérables

19357.1

Naughty Marietta

19355.5

The Sea Wolf

19417.2

The Devil's Brother

19336.8

Edison, the Man

19406.8

Zenobia

19395.0

Virginia City

19406.3

Those Who Dance

19306.2

The Prisoner of Shark Island

19366.9

They Drive by Night

19406.9

Careless Lady

19325.8

Hello Sister

19303.0

Each Dawn I Die

19396.8

Call Her Savage

19325.8

The Devil-Doll

19366.8

Men Call It Love

19316.0

A Chump at Oxford

19406.9

One Night of Love

19345.5

Her Sacrifice

192610.0

Just Imagine

19305.8

Jazzmania

192310.0

The Fighting 69th

19405.8

Black Legion

19376.6

Breakdowns of 1938

19385.8

The Nest

20269.0

Navy Blue and Gold

19375.8

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

19095.2

The Shadow of Lightning Ridge

19207.0

House of Mystery

19318.5

The Mayor of Hell

19337.0

Brother Orchid

19406.6

Burnt Fingers

192710.0

Down on the Farm

193810.0

The Diamond Star

1911

The Renunciation

19094.4

The Country Doctor

19366.5

Through the Back Door

19216.5

The Dragon Murder Case

19345.9

The Massacre

19125.9

Raffles

19396.2

Nick Carter, Master Detective

19396.0

Madam Satan

19305.9

The Failure

19114.0

Four Daughters

19386.6

The Blind Princess and the Poet

1911

Midnight Mary

19336.8

Graft

19315.0

Missing Witnesses

19377.0

Frisco Kid

19357.0

A Dispatch from Reuters

19406.3

Women Without Names

19404.7

Lucky Larrigan

19329.0

Free Wheeling

19327.6

We Who Are About to Die

19377.0

The Co-respondent

1917

The Preview Murder Mystery

19365.8

Trilby

192310.0

Lawyer Man

19326.1

Four Wives

19395.5

The Spanish Jade

1915

Just Like a Woman

1912

Millie

19315.3

Devil and the Deep

19325.0

Talent Scout

19376.7

Sins of Ambition

1917

The Three Musketeers

19335.7

Gentleman Burglar

1914

What Price Hollywood?

19326.8

Can a Woman Love Twice?

192310.0

Vagabond Lady

19357.2

Women in the Wind

19396.8

The White Angel

19367.2

Apples to You!

19347.7

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

19257.0

Flesh and Blood

19226.2

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

19245.0

The Jackeroo of Coolabong

19209.0

The Return of Chandu

19344.8

Home Folks

1912

A Man to Remember

19386.7

Idol of the Crowds

19375.1

Chatterbox

19367.0

Almost a Gentleman

19398.0

Criminal Lawyer

19376.5

Beloved Enemy

19366.3

The Sorrows of Satan

19267.2

The Fatal Mistake

19249.0

Over the Wall

19385.7

Hot Water

19376.5

The Intruder

19334.6

You Said a Mouthful

19325.8

Brute Force

19145.3

The Dark Horse

19327.4

The Super Snooper

19377.0

The Breaking Point

19215.0

Kind Lady

19356.8

Love in the Hills

1911

The Mask of Lopez

19248.0

High Tension

19365.8

Prairie Thunder

19374.3

The House on 56th Street

19335.3

The Indian Brothers

19114.0

Night Spot

19384.6

Passion's Pathway

19249.0

The Galloping Ghost

19314.7

Chandu on the Magic Island

19355.2

She Loved a Fireman

19377.5

Safety in Numbers

19387.0

Women in Hiding

19407.0

I Cover the Waterfront

19335.1

The Arizona Kid

19307.0

A Broadway Butterfly

19258.0

The Sorrowful Example

1911

The Girls and Daddy

19093.0

A Wild Girl of the Sierras

1916

Legion of the Lawless

19406.2

Big City Blues

19325.8

Varsity Show

19376.8

The New Dress

1911

Upperworld

19346.1

Stranded

19356.0

The Arizonian

19358.0

A Tender-Hearted Crook

1913

A Woman Scorned

1911

The Marshal Of Mesa City

19397.5

Tear Gas Squad

19405.3

Blazing Sixes

19378.0

Show Them No Mercy!

19357.5

Triple Justice

19407.5

The Two Paths

1911

The Declaration of Independence

19386.7

The Man Without a Country

19376.1

The Unwritten Law

19328.0

The Daredevil Drivers

19386.0

The Girl from Nowhere

19196.0

Cross-Examination

19325.1

The Valley of Hate

19247.0

Rich Man's Folly

19315.2

The Kentucky Derby

19227.5

The Devil Horse

19325.7

Cock o' the Walk

19303.9

The Day the Bookies Wept

19397.5

The Transformation of Mike

19124.3

Mary Stevens, M.D.

19336.2

Advice to the Lovelorn

19337.3

Land Beyond the Law

19378.5

Love on a Bet

19367.0

The Spanish Gypsy

1911

Strange People

19335.8

The Greaser's Gauntlet

19081.0

The Best of Laurel and Hardy

19688.0

Young Donovan's Kid

193110.0

Human Cargo

19367.5

The Making of a Man

19116.3

The Broken Cross

1911

His Trust

19114.1

The Secrets of Wu Sin

19326.5

The Snob Buster

19259.0

The Primal Call

19114.0

Red Noses

19327.5

The Miser's Heart

19116.0

The Thief and the Girl

1911

A Terrible Discovery

1911

A Sailor’s Heart

1912

Valley of Hate

19246.0

Mile a Minute Love

19377.0

The Midnight Patrol

193210.0

Macbeth

1916

Give Me Liberty

19366.4

Freshman Year

193810.0

The Sphinx

19335.1

Man's Genesis

19124.6

The Lonedale Operator

19116.1

Fighting Blood

19116.3

As No Man Has Loved

19257.0

Fisher Folks

1911

Enoch Arden: Part II

19115.6

The Age for Love

19319.0

The Phantom

19314.0

The Westerners

19199.0

The Food Gamblers

1917

California Mail

19364.9

Phantom Thunderbolt

19334.6

The Beautiful Liar

192110.0

A Pueblo Legend

1912

Midnight Blunders

19365.0

Youth's Gamble

19259.0

Brother Rat

19386.0

Looser Than Loose

19306.0

The Tabasco Kid

19327.0

Across the Dead-Line

19228.0

When a Man Loves

19114.0

The Widow and the Widower

1913

A Strange Meeting

19094.3

His Trust Fulfilled

19113.7

Pure Gold and Dross

1913

Homicide Squad

19318.0

The Taming of the Shrew

19084.9

The Big Cage

19338.0

The Lily and the Rose

1915

The Girl of the Golden West

19238.0

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

1912

Daughters of Pleasure

19248.0

The Wood Nymph

1916

Riders of the Purple Sage

19256.1

Rip Roaring Riley

19359.0

Stormy

19357.0

Heroes of the Street

19228.0

How Baxter Butted In

192510.0

Souls Triumphant

1917

Love Time

193410.0

What Every Woman Wants

19194.0

A Temporary Truce

19124.0

The Long Road

1911

Enoch Arden

19116.0

Convicted

19315.0

Racetrack

19337.0

Swords and Hearts

19114.6

A Woman of Pleasure

19198.0

Madame Rex

1911

The Rose of Kentucky

19115.6

The Price She Paid

19245.3

Cyclone Cavalier

192510.0

The Rocky Road

19104.0

What Shall We Do with Our Old?

19115.5

Big Ears

19315.4

The Hushed Hour

19198.0

Winning Back His Love

19104.0

Sister to Judas

19329.0

The Moth

1934

Under Burning Skies

19124.7

Stranger in Town

19315.0

Fate's Interception

1912

A Love Sublime

1917

The Bad Lands

19259.0

The Greatest Menace

19238.0

Paid Back

19229.0

Hell-to-Pay Austin

1916

The Fighting Breed

19218.0

Shrimps for a Day

19346.8

Heart Beats of Long Ago

19115.0

One a Minute

19217.3

Hands Up!

1917

Love Your Neighbor

19307.0

Acquitted

1916

Air Fright

19336.3

Jim Bludso

1917

North of Nevada

19249.0

Empty Holsters

19378.0

When Kings Were the Law

1912

Racing for Life

19249.0

The Microscope Mystery

1916

Enoch Arden: Part I

19115.6

The Girl and the Outlaw

19083.0

The Honor of Thieves

19091.5

The Man from Kangaroo

19206.3

The Fighting Sap

19249.0

His Daughter

19114.0

Angkor

19355.3

Soldiers of Fortune

19197.0

Billy's Stratagem

19125.0

Lightning Romance

19249.0

The Girl and Her Trust

19126.3

The Judgment House

1917

Stockholm ”Queen of the Baltic”

1932