Henry B. Walthall

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

148

Movies

216

Born: March 15, 1878 – June 17, 1936
From: Shelby County, Alabama, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In New York in 1901, Walthall won a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker. He performed in the play for three years, in New York and on tour. With the company of Henry Miller he gained recognition on Broadway in plays including Pippa Passes, The Only Way and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906–08). His fellow cast member James Kirkwood introduced Walthall to D. W. Griffith, and at the conclusion of that engagement, Walthall joined the Biograph Company. His career in movies began in 1909 at Biograph Studios in New York with a leading role in the film A Convict's Sacrifice. This film also featured James Kirkwood, and was directed by D. W. Griffith, a director that played a huge part in Walthall's rise to stardom. As the industry grew in size and popularity, Griffith emerged as a director and Walthall found himself a mainstay of the Griffith company, frequently working alongside such Griffith regulars as Owen Moore, Kate Bruce, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Bobby Harron and Jack and Mary Pickford. He followed Griffith's departure from New York's Biograph to California's Reliance-Majestic Studios in 1913. After a few months with Reliance, he joined Pathé for a short period. He decided to go into the producing business and formed The Union Feature Film Company, the first to be devoted entirely to full-length films. The venture was not successful, however, and he again became associated with Griffith's company. Given the relatively short length of films in the early years, Walthall frequently found himself cast in dozens of films each year. He gained national attention in 1915 for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in Griffith's highly influential and controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation. Walthall's portrayal of a Confederate veteran rounding up the Ku Klux Klan won him large-scale fame, and Walthall was soon able to emerge as a leading actor in the years leading up to the 1920s, parting ways with Griffith. Walthall continued working in films through the 1920s, appearing in The Plastic Age with Gilbert Roland and Clara Bow. He portrayed Roger Chillingworth in Victor Seastrom's 1926 adaptation of The Scarlet Letter opposite Lillian Gish. Walthall continued his career into the 1930s. After his performance in director John Ford's 1934 film Judge Priest starring Will Rogers he enjoyed a golden period of his career. He portrayed Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman. In 1936 he appeared as Marcel in The Devil-Doll. He was gravely ill during his final film, China Clipper. Frank Capra wanted Walthall to portray the High Lama in his 1937 film, Lost Horizon. "Frail and failing, he died before we could test him," Capra wrote. Walthall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.

Works

216 films

Wings

19277.2

The Birth of a Nation

19155.9

42nd Street

19336.9

Dollar Down

19257.0

A Tale of Two Cities

19356.8

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

19135.9

The Raven

19156.5

Abraham Lincoln

19305.5

Classmates

1914

The Devil-Doll

19366.8

Temper

19157.0

Flower of the North

192110.0

The Kickback

19229.0

Three Friends

19135.0

Judge Priest

19346.4

Humdrum Brown

1918

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

19095.2

Parted Curtains

19209.0

Single Wives

19248.0

Central Park

19325.8

Ride Him, Cowboy

19324.9

Judith of Bethulia

19146.1

Viva Villa!

19346.2

Kentucky Pride

19256.2

The Mirror

1913

Oil and Water

1913

Ghosts

19154.5

Is There Justice?

19317.0

Home, Sweet Home

19145.0

One Clear Call

19227.0

Chandu the Magician

19326.3

In Little Italy

19092.0

A Corner in Wheat

19096.2

London After Midnight

19276.6

China Clipper

19365.9

Dante's Inferno

19356.2

The Strange Case of Mary Page

1916

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

1975

The River of Romance

19295.7

The One She Loved

1912

My Baby

19125.5

Brutality

1912

So Near, Yet So Far

19125.9

Me and My Gal

19326.4

Beggars in Ermine

19347.3

Anybody's Blonde

19319.0

Strongheart

19145.0

Strange Interlude

19325.6

The Misleading Lady

1916

Ramona

19104.9

The Kid

191010.0

Somewhere in Sonora

19335.1

The Plastic Age

19256.2

Dark Hazard

19345.7

The Wolf Dog

19337.4

In the Aisles of the Wild

1912

Pippa Passes

19095.4

Men in White

19346.3

Her Forgotten Past

19337.5

The Last Outlaw

19366.3

The Garden Murder Case

19365.7

His Robe of Honor

1918

The Broken Locket

19093.5

The Call to Arms

19104.0

The Unknown Soldier

19267.0

The Sting of Victory

1916

His Last Burglary

1910

The Sin of Nora Moran

19335.5

In Old California

19299.0

Death's Marathon

19135.7

The Two Brothers

1910

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

The Trespasser

19296.9

Pranks

19092.5

The Stolen Loaf

1913

From Headquarters

19298.0

The Scarlet Letter

19277.1

Souls Courageous

1911

The Mountain Rat

1914

The Long Chance

19228.0

Hearts in Bondage

19364.9

Love in an Apartment Hotel

1913

The Golden Bed

19254.0

Hold Your Man

19336.3

The Cabin in the Cotton

19326.3

A Strange Meeting

19094.3

The Little Darling

19094.4

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

19298.0

Self Defense

193210.0

A Flash of Light

19105.0

The Lemon Drop Kid

19346.3

The Lady and the Mouse

1913

The Face on the Barroom Floor

19237.5

Blaze o' Glory

19297.0

Getting Even

19093.8

Police Court

19325.8

The Road to Mandalay

19266.4

The Outer Edge

1915

In the Border States

19105.6

The Gold Seekers

1910

Two Men of the Desert

1913

A Light in the Window

19277.0

The Avenging Conscience

19145.9

I Am Not a Racist

2019

Helldorado

19359.0

The Scarlet Letter

19345.1

The Informer

1912

The Whispering Shadow

19334.9

Two Daughters of Eve

1912

Friends

19125.5

Fools of Fate

19094.4

The Mine with the Iron Door

19369.0

The Gray of the Dawn

19107.0

Fighting Love

19279.0

A Summer Idyll

1910

The Unknown Purple

19238.0

The Floor Above

1914

The Sealed Room

19095.1

The Armorer’s Daughter

19108.0

The Woman on the Jury

19249.0

The Tenderfoot's Triumph

1910

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

199810.0

The False Faces

19195.3

Kit Carson Over the Great Divide

19259.0

Love Me and the World Is Mine

192710.0

The Switchtower

19135.0

Rose o' Salem Town

19105.2

Lord Chumley

19147.0

City Park

193410.0

Headline Shooter

19336.3

The Call

19103.0

The Honor of His Family

1910

Stark Mad

19295.5

In Old Kentucky

19091.5

Alias Mary Smith

19326.0

The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

19259.0

They Would Elope

19095.1

The Mended Lute

19094.6

The Heart of an Outlaw

19092.0

For His Sake

19118.0

A Gambler's Honor

1913

Tol'able David

19308.5

The Gangsters of New York

1914

The God Within

1912

The Little Tease

19135.0

The Long Lane's Turning

19197.0

Hotel Continental

19328.0

A Girl of the Limberlost

19343.0

The Love Trader

19308.0

If We Only Knew

19135.0

A Child of the Ghetto

19104.5

The Day After

19092.8

The Oath and the Man

19104.5

A Woman in the Ultimate

1913

The Green-Eyed Devil

19147.0

Gold Is Not All

1910

The Face at the Window

1910

During the Round-Up

1913

Wilful Peggy

19105.0

The Barrier

19267.0

Freedom of the Press

19288.0

Boy of Mine

19239.0

The Newlyweds

19105.0

The Great Love

1918

The Way of the World

1910

The Wanderer

19135.4

London After Midnight

20027.1

Rod of Wrath

19159.0

Love Time

193410.0

The Flaming Signal

19336.3

The Perfidy of Mary

1913

The Confession

19206.7

The Old Man

1914

In Old California

1910

Speakeasy

19296.0

Broken Ways

1913

The Tenderfoot's Money

19139.0

The Usurer

19105.0

The Mysterious Shot

1914

The Converts

1910

A Trap for Santa Claus

19095.5

The Jazz Age

19298.0

Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet

19107.0

The House with Closed Shutters

19105.2

The Burglar’s Dilemma

19125.3

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

19124.5

The Able-Minded Lady

19228.0

Black Magic

192910.0

The Murder in the Museum

19344.8

Klondike

19325.3

The Awakening of Donna Isolla

19149.0

In Life's Cycle

1910

The Phantom in the House

19294.4

The Long Arm of Mannister

19199.0

The Iconoclast

1910

My Hero

1912

Thou Shalt Not

1910

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

1910

A Splendid Hazard

19208.0

Love Among the Roses

19104.7

The Odalisque

1914

Three Faces East

19268.0

The Boomerang

1919

The Thread of Destiny

1910

On the Reef

1910

Modern Husbands

19199.0

Temple Tower

193010.0

The Sheriff's Baby

19135.5

Retribution

1928

Pillars of Society

1916

Gimme

19237.0

Everybody's Acting

19269.0

The Cloister’s Touch

19103.0

The Circular Path

1915

Her Mother's Oath

1913

The Command from Galilee

191110.0