Louis Robert Wolheim was an American actor, of both stage and screen, whose rough physical appearance relegated him to roles mostly of thugs or villains in the movies, but whose talent allowed him to flourish on stage.
13 Facts About Louis Wolheim
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Louis Wolheim's career was mostly contained during the silent era of the film industry, due to his death at the age of 50 in 1931.
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One time Louis Wolheim beat up a Mexican officer and was put in jail.
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When Dreben died in 1925 on the West Coast, Louis Wolheim was living there and served as one of his pallbearers.
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Louis Wolheim appeared in two silent films with their sister Ethel Barrymore.
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Louis Wolheim played a Chaneyesque gangster in Hughes's splendidly photographed The Racket, a lost film for over 70 years recently rediscovered.
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Louis Wolheim received considerable acclaim as Yank in the original stage production of The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill.
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In 1922, with his fluent French, Louis Wolheim translated Henri Bernstein's play The Claw into English, which his friend Lionel Barrymore had a successful run on Broadway in.
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Louis Wolheim acted primarily in silent films, because of his sudden death at the close of the silent era, but he did appear in several talkies, including All Quiet on the Western Front and Danger Lights before he died.
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Louis Wolheim was credited for a screenplay in addition to his acting career, for The Greatest Power, which starred none other than Ethel Barrymore.
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Louis Wolheim was one of the finest and most generous souls I have ever known.
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Louis Wolheim had been losing drastic amounts of weight for the role, and news accounts from that time attributed his death to that weight loss.
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Louis Wolheim was replaced in The Front Page's cast by Adolphe Menjou.