Cullen Landis
Acting
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
Movies(70)
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
1943
Convict's Code
Kenneth Avery
1930
The Little Wild Girl
Jules Barbier
1928
Lights of New York
Eddie Morgan
1928
Out with the Tide
John Templeton
1928
A Midnight Adventure
Fred Nicholson
1928
The Devil's Skipper
John Dubray
1928
The Broken Mask
Pertio
1928
On to Reno
Bud
1928
Two to One
George Minafer
1927
Broadway After Midnight
Jimmy Crestmore
1927
Finnegan's Ball
Flannigan Jr.
1927
We're All Gamblers
Georgie McCarver
1927
Life in Hollywood No. 5
1927
The Fighting Failure
Denny O'Brien
1926
The Smoke Eaters
Ed
1926
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Victor McQuade
1926
Frenzied Flames
Danny Grovan
1926
Christine of the Big Tops
Bob Hastings
1926
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Davy Crockett
1926
The Dixie Flyer
'Sunrise' Smith
1926
My Old Dutch
Herbert Brown
1926
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Gordon Kent
1926
Perils of the Coast Guard
Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
1926
The Midnight Flyer
David Henderson
1925
Peacock Feathers
Jerry Chandler
1925
An Enemy of Men
Doctor Phil
1925
Wasted Lives
John Grayson
1925
A Broadway Butterfly
Ronald Steel
1925
Pampered Youth
George Minafer
1925
Cheap Kisses
Donald Dillingham
1924
Born Rich
Jack Le Moyne
1924
One Law for the Woman
Ben Martin
1924
A Girl of the Limberlost
Hart Henderson
1924
The Fighting Coward
Tom Rumford
1924
The Man Life Passed By
Harold Trevis
1923
The Midnight Alarm
Chaser
1923
Masters of Men
Dick Halpin
1923
Soul of the Beast
Paul Nadeau
1923
Pioneer Trails
Jack Dale / Jack Plains
1923
Crashin' Thru
Cons Saunders
1923
The Famous Mrs. Fair
Alan Fair
1923
The Fog
Nathan Forge
1923
Forsaking All Others
Oliver Newell
1922
Love in the Dark
Tim O'Brien
1922
Youth to Youth
Page Brookins
1922
Remembrance
Seth Smith
1922
Gay and Devilish
Peter Armitage
1922
Watch Your Step
Elmer Slocum
1922
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
1922
Voices of the City
Jimmy
1921
The Infamous Miss Revell
Max Hildreth
1921
The Ace of Hearts
Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
1921
The Old Nest
Jim at 22-32
1921
Snowblind
Pete Garth
1921
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Rab
1921
It's a Great Life
Stoddard
1920
Going Some
J. Wallingford Speed
1920
Pinto
Bob DeWitt
1920
Jinx
Slicker Evans
1919
Almost a Husband
Jerry Wilson
1919
Upstairs
Lemuel Stallings
1919
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
1919
Where the West Begins
Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
1919
Cupid In Quarantine
The Boyfriend
1918
Her Rustic Romeo
Jack
1918
Over the Garden Wall
Jack
1918
Somebody's Widow
Jack Random
1918
Who Is Number One?
Tommy Hale
1917
Sunny Jane
Thomas
1917