Cullen Landis
Acting
Born 1896-07-09
Died 1975-08-26
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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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.
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Acting
58 credits
Snowblind
Dollar Devils
Cheap Kisses
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Going Some
Almost a Husband
Forsaking All Others
Out with the Tide
The Little Wild Girl
My Old Dutch
Gay and Devilish
The Fog
Born Rich
A Broadway Butterfly
The Ace of Hearts
Peacock Feathers
Youth to Youth
Pinto
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
The Fighting Coward
The Man Life Passed By
Remembrance
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Soul of the Beast
Upstairs
Jinx
The Midnight Flyer
The Devil's Skipper
Crashin' Thru
An Enemy of Men
Christine of the Big Tops
A Midnight Adventure
Wasted Lives
Watch Your Step
Where the West Begins
Lights of New York
Pioneer Trails
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Broadway After Midnight
Somebody's Widow
Love in the Dark
It's a Great Life
Pampered Youth
The Broken Mask
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
The Old Nest
The Dixie Flyer
The Infamous Miss Revell
Bunty Pulls the Strings
The Smoke Eaters
A Girl of the Limberlost
Finnegan's Ball
Convict's Code
The Midnight Alarm
Voices of the City
We're All Gamblers
The Famous Mrs. Fair
The Fighting Failure
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