Cullen Landis

Known for ActingBorn 1896-07-09Died 1975-08-26Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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 encyclopediaRead more

Movies & web series

The Little Wild Girl

The Devil's Skipper

A Midnight Adventure

Two to One

The Dixie Flyer

Frenzied Flames

Wasted Lives

The Midnight Flyer

Pampered Youth

Cheap Kisses

Crashin' Thru

It's a Great Life

Upstairs

Jinx

Finnegan's Ball

Christine of the Big Tops

Peacock Feathers

A Girl of the Limberlost

The Midnight Alarm

Remembrance

Snowblind

The Infamous Miss Revell

Pinto

Going Some

Out with the Tide

The Smoke Eaters

Perils of the Coast Guard

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

A Broadway Butterfly

An Enemy of Men

The Fog

Masters of Men

Bunty Pulls the Strings

The Old Nest

Where the West Begins

On to Reno

Convict's Code

The Broken Mask

We're All Gamblers

Broadway After Midnight

With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo

My Old Dutch

The Fighting Failure

One Law for the Woman

The Famous Mrs. Fair

Gay and Devilish

Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?

Forsaking All Others