Cullen Landis
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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The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943 · Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Auto-Lite on Parade
1940 · Director
Refreshment Through the Years
1939 · Director
Convict's Code
1930 · Kenneth Avery
The Little Wild Girl
1928 · Jules Barbier
Lights of New York
1928 · Eddie Morgan
Out with the Tide
1928 · John Templeton
A Midnight Adventure
1928 · Fred Nicholson
The Devil's Skipper
1928 · John Dubray
The Broken Mask
1928 · Pertio
On to Reno
1928 · Bud
Two to One
1927 · George Minafer
Broadway After Midnight
1927 · Jimmy Crestmore
Finnegan's Ball
1927 · Flannigan Jr.
We're All Gamblers
1927 · Georgie McCarver
Life in Hollywood No. 5
1927
The Fighting Failure
1926 · Denny O'Brien
The Smoke Eaters
1926 · Ed
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1926 · Victor McQuade
Frenzied Flames
1926 · Danny Grovan
Christine of the Big Tops
1926 · Bob Hastings
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
1926 · Davy Crockett
The Dixie Flyer
1926 · 'Sunrise' Smith
My Old Dutch
1926 · Herbert Brown
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
1926 · Gordon Kent
Perils of the Coast Guard
1926 · Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
The Midnight Flyer
1925 · David Henderson
Peacock Feathers
1925 · Jerry Chandler
An Enemy of Men
1925 · Doctor Phil
Wasted Lives
1925 · John Grayson
A Broadway Butterfly
1925 · Ronald Steel
Pampered Youth
1925 · George Minafer
Cheap Kisses
1924 · Donald Dillingham
Born Rich
1924 · Jack Le Moyne
One Law for the Woman
1924 · Ben Martin
A Girl of the Limberlost
1924 · Hart Henderson
The Fighting Coward
1924 · Tom Rumford
The Man Life Passed By
1923 · Harold Trevis
The Midnight Alarm
1923 · Chaser
Masters of Men
1923 · Dick Halpin
Soul of the Beast
1923 · Paul Nadeau
Pioneer Trails
1923 · Jack Dale / Jack Plains
Crashin' Thru
1923 · Cons Saunders
The Famous Mrs. Fair
1923 · Alan Fair
Dollar Devils
1923 · Jim Biggers
The Fog
1923 · Nathan Forge
Forsaking All Others
1922 · Oliver Newell
Love in the Dark
1922 · Tim O'Brien
Youth to Youth
1922 · Page Brookins
Remembrance
1922 · Seth Smith
Gay and Devilish
1922 · Peter Armitage
Watch Your Step
1922 · Elmer Slocum
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
1922
Man With Two Mothers
1922
Voices of the City
1921 · Jimmy
The Infamous Miss Revell
1921 · Max Hildreth
The Ace of Hearts
1921 · Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
The Old Nest
1921 · Jim at 22-32
Snowblind
1921 · Pete Garth
Bunty Pulls the Strings
1921 · Rab
It's a Great Life
1920 · Stoddard
Going Some
1920 · J. Wallingford Speed
Pinto
1920 · Bob DeWitt
Jinx
1919 · Slicker Evans
Almost a Husband
1919 · Jerry Wilson
Upstairs
1919 · Lemuel Stallings
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919 · Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
Where the West Begins
1919 · Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
Cupid In Quarantine
1918 · The Boyfriend
Her Rustic Romeo
1918 · Jack
Over the Garden Wall
1918 · Jack
Somebody's Widow
1918 · Jack Random
Who Is Number One?
1917 · Tommy Hale
Sunny Jane
1917 · Thomas
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