Cullen Landis
Known for Acting · 70 credits
- Born
- 1896-07-09
- Died
- 1975-08-26
- Place of birth
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Also known as
- James Cullen Landis · J. Cullen Landis
Biography
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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Known For
Movies (70)
Snowblind
1921
as Pete Garth
Upstairs
1919
as Lemuel Stallings
Pinto
1920
as Bob DeWitt
Born Rich
1924
as Jack Le Moyne
Crashin' Thru
1923
as Cons Saunders
The Fighting Coward
1924
as Tom Rumford
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Frenzied Flames
1926
as Danny Grovan
Gay and Devilish
1922
as Peter Armitage
Lights of New York
1928
as Eddie Morgan
The Fog
1923
as Nathan Forge
Watch Your Step
1922
as Elmer Slocum
The Ace of Hearts
1921
as Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
Pioneer Trails
1923
as Jack Dale / Jack Plains
Youth to Youth
1922
as Page Brookins
The Broken Mask
1928
as Pertio
A Broadway Butterfly
1925
as Ronald Steel
The Man Life Passed By
1923
as Harold Trevis
A Girl of the Limberlost
1924
as Hart Henderson
An Enemy of Men
1925
as Doctor Phil
The Midnight Alarm
1923
as Chaser
Peacock Feathers
1925
as Jerry Chandler
Finnegan's Ball
1927
as Flannigan Jr.
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
1926
as Davy Crockett
My Old Dutch
1926
as Herbert Brown
The Famous Mrs. Fair
1923
as Alan Fair
The Fighting Failure
1926
as Denny O'Brien
Wasted Lives
1925
as John Grayson
Voices of the City
1921
as Jimmy
A Midnight Adventure
1928
as Fred Nicholson
Perils of the Coast Guard
1926
as Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
The Midnight Flyer
1925
as David Henderson
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
1926
as Gordon Kent
The Devil's Skipper
1928
as John Dubray
Bunty Pulls the Strings
1921
as Rab
Forsaking All Others
1922
as Oliver Newell
The Little Wild Girl
1928
as Jules Barbier
Love in the Dark
1922
as Tim O'Brien
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919
as Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
It's a Great Life
1920
as Stoddard
The Old Nest
1921
as Jim at 22-32
Jinx
1919
as Slicker Evans
Cheap Kisses
1924
as Donald Dillingham
The Smoke Eaters
1926
as Ed
We're All Gamblers
1927
as Georgie McCarver
Remembrance
1922
as Seth Smith
Life in Hollywood No. 5
1927
Almost a Husband
1919
as Jerry Wilson
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1926
as Victor McQuade
On to Reno
1928
as Bud
Going Some
1920
as J. Wallingford Speed
Sunny Jane
1917
as Thomas
Christine of the Big Tops
1926
as Bob Hastings
Masters of Men
1923
as Dick Halpin
Where the West Begins
1919
as Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
Pampered Youth
1925
as George Minafer
Soul of the Beast
1923
as Paul Nadeau
Broadway After Midnight
1927
as Jimmy Crestmore
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
1922
Two to One
1927
as George Minafer
Over the Garden Wall
1918
as Jack
Cupid In Quarantine
1918
as The Boyfriend
Somebody's Widow
1918
as Jack Random
The Infamous Miss Revell
1921
as Max Hildreth
Convict's Code
1930
as Kenneth Avery
Out with the Tide
1928
as John Templeton
One Law for the Woman
1924
as Ben Martin
The Dixie Flyer
1926
as 'Sunrise' Smith
Her Rustic Romeo
1918
as Jack
Who Is Number One?
1917
as Tommy Hale
About 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 helpe… With 70 credits spanning from 1917 to 1943, Cullen Landis has appeared in 70 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Crashin' Thru (1923) — as Cons Saunders
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