
It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as an extra in the Wharton studio but never received much attention. Barrymore had only to look at him once to realize that Wolheim's face was his fortune. Through Barrymore, Wolheim gained an entree into New York theatrical life. On the legitimate stage he made a great success in "Welcome Wing" and "The Hairy Ape", climaxing these plays by his triumph in "What Price Glory". Louis Wolheim died in Los Angeles, California on 18 February 1931, the result of stomach cancer.

All Quiet on the Western Front
MOVIE • 1930

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
MOVIE • 1920

The Racket
MOVIE • 1928

The Ship from Shanghai
MOVIE • 1930

Enemies of Women
MOVIE • 1923

Sherlock Holmes
MOVIE • 1922

Sorrell and Son
MOVIE • 1927

America
MOVIE • 1924

Orphans of the Storm
MOVIE • 1921

The House of Hate
MOVIE • 1918

Two Arabian Knights
MOVIE • 1927

The Sin Ship
MOVIE • 1931

Square Shoulders
MOVIE • 1929

The Awakening
MOVIE • 1928

The Face in the Fog
MOVIE • 1922

The Go-Getter
MOVIE • 1923

Frozen Justice
MOVIE • 1929

Wolf Song
MOVIE • 1929