Acting · Nashville, Tennessee, USA · Born July 9, 1896
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 encyclopedia
MovieThe Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Convict's Code
1930
as Kenneth Avery
MovieThe Little Wild Girl
1928
as Jules Barbier
MovieLights of New York
1928
as Eddie Morgan
Out with the Tide
1928
as John Templeton
A Midnight Adventure
1928
as Fred Nicholson
MovieThe Devil's Skipper
1928
as John Dubray
MovieThe Broken Mask
1928
as Pertio
MovieOn to Reno
1928
as Bud
Two to One
1927
as George Minafer
MovieBroadway After Midnight
1927
as Jimmy Crestmore
MovieFinnegan's Ball
1927
as Flannigan Jr.
MovieWe're All Gamblers
1927
as Georgie McCarver
MovieLife in Hollywood No. 5
1927
MovieThe Fighting Failure
1926
as Denny O'Brien
The Smoke Eaters
1926
as Ed
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1926
as Victor McQuade
Frenzied Flames
1926
as Danny Grovan
MovieChristine of the Big Tops
1926
as Bob Hastings
MovieWith Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
1926
as Davy Crockett
MovieThe Dixie Flyer
1926
as 'Sunrise' Smith
MovieMy Old Dutch
1926
as Herbert Brown
MovieWith Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
1926
as Gordon Kent
MoviePerils of the Coast Guard
1926
as Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris
MovieThe Midnight Flyer
1925
as David Henderson
MoviePeacock Feathers
1925
as Jerry Chandler
MovieAn Enemy of Men
1925
as Doctor Phil
MovieWasted Lives
1925
as John Grayson
MovieA Broadway Butterfly
1925
as Ronald Steel
MoviePampered Youth
1925
as George Minafer
MovieCheap Kisses
1924
as Donald Dillingham
MovieBorn Rich
1924
as Jack Le Moyne
MovieOne Law for the Woman
1924
as Ben Martin
MovieA Girl of the Limberlost
1924
as Hart Henderson
MovieThe Fighting Coward
1924
as Tom Rumford
MovieThe Man Life Passed By
1923
as Harold Trevis
MovieThe Midnight Alarm
1923
as Chaser
MovieMasters of Men
1923
as Dick Halpin
MovieSoul of the Beast
1923
as Paul Nadeau
MoviePioneer Trails
1923
as Jack Dale / Jack Plains
MovieCrashin' Thru
1923
as Cons Saunders
MovieThe Famous Mrs. Fair
1923
as Alan Fair
MovieDollar Devils
1923
as Jim Biggers
MovieThe Fog
1923
as Nathan Forge
MovieForsaking All Others
1922
as Oliver Newell
MovieLove in the Dark
1922
as Tim O'Brien
MovieYouth to Youth
1922
as Page Brookins
MovieRemembrance
1922
as Seth Smith
MovieGay and Devilish
1922
as Peter Armitage
MovieWatch Your Step
1922
as Elmer Slocum
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
1922
MovieMan With Two Mothers
1922
MovieVoices of the City
1921
as Jimmy
MovieThe Infamous Miss Revell
1921
as Max Hildreth
MovieThe Ace of Hearts
1921
as Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
MovieThe Old Nest
1921
as Jim at 22-32
MovieSnowblind
1921
as Pete Garth
MovieBunty Pulls the Strings
1921
as Rab
MovieIt's a Great Life
1920
as Stoddard
MovieGoing Some
1920
as J. Wallingford Speed
MoviePinto
1920
as Bob DeWitt
MovieJinx
1919
as Slicker Evans
MovieAlmost a Husband
1919
as Jerry Wilson
MovieUpstairs
1919
as Lemuel Stallings
MovieThe Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919
as Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
MovieWhere the West Begins
1919
as Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
MovieCupid In Quarantine
1918
as The Boyfriend
Her Rustic Romeo
1918
as Jack
MovieOver the Garden Wall
1918
as Jack
MovieSomebody's Widow
1918
as Jack Random
MovieWho Is Number One?
1917
as Tommy Hale
MovieSunny Jane
1917
as Thomas
