1896-07-09 ( 128 years old ) in Nashville, 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.
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Movies
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943-10-16
Convict's Code
1930-08-01
The Little Wild Girl
1928-08-01
Lights of New York
1928-07-18
The Devil's Skipper
1928-02-01
The Broken Mask
1928-01-01
On to Reno
1928-01-01
Two to One
1927-12-31
We're All Gamblers
1927-09-03
Life in Hollywood No. 5
1927-08-25
The Fighting Failure
1926-12-02
Frenzied Flames
1926-09-01
Christine of the Big Tops
1926-08-20
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
1926-08-01
The Dixie Flyer
1926-07-29
My Old Dutch
1926-05-23
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
1926-03-01
The Midnight Flyer
1925-12-06
Peacock Feathers
1925-10-18
Wasted Lives
1925-04-07
A Broadway Butterfly
1925-03-29
Pampered Youth
1925-02-01
Cheap Kisses
1924-12-21
Born Rich
1924-12-07
One Law for the Woman
1924-05-25
A Girl of the Limberlost
1924-04-28
The Fighting Coward
1924-03-14
The Man Life Passed By
1923-12-24
The Midnight Alarm
1923-08-19
Soul of the Beast
1923-05-06
Pioneer Trails
1923-05-01
Crashin' Thru
1923-04-01
The Famous Mrs. Fair
1923-02-19
The Fog
1923-01-18
Forsaking All Others
1922-12-10
Love in the Dark
1922-11-20
Remembrance
1922-10-01
Gay and Devilish
1922-05-14
Watch Your Step
1922-02-16
Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
1922-02-05
Voices of the City
1921-12-01
The Ace of Hearts
1921-09-17
The Old Nest
1921-06-28
Snowblind
1921-03-22
Bunty Pulls the Strings
1921-01-02
It's a Great Life
1920-08-29
Pinto
1920-01-10
Jinx
1919-12-13
Almost a Husband
1919-10-11
Upstairs
1919-08-03
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919-06-29
Where the West Begins
1919-03-02
Cupid In Quarantine
1918-09-10
Her Rustic Romeo
1918-05-28
Over the Garden Wall
1918-05-07
Somebody's Widow
1918-01-29
Who Is Number One?
1917-10-29
Sunny Jane
1917-03-26
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