Richard Arlen
1899-08-30 ( 125 years old ) in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore) was an American film and television actor. He served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps during World War I. After the war, he went to the oilfields of Texas and Oklahoma and found work as a tool boy. He was thereafter a messenger and sporting editor of a newspaper before going to Los Angeles to act in films, but no producer wanted him. He was a delivery boy for a film laboratory when the motorcycle which he was riding landed him a broken leg outside the Paramount Pictures lot. A sympathetic film director gave him his start as an extra. He appeared at first in silent films before making the transition to talkies. His first important film role was in Vengeance of the Deep. He took time out from his Hollywood career to teach as a United States Army Air Forces flight instructor in World War II. Arlen is best known for his role as a pilot in the Academy Award-winning Wings with Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, and his second wife, Jobyna Ralston, whom he married in 1927. He was among the more famous residents of the celebrity enclave, Toluca Lake, California. He married New York socialite, Margaret Kinsella, in 1946. In 1939, Universal teamed him with Andy Devine for a series of 14 B-pictures, mostly action-comedies with heavy reliance on stock footage from larger-scale films. They are informally known as the "Aces of Action" series, which is how the stars were billed in the trailers. When Arlen left the studio in 1941, the series continued with Devine teamed with a variety of other actors. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Arlen was active in television, having guest starred in several anthology series, including Playhouse 90, The Loretta Young Show, The 20th Century Fox Hour, and in three episodes of the series about clergymen, Crossroads. In 1960, Arlen was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star at 6755 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the film industry. In 1968, he appeared on Petticoat Junction playing himself. The episode was called "Wings" and it was in direct reference to the 1927 silent movie Wings. Arlen appeared in westerns, such as Lawman, Branded, Bat Masterson, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Wagon Train, and Yancy Derringer, and in such drama/adventure programs as Ripcord, Whirlybirds, Perry Mason, The New Breed, Coronado 9, and Michael Shayne.

Movies

The Horror Show 1979-02-06
A Whale of a Tale 1976-09-03
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood 1976-07-26
The Sky's the Limit 1975-01-19
Buckskin 1968-05-01
Rogue's Gallery 1968-01-01
Fort Utah 1967-09-01
Hostile Guns 1967-07-01
Red Tomahawk 1967-01-01
Waco 1966-09-01
To the Shores of Hell 1966-03-15
Johnny Reno 1966-03-09
Apache Uprising 1965-12-29
The Bounty Killer 1965-07-30
Town Tamer 1965-07-07
Black Spurs 1965-05-28
The Human Duplicators 1965-03-03
Young Fury 1964-11-01
Sex and the College Girl 1964-09-03
Law of the Lawless 1964-05-13
The Best Man 1964-04-05
The Crawling Hand 1963-09-04
The Young and the Brave 1963-08-01
Hollywood: The Selznick Years 1961-12-31
The Last Time I Saw Archie 1961-05-27
Raymie 1960-07-05
Warlock 1959-05-15
The Day of the Trumpet 1958-01-01
The Mountain 1956-05-31
Hidden Guns 1956-01-30
Blonde Blackmailer 1955-10-01
Devil's Point 1954-12-07
Sabre Jet 1953-09-04
The Blazing Forest 1952-12-01
Hurricane Smith 1952-10-02
Flaming Feather 1952-02-01
Silver City 1951-12-01
Kansas Raiders 1950-11-15
Grand Canyon 1949-05-19
When My Baby Smiles at Me 1948-11-10
The Return of Wildfire 1948-08-13
Speed to Spare 1948-05-14
Buffalo Bill Rides Again 1947-04-18
Accomplice 1946-09-29
The French Key 1946-05-18
The Phantom Speaks 1945-04-13
Identity Unknown 1945-04-02
The Big Bonanza 1944-12-30
Storm Over Lisbon 1944-10-16
That's My Baby! 1944-09-14
The Lady and the Monster 1944-04-17
Timber Queen 1944-01-13
Minesweeper 1943-11-10
Submarine Alert 1943-06-28
Alaska Highway 1943-06-24
Aerial Gunner 1943-03-20
Wrecking Crew 1942-11-07
A Letter From Bataan 1942-09-15
Wildcat 1942-09-03
Soaring Stars 1942-04-25
Torpedo Boat 1942-01-24
Flying Blind 1941-08-29
A Dangerous Game 1941-08-21
Raiders of the Desert 1941-07-17
Forced Landing 1941-07-11
Power Dive 1941-06-04
Men of the Timberland 1941-05-06
Mutiny in the Arctic 1941-04-17
Lucky Devils 1941-01-03
The Devil's Pipeline 1940-10-31
The Leather Pushers 1940-09-13
Black Diamonds 1940-07-16
Swing with Bing 1940-06-30
Hot Steel 1940-05-24
Danger On Wheels 1940-02-02
The Man from Montreal 1939-12-09
Legion of Lost Flyers 1939-11-02
Tropic Fury 1939-09-01
Mutiny on the Blackhawk 1939-07-31
Missing Daughters 1939-05-22
Straight, Place and Show 1938-09-30
Call of The Yukon 1938-04-18
No Time to Marry 1938-02-05
Murder in Greenwich Village 1937-11-03
Artists & Models 1937-08-04
Secret Valley 1937-01-15
The Great Barrier 1937-01-02
The Mine with the Iron Door 1936-05-06
Three Live Ghosts 1936-01-10
The Calling of Dan Matthews 1935-12-10
Hollywood Hobbies 1935-07-05
Let 'em Have It 1935-05-15
Helldorado 1935-01-05
Ready for Love 1934-11-30
She Made Her Bed 1934-04-26
Come On, Marines! 1934-03-23
Alice in Wonderland 1933-12-18
Hell and High Water 1933-12-16
Golden Harvest 1933-09-21
Three-Cornered Moon 1933-08-08
How to Break 90 #4: Downswing 1933-07-07
College Humor 1933-07-05
Song of the Eagle 1933-04-27
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 1933-01-12
Island of Lost Souls 1932-12-24
The All-American 1932-10-01
Tiger Shark 1932-09-24
Guilty as Hell 1932-08-05
Sky Bride 1932-04-19
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 1932-04-17
Wayward 1932-02-19
Touchdown! 1931-11-15
Caught 1931-08-08
The Secret Call 1931-07-24
The Lawyer's Secret 1931-06-06
Gun Smoke 1931-04-10
The Conquering Horde 1931-03-01
Only Saps Work 1930-12-05
The Santa Fe Trail 1930-09-27
The Sea God 1930-09-13
The Border Legion 1930-06-28
Paramount on Parade 1930-04-22
The Light of Western Stars 1930-04-19
Dangerous Paradise 1930-02-13
Burning Up 1930-02-01
The Virginian 1929-11-09
Dangerous Curves 1929-07-12
Thunderbolt 1929-06-20
The Four Feathers 1929-06-01
The Man I Love 1929-05-25
Manhattan Cocktail 1928-11-24
Beggars of Life 1928-09-22
Ladies of the Mob 1928-06-30
Feel My Pulse 1928-02-26
Under the Tonto Rim 1928-02-04
She's a Sheik 1927-11-12
Figures Don't Lie 1927-10-08
Sally in Our Alley 1927-09-02
Wings 1927-08-12
The Blood Ship 1927-07-18
Rolled Stockings 1927-06-18
Old Ironsides 1926-12-06
You'd Be Surprised 1926-09-24
Padlocked 1926-08-02
Behind the Front 1926-02-22
The Enchanted Hill 1926-01-18
The Coast of Folly 1925-09-21
In the Name of Love 1925-08-10
Hollywood 1923-08-19

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