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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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Filmography
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Movies 58
self 1
Director 1
The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
Auto-Lite on Parade (1940)
Convict's Code (1930)
The Little Wild Girl (1928)
Lights of New York (1928)
The Devil's Skipper (1928)
On to Reno (1928)
The Broken Mask (1928)
Two to One (1927)
We're All Gamblers (1927)
Life in Hollywood No. 5 (1927)
The Fighting Failure (1926)
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1926)
Frenzied Flames (1926)
Christine of the Big Tops (1926)
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo (1926)
The Dixie Flyer (1926)
My Old Dutch (1926)
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail (1926)
The Midnight Flyer (1925)
Peacock Feathers (1925)
Wasted Lives (1925)
A Broadway Butterfly (1925)
Pampered Youth (1925)
Cheap Kisses (1924)
Born Rich (1924)
One Law for the Woman (1924)
The Fighting Coward (1924)
The Man Life Passed By (1923)
The Midnight Alarm (1923)
Soul of the Beast (1923)
Pioneer Trails (1923)
Crashin' Thru (1923)
The Famous Mrs. Fair (1923)
The Fog (1923)
Forsaking All Others (1922)
Remembrance (1922)
Gay and Devilish (1922)
Watch Your Step (1922)
Where's my Wandering Boy Tonight? (1922)
Voices of the City (1921)
The Ace of Hearts (1921)
The Old Nest (1921)
Snowblind (1921)
Bunty Pulls the Strings (1921)
It's a Great Life (1920)
Pinto (1920)
Jinx (1919)
Almost a Husband (1919)
Upstairs (1919)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919)
Where the West Begins (1919)
Cupid In Quarantine (1918)
Her Rustic Romeo (1918)
Over the Garden Wall (1918)
Somebody's Widow (1918)
Who Is Number One? (1917)
Sunny Jane (1917)
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GenderMale
Birthday1896-07-09
Deathday1975-08-26 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceNashville, Tennessee, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJames Cullen Landis, J. Cullen Landis
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