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Born · July 9, 1896
Died · August 26, 1975 (79 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
5.3
1943
Kenneth Avery
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1930
Jules Barbier
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1928
Eddie Morgan
5.4
1928
John Dubray
0.0
1928
Pertio
0.0
1928
Bud
6.0
1928
George Minafer
0.0
1927
Georgie McCarver
0.0
1927
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1927
Denny O'Brien
0.0
1926
Danny Grovan
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1926
Bob Hastings
8.0
1926
Davy Crockett
0.0
1926
'Sunrise' Smith
0.0
1926
Herbert Brown
0.0
1926
Gordon Kent
4.0
1926
David Henderson
0.0
1925
Jerry Chandler
0.0
1925
John Grayson
0.0
1925
Ronald Steel
0.0
1925
George Minafer
0.0
1925
Donald Dillingham
0.0
1924
Jack Le Moyne
1.0
1924
Ben Martin
0.0
1924
Hart Henderson
0.0
1924
Tom Rumford
4.8
1924
Harold Trevis
1.0
1923
Chaser
0.0
1923
Paul Nadeau
6.0
1923
Jack Dale / Jack Plains
5.0
1923
Cons Saunders
0.0
1923
Alan Fair
0.0
1923
Nathan Forge
0.0
1923
Oliver Newell
0.0
1922
Seth Smith
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1922
Peter Armitage
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1922
Elmer Slocum
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1922
0.0
1922
Jimmy
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1921
Young Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
6.5
1921
Jim at 22-32
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1921
Pete Garth
0.0
1921
Rab
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1921
Stoddard
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1920
Bob DeWitt
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1920
Slicker Evans
0.0
1919
Jerry Wilson
0.0
1919
Lemuel Stallings
0.0
1919
Billy Lanyon / Tommy Oakhurst
4.0
1919
Ned Caldwell (as J. Cullen Landis)
0.0
1919
The Boyfriend
5.0
1918
Jack
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1918
Jack
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1918
Jack Random
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1918
Tommy Hale
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1917
Thomas
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1917