Louis Wolheim
It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as an extra in the Wharton studio but never received much attention. Barrymore had only to look at him once to realize that Wolheim's face was his fortune. Through Barrymore, Wolheim gained an entree into New York theatrical life. On the legitimate stage he made a great success in "Welcome Wing" and "The Hairy Ape", climaxing these plays by his triumph in "What Price Glory". Louis Wolheim died in Los Angeles, California on 18 February 1931, the result of stomach cancer.
Acting
Movie
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky
1930
Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Music Hall Proprietor
1920
Movie
Orphans of the Storm
as Executioner (uncredited)
1921
Movie
The Racket
as Nick Scarsi
1928
Movie
Two Arabian Knights
as Peter O'Gaffney
1927
Movie
Sherlock Holmes
as Craigin
1922
Movie
Danger Lights
as Dan Thorn
1931
Movie
Tempest
as Sergeant Bulba
1928
Movie
Condemned!
as Jacques Duval
1929
Movie
The Silver Horde
as George Balt
1930
Movie
Little Old New York
as The Hoboken Terror
1923
Movie
America
as Captain Hare
1924
Movie
Wolf Song
as Gullion
1929
Movie
Gentleman's Fate
as Frank Tomasulo
1931
Movie
The Sin Ship
as Captain Sam McVey
1931
Movie
The House of Hate
as Patch-eye Pete
1918
Movie
The Test of Honor
as Man Devil in dream (uncredited)
1919
Movie
The Ship from Shanghai
as Ted
1930
Movie
Sorrell and Son
as Buck
1927
Movie
The Awakening
as Le Bete
1928
Movie
Frozen Justice
as Duke
1929
Movie
Enemies of Women
1923
Movie
The Face in the Fog
as Petrus
1922
Movie
The Last Moment
as The Finn
1923
