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Buckskin

as Townsman

1968
Red Tomahawk

as Deadwood Telegrapher

1967
Hostile Guns

as Sheriff Travis

1967
Johnny Reno

as Ned Duggan

1966
Waco

as Billy Kelly

1966
To the Shores of Hell

as Brig. Gen. F.W. Ramsgate

1966
The Human Duplicators

as National Intelligence

1965
Town Tamer

as Doctor Kent

1965
Black Spurs

as Pete

1965
Apache Uprising

as Captain Gannon

1965
The Bounty Killer

as Matthew Ridgeway

1965
Law of the Lawless

as Ben the Bartender

1964
The Crawling Hand

as Lee Barrenger

1963
The Young and the Brave

as Col. Ralph Holbein

1963
The Last Time I Saw Archie

as Col. Edwin Martin

1961
Warlock

as Bacon

1959
The Mountain

as C. W. Rivial

1956
Hidden Guns

as Sheriff Ward Young

1956
Sabre Jet

as Gen. Robert E 'Bob' Hale

1953
Hurricane Smith

as Brundage

1952
Flaming Feather

as Showdown Calhoun

1952
The Blazing Forest

as Joe Morgan

1952
Silver City

as Charles Storrs

1951
Kansas Raiders

as Union Captain

1950
Accomplice

as Simon Lash

1946
The Phantom Speaks

as Matt Fraser

1945
The Lady and the Monster

as Dr. Patrick Cory

1944
Storm Over Lisbon

as John Craig

1944
The Big Bonanza

as Capt. Jed Kilton

1944
That's My Baby!

as Tim Jones

1944
Richard Arlen Richard Arlen

Birthday

1899-09-01

Place of Birth

St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Biography

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.
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