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    Cullen Landis

    1896-07-09 (127 years old) in 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

    Movies

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    The Voice That Thrilled the World
    53 %|Oct 16, 1943
    History, Documentary
    actor
    Convict's Code
    0 %|Aug 1, 1930
    Drama
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    The Little Wild Girl
    0 %|Aug 1, 1928
    Drama, Romance
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    Lights of New York
    53 %|Jul 18, 1928
    Crime, Drama
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    The Devil's Skipper
    0 %|Feb 1, 1928
    Drama
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    The Broken Mask
    0 %|Jan 1, 1928
    Drama
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    On to Reno
    60 %|Jan 1, 1928
    Comedy, Drama
    actor
    Two to One
    0 %|Dec 31, 1927
    Drama, Comedy
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    We're All Gamblers
    0 %|Sep 3, 1927
    Drama
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    Life in Hollywood No. 5
    0 %|Aug 25, 1927
    poster
    The Fighting Failure
    0 %|Dec 2, 1926
    Western
    actor
    Frenzied Flames
    0 %|Sep 1, 1926
    Action, Drama
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    Christine of the Big Tops
    80 %|Aug 20, 1926
    Drama, Romance
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    With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
    0 %|Aug 1, 1926
    History, Western
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    The Dixie Flyer
    0 %|Jul 29, 1926
    Drama, Action
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    My Old Dutch
    0 %|May 23, 1926
    Drama, Romance
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    The Midnight Flyer
    0 %|Dec 6, 1925
    Drama, Romance
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    Peacock Feathers
    0 %|Oct 18, 1925
    Drama
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    Wasted Lives
    0 %|Apr 7, 1925
    Drama
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    A Broadway Butterfly
    0 %|Mar 29, 1925
    Comedy
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    Pampered Youth
    0 %|Feb 1, 1925
    Drama
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    Cheap Kisses
    0 %|Dec 21, 1924
    Drama
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    Born Rich
    10 %|Dec 7, 1924
    Comedy
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    One Law for the Woman
    0 %|May 25, 1924
    Western
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    The Fighting Coward
    48 %|Mar 14, 1924
    Comedy
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    The Man Life Passed By
    10 %|Dec 24, 1923
    Drama
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    The Midnight Alarm
    0 %|Aug 19, 1923
    Drama, Romance
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    Soul of the Beast
    60 %|May 6, 1923
    Drama
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    Pioneer Trails
    50 %|May 1, 1923
    Western
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    Crashin' Thru
    0 %|Apr 1, 1923
    Western
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    The Famous Mrs. Fair
    0 %|Feb 19, 1923
    Drama
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    The Fog
    0 %|Jan 18, 1923
    Drama
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    Forsaking All Others
    0 %|Dec 10, 1922
    Drama
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    Remembrance
    0 %|Oct 1, 1922
    Drama
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    Gay and Devilish
    0 %|May 14, 1922
    Comedy, Romance
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    Watch Your Step
    0 %|Feb 16, 1922
    Comedy
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    Voices of the City
    0 %|Dec 1, 1921
    Drama, Crime
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    The Ace of Hearts
    65 %|Sep 17, 1921
    Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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    The Old Nest
    0 %|Jun 28, 1921
    Drama
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    Snowblind
    0 %|Mar 22, 1921
    Drama
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    Bunty Pulls the Strings
    0 %|Jan 2, 1921
    Comedy
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    It's a Great Life
    0 %|Aug 29, 1920
    Comedy
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    Pinto
    0 %|Jan 10, 1920
    Comedy, Western
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    Jinx
    0 %|Dec 13, 1919
    Adventure, Comedy
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    Almost a Husband
    0 %|Oct 11, 1919
    Comedy
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    Upstairs
    0 %|Aug 3, 1919
    Comedy
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    The Outcasts of Poker Flat
    40 %|Jun 29, 1919
    Western
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    Where the West Begins
    0 %|Mar 2, 1919
    Western, Comedy
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    Cupid In Quarantine
    50 %|Sep 10, 1918
    actor
    Her Rustic Romeo
    0 %|May 28, 1918
    poster
    Over the Garden Wall
    0 %|May 7, 1918
    Comedy
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    Somebody's Widow
    0 %|Jan 29, 1918
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    Who Is Number One?
    0 %|Oct 29, 1917
    Mystery
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    Sunny Jane
    0 %|Mar 26, 1917

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