
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

Christine of the Big Tops

The Ace of Hearts

Soul of the Beast

On to Reno

Lights of New York

The Voice That Thrilled the World

Cupid In Quarantine

Pioneer Trails

The Fighting Coward

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail

Born Rich

The Man Life Passed By

Wasted Lives

Gay and Devilish

The Little Wild Girl

Bunty Pulls the Strings

One Law for the Woman

Over the Garden Wall

Life in Hollywood No. 5

With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo

The Midnight Flyer

Crashin' Thru

Snowblind

The Old Nest

The Midnight Alarm

Almost a Husband

Pinto

Who Is Number One?

Watch Your Step

Remembrance

Sunny Jane

Upstairs

The Famous Mrs. Fair

Somebody's Widow

Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?

The Broken Mask

The Dixie Flyer

My Old Dutch

Voices of the City

A Girl of the Limberlost

Peacock Feathers

Pampered Youth

We're All Gamblers

Where the West Begins

The Devil's Skipper

A Broadway Butterfly

The Fighting Failure

The Fog

Cheap Kisses

It's a Great Life

Forsaking All Others

Jinx

Love in the Dark

Masters of Men

The Infamous Miss Revell

An Enemy of Men

Perils of the Coast Guard

Broadway After Midnight

Youth to Youth

Going Some

Finnegan's Ball