
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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Perry Mason

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The Best Man

Beggars of Life

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Let 'em Have It

The Secret Call

The Blood Ship

The New Breed

Island of Lost Souls

The Mountain

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Wanted: Dead or Alive

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Sabre Jet

Branded

Town Tamer

You'd Be Surprised

Letter to Loretta

Johnny Reno

Red Tomahawk

Waco

This Is Your Life

Tiger Shark

Silver City

Your Show of Shows

Guilty as Hell

Old Ironsides

Apache Uprising

Hurricane Smith

Lock-Up

Feel My Pulse

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Law of the Lawless

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Bat Masterson

Dangerous Curves

Artists & Models

Rogue's Gallery

Straight, Place and Show

The Blazing Forest

The Devil's Pipeline

Behind the Front

No Time to Marry

Torpedo Boat

Caught

Wayward

Paramount on Parade

Padlocked

Road to Nashville

Yancy Derringer

Coronado 9

The Lady and the Monster

The Young and the Brave

Kansas Raiders

The Lawyer's Secret

Flaming Feather

The Bounty Killer

Three Cornered Moon

Timber Queen

The Last Time I Saw Archie

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The Virginian

Thunderbolt

Murder in Greenwich Village

The Big Bonanza

Only Saps Work

Gun Smoke

Wrecking Crew

Accomplice

Buckskin

The Phantom Speaks

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Young Fury

College Humor

The Santa Fe Trail

Hostile Guns

Minesweeper

Identity Unknown

Three Live Ghosts

Speed to Spare

That's My Baby!

A Dangerous Game

The Great Barrier

To the Shores of Hell

Hidden Guns

Alaska Highway

Cavalry Command

Buffalo Bill Rides Again

Hot Steel

Golden Harvest

The All-American

The Conquering Horde

The French Key

Quicksands

Matinee Theater

Storm Over Lisbon

When My Baby Smiles at Me

Ready for Love

Call of The Yukon

The Sea God

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A Letter From Bataan

Come On, Marines!

The Four Feathers

Aerial Gunner

Submarine Alert

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

The Man I Love

Secret Valley

Forced Landing

Tropic Fury

Sex and the College Girl

A Whale of a Tale

Power Dive

The Horror Show

The Man from Montreal

Danger On Wheels

Legion of Lost Flyers

Fort Utah

Wildcat

Burning Up

Dangerous Paradise

The Human Duplicators

Climax!

Flying Blind

The Crawling Hand

Missing Daughters

The Calling of Dan Matthews

The Light of Western Stars

She Made Her Bed

Lucky Devils

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

The Coast of Folly

In the Name of Love

Rolled Stockings

Helldorado

Blonde Blackmailer

Ladies of the Mob

Manhattan Cocktail

The Border Legion

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

Raymie

Mutiny in the Arctic

Raiders of the Desert

The Leather Pushers

Song of the Eagle

The Mine with the Iron Door

The Return of Wildfire

Black Diamonds

She's a Sheik

Sky Bride

Devil's Point

Sally in Our Alley

Figures Don't Lie

Men of the Timberland

The Enchanted Hill

Touchdown!

Under the Tonto Rim

The Sky's the Limit

Grand Canyon

Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess

Child of Trouble

The Shepherd of the Hills

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10