
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wilfred Lucas (January 30, 1871 – December 13, 1940) was a Canadian-born American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter. Wilfred Lucas made his Broadway debut in 1904, playing in both the The Blue Grass Handicap and The Superstition of Sue. Following his 1906 role in the highly successful play The Chorus Lady, he was recruited to the fledgling Biograph Studios by D. W. Griffith. At the time, the film business was still looked down upon by many members of the theatrical community. In her 1925 book titled When the Movies Were Young, Griffith's wife, actress Linda Arvidson, told the story of the early days at Biograph Studios. In it, she referred to Lucas as the "first real grand actor, democratic enough to work in Biograph movies." In 1908 Lucas made his motion picture debut in Griffith's The Greaser's Gauntlet, appearing in more than 50 of these short (usually 17 minutes) films over the next two years. In 1910 while still acting, he wrote the script for Griffith's film Sunshine Sue, which was followed by many more scripts by 1924. Lucas also began directing in 1912 with Griffith on An Outcast Among Outcasts, and directed another 44 films over the next 20 years. In early 1916 he starred as John Carter in Acquitted, about which Photoplay wrote, "No single performance in the records of active photography has surpassed his visualization of the humble book-keeper in Acquitted." Later in 1916 he appeared in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance. Part of the group of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, Lucas became friends and sometimes starred with Mary Pickford, Sam De Grasse, and Marie Dressler. Canadian-born director Mack Sennett hired him to both direct and act in a large number of films at his Keystone Studios. Lucas made the successful transition from silent film to sound. While working in Hollywood, in 1926 he returned to the stage, performing in several Broadway plays. He later appeared as a foil for Laurel and Hardy in their feature films Pardon Us and A Chump at Oxford. During his long career, Wilfred Lucas appeared in more than 375 films. Although for a time he was cast in leading roles, he became very successful as secondary and minor characters, making a good living in the film industry for more than three decades.

Fatty's Day Off

The Romance of Tarzan

The Man from Kangaroo

The Speed Kings

With the Enemy's Help

Blind Love

The Trey o' Hearts

A Sailor’s Heart

The Unwritten Law

Hands Up!

A Love Sublime

Morgan's Raiders

A Pair of Pink Pajamas

The Testing of Mildred Vane

The Return of Mary

The Shadow of Lightning Ridge

The Jackeroo of Coolabong

The Girl from Nowhere

モダン・タイムス

House of Mystery

The Marshal Of Mesa City

Free Wheeling

スミス都へ行く

哀愁

The Dark Horse

The Sorrows of Satan

The Sea Wolf

The White Angel

Vagabond Lady

噫無情

The Mayor of Hell

イントレランス

Love on a Bet

Red Noses

Women in Hiding

Show Them No Mercy!

Land Beyond the Law

Apples to You!

Advice to the Lovelorn

Dodge City

They Drive by Night

A Chump at Oxford

Midnight Mary

Frisco Kid

We Who Are About to Die

Women in the Wind

Edison, the Man

Dishonored

鯊魚島の捕虜

Each Dawn I Die

悪魔の人形

The Devil's Brother

Shrimps for a Day

What Price Hollywood?

Kind Lady

Black Legion

Four Daughters

Brother Orchid

Varsity Show

A Man to Remember

Marked Woman

極楽二人組

The Girl and Her Trust

The Making of a Man

The Declaration of Independence

Give Me Liberty

One a Minute

Upperworld

Fighting Blood

Virginia City

A Dispatch from Reuters

Beloved Enemy

Through the Back Door

The Lonedale Operator

クレオパトラ

Almost a Gentleman

Raffles

She Loved a Fireman

The Country Doctor

Blazing Sixes

Those Who Dance

Mile a Minute Love

Triple Justice

Talent Scout

Chatterbox

Enoch Arden

The Westland Case

Human Cargo

The Big Cage

The Miser's Heart

Lawyer Man

The Massacre

Mary Stevens, M.D.

Criminal Lawyer

Flesh and Blood

マダム・サタン

Stranded

Just Imagine

The Dragon Murder Case

Riders of the Purple Sage

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Santa Fe Trail

The Rose of Kentucky

The Man Without a Country

The Fighting 69th

Call Her Savage

The Preview Murder Mystery

The Man from Kangaroo

Big City Blues

Enoch Arden: Part II

Enoch Arden: Part I

Air Fright

Missing Witnesses

The Arizona Kid

What Shall We Do with Our Old?

Navy Blue and Gold

High Tension

Legion of the Lawless

Naughty Marietta

Brute Force

Four Wives

The Three Musketeers

Careless Lady

One Night of Love

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

Millie

The Baroness and the Butler

The Kentucky Derby

Brother Rat

You Said a Mouthful

The Daredevil Drivers

The Day the Bookies Wept

Strange People

The Valley of Hate

Billy's Stratagem

Heart Beats of Long Ago

Over the Wall

Hot Water

Valley of Hate

The Taming of the Shrew

Tear Gas Squad

Chandu on the Magic Island

Devil and the Deep

I Cover the Waterfront

The Sphinx

Under Burning Skies

Breakdowns of 1938

Cross-Examination

Big Ears

Swords and Hearts

Man's Genesis

Zenobia

The House on 56th Street

The Return of Chandu

Angkor

Men Call It Love

The Secrets of Wu Sin

Rich Man's Folly

California Mail

The Renunciation

The Transformation of Mike

Midnight Blunders

Phantom Thunderbolt

A Strange Meeting

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

Convicted

Idol of the Crowds

His Trust

Women Without Names

A Temporary Truce

When a Man Loves

Winning Back His Love

The Intruder

The Primal Call

Looser Than Loose

The Devil Horse

His Daughter

The Failure

The Rocky Road

The Price She Paid

The Indian Brothers

The Phantom

Night Spot

His Trust Fulfilled

Graft

Cock o' the Walk

The Girl and the Outlaw

Prairie Thunder

Stranger in Town

The Girls and Daddy

The Galloping Ghost

What Every Woman Wants

Hello Sister

The Greaser's Gauntlet

Homicide Squad

Stormy

The Hushed Hour

A Broadway Butterfly

Heroes of the Street

Paid Back

The Long Road

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

The Fighting Sap

Lightning Romance

North of Nevada

Soldiers of Fortune

The Bad Lands

The Unwritten Law

Love Time

Stockholm ”Queen of the Baltic”

Freshman Year

Racing for Life

The Moth

Sister to Judas

The Lily and the Rose

The Age for Love

A Terrible Discovery

As No Man Has Loved

Macbeth

The Greatest Menace

Daughters of Pleasure

A Sailor’s Heart

Empty Holsters

Rip Roaring Riley

The Arizonian

A Woman of Pleasure

The Beautiful Liar

The Tabasco Kid

Souls Triumphant

Hands Up!

A Love Sublime

Cyclone Cavalier

The Wood Nymph

A Pueblo Legend

Home Folks

Fate's Interception

Fisher Folks

Young Donovan's Kid

Burnt Fingers

Jazzmania

Down on the Farm

Safety in Numbers

The Co-respondent

The Diamond Star

Sins of Ambition

A Woman Scorned

The Girl of the Golden West

Trilby

Racetrack

The Microscope Mystery

Acquitted

Across the Dead-Line

The Midnight Patrol

Lucky Larrigan

The Judgment House

How Baxter Butted In

Passion's Pathway

The Breaking Point

The Mask of Lopez

A Wild Girl of the Sierras

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

The Westerners

The Fatal Mistake

Can a Woman Love Twice?

The Shadow of Lightning Ridge

The Jackeroo of Coolabong

The Girl from Nowhere

Madame Rex