
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In New York in 1901, Walthall won a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker. He performed in the play for three years, in New York and on tour. With the company of Henry Miller he gained recognition on Broadway in plays including Pippa Passes, The Only Way and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906–08). His fellow cast member James Kirkwood introduced Walthall to D. W. Griffith, and at the conclusion of that engagement, Walthall joined the Biograph Company. His career in movies began in 1909 at Biograph Studios in New York with a leading role in the film A Convict's Sacrifice. This film also featured James Kirkwood, and was directed by D. W. Griffith, a director that played a huge part in Walthall's rise to stardom. As the industry grew in size and popularity, Griffith emerged as a director and Walthall found himself a mainstay of the Griffith company, frequently working alongside such Griffith regulars as Owen Moore, Kate Bruce, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Bobby Harron and Jack and Mary Pickford. He followed Griffith's departure from New York's Biograph to California's Reliance-Majestic Studios in 1913. After a few months with Reliance, he joined Pathé for a short period. He decided to go into the producing business and formed The Union Feature Film Company, the first to be devoted entirely to full-length films. The venture was not successful, however, and he again became associated with Griffith's company. Given the relatively short length of films in the early years, Walthall frequently found himself cast in dozens of films each year. He gained national attention in 1915 for his role as Colonel Ben Cameron in Griffith's highly influential and controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation. Walthall's portrayal of a Confederate veteran rounding up the Ku Klux Klan won him large-scale fame, and Walthall was soon able to emerge as a leading actor in the years leading up to the 1920s, parting ways with Griffith. Walthall continued working in films through the 1920s, appearing in The Plastic Age with Gilbert Roland and Clara Bow. He portrayed Roger Chillingworth in Victor Seastrom's 1926 adaptation of The Scarlet Letter opposite Lillian Gish. Walthall continued his career into the 1930s. After his performance in director John Ford's 1934 film Judge Priest starring Will Rogers he enjoyed a golden period of his career. He portrayed Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman. In 1936 he appeared as Marcel in The Devil-Doll. He was gravely ill during his final film, China Clipper. Frank Capra wanted Walthall to portray the High Lama in his 1937 film, Lost Horizon. "Frail and failing, he died before we could test him," Capra wrote. Walthall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.

The Wolf Dog

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

つばさ

The Scarlet Letter

Tol'able David

四十二番街

London After Midnight

A Tale of Two Cities

悪魔の人形

The Trespasser

London After Midnight

The Raven

Judge Priest

Beggars in Ermine

The Cabin in the Cotton

Me and My Gal

Chandu the Magician

Viva Villa!

A Corner in Wheat

Dante's Inferno

Headline Shooter

The Road to Mandalay

Judith of Bethulia

Hold Your Man

國民の創生

Men in White

Hotel Continental

The Barrier

Her Forgotten Past

The Plastic Age

The Avenging Conscience

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

Kentucky Pride

So Near, Yet So Far

Death's Marathon

China Clipper

Friends

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest

The Last Outlaw

My Baby

In the Border States

A Trap for Santa Claus

The Garden Murder Case

Dark Hazard

The Wanderer

Abraham Lincoln

Pippa Passes

The Sin of Nora Moran

Strange Interlude

The House with Closed Shutters

The Burglar’s Dilemma

Central Park

Rose o' Salem Town

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

The Sealed Room

They Would Elope

The Sheriff's Baby

A Flash of Light

Somewhere in Sonora

The Face on the Barroom Floor

Police Court

The Switchtower

Wilful Peggy

Strongheart

Home, Sweet Home

The False Faces

The Flaming Signal

Alias Mary Smith

Three Friends

The Usurer

The Confession

The Little Tease

Speakeasy

The Lemon Drop Kid

The Newlyweds

Ramona

The Scarlet Letter

Ride Him, Cowboy

Klondike

Love Among the Roses

The Mended Lute

The Oath and the Man

A Child of the Ghetto

Ghosts

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

Hearts in Bondage

The Little Darling

Fools of Fate

The Whispering Shadow

A Strange Meeting

The Slave

The Phantom in the House

The River of Romance

The Call to Arms

The Murder in the Museum

Getting Even

The Broken Locket

Stark Mad

The Day After

The Golden Bed

Pranks

In Old Kentucky

A Girl of the Limberlost

A Light in the Window

I Am Not a Racist

Love Time

Two Daughters of Eve

In the Aisles of the Wild

If We Only Knew

Brutality

Helldorado

The Misleading Lady

Modern Husbands

A Splendid Hazard

City Park

The Unknown Purple

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Three Faces East

The Mountain Rat

Gimme

The Kickback

The Long Arm of Mannister

Everybody's Acting

Anybody's Blonde

The Great Love

A Woman in the Ultimate

Temple Tower

The Mine with the Iron Door

Kit Carson Over the Great Divide

The Unknown Soldier

The Two Brothers

Retribution

Black Magic

Pillars of Society

In Old California

Flower of the North

The Thread of Destiny

Broken Ways

In Life's Cycle

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

The Informer

The One She Loved

From Headquarters

The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

Two Men of the Desert

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

Love Me and the World Is Mine

Oil and Water

The Love Trader

One Clear Call

Boy of Mine

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

The Lady and the Mouse

Fighting Love

Freedom of the Press

The Long Chance

Blaze o' Glory

The Strange Case of Mary Page

The Woman on the Jury

The Long Lane's Turning

Parted Curtains

Humdrum Brown

The Able-Minded Lady

Self Defense

The Outer Edge

The Boomerang

The Tenderfoot's Triumph

The Jazz Age

Single Wives

His Robe of Honor

The Sting of Victory

Dollar Down

Is There Justice?