Richard Arlen
Gender: Male
Born: 1st September 1899
Died: 28th March 1976
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Island of Lost Souls, Wings, Three-Cornered Moon, Artists and Models, The Lady and the Monster, College Humor, Thunderbolt, The Virginian, Tiger Shark, Ladies of the Mob, Beggars of Life, Cavalry Command, The Light of Western Stars, Alaska Highway, Call of the Yukon, Submarine Alert, Speed to Spare, Aerial Gunner, Dangerous Curves, Paramount on Parade, To the Shores of Hell, Warlock, The Best Man, Johnny Reno, The Mountain, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, Feel My Pulse, Identity Unknown, Fort Utah, The Big Bonanza, Secret Valley, The Mine with the Iron Door, The Great Barrier, Sabre Jet, Waco, Apache Uprising, Young Fury, Town Tamer, Flaming Feather, Hurricane Smith, The Border Legion, Rogue's Gallery, Come on Marines, Manhattan Cocktail, Road to Nashville, Lost TV Shows of the 50's, A Letter from Bataan, Accomplice, The Crawling Hand, The Human Duplicators, Three Live Ghosts, No Time to Marry, Murder in Greenwich Village
Richard Arlen (September 1, 1899 – March 28, 1976) was an American actor.
Born Sylvanus Richard Van Mattimore in St. Paul, Minnesota, he attended the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. His first job after the war was with St. Paul's Athletic Club. Then he went to the oilfields of Texas and Oklahoma and then found work as a tool boy, a messenger and sporting editor of a newspaper before going to Los Angeles to star in films but no producer wanted him. He was a delivery boy for a film laboratory when the motor cycle 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 (1923).
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 (1927) with Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, and his first wife, Jobyna Ralston, whom he married in 1927. He is
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