Richard Arlen
Age: N/A | From: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Van Mattimore , Dick Arlen , Sylvanus Richard Mattimore
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Movie Involvements: 111
TV Involvements: 9
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Perry Mason
(1957) Dr. Harrison
Climax!
(1954) Nevers
Wanted: Dead or Alive
(1958) Damon Ring, Sr.
This Is Your Life
(1952) Self
Bat Masterson
(1958) Sheriff Dan Rainey
The New Breed
(1961) Willits
Yancy Derringer
(1958) General Hugh Morgan
Letter to Loretta
(1953) Christopher WaringActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | (archive footage) | |
| 1976 | Mr. Monahan | |
| Silent Film Star 2 | ||
| 1975 | Grimes | |
| 1968 | Townsman | |
| Man in Club | ||
| 1967 | Sam Tyler | |
| Sheriff Travis | ||
| Deadwood Telegrapher | ||
| 1966 | Billy Kelly | |
| Brig. Gen. F.W. Ramsgate | ||
| Ned Duggan | ||
| 1965 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Captain Gannon | ||
| Matthew Ridgeway | ||
| Doctor Kent | ||
| Pete | ||
| National Intelligence | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1964 | Sheriff Jenkins | |
| Charles Devon | ||
| Ben the Bartender | ||
| Sen. Oscar Anderson | ||
| 1963 | Self | |
| Lee Barrenger | ||
| Col. Ralph Holbein | ||
| 1962 | Richard | |
| 1961 | 'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Willits | ||
| Col. Edwin Martin | ||
| 1960 | N/A | |
| Chris Garber | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| Bacon | ||
| 1958 | John Minor | |
| Sheriff Dan Rainey | ||
| General Hugh Morgan | ||
| Damon Ring, Sr. | ||
| Sgt. Jim Heisler | ||
| 1957 | Dr. Harrison | |
| 1956 | C. W. Rivial | |
| Sheriff Ward Young | ||
| 1955 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Tony Pelassier | ||
| 1954 | John 'Captain' Martin | |
| Nevers | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1953 | Christopher Waring | |
| Gen. Robert E 'Bob' Hale | ||
| 1952 | Joe Morgan | |
| Brundage | ||
| Self | ||
| Showdown Calhoun | ||
| 1951 | Charles Storrs | |
| 1950 | Union Captain | |
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1949 | Mike Adams | |
| 1948 | Harvey Howell | |
| Dobe Williams | ||
| Cliff Jordan | ||
| 1947 | Buffalo Bill | |
| 1946 | Simon Lash | |
| 1945 | Matt Fraser | |
| Johnny March | ||
| 1944 | Capt. Jed Kilton | |
| John Craig | ||
| Tim Jones | ||
| Dr. Patrick Cory | ||
| Russell Evans | ||
| 1943 | Richard Houston | |
| Lewis J. 'Lee' Deerhold | ||
| Woody Ormsby | ||
| Jon Davis | ||
| 1942 | Matt Carney | |
| Pvt. John W. Lewis | ||
| Johnny Maverick | ||
| Skinner Barnes | ||
| 1941 | Jim Clark | |
| Dick Williams | ||
| Dick Manning | ||
| Dan Kendall | ||
| Brad Farrell | ||
| Dick O'Hara | ||
| Dick Barclay | ||
| Dick McManus | ||
| 1940 | Dick Talbot | |
| Dick 'Kid' Roberts | ||
| Walter Norton | ||
| Himself | ||
| Frank Stewart | ||
| "Lucky" Larry Taylor | ||
| 1939 | Clark Manning | |
| Gene 'Loop' Gillan | ||
| Dan Burton | ||
| Capt. Robert Lawrence | ||
| Wally King | ||
| 1938 | Denny Paine | |
| Gaston Rogers | ||
| Perry Brown | ||
| 1937 | Steve Havens Jackson Jr. | |
| Alan Townsend | ||
| Lee Rogers | ||
| Hickey | ||
| 1936 | Bob Harvey | |
| William 'Bill' Jones, an alias of William Foster | ||
| 1935 | Dan Matthews | |
| Himself | ||
| Mal Stevens | ||
| Art Ryan | ||
| 1934 | Julian Barrow | |
| Wild Bill Smith | ||
| Lucky Davis | ||
| 1933 | Cheshire Cat | |
| Walt Martin | ||
| Dr. Alan Stevens | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mondrake | ||
| Bill Hoffman | ||
| Self | ||
| 1932 | Edward Parker | |
| Gary King | ||
| Pipes Boley | ||
| Frank C. Marsh | ||
| Bert 'Speed' Condon | ||
| Self (uncredited) | ||
| David Frost | ||
| 1931 | Dan Curtis | |
| Lt. Tom Colton | ||
| Tom Blake | ||
| Brad Farley | ||
| Dan McMasters | ||
| 1930 | Lawrence Payne | |
| Stan Hollister | ||
| Phillip 'Pink' Barker | ||
| Self (from original version) | ||
| Jim Cleve | ||
| Hunter (Dream Girl) | ||
| Dick Bailey | ||
| Heyst | ||
| Lou Larrigan | ||
| 1929 | Steven 'Steve' | |
| Larry Lee | ||
| Bob Moran | ||
| Lt. Harry Faversham | ||
| Joe "Dum-Dum" Brooks | ||
| 1928 | Fred Tilden | |
| The Boy (Jim) | ||
| Red | ||
| Her Problem | ||
| Edd Denmeade | ||
| 1927 | Capt. Colton | |
| Bob Blewe | ||
| Jimmie Adams | ||
| David Armstrong | ||
| John Shreve | ||
| Ralph Treadway | ||
| 1926 | Seaman (uncredited) | |
| Photographer | ||
| 'Tubby' Clark | ||
| Percy Brown | ||
| Link Halliwell | ||
| 1925 | Bather | |
| Dumas Dufrayne | ||
| 1923 | Richard Arlen | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
