Richard Barthelmess

Richard Barthelmess was born on May 09, 1895 in USA. Richard Barthelmess's big-screen debut came with Gloria's Romance directed by Walter Edwin in 1916, strarring . Richard Barthelmess is known for Only Angels Have Wings directed by Howard Hawks, Cary Grant stars as Geoff Carter and Jean Arthur as Bonnie Lee. Richard Barthelmess has got 1 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Richard Barthelmess achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Richard Barthelmess plays is The Mayor of 44th Street which will be released on Oct 15, 1942.

Richard Barthelmess was born into a theatrical family in which his mother was an actress. While attending Trinity College in Connecticut, he began appearing in stage productions. While on vacation in 1916, a friend of his mother, actress Alla Nazimova, offered him a part in War Brides (1916), and Richard never returned to college. He appeared in a number of films before signing a contract with D.W. Griffith in 1919. Griffith put Richard into Le lys brisé (1919) with Lillian Gish which made him a star. He had an uncanny ability to become the characters he played. The next year, he was again teamed with Lillian in À travers l'orage (1920). This film would become the standard for many movies in the future. Best remembered is the river scene in which Richard jumps over the ice floes in search of Lillian as she heads towards the falls. He formed Inspiration Pictures to make Le coeur sur la main (1921) and gave one of his best performances as a lad who saves the U.S. mail from the outlaws. He remained popular throughout the twenties and became one of the biggest stars at First National Pictures. He received Academy Award nominations for Son plus beau combat (1927) and The Noose (1928). Sound was not a medium that would embrace Richard. He did make a number of talkies in the first few years of sound, but his acting technique was not well suited for sound and the parts began to get smaller. With his career over by the mid-30s, but he came back with a fine performance in Howard Hawks's Seuls les anges ont des ailes (1939). Richard joined the Navy Reserve in 1942, and when the war ended he retired to Long Island and lived off his real estate investments.