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Henry B. Walthall

Acting Born Mar 15, 1878 Died Jun 17, 1936 Shelby County, Alabama, USA 217 credits
217
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1920–2019
100 Years Career Span
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Key Co-Stars

Biography

Henry Brazeale Walthall was an American stage and film actor born in Shelby County, Alabama, on March 16, 1878. He passed away on June 17, 1936. Walthall began his stage career in New York in 1901 by winning a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker, performing in the play for three years in New York and on tour. He gained Broadway recognition in plays including Pippa Passes, The Only Way, and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide. His career in movies began in 1909 after joining the Biograph Company, and he is widely known for appearing as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in 1915.

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Career

Career overview

Henry Brazeale Walthall was an American stage and film actor born in Shelby County, Alabama. His stage career began when he won a role in New York in 1901 in Charlotte Blair Parker's play Under Southern Skies, a production in which he performed for three years both in New York and on tour. He subsequently gained recognition on Broadway while working with the company of Henry Miller, appearing in plays such as Pippa Passes, The Only Way, and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide between 1906 and 1908.

Through a fellow cast member from the Henry Miller company, James Kirkwood, Walthall was introduced to director D. W. Griffith. At the conclusion of his engagement with the company, Walthall joined the Biograph Company, and his career in movies began in 1909. Among his notable film roles, he appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation.

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Known for

Film

Wings

as Mr. Armstrong

Trapped

as Sir James Hamlin
Film

Dollar Down

as Alec Craig
Film

The Birth of a Nation

as Col. Ben Cameron
Film

The Birth of a Nation

1915

Frequent co-stars

Seung Ha 1 shared title
Yoon Yool 1 shared title
Kim Dong-woo 1 shared title
Kang Min-woo 1 shared title
Park Do-jin 1 shared title
Clara Bow 1 shared title
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers 1 shared title
Richard Arlen 1 shared title
Jobyna Ralston 1 shared title
El Brendel 1 shared title

Career timeline

I Am Not a Racist
London After Midnight
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The Devil-DollChina ClipperThe Garden Murder CaseThe Last OutlawThe Mine with the Iron Door
A Tale of Two CitiesDante's InfernoHelldorado
Judge PriestViva Villa!Men in WhiteBeggars in ErmineDark Hazard
42nd StreetSomewhere in SonoraHold Your ManThe Sin of Nora MoranHer Forgotten Past
Central ParkRide Him, CowboyMe and My GalStrange InterludeChandu the Magician
Is There Justice?Anybody's Blonde
Abraham LincolnTol'able DavidThe Love TraderTemple Tower
The TrespasserThe River of RomanceStark MadIn Old CaliforniaBlaze o' Glory
Freedom of the PressRetribution
WingsA Light in the WindowThe Scarlet LetterLondon After MidnightLove Me and the World Is Mine
The Unknown SoldierThree Faces EastThe Road to MandalayThe BarrierEverybody's Acting
Dollar DownThe Plastic AgeKentucky PrideThe Golden BedThe Girl Who Wouldn't Work
Single WivesThe Woman on the Jury
Boy of MineThe Face on the Barroom FloorThe Unknown PurpleGimme
The KickbackOne Clear CallThe Long ChanceThe Able-Minded Lady
Flower of the North
Parted CurtainsThe ConfessionA Splendid Hazard
The Long Lane's TurningThe BoomerangThe False FacesModern HusbandsThe Long Arm of Mannister
Humdrum BrownHis Robe of HonorThe Great Love
The Sting of VictoryThe Strange Case of Mary PageThe Misleading LadyPillars of Society
The Birth of a NationThe Birth of a Nation · Assistant DirectorThe RavenTemperThe Outer Edge
ClassmatesJudith of BethuliaHome, Sweet HomeThe Avenging ConscienceStrongheart
The Battle at Elderbush GulchThree FriendsOil and WaterThe MirrorDeath's Marathon
BrutalitySo Near, Yet So FarThe One She LovedMy BabyIn the Aisles of the Wild
Souls CourageousFor His SakeThe Command from Galilee

Full Filmography

217 titles
  • I Am Not a Racist (2019) as Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • London After Midnight (2002) as Sir James Hamlin (archive footage)
  • Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998) as Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)
  • Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975) as Self (archive footage)
  • Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Devil-Doll (1936) as Marcel
  • China Clipper (1936) as Dad Brunn
  • The Garden Murder Case (1936) as Dr. Garden
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  • The Last Outlaw (1936) as Cal Yates
  • The Mine with the Iron Door (1936) as David Burton
  • Hearts in Bondage (1936) as Capt. Buchanan
  • A Tale of Two Cities (1935) as Dr. Manette
  • Dante's Inferno (1935) as Pop McWade
  • Helldorado (1935) as Abner Meadows
  • Judge Priest (1934) as Reverend Ashby Brand
  • Viva Villa! (1934) as Francisco Madero
  • Men in White (1934) as enry B. Walthall
  • Beggars in Ermine (1934) as Marchant the Blind Man
  • Dark Hazard (1934) as Schultz
  • Love Time (1934) as Duke Johann von Hatzfeld
  • City Park (1934) as Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome
  • The Scarlet Letter (1934) as Roger Chillingworth
  • The Murder in the Museum (1934) as Bernard Latham Wayne, alias Prof. Mysto
  • A Girl of the Limberlost (1934) as Dr. Amon
  • The Lemon Drop Kid (1934) as Jonas Deering
  • 42nd Street (1933) as Concerned Actor (uncredited)
  • Somewhere in Sonora (1933) as Bob Leadly
  • Hold Your Man (1933) as Clergyman in Alternate Version (uncredited)
  • The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) as Father Ryan
  • Her Forgotten Past (1933) as Mr. Maynard
  • The Wolf Dog (1933) as Jim Courtney
  • The Whispering Shadow (1933) as J. D. Bradley
  • Headline Shooter (1933) as Judge Beacon (uncredited)
  • The Flaming Signal (1933) as Rev. Mr. James
  • Central Park (1932) as Eby
  • Ride Him, Cowboy (1932) as John Gaunt
  • Me and My Gal (1932) as Sarge
  • Strange Interlude (1932) as Professor Leeds
  • Chandu the Magician (1932) as Robert Regent
  • The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) as Eph Clinton
  • Police Court (1932) as Nathaniel "Nat" Barry
  • Self Defense (1932) as Doctor Borden
  • Hotel Continental (1932) as Winthrop
  • Alias Mary Smith (1932) as Atwell
  • Klondike (1932) as Mark Armstrong
  • Is There Justice? (1931) as District Attorney John Raymond
  • Anybody's Blonde (1931) as Mr. Evans
  • Abraham Lincoln (1930) as Colonel Marshall
  • Tol'able David (1930) as Amos Hatburn
  • The Love Trader (1930) as Captain Adams
  • Temple Tower (1930) as Blackton
  • The Trespasser (1929) as Fuller
  • The River of Romance (1929) as General Jeff Rumford
  • Stark Mad (1929) as Capt. Rhodes - Yacht Commander
  • In Old California (1929) as Don Pedro De León
  • Blaze o' Glory (1929) as Burke
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) as Father Juniper
  • The Jazz Age (1929) as Mr Maxwell
  • From Headquarters (1929) as Buffalo Bill Ryan
  • Speakeasy (1929) as Piano player
  • Black Magic (1929) as Dr. Bradbroke
  • The Phantom in the House (1929) as Boyd Milburn
  • Freedom of the Press (1928) as John Ballard
  • Retribution (1928) as Henry / Tommy Mooney
  • Wings (1927) as Mr. Armstrong
  • A Light in the Window (1927) as Johann Graff
  • The Scarlet Letter (1927) as Roger Prynne aka Roger Chillingworth
  • London After Midnight (1927) as Sir James Hamlin
  • Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927) as Van Denbosch
  • Fighting Love (1927) as Filipo Navarro
  • The Unknown Soldier (1926) as John Phillips
  • Three Faces East (1926) as George Bennett
  • The Road to Mandalay (1926) as Father James
  • The Barrier (1926) as Gale Gaylord
  • Everybody's Acting (1926) as Thorpe
  • Dollar Down (1925) as Alec Craig
  • The Plastic Age (1925) as Henry Carver
  • Kentucky Pride (1925) as Mr. Beaumont
  • The Golden Bed (1925) as Col. Peake
  • The Girl Who Wouldn't Work (1925) as William Hale
  • Kit Carson Over the Great Divide (1925) as Dr. Samuel Webb
  • Single Wives (1924) as Franklin Dexter
  • The Woman on the Jury (1924) as Prosecuting Attorney
  • Boy of Mine (1923) as William Latimer
  • The Face on the Barroom Floor (1923) as Robert Stevens
  • The Unknown Purple (1923) as Peter Marchmont / Victor Cromport
  • Gimme (1923) as John McGimsey
  • The Kickback (1922) as Aaron Price
  • One Clear Call (1922) as Henry Garnett
  • The Long Chance (1922) as Harley P. Hennage
  • The Able-Minded Lady (1922) as Breezy Bright
  • Flower of the North (1921) as Philip Whitemore
  • Parted Curtains (1920) as Joe Jenkins
  • The Confession (1920) as Father Bartlett
  • A Splendid Hazard (1920) as Karl Breitman
  • The Long Lane's Turning (1919) as Harry Sevier
  • The Boomerang (1919) as George Gray
  • The False Faces (1919) as Michael Lanyard
  • Modern Husbands (1919) as Stephen Duane
  • The Long Arm of Mannister (1919) as George Mannister
  • Humdrum Brown (1918) as Hector 'Humdrum' Brown
  • His Robe of Honor (1918) as Julian Randolph
  • The Great Love (1918) as Sir Roger Brighton
  • The Sting of Victory (1916) as David Whiting / Walker Whiting
  • The Strange Case of Mary Page (1916) as Phil Langdon, Attorney
  • The Misleading Lady (1916) as Jack Craiger
  • Pillars of Society (1916) as Karsten Bernick
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915) as Col. Ben Cameron
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915) Assistant Director
  • The Raven (1915) as Edgar Allan Poe
  • Temper (1915) as Frank Bradbury
  • The Outer Edge (1915) as Dr. Rownlee
  • Ghosts (1915) as Captain Alving / Oswald
  • The Circular Path (1915) as Reverend Darwin Kirby
  • Rod of Wrath (1915) as Erickson's Son
  • Classmates (1914) as Duncan Irving
  • Judith of Bethulia (1914) as Holofernes
  • Home, Sweet Home (1914) as John Howard Payne
  • The Avenging Conscience (1914) as The Nephew
  • Strongheart (1914) as Soangataha / Strongheart
  • The Old Man (1914) as The Old Man
  • The Mysterious Shot (1914) as The Gopher
  • The Mountain Rat (1914) as Douglas Williams
  • Lord Chumley (1914) as Lord Chumley
  • The Floor Above (1914) as Stephen Pryde
  • The Gangsters of New York (1914) as Porky Dugan
  • The Green-Eyed Devil (1914)
  • The Awakening of Donna Isolla (1914) as The President of the Republic
  • The Odalisque (1914) as Joe, in love with May
  • The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) as The Indian Chief's Son
  • Three Friends (1913) as The Husband
  • Oil and Water (1913) as The Idealist
  • The Mirror (1913) as The Station Agent
  • Death's Marathon (1913) as The Husband
  • If We Only Knew (1913) as The Father
  • Two Men of the Desert (1913) as First Partner
  • The Lady and the Mouse (1913) as The First Rival
  • Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913) as The Young Woman's Fiance
  • The Wanderer (1913) as The Wanderer
  • The Little Tease (1913) as The Valley Man
  • The Switchtower (1913) as The Switchman
  • A Gambler's Honor (1913) as Beth's Brother
  • The Sheriff's Baby (1913) as First Bandit
  • The Perfidy of Mary (1913) as The Poet
  • Broken Ways (1913) as The Road Agent
  • The Stolen Loaf (1913) as The Poor Man
  • During the Round-Up (1913) as The Stranger
  • The Tenderfoot's Money (1913) as The Prospector
  • A Woman in the Ultimate (1913) as Badger Gang Member
  • Her Mother's Oath (1913) as The Actor
  • Brutality (1912) as Actor In Oliver Twist
  • So Near, Yet So Far (1912) as In Club
  • The One She Loved (1912) as The Husband
  • My Baby (1912) as The Husband
  • In the Aisles of the Wild (1912) as Jim Watson
  • The Informer (1912) as The False Brother
  • The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912) as The Householder's Weakling Brother
  • Two Daughters of Eve (1912) as The Father
  • A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912) as A Psalm Singer
  • The God Within (1912) as The Woodsman
  • Friends (1912) as Dandy Jack
  • My Hero (1912) as Indian Charlie
  • Souls Courageous (1911)
  • For His Sake (1911)
  • The Command from Galilee (1911) as The Lover
  • The Kid (1910) as Walter Holden
  • His Last Burglary (1910)
  • Ramona (1910) as Alessandro
  • A Flash of Light (1910) as Younger John Rogers
  • In the Border States (1910) as Confederate Corporal
  • The Face at the Window (1910) as Ralph Bradford
  • The Call to Arms (1910) as The Lord
  • Rose o' Salem Town (1910) as The Trapper
  • Wilful Peggy (1910) as The Lord
  • A Summer Idyll (1910)
  • The Way of the World (1910)
  • The Tenderfoot's Triumph (1910) as A Horse Thief
  • In Old California (1910) as Perdita's Son
  • The Gold Seekers (1910) as The Prospector
  • The House with Closed Shutters (1910) as Charles Randolph - The Confederate Soldier
  • The Honor of His Family (1910) as George Pickett Jr.
  • The Thread of Destiny (1910) as Estrada
  • The Oath and the Man (1910) as Henri Prevost
  • The Converts (1910)
  • Gold Is Not All (1910) as Man at Party
  • The Usurer (1910) as One of the Second Debtors
  • The Armorer’s Daughter (1910) as Macennas
  • A Child of the Ghetto (1910) as The Farmer
  • The Two Brothers (1910) as Pedro
  • The Gray of the Dawn (1910)
  • The Iconoclast (1910)
  • The Newlyweds (1910) as A Friend / At Station Reception
  • Thou Shalt Not (1910)
  • The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910) as Bill
  • In Life's Cycle (1910) as Vincent, as an Adult
  • The Call (1910) as Billy Harvey
  • Love Among the Roses (1910) as The Lord
  • Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet (1910)
  • On the Reef (1910) as Mr. Wilson
  • The Cloister’s Touch (1910) as The Father
  • 1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909)
  • In Little Italy (1909) as Victor Ratazzi
  • The Broken Locket (1909) as Mexican Man
  • Pranks (1909) as Sunbather
  • Pippa Passes (1909)
  • The Little Darling (1909) as In Boarding House
  • Getting Even (1909) as Miner
  • They Would Elope (1909)
  • A Corner in Wheat (1909) as Wheat King's Assistant
  • A Strange Meeting (1909) as A Thief
  • The Sealed Room (1909) as The Minstrel
  • The Day After (1909) as Party Guest
  • A Trap for Santa Claus (1909) as Arthur Rogers (uncredited)
  • The Mended Lute (1909) as Indian
  • Fools of Fate (1909)
  • The Heart of an Outlaw (1909) as The Mexican Lover
  • In Old Kentucky (1909) as Robert, the Confederate son

Frequently Asked Questions

What movies or TV shows is Henry B. Walthall best known for?

Henry B. Walthall is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including Wings (1927), Trapped (2015), Dollar Down (1925), The Birth of a Nation (1915).

When and where was Henry B. Walthall born?

Henry B. Walthall was born on March 15, 1878 in Shelby County, Alabama, USA. They passed away on June 17, 1936.

How many credits does Henry B. Walthall have?

Henry B. Walthall has accumulated over 217 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1920 to 2019.

What is Henry B. Walthall's background in cinema and television?

Henry Brazeale Walthall was an American stage and film actor born in Shelby County, Alabama, on March 16, 1878. He passed away on June 17, 1936. Walthall began his stage career in New York in 1901 by winning a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker, performing in the play for three years in New York and...

Henry B. Walthall by the numbers

217credits
217films
0TV series
1909–2019active years

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