Actor
Richard Arlen
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 ...

Known For
Acting
1979 -- The Horror Show | (archive footage)
1976 -- A Whale of a Tale | Mr. Monahan
1976 -- Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | Silent Film Star 2
1975 -- The Sky's the Limit | Grimes
1968 -- Buckskin | Townsman
1968 -- Rogue's Gallery | Man in Club
1967 -- Fort Utah | Sam Tyler
1967 -- Hostile Guns | Sheriff Travis
1967 -- Red Tomahawk | Deadwood Telegrapher
1966 -- Waco | Billy Kelly
1966 -- To the Shores of Hell | Brig. Gen. F.W. Ramsgate
1966 -- Johnny Reno | Ned Duggan
1965 -- Apache Uprising | Captain Gannon
1965 -- The Bounty Killer | Matthew Ridgeway
1965 -- Town Tamer | Doctor Kent
1965 -- Black Spurs | Pete
1965 -- The Human Duplicators | National Intelligence
1964 -- Young Fury | Sheriff Jenkins
1964 -- Sex and the College Girl | Charles Devon
1964 -- Law of the Lawless | Ben the Bartender
1964 -- The Best Man | Sen. Oscar Anderson
1963 -- The Crawling Hand | Lee Barrenger
1963 -- The Young and the Brave | Col. Ralph Holbein
1961 -- Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961 -- The Last Time I Saw Archie | Col. Edwin Martin
1960 -- Raymie | Chris Garber
1959 -- Warlock | Bacon
1958 -- The Day of the Trumpet | Sgt. Jim Heisler
1956 -- The Mountain | C. W. Rivial
1956 -- Hidden Guns | Sheriff Ward Young
1955 -- Blonde Blackmailer | Tony Pelassier
1954 -- Devil's Point | John 'Captain' Martin
1953 -- Sabre Jet | Gen. Robert E 'Bob' Hale
1952 -- The Blazing Forest | Joe Morgan
1952 -- Hurricane Smith | Brundage
1952 -- Flaming Feather | Showdown Calhoun
1951 -- Silver City | Charles Storrs
1950 -- Kansas Raiders | Union Captain
1949 -- Grand Canyon | Mike Adams
1948 -- When My Baby Smiles at Me | Harvey Howell
1948 -- The Return of Wildfire | Dobe Williams
1948 -- Speed to Spare | Cliff Jordan
1947 -- Buffalo Bill Rides Again | Buffalo Bill
1946 -- Accomplice | Simon Lash
1946 -- The French Key | Himself (uncredited)
1945 -- The Phantom Speaks | Matt Fraser
1945 -- Identity Unknown | Johnny March
1944 -- The Big Bonanza | Capt. Jed Kilton
1944 -- Storm Over Lisbon | John Craig
1944 -- That's My Baby! | Tim Jones
1944 -- The Lady and the Monster | Dr. Patrick Cory
1944 -- Timber Queen | Russell Evans
1943 -- Minesweeper | Richard Houston
1943 -- Submarine Alert | Lewis J. 'Lee' Deerhold
1943 -- Alaska Highway | Woody Ormsby
1943 -- Aerial Gunner | Jon Davis
1942 -- Wrecking Crew | Matt Carney
1942 -- A Letter From Bataan | Pvt. John W. Lewis
1942 -- Wildcat | Johnny Maverick
1942 -- Soaring Stars | Himself
1942 -- Torpedo Boat | Skinner Barnes
1941 -- Flying Blind | Jim Clark
1941 -- A Dangerous Game | Dick Williams
1941 -- Raiders of the Desert | Dick Manning
1941 -- Forced Landing | Dan Kendall
1941 -- Power Dive | Brad Farrell
1941 -- Men of the Timberland | Dick O'Hara
1941 -- Mutiny in the Arctic | Dick Barclay
1941 -- Lucky Devils | Dick McManus
1940 -- The Devil's Pipeline | Dick Talbot
1940 -- The Leather Pushers | Dick 'Kid' Roberts
1940 -- Black Diamonds | Walter Norton
1940 -- Swing with Bing | Himself
1940 -- Hot Steel | Frank Stewart
1940 -- Danger On Wheels | "Lucky" Larry Taylor
1939 -- The Man from Montreal | Clark Manning
1939 -- Legion of Lost Flyers | Gene 'Loop' Gillan
1939 -- Tropic Fury | Dan Burton
1939 -- Mutiny on the Blackhawk | Capt. Robert Lawrence
1939 -- Missing Daughters | Wally King
1938 -- Straight, Place and Show | Denny Paine
1938 -- Call of The Yukon | Gaston Rogers
1938 -- No Time to Marry | Perry Brown
1937 -- Murder in Greenwich Village | Steve Havens Jackson Jr.
1937 -- Artists & Models | Alan Townsend
1937 -- Secret Valley | Lee Rogers
1937 -- The Great Barrier | Hickey
1936 -- The Mine with the Iron Door | Bob Harvey
1936 -- Three Live Ghosts | William 'Bill' Jones, an alias of William Foster
1935 -- The Calling of Dan Matthews | Dan Matthews
1935 -- Hollywood Hobbies | Himself
1935 -- Let 'em Have It | Mal Stevens
1935 -- Helldorado | Art Ryan
1934 -- Ready for Love | Julian Barrow
1934 -- She Made Her Bed | Wild Bill Smith
1934 -- Come On, Marines! | Lucky Davis
1933 -- Alice in Wonderland | Cheshire Cat
1933 -- Hell and High Water | Capt J.J. Jericho
1933 -- Golden Harvest | Walt Martin
1933 -- Three-Cornered Moon | Dr. Alan Stevens
1933 -- How to Break 90 #4: Downswing |
1933 -- College Humor | Mondrake
1933 -- Song of the Eagle | Bill Hoffman
1933 -- Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 | Self
1932 -- Island of Lost Souls | Edward Parker
1932 -- The All-American | Gary King
1932 -- Tiger Shark | Pipes Boley
1932 -- Guilty as Hell | Frank C. Marsh
1932 -- Sky Bride | Bert 'Speed' Condon
1932 -- Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 | Self (uncredited)
1932 -- Wayward | David Frost
1931 -- Touchdown! | Dan Curtis
1931 -- Caught | Lt. Tom Colton
1931 -- The Secret Call | Tom Blake
1931 -- The Lawyer's Secret | Joe Hart
1931 -- Gun Smoke | Brad Farley
1931 -- The Conquering Horde | Dan McMasters
1930 -- Only Saps Work | Larry Payne
1930 -- The Santa Fe Trail | Stan Hollister
1930 -- The Sea God | Phillip 'Pink' Barker
1930 -- The Border Legion | Jim Cleve
1930 -- Paramount on Parade | Hunter (Dream Girl)
1930 -- The Light of Western Stars | Dick Bailey
1930 -- Dangerous Paradise | Heyst
1930 -- Burning Up | Lou Larrigan
1929 -- The Virginian | Steven 'Steve'
1929 -- Dangerous Curves | Larry Lee
1929 -- Thunderbolt | Bob Moran
1929 -- The Four Feathers | Lt. Harry Faversham
1929 -- The Man I Love | Joe "Dum-Dum" Brooks
1928 -- Manhattan Cocktail | Fred Tilden
1928 -- Beggars of Life | The Boy (Jim)
1928 -- Ladies of the Mob | Red
1928 -- Feel My Pulse | Her Problem
1928 -- Under the Tonto Rim | Edd Denmeade
1927 -- She's a Sheik | Capt. Colton
1927 -- Figures Don't Lie | Bob Blewe
1927 -- Sally in Our Alley | Jimmie Adams
1927 -- Wings | David Armstrong
1927 -- The Blood Ship | John Shreve
1927 -- Rolled Stockings | Ralph Treadway
1926 -- Old Ironsides | Seaman (uncredited)
1926 -- You'd Be Surprised | Photographer
1926 -- Padlocked | 'Tubby' Clark
1926 -- Behind the Front | Percy Brown
1926 -- The Enchanted Hill | Link Halliwell
1925 -- The Coast of Folly | Bather
1925 -- In the Name of Love | Dumas Dufrayne
1923 -- Hollywood | Richard Arlen
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