Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
47
Gender
Male
Birthday
1880-03-27
Day of Death
1931-02-18 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Louis Robert Wolheim
Louis R. Wolheim
L. Robert Wolheim
Louis Walheim
L. Walheim
Louis W. Wolheim
Louis Wolheim
Biography
It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as an extra in the Wharton studio but never received much attention. Barrymore had only to look at him once to realize that Wolheim's face was his fortune. Through Barrymore, Wolheim gained an entree into New York theatrical life. On the legitimate stage he made a great success in "Welcome Wing" and "The Hairy Ape", climaxing these plays by his triumph in "What Price Glory". Louis Wolheim died in Los Angeles, California on 18 February 1931, the result of stomach cancer.
