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.
Self (uncredited)
Film 1932
Self
Film 1933
Cheshire Cat
Film 1933
Bob Moran
Film 1929
Richard Arlen
Film 1923
David Armstrong
Film 1927
Steven 'Steve'
Film 1929
Bather
Film 1925
Dumas Dufrayne
Film 1925
Simon Lash
Film 1946
Lewis J. 'Lee' Deerhold
Film 1943
Lee Barrenger
Film 1963
Her Problem
Film 1928
Dr. Alan Stevens
Film 1933
Richard Houston
Film 1943
Ralph Treadway
Film 1927
The Boy (Jim)
Film 1928
Art Ryan
Film 1935
Johnny March
Film 1945
Gen. Robert E 'Bob' Hale
Film 1953
Ned Duggan
Film 1966
Deadwood Telegrapher
Film 1967
Lt. Harry Faversham
Film 1929
Joe "Dum-Dum" Brooks
Film 1929
John Craig
Film 1944
Pipes Boley
Film 1932
Capt. Jed Kilton
Film 1944
Dick Bailey
Film 1930
Tony Pelassier
Film 1955
Frank C. Marsh
Film 1932
Larry Lee
Film 1929
Dr. Patrick Cory
Film 1944
Alan Townsend
Film 1937
Man in Club
Film 1968
Mal Stevens
Film 1935
Harvey Howell
Film 1948
Lawrence Payne
Film 1930
Sheriff Jenkins
Film 1964
Mondrake
Film 1933
Gaston Rogers
Film 1938
William 'Bill' Jones, an alias of William Foster
Film 1936
Pete
Film 1965
Cliff Jordan
Film 1948
Tim Jones
Film 1944
Clark Manning
Film 1939
Red
Film 1928
Lee Rogers
Film 1937
Joe Hart
Film 1931
Denny Paine
Film 1938
Heyst
Film 1930
'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1961
Johnny Maverick
Film 1942
Sheriff Travis
Film 1967
Dick Williams
Film 1941
Hickey
Film 1937
National Intelligence
Film 1965
Russell Evans
Film 1944
Doctor Kent
Film 1965
Matt Fraser
Film 1945
Fred Tilden
Film 1928
Col. Edwin Martin
Film 1961
Dick McManus
Film 1941
Dick Talbot
Film 1940
Percy Brown
Film 1926
Jim Cleve
Film 1930
Brig. Gen. F.W. Ramsgate
Film 1966
Showdown Calhoun
Film 1952
Sheriff Ward Young
Film 1956
Woody Ormsby
Film 1943
Brad Farrell
Film 1941
Charles Storrs
Film 1951
Pvt. John W. Lewis
Film 1942
Capt. Robert Lawrence
Film 1939
Seaman (uncredited)
Film 1926
Sgt. Jim Heisler
Film 1958
Julian Barrow
Film 1934
Buffalo Bill
Film 1947
Himself
Film 1940
Capt J.J. Jericho
Film 1933
Chris Garber
Film 1960
Photographer
Film 1926
C. W. Rivial
Film 1956
Col. Ralph Holbein
Film 1963
Dick Manning
Film 1941
Perry Brown
Film 1938
Wally King
Film 1939
Dan Burton
Film 1939
Gene 'Loop' Gillan
Film 1939
"Lucky" Larry Taylor
Film 1940
Dick 'Kid' Roberts
Film 1940
Bill Hoffman
Film 1933
Wild Bill Smith
Film 1934
Jim Clark
Film 1941
Skinner Barnes
Film 1942
Matthew Ridgeway
Film 1965
Himself
Film 1942
Bob Harvey
Film 1936
Lt. Tom Colton
Film 1931
Phillip 'Pink' Barker
Film 1930
Dobe Williams
Film 1948
Steve Havens Jackson Jr.
Film 1937
David Frost
Film 1932
Charles Devon
Film 1964
Sam Tyler
Film 1967
Walter Norton
Film 1940
Hunter (Dream Girl)
Film 1930
Frank Stewart
Film 1940
Dan Matthews
Film 1935
Union Captain
Film 1950
Walt Martin
Film 1933
Tom Blake
Film 1931
Brad Farley
Film 1931
Capt. Colton
Film 1927
Bert 'Speed' Condon
Film 1932
Matt Carney
Film 1942
John 'Captain' Martin
Film 1954
Film 1933
Stan Hollister
Film 1930
Gary King
Film 1932
Dan McMasters
Film 1931
Jimmie Adams
Film 1927
John Shreve
Film 1927
Bob Blewe
Film 1927
Dick O'Hara
Film 1941
Himself
Film 1935
Link Halliwell
Film 1926
Sen. Oscar Anderson
Film 1964
Dan Curtis
Film 1931
Edd Denmeade
Film 1928
Mr. Monahan
Film 1976
'Tubby' Clark
Film 1926
Grimes
Film 1975
Mike Adams
Film 1949
Himself (uncredited)
Film 1946
Self
Tv 1950
Richard
Tv 1962
Self
Tv 1963
Dr. Harrison
Tv 1957
General Hugh Morgan
Tv 1958
Self
Tv 1952
Tv 1950
Nevers
Tv 1954
Tv 1955
Tv 1955
Tv 1965
Tv 1959
Damon Ring, Sr.
Tv 1958
John Minor
Tv 1958
Willits
Tv 1961
Tv 1954
Tv 1960
Christopher Waring
Tv 1953
Sheriff Dan Rainey
Tv 1958