Richard Arlen
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.
172 acting credits
Acting · 172
Perry Mason
1957
Petticoat Junction
1963
Climax!
1954
The Lucy Show
1962
Matinee Theater
1955
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Bat Masterson
1958
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Branded
1965
This Is Your Life
1952
Lock-Up
1959
Your Show of Shows
1950
Yancy Derringer
1958
The New Breed
1961
The Whistler
1954
Letter to Loretta
1953
Coronado 9
1960
Warlock
1959
Wings
1927
Island of Lost Souls
1932
The Best Man
1964
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
Alice in Wonderland
1933
Apache Uprising
1965
The Horror Show
1979
The Mountain
1956
Golden Harvest
1933
Thunderbolt
1929
The Bounty Killer
1965
Flaming Feather
1952
Submarine Alert
1943
Kansas Raiders
1950
The Human Duplicators
1965
Black Spurs
1965
Red Tomahawk
1967
Only Saps Work
1930
Hollywood
1923
Waco
1966
Murder in Greenwich Village
1937
Old Ironsides
1926
Town Tamer
1965
Hidden Guns
1956
Fort Utah
1967
Grand Canyon
1949
Alaska Highway
1943
Law of the Lawless
1964
You'd Be Surprised
1926
Wildcat
1942
Minesweeper
1943
The Devil's Pipeline
1940
The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935
Johnny Reno
1966
The All-American
1932
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939
Aerial Gunner
1943
Legion of Lost Flyers
1939
Artists & Models
1937
Hostile Guns
1967
Timber Queen
1944
The Four Feathers
1929
Power Dive
1941
The Phantom Speaks
1945
Dangerous Curves
1929
Helldorado
1935
The Virginian
1929
Raymie
1960
The Crawling Hand
1963
The Last Time I Saw Archie
1961
Touchdown!
1931
Gun Smoke
1931
Silver City
1951
The Lady and the Monster
1944
The Leather Pushers
1940
Rogue's Gallery
1968
Flying Blind
1941
The Light of Western Stars
1930
Tiger Shark
1932
Missing Daughters
1939
Straight, Place and Show
1938
Soaring Stars
1942
Buckskin
1968
The Young and the Brave
1963
The Secret Call
1931
The Sky's the Limit
1975
College Humor
1933
Caught
1931
The Sea God
1930
The Man I Love
1929
Accomplice
1946
A Letter From Bataan
1942
Beggars of Life
1928
Three Cornered Moon
1933
Men of the Timberland
1941
Young Fury
1964
Hot Steel
1940
Ready for Love
1934
Hurricane Smith
1952
Sky Bride
1932
Rolled Stockings
1927
A Whale of a Tale
1976
Forced Landing
1941
Sex and the College Girl
1964
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941
Quicksands
1923
Come On, Marines!
1934
Wrecking Crew
1942
Cavalry Command
1958
The Lawyer's Secret
1931
That's My Baby!
1944
The Big Bonanza
1944
No Time to Marry
1938
Sally in Our Alley
1927
The Blazing Forest
1952
The Blood Ship
1927
Danger On Wheels
1940
Feel My Pulse
1928
Sabre Jet
1953
Identity Unknown
1945
The French Key
1946
Three Live Ghosts
1936
The Man from Montreal
1939
Call of The Yukon
1938
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934
Dangerous Paradise
1930
Guilty as Hell
1932
Ladies of the Mob
1928
A Dangerous Game
1941
In the Name of Love
1925
Storm Over Lisbon
1944
Burning Up
1930
The Border Legion
1930
Raiders of the Desert
1941
Let 'em Have It
1935
Black Diamonds
1940
Manhattan Cocktail
1928
The Mine with the Iron Door
1936
The Return of Wildfire
1948
Hell and High Water
1933
Song of the Eagle
1933
Secret Valley
1937
Behind the Front
1926
Tropic Fury
1939
To the Shores of Hell
1966
The Santa Fe Trail
1930
She's a Sheik
1927
When My Baby Smiles at Me
1948
Torpedo Boat
1942
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
1933
The Great Barrier
1937
Padlocked
1926
The Enchanted Hill
1926
The Coast of Folly
1925
The Conquering Horde
1931
Under the Tonto Rim
1928
She Made Her Bed
1934
Buffalo Bill Rides Again
1947
Road to Nashville
1966
Hollywood Hobbies
1935
Lucky Devils
1941
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
1932
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
Paramount on Parade
1930
Devil's Point
1954
Wayward
1932
Child of Trouble
1957
Blonde Blackmailer
1955
Figures Don't Lie
1927
Swing with Bing
1940
Speed to Spare
1948
How to Break 90 #4: Downswing
1933
The Shepherd of the Hills
1964