Walter Huntley Long (March 5, 1879 – July 4, 1952)[1] was an American character actor in films from the 1910s.
Walter Long | |
---|---|
Born | (1879-03-05)March 5, 1879 Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. |
Died | July 4, 1952(1952-07-04) (aged 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1910–1950 |
Spouse(s) | Luray Grace Roblee
(m. 1908; died 1919)Leta Amanda Held (m. 1923) |
Children | 1 |
Born in Nashua, New Hampshire,[1] Long appeared in nearly 200 films.[2]
Long debuted in films in 1909 with Broncho Billy Anderson. He disliked the working conditions for making films, so after that project he returned to acting on stage.[3]
He appeared in many D. W. Griffith films, notably The Birth of a Nation (1915), where he appeared as Gus, an African American, in blackface make-up,[4] and Intolerance (1916). He also supported Rudolph Valentino in the films The Sheik, Moran of the Lady Letty, and Blood and Sand. He later appeared as a comic villain in four Laurel and Hardy films during the early 1930s.
On Broadway, Long appeared in Adonis (1899),[5] Leave It to Me! (1938), Very Warm for May (1939), Boys and Girls Together (1940),[6] Follow the Girls (1944),[7] and Toplitzky of Notre Dame (1946).[6]
In 1908, Long married Luray Grace Roblee, a stenographer from Wisconsin who later became an actress at Triangle/Fine Arts. She died in 1919 at age 29, due to the Spanish influenza epidemic. On October 16, 1923, he married Leta Amanda Held in Los Angeles, California.[7] They adopted a son whom they called John Huntley Long.[citation needed]
Long served during World War I and World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel before receiving an honorable discharge at the end of World War II.[8]
Although he was often called upon to play antagonists and villains because of his gravel voice and rugged appearance, many people reported that he was actually a warm, kindhearted man off-camera.[8]
Long died of a heart attack on July 4, 1952, in Los Angeles, California, while watching the fireworks display at The Coliseum, during Fourth of July celebrations.[citation needed]
Long is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.[1]
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2011) |
Year | Title | Genre | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1910 | The Fugitive | Drama | Unknown role | Short |
1911 | The Primal Call | Drama | Unknown role | Short |
1911 | Bobby, the Coward | Drama | Unknown role | Short |
1912 | The Girl and Her Trust | Drama | Grace's Bashful Suitor (uncredited) | Short |
1912 | The Painted Lady | Drama | Unknown role | Short |
1912 | The Musketeers of Pig Alley | Drama | Unknown role | Credited as the first gangster film in history. |
1913 | The Deerslayer | Drama | Indian (uncredited) | Short |
1913 | Traffic in Souls | Drama | Policeman | |
1914 | The Broken Bottle | Drama | Unknown role | |
1914 | The Life of General Villa | Action-drama | Federal Officer | Pancho Villa plays himself. |
1914 | Home, Sweet Home | Drama | himself | Biographical film |
1914 | The Escape | Drama | Unknown role | Now considered a lost film. |
1914 | Dan Morgan's Way | Drama | Dick Ramsey | Short |
1914 | Blue Pete's Escape | Western | Chicago Red | Short |
1914 | The Avenging Conscience | Drama | Detective (uncredited) | Based on "The Tell-Tale Heart". |
1914 | Where the Mountains Meet | Unknown role | Himself | Short |
1914 | The Revenue Officer's Deputy | Drama | Bruner | Short |
1914 | Ethel Has a Steady | Comedy | Unknown role | Short |
1914 | Bobby's Medal | Drama | Unknown role | Short |
1915 | The Birth of a Nation | Drama | Gus – a renegade Negro | |
1915 | A Man and His Mate | Taylor | ||
1915 | The Outlaw's Revenge | Federal officer | ||
1915 | The Highbinders | Crime | Pat Gallagher | Short |
1915 | Little Marie | Short | ||
1915 | Jordan Is a Hard Road | Agent | ||
1915 | Martyrs of the Alamo | Santa Anna | ||
1916 | Let Katie Do It | Drama | Pedro Garcia | |
1916 | Daphne and the Pirate | Drama | Jamie d'Arcy | Starring Lillian Gish |
1916 | Sold for Marriage | Drama | Col. Gregioff | |
1916 | The Children in the House | Al Fellower | ||
1916 | The Marriage of Molly-O | Joseph McGuire | ||
1916 | Intolerance | Drama | Musketeer of the Slums | |
1916 | Unprotected | Drama | Joshua Craig | |
1916 | The Years of the Locust | Drama | Aaron Roth | |
1916 | Joan the Woman | Epic drama | Executioner | Joan of Arc |
1917 | The Evil Eye | Drama | Mexican Joe | |
1917 | The Golden Fetter | Romance | McGill | |
1917 | Each to His Kind | Drama | Mulai Singh | Lost film |
1917 | The Winning of Sally Temple | Drama | Duke of Chatto | |
1917 | The Cost of Hatred | Drama | Jefe Politico | |
1917 | A Romance of the Redwoods | Drama | Sheriff | Starring Mary Pickford |
1917 | The Little American | Romantic war drama | German Captain | |
1917 | Hashimura Togo | Comedy | Carlos Anthony | |
1917 | The Woman God Forgot | Romance | Taloc (High Priest) | |
1919 | The Poppy Girl's Husband | Drama | Boston Blackie | |
1919 | Chasing Rainbows | Western | Lacy | |
1919 | The Mother and the Law | The Musketeer of the Town | ||
1919 | Scarlet Days | Western | King Bagley, aka Knight of the Black Stain | |
1919 | Desert Gold | Horseracing melodrama | Rojas | |
1919 | An Adventure in Hearts | Adventure | Guilamo Sevier | Lost film |
1920 | The Fighting Shepherdess | Pete Mullendore | ||
1920 | Excuse My Dust | Comedy drama | Ritz | |
1920 | The Third Woman | Scar Norton | ||
1920 | The Sea Wolf | Drama | Black Harris, the Mate | |
1920 | Go and Get It | Mystery Comedy drama | Jim Hogan | |
1920 | Held In Trust | Romance | Hasbrouck Rutherford | Lost film |
1920 | What Women Love | Comedy drama | Captain Buck Nelson | Lost film |
1921 | Tiger True | Old Whitey / the Baboon | ||
1921 | The Fire Cat | Gringo Burke | ||
1921 | White and Unmarried | Comedy | Chicoq | |
1921 | A Giant of His Race | |||
1921 | The Sheik | Drama | Omair – the bandit | Starring Rudolph Valentino |
1922 | Moran of the Lady Letty | Captain "Slippery" Kitchel | Lost film | |
1922 | Across the Continent | Dutton Tyler | Lost film | |
1922 | The Dictator | Comedy drama | Mike "Bigg" Dooley | |
1922 | South of Suva | Drama | Sydney Latimer | Lost film |
1922 | Blood and Sand | Drama | Plumitas | Starring Rudolph Valentino |
1922 | To Have and to Hold | Drama | Red Gill | |
1922 | Shadows | Daniel Gibbs | ||
1922 | The Beautiful and Damned | Drama | Hull | |
1922 | Kick In | Drama | Whip Fogarty | |
1922 | Omar the Tentmaker | Drama | Executioner | |
1922 | My American Wife | Drama | Gomez | |
1923 | The Last Hour | Red Brown | ||
1923 | Quicksands | Ring member | ||
1923 | The Isle of Lost Ships | Peter Forbes | ||
1923 | The Little Church Around the Corner | Big Hex Poulon | ||
1923 | The Shock | The captain | ||
1923 | The Huntress | Joe Hagland | ||
1923 | The Call of the Wild | Hagin | ||
1923 | Desire | Bud Reisner | ||
1923 | The Broken Wing | Captain Innocencio Dos Santos | ||
1923 | A Shot in the Night | |||
1924 | Yankee Madness | Pablo del Gardo | ||
1924 | Missing Daughters | Guy Benson | ||
1924 | Daring Love | Red Bishop | ||
1924 | Wine | Comedy drama | Benedict, Count Montebello | |
1924 | White Man | The River Thief | ||
1924 | The Ridin' Kid from Powder River | Western | Steve Lanning | |
1925 | The Lady | drama | Blackie | |
1925 | The Reckless Sex | |||
1925 | The Shock Punch | boxing drama | Bull Malarkey | |
1925 | The Verdict | mystery | Convict Fred Windemere | |
1925 | Soul-Fire | Herbert Jones Sailor | ||
1925 | Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman | Crawshay | ||
1925 | Bobbed Hair | Doc | ||
1925 | The Road to Yesterday | Rowdy in Burning-at-the-Stake Scene (uncredited) | ||
1925 | Steel Preferred | Redface | ||
1926 | Red Dice | Crime drama | Nick Webb | |
1926 | The Highbinders | Bill Dorgan | ||
1926 | Things Wives Tell | Ben Felton | ||
1926 | Eve's Leaves | Chanz Fang | ||
1926 | West of Broadway | Comedy-western | Bad Willie | |
1926 | Jim, the Conqueror | Western | Hank Milford | |
1927 | Jewels of Desire | Pedro, aka Jose Hernandez | ||
1927 | The Yankee Clipper | Portuguese Joe | ||
1927 | White Pants Willie | Mock Epply | ||
1927 | Back to God's Country | Captain Blake | ||
1927 | Chicago | Flynn's Thug (uncredited) | ||
1928 | Thundergod | Bruce Drossler | ||
1928 | Gang War | Mike Luego | ||
1928 | Forbidden Grass | |||
1928 | Me, Gangster | Gangster (uncredited) | ||
1928 | Black Cargoes of the South Seas | Action drama | Fursey | |
1929 | The Black Watch | Harrim Bey | ||
1930 | Beau Bandit | Bobcat | ||
1930 | Conspiracy | Mystery melodrama | Weinberg | |
1930 | Moby Dick | Stubbs | ||
1931 | Sea Devils | Johnson the first mate | ||
1931 | Other Men's Women | drama | Bixby | |
1931 | Los presidiarios | El Tigre (uncredited) | ||
1931 | The Maltese Falcon | Miles Archer | ||
1931 | Pardon Us | comedy | The Tiger | Laurel & Hardy film |
1931 | Sous les verrous | Le Tigre | ||
1931 | Soul of the Slums | Melodrama | Pete Thompson | |
1931 | Dragnet Patrol | Melodrama | Jim Grainger | |
1932 | Ship a Hooey | Comedy | CPO Long | |
1932 | Any Old Port! | Comedy | Mugsie Long | Laurel & Hardy short |
1932 | Escapade | Crime | Gympy McLane | |
1932 | Cornered | Western | Henchman Slade | |
1932 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | Crime drama | Blacksmith (uncredited) | |
1932 | Women Won't Tell | Drama | Joe Kummer | |
1932 | Call Her Savage | Man Who Tries to Pick Up Nasa (uncredited) | ||
1932 | Silver Dollar | Sick Miner Selling Mine to Yates (uncredited) | ||
1933 | Laughter in Hell | Chain Gang Member (uncredited) | ||
1933 | Blondie Johnson | Artie (uncredited) | ||
1933 | Easy Millions | |||
1933 | Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men | Red's Prison Cellmate (uncredited) | ||
1934 | Fugitive Lovers | Prison Guard (uncredited) | ||
1934 | Six of a Kind | Hold-Up Man (uncredited) | ||
1934 | The House of Rothschild | Prussian Soldier (uncredited) | ||
1934 | Lazy River | Buck – Prisoner (uncredited) | ||
1934 | The Thin Man | Stutsy Burke (uncredited) | ||
1934 | Operation 13 | Operator 55 | ||
1934 | Going Bye-Bye! | Comedy | Butch Long | Laurel & Hardy short |
1934 | Lightning Strikes Twice | Policeman (uncredited) | ||
1934 | Three Little Pigskins | comedy | Joe Stacks (uncredited) | Three Stooges film |
1934 | The Live Ghost | Comedy | Sea Captain | Laurel & Hardy short |
1935 | The Whole Town's Talking | Convict (uncredited) | ||
1935 | Naughty Marietta | Pirate Leader (uncredited) | ||
1935 | Here Comes Cookie | Tramp (uncredited) | ||
1935 | Annie Oakley | Dan – First Indian Hater (uncredited) | ||
1935 | Frisco Kid | Gambling Miner (uncredited) | ||
1936 | Drift Fence | western | Bev Wilson, neighbor | |
1936 | Sutter's Gold | Sailor (uncredited) | ||
1936 | The Glory Trail | Riley – Renegade Leader | ||
1936 | Wedding Present | Gangster (uncredited) | ||
1936 | The Accusing Finger | Convict (uncredited) | ||
1936 | The Bold Caballero | adventure | Guard | |
1937 | Dick Tracy | Whitey (uncredited) | Serial | |
1937 | Pick a Star | musical comedy | Bandit | |
1937 | North of the Rio Grande | Western | Patrick "Buck" O'Hara | |
1937 | Hoosier Schoolboy | Riley | ||
1937 | Federal Bullets | Henchman | ||
1938 | The Painted Trail | Gang Leader Driscoll | ||
1938 | Six Shootin' Sheriff | Western | Gang leader Chuck | |
1938 | Bar 20 Justice | Western | Duke Pierce | |
1938 | Man's Country | Lex Crane / Buck Crane | ||
1938 | Prison Break | Convict (uncredited) | ||
1938 | Wild Horse Canyon | Western | Roscoe | |
1939 | Union Pacific | Irishman (uncredited) | ||
1939 | Daughter of the Tong | Henchman (uncredited) | ||
1939 | Flaming Lead | Western | Big Jim Greely | |
1939 | Fighting Mad | Frenchy | ||
1940 | Dark Command | Townsman (uncredited) | ||
1940 | Men Without Souls | Fireman (uncredited) | ||
1940 | Hidden Gold | Henchman Sanford (uncredited) | ||
1940 | When the Daltons Rode | Deputy on Train (uncredited) | ||
1941 | Ridin' on a Rainbow | Three Feathers Bartender (uncredited) | ||
1941 | A Man Betrayed | Henchman Asking About Pete and Louie (uncredited) | ||
1941 | City of Missing Girls | drama | Officer Larkin | |
1941 | Lady from Louisiana | Lottery Thug (uncredited) | ||
1941 | Silver Stallion | Action adventure | Benson | |
1941 | I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island | Captain Quinez (uncredited) | ||
1945 | Dillinger | Mug in Police Lineup (uncredited) | ||
1948 | No More Relatives | Comedy | Joe | Edgar Kennedy short |
General | |
---|---|
National libraries | |
Other |