- Geboren am
- Verstorben17. Juni 1936 · Monrovia, Kalifornien, USA (Tuberkulose)
- GeburtsnameHenry Brazeale Walthall
- Spitzname
- Wally
- Größe1,70 m
- Henry B. Walthall wurde am 16 März 1878 in Shelby City, Alabama, USA geboren. Er war Schauspieler und Regieassistent, bekannt für Die Geburt einer Nation (1915), Um Mitternacht (1927) und Chandu the Magician (1932). Er war mit Mary Charleson und Isabel Fenton verheiratet. Er starb am 17 Juni 1936 in Monrovia, California, USA.
- EhepartnerMary Charleson(1918 - 17. Juni 1936) (er verstorben, 1 Kind)Isabel Fenton(9. September 1904 - November 1918) (geschieden)
- Kinder
- VerwandteAnna Mae Walthall(Sibling)
- Both wives were actresses. Second wife Mary Charleson bore him a daughter, Patricia Walthall, in 1918.
- At the zenith of his career under D.W. Griffith, Walthall earned the huge sum of $175 per week.
- Presented an Honorary award for lifetime achievement to D.W. Griffith at the 1936 Academy Awards ceremony.
- At the beginning of the Spanish-American War, Walthall enlisted in the First Alabama Regiment with the United States Army. Serving eleven months, a bout of malaria while in camp at Jacksonville, Florida kept him from seeing action.
- Was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: Flügel aus Stahl (1927), Die 42. Straße (1933), Schrei der Gehetzten (1934) and Flucht aus Paris (1935), with Wings winning the inaugural Best Picture Award.
- [about getting the role of Holofernes in Judith of Bethulia (1914)] I hadn't expected to play Holofernes because I wasn't the type physically. I stayed away from the studio, but [director D.W. Griffith] sent for me. I said, "I can't play the part; I'm too much of a shrimp". But he had tried out a lot of actors, and finally decided that I could do the part to suit him better than anybody else could. So he found a way, just as he always did. He put me on a pedestal and put brass armor on me. I looked like a giant. I stayed up there either on my throne or on a couch all the time. I had two broadswords, and I threw those broadswords around like a giant. The only other time you saw me I was riding in a chariot across the battlefield and, of course, that made me look tall. No, Griffith never said to me, "You're too small!"
- Chandu the Magician (1932) - $1,000
- Die Geburt einer Nation (1915) - $175 a week
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