Trivia

One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

Barthelmess made 75 films in the twenty years between his first feature in 1916 and his semi-retirement from the screen in 1936. He appeared in only six more films between 1936 and 1942. His silent films number 57. His early talkies number 19.

Co-founder of Inspiration Pictures along with Charles H. Duell and Henry King in 1921.

Screen actor and film producer.

Interred at the Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA.

His great uncle, the Reverend William Boone, was the first Episcopal Bishop of Shanghai, China, and his great grandfather was the first Episcopal Bishop in China.

Son of actress Caroline Harris.

Founder of Richard Barthelmess Productions, a film production company, in 1923.

In February of 1914, Barthelmess and another Trinity College student were booked on drunkenness charges. The prosecutor, not wanting to blemish their student records, let them go.

Had one daughter, Mary, with Mary Hay.

Was one of the top stars at "Warner Bros." during the early 1930s.

Despite making several talkie films, "Warner Bros." ruled that the actor hadn't succeeded in the new medium of sound. Subsequently, he was released from his contract in 1934.