Henry B. Walthall

Landmark Film that Started it All A Review by John Nesbit 07/12/2001 D.W. Griffith once said "The task I am trying to achieve is above all to make you see ." He certainly works very hard to make sure that... ... Full Article

This tall, dark and handsome stage actor became the film industry's first matinee idol, as well as working as a director and screenwriter. Johnson ran away from military school to join the theatrical profession in 1894, and spent the next... ... Full Article

Abraham Lincoln (1930) Directed by D.W.Griffith.Cast: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, Ian Keith, Frank Campeau, Hobart Bosworth, Henry B.Walthall, Kay Hammond, Alyn E. ... Full Article

Frail-looking but iron-willed American actor Henry B. Walthall set out to become a lawyer, but was drawn to the stage instead. After several seasons appearing opposite such luminaries as Henry Miller and Margaret Anglin, Walthall was firmly established in New... ... Full Article

This is yet another picture claiming to be something other than a war film in the days immediately post-World War I. Its makers preferred to think of it as a "spy melodrama" since interest in the war was decreasing practically... ... Full Article

Aging has-been silent star Henry B. Walthall plays an aging has-been silent star in this low-budget drama from Monogram Pictures. D.W. Griffith's erstwhile "Little Colonel" is Nathaniel Barry, a once admired actor now facing a magistrate (Edmund Breese) on a... ... Full Article