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.
154 movies · 18 shows
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012·0.0
The Horror Show
1979·3.4
A Whale of a Tale
1976·4.8
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976·4.3
The Sky's the Limit
1975·10.0
Buckskin
1968·5.5
Rogue's Gallery
1968·7.0
Fort Utah
1967·4.3
Hostile Guns
1967·5.6
Red Tomahawk
1967·6.8
Road to Nashville
1966·6.0
Waco
1966·6.7
To the Shores of Hell
1966·6.0
Johnny Reno
1966·6.5
Apache Uprising
1965·6.4
The Bounty Killer
1965·6.0
Town Tamer
1965·6.8
Black Spurs
1965·6.3
The Human Duplicators
1965·3.7
Young Fury
1964·5.6
Sex and the College Girl
1964·6.0
Law of the Lawless
1964·6.5
The Shepherd of the Hills
1964·7.0
The Best Man
1964·7.3
The Crawling Hand
1963·3.2
The Young and the Brave
1963·6.3
The Last Time I Saw Archie
1961·6.3
Raymie
1960·6.0
Warlock
1959·6.8
Cavalry Command
1958·5.4
Child of Trouble
1957·0.0
The Mountain
1956·6.9
Hidden Guns
1956·5.7
Blonde Blackmailer
1955·8.0
Devil's Point
1954·7.0
Sabre Jet
1953·7.0
The Blazing Forest
1952·6.5
Hurricane Smith
1952·6.4
Flaming Feather
1952·6.2
Silver City
1951·6.6
Kansas Raiders
1950·6.0
Grand Canyon
1949·10.0
When My Baby Smiles at Me
1948·5.5
The Return of Wildfire
1948·8.0
Speed to Spare
1948·6.7
Buffalo Bill Rides Again
1947·6.0
Accomplice
1946·5.8
The French Key
1946·6.5
The Phantom Speaks
1945·5.7
Identity Unknown
1945·5.4
The Big Bonanza
1944·6.3
Storm Over Lisbon
1944·5.4
That's My Baby!
1944·5.6
The Lady and the Monster
1944·6.0
Timber Queen
1944·6.0
Minesweeper
1943·5.2
Submarine Alert
1943·4.8
Alaska Highway
1943·6.3
Aerial Gunner
1943·5.0
Wrecking Crew
1942·7.0
A Letter From Bataan
1942·5.2
Wildcat
1942·5.7
Soaring Stars
1942·0.0
Torpedo Boat
1942·7.5
Flying Blind
1941·4.6
A Dangerous Game
1941·7.0
Raiders of the Desert
1941·8.0
Forced Landing
1941·6.0
Power Dive
1941·4.5
Men of the Timberland
1941·8.0
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941·7.5
Lucky Devils
1941·4.0
The Devil's Pipeline
1940·7.0
The Leather Pushers
1940·8.0
Black Diamonds
1940·7.0
Swing with Bing
1940·6.5
Hot Steel
1940·7.5
Danger On Wheels
1940·4.6
The Man from Montreal
1939·4.9
Legion of Lost Flyers
1939·5.0
Tropic Fury
1939·5.5
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939·8.0
Missing Daughters
1939·4.3
Straight, Place and Show
1938·7.0
Call of The Yukon
1938·6.0
No Time to Marry
1938·7.0
Murder in Greenwich Village
1937·5.8
Artists & Models
1937·6.3
Secret Valley
1937·5.3
The Great Barrier
1937·7.5
The Mine with the Iron Door
1936·9.0
Three Live Ghosts
1936·6.0
The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935·4.7
Hollywood Hobbies
1935·7.0
Let 'em Have It
1935·7.6
Helldorado
1935·9.0
Ready for Love
1934·6.2
She Made Her Bed
1934·4.5
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934·0.0
Come On, Marines!
1934·5.6
Alice in Wonderland
1933·6.1
Hell and High Water
1933·7.0
Golden Harvest
1933·6.5
Three Cornered Moon
1933·6.0
How to Break 90 #4: Downswing
1933·8.0
College Humor
1933·5.6
Song of the Eagle
1933·10.0
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
1933·4.5
Island of Lost Souls
1932·6.9
The All-American
1932·6.5
Tiger Shark
1932·6.5
Guilty as Hell
1932·6.7
Sky Bride
1932·8.0
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
1932·0.0
Wayward
1932·6.3
Touchdown!
1931·8.0
Caught
1931·7.5
The Secret Call
1931·7.7
The Lawyer's Secret
1931·6.2
Gun Smoke
1931·6.7
The Conquering Horde
1931·7.0
Only Saps Work
1930·6.0
The Santa Fe Trail
1930·6.3
The Sea God
1930·5.5
The Border Legion
1930·10.0
Paramount on Parade
1930·6.1
The Light of Western Stars
1930·5.2
Dangerous Paradise
1930·4.2
Burning Up
1930·5.3
The Virginian
1929·5.8
Dangerous Curves
1929·6.6
Thunderbolt
1929·5.7
The Four Feathers
1929·5.0
The Man I Love
1929·5.5
Manhattan Cocktail
1928·8.0
Beggars of Life
1928·7.1
Ladies of the Mob
1928·10.0
Feel My Pulse
1928·6.6
Under the Tonto Rim
1928·7.0
She's a Sheik
1927·8.0
Figures Don't Lie
1927·10.0
Sally in Our Alley
1927·10.0
Wings
1927·7.2
The Blood Ship
1927·7.7
Rolled Stockings
1927·8.0
Old Ironsides
1926·6.4
You'd Be Surprised
1926·7.0
Padlocked
1926·7.0
Behind the Front
1926·6.2
The Enchanted Hill
1926·9.0
The Coast of Folly
1925·8.0
In the Name of Love
1925·10.0
Hollywood
1923·9.0
Quicksands
1923·7.0