From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wilfred Lucas (January 30, 1871 – December 13, 1940) was a Canadian-born American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter. Wilfred Lucas made his Broadway debut in 1904, playing in both the The Blue Grass Handicap and The Superstition of Sue. Following his 1906 role in the highly successful play The Chorus Lady, he was recruited to the fledgling Biograph Studios by D. W. Griffith. At the time, the film business was still looked down upon by many members of the theatrical community. In her 1925 book titled When the Movies Were Young, Griffith's wife, actress Linda Arvidson, told the story of the early days at Biograph Studios. In it, she referred to Lucas as the "first real grand actor, democratic enough to work in Biograph movies." In 1908 Lucas made his motion picture debut in Griffith's The Greaser's Gauntlet, appearing in more than 50 of these short (usually 17 minutes) films over the next two years. In 1910 while still acting, he wrote the script for Griffith's film Sunshine Sue, which was followed by many more scripts by 1924. Lucas also began directing in 1912 with Griffith on An Outcast Among Outcasts, and directed another 44 films over the next 20 years. In early 1916 he starred as John Carter in Acquitted, about which Photoplay wrote, "No single performance in the records of active photography has surpassed his visualization of the humble book-keeper in Acquitted." Later in 1916 he appeared in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance. Part of the group of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, Lucas became friends and sometimes starred with Mary Pickford, Sam De Grasse, and Marie Dressler. Canadian-born director Mack Sennett hired him to both direct and act in a large number of films at his Keystone Studios. Lucas made the successful transition from silent film to sound. While working in Hollywood, in 1926 he returned to the stage, performing in several Broadway plays. He later appeared as a foil for Laurel and Hardy in their feature films Pardon Us and A Chump at Oxford. During his long career, Wilfred Lucas appeared in more than 375 films. Although for a time he was cast in leading roles, he became very successful as secondary and minor characters, making a good living in the film industry for more than three decades.
276 movies
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968·8.0
The Sea Wolf
1941·7.2
Santa Fe Trail
1940·5.8
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940·6.3
Triple Justice
1940·7.5
They Drive by Night
1940·6.9
Women in Hiding
1940·7.0
Brother Orchid
1940·6.6
Waterloo Bridge
1940·7.5
Edison, the Man
1940·6.8
Tear Gas Squad
1940·5.3
Virginia City
1940·6.3
Women Without Names
1940·4.7
The Fighting 69th
1940·5.8
A Chump at Oxford
1940·6.9
Legion of the Lawless
1940·6.2
Four Wives
1939·5.5
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939·6.0
Raffles
1939·6.2
The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939·7.5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939·7.8
The Day the Bookies Wept
1939·7.5
Each Dawn I Die
1939·6.8
Zenobia
1939·5.0
Women in the Wind
1939·6.8
Dodge City
1939·6.9
Almost a Gentleman
1939·8.0
Breakdowns of 1938
1938·5.8
The Declaration of Independence
1938·6.7
Brother Rat
1938·6.0
A Man to Remember
1938·6.7
Down on the Farm
1938·10.0
Freshman Year
1938·10.0
Four Daughters
1938·6.6
Safety in Numbers
1938·7.0
Over the Wall
1938·5.7
Night Spot
1938·4.6
The Baroness and the Butler
1938·5.3
The Daredevil Drivers
1938·6.0
She Loved a Fireman
1937·7.5
Missing Witnesses
1937·7.0
The Man Without a Country
1937·6.1
Navy Blue and Gold
1937·5.8
The Westland Case
1937·6.7
Idol of the Crowds
1937·5.1
Hot Water
1937·6.5
Prairie Thunder
1937·4.3
Varsity Show
1937·6.8
Talent Scout
1937·6.7
Empty Holsters
1937·8.0
Blazing Sixes
1937·8.0
Marked Woman
1937·6.6
Mile a Minute Love
1937·7.0
Land Beyond the Law
1937·8.5
The Super Snooper
1937·7.0
Black Legion
1937·6.6
Criminal Lawyer
1937·6.5
We Who Are About to Die
1937·7.0
Beloved Enemy
1936·6.3
Give Me Liberty
1936·6.4
Midnight Blunders
1936·5.0
California Mail
1936·4.9
The Devil-Doll
1936·6.8
High Tension
1936·5.8
The White Angel
1936·7.2
Human Cargo
1936·7.5
The Country Doctor
1936·6.5
Love on a Bet
1936·7.0
The Preview Murder Mystery
1936·5.8
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936·6.9
Modern Times
1936·8.3
Chatterbox
1936·7.0
Kind Lady
1935·6.8
Show Them No Mercy!
1935·7.5
Frisco Kid
1935·7.0
Rip Roaring Riley
1935·9.0
Stormy
1935·7.0
Stranded
1935·6.0
The Arizonian
1935·8.0
Vagabond Lady
1935·7.2
Les Misérables
1935·7.1
Naughty Marietta
1935·5.5
Angkor
1935·5.3
Chandu on the Magic Island
1935·5.2
Shrimps for a Day
1934·6.8
Love Time
1934·10.0
Cleopatra
1934·6.1
The Return of Chandu
1934·4.8
The Dragon Murder Case
1934·5.9
One Night of Love
1934·5.5
Upperworld
1934·6.1
Apples to You!
1934·7.7
The Moth
1934·0.0
The House on 56th Street
1933·5.3
Air Fright
1933·6.3
Advice to the Lovelorn
1933·7.3
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933·6.2
Midnight Mary
1933·6.8
The Mayor of Hell
1933·7.0
Strange People
1933·5.8
The Sphinx
1933·5.1
I Cover the Waterfront
1933·5.1
The Devil's Brother
1933·6.8
The Big Cage
1933·8.0
The Three Musketeers
1933·5.7
The Intruder
1933·4.6
Phantom Thunderbolt
1933·4.6
Racetrack
1933·7.0
Sister to Judas
1932·9.0
Lawyer Man
1932·6.1
The Secrets of Wu Sin
1932·6.5
You Said a Mouthful
1932·5.8
Lucky Larrigan
1932·9.0
The Unwritten Law
1932·8.0
Call Her Savage
1932·5.8
The Devil Horse
1932·5.7
Free Wheeling
1932·7.6
Big City Blues
1932·5.8
Devil and the Deep
1932·5.0
What Price Hollywood?
1932·6.8
The Dark Horse
1932·7.4
Stockholm ”Queen of the Baltic”
1932·0.0
The Midnight Patrol
1932·10.0
Careless Lady
1932·5.8
Red Noses
1932·7.5
Cross-Examination
1932·5.1
The Tabasco Kid
1932·7.0
House of Mystery
1931·8.5
Rich Man's Folly
1931·5.2
Convicted
1931·5.0
The Phantom
1931·4.0
The Age for Love
1931·9.0
Graft
1931·5.0
The Galloping Ghost
1931·4.7
Big Ears
1931·5.4
Pardon Us
1931·6.4
Stranger in Town
1931·5.0
Homicide Squad
1931·8.0
Young Donovan's Kid
1931·10.0
Dishonored
1931·6.9
Men Call It Love
1931·6.0
Millie
1931·5.3
Just Imagine
1930·5.8
Looser Than Loose
1930·6.0
Love Your Neighbor
1930·7.0
Madam Satan
1930·5.9
Those Who Dance
1930·6.2
Cock o' the Walk
1930·3.9
The Arizona Kid
1930·7.0
Hello Sister
1930·3.0
Burnt Fingers
1927·10.0
The Sorrows of Satan
1926·7.2
Her Sacrifice
1926·10.0
Cyclone Cavalier
1925·10.0
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925·7.0
How Baxter Butted In
1925·10.0
The Bad Lands
1925·9.0
Youth's Gamble
1925·9.0
The Snob Buster
1925·9.0
A Broadway Butterfly
1925·8.0
Riders of the Purple Sage
1925·6.1
As No Man Has Loved
1925·7.0
Lightning Romance
1924·9.0
The Price She Paid
1924·5.3
The Fatal Mistake
1924·9.0
Racing for Life
1924·9.0
Passion's Pathway
1924·9.0
The Fighting Sap
1924·9.0
The Valley of Hate
1924·7.0
Valley of Hate
1924·6.0
Daughters of Pleasure
1924·8.0
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
1924·5.0
North of Nevada
1924·9.0
The Mask of Lopez
1924·8.0
Trilby
1923·10.0
The Greatest Menace
1923·8.0
The Girl of the Golden West
1923·8.0
Can a Woman Love Twice?
1923·10.0
Jazzmania
1923·10.0
Heroes of the Street
1922·8.0
The Kentucky Derby
1922·7.5
Paid Back
1922·9.0
Flesh and Blood
1922·6.2
Across the Dead-Line
1922·8.0
The Beautiful Liar
1921·10.0
The Fighting Breed
1921·8.0
One a Minute
1921·7.3
Through the Back Door
1921·6.5
The Breaking Point
1921·5.0
The Jackeroo of Coolabong
1920·9.0
The Shadow of Lightning Ridge
1920·7.0
The Man from Kangaroo
1920·6.3
Soldiers of Fortune
1919·7.0
A Woman of Pleasure
1919·8.0
The Girl from Nowhere
1919·6.0
The Westerners
1919·9.0
The Hushed Hour
1919·8.0
What Every Woman Wants
1919·4.0
The Judgment House
1917·0.0
The Co-respondent
1917·0.0
Sins of Ambition
1917·0.0
The Food Gamblers
1917·0.0
Souls Triumphant
1917·0.0
Hands Up!
1917·0.0
A Love Sublime
1917·0.0
Jim Bludso
1917·0.0
The Microscope Mystery
1916·0.0
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916·7.1
Hell-to-Pay Austin
1916·0.0
A Wild Girl of the Sierras
1916·0.0
Macbeth
1916·0.0
Acquitted
1916·0.0
The Wood Nymph
1916·0.0
The Lily and the Rose
1915·0.0
The Spanish Jade
1915·0.0
Brute Force
1914·5.3
Gentleman Burglar
1914·0.0
A Tender-Hearted Crook
1913·0.0
Pure Gold and Dross
1913·0.0
The Widow and the Widower
1913·0.0
The Massacre
1912·5.9
A Sailor’s Heart
1912·0.0
A Pueblo Legend
1912·0.0
Man's Genesis
1912·4.6
A Temporary Truce
1912·4.0
Home Folks
1912·0.0
When Kings Were the Law
1912·0.0
Just Like a Woman
1912·0.0
Fate's Interception
1912·0.0
The Girl and Her Trust
1912·6.3
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912·0.0
Under Burning Skies
1912·4.7
Billy's Stratagem
1912·5.0
The Transformation of Mike
1912·4.3
A Terrible Discovery
1911·0.0
The Failure
1911·4.0
A Woman Scorned
1911·0.0
The Miser's Heart
1911·6.0
Love in the Hills
1911·0.0
The Long Road
1911·0.0
The Making of a Man
1911·6.3
Swords and Hearts
1911·4.6
The Rose of Kentucky
1911·5.6
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911·0.0
The Sorrowful Example
1911·0.0
The Indian Brothers
1911·4.0
The Thief and the Girl
1911·0.0
Fighting Blood
1911·6.3
The Primal Call
1911·4.0
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911·5.6
Enoch Arden
1911·6.0
Enoch Arden: Part I
1911·5.6
The New Dress
1911·0.0
Madame Rex
1911·0.0
The Broken Cross
1911·0.0
The Spanish Gypsy
1911·0.0
The Lonedale Operator
1911·6.1
His Daughter
1911·4.0
The Diamond Star
1911·0.0
Fisher Folks
1911·0.0
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1911·5.5
Heart Beats of Long Ago
1911·5.0
His Trust Fulfilled
1911·3.7
His Trust
1911·4.1
When a Man Loves
1911·4.0
The Two Paths
1911·0.0
Winning Back His Love
1910·4.0
The Rocky Road
1910·4.0
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909·5.2
A Strange Meeting
1909·4.3
The Renunciation
1909·4.4
The Girls and Daddy
1909·3.0
The Honor of Thieves
1909·1.5
The Taming of the Shrew
1908·4.9
The Girl and the Outlaw
1908·3.0
The Greaser's Gauntlet
1908·1.0