Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
8/30/1899
Place of Birth
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Also Known As
Van MattimoreDick ArlenSylvanus Richard Mattimore
Richard Arlen
Biography
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....
Known For
Flying Blind
as Jim Clark
Hollywood
as Richard Arlen
The Virginian
as Steven 'Steve'
Flaming Feather
as Showdown Calhoun
Wings
as David Armstrong
Kansas Raiders
as Union Captain
Young Fury
as Sheriff Jenkins
Raymie
as Chris Garber
Missing Daughters
as Wally King
Town Tamer
as Doctor Kent
Hurricane Smith
as Brundage
Warlock
as Bacon
The Mountain
as C. W. Rivial
Tiger Shark
as Pipes Boley
Red Tomahawk
as Deadwood Telegrapher
Black Diamonds
as Walter Norton
Hostile Guns
as Sheriff Travis
Black Spurs
as Pete
Artists & Models
as Alan Townsend
Secret Valley
as Lee Rogers
Career Timeline
1976
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963
1958
1955
1952
1950
1948
1944
1943
1942
1941
1940
1939
1938
1937
1936
1935
1934
1933
Alice in Wonderland
as Cheshire Cat
Hell and High Water
as Capt J.J. Jericho
Golden Harvest
as Walt Martin
Three Cornered Moon
as Dr. Alan Stevens
How to Break 90 #4: Downswing
Role unknown
College Humor
as Mondrake
Song of the Eagle
as Bill Hoffman
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as Self