Richard Arlen

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.

Wings

7.2

Island of Lost Souls

6.9

Warlock

6.7

Perry Mason

7.7

Alice in Wonderland

6.1

The Mountain

6.9

The Lucy Show

7.0

Beggars of Life

7.1

The Best Man

7.3

Petticoat Junction

5.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

6.9

The Crawling Hand

2.9

Thunderbolt

5.8

The Lady and the Monster

5.8

The Human Duplicators

3.4

Kansas Raiders

5.8

Johnny Reno

6.3

Black Spurs

6.0

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

4.1

Branded

6.4

Tiger Shark

6.8

Old Ironsides

6.2

Bat Masterson

6.1

The Virginian

5.8

Apache Uprising

6.4

The Bounty Killer

5.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

7.0

Young Fury

5.4

This Is Your Life

6.3

Climax!

3.0

Accomplice

5.3

Minesweeper

5.0

Law of the Lawless

6.1

Town Tamer

6.4

Silver City

6.4

The Young and the Brave

5.9

Yancy Derringer

5.6

Submarine Alert

4.6

Buckskin

5.3

The Phantom Speaks

5.4

Flaming Feather

5.8

Paramount on Parade

6.1

Feel My Pulse

6.0

Red Tomahawk

6.4

The Four Feathers

4.4

Hostile Guns

5.1

Fort Utah

3.6

Storm Over Lisbon

4.8

College Humor

5.6

Murder in Greenwich Village

6.3

Waco

6.4

The 20th Century Fox Hour

5.2

Lock-Up

6.2

Three-Cornered Moon

5.2

Identity Unknown

5.8

Guilty as Hell

5.8

When My Baby Smiles at Me

4.8

Aerial Gunner

4.4

Power Dive

4.6

The Day of the Trumpet

5.0

Matinee Theater

4.6

Letter to Loretta

6.2

Let 'em Have It

7.0

That's My Baby!

5.0

The Lawyer's Secret

5.8

Dangerous Paradise

3.8

A Letter From Bataan

4.5

Sabre Jet

6.7

Dangerous Curves

6.0

Call of The Yukon

4.7

The Man from Montreal

3.8

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

3.3

Timber Queen

5.7

The Last Time I Saw Archie

5.7

Behind the Front

6.0

You'd Be Surprised

6.3

The Sea God

4.7

Come On, Marines!

5.0

The Horror Show

6.0

The Man I Love

4.5

The Big Bonanza

5.5

The Light of Western Stars

2.8

Artists & Models

6.0

Only Saps Work

5.5

Speed to Spare

5.0

Burning Up

3.5

Hurricane Smith

6.0

Hidden Guns

5.0

Alaska Highway

5.0

Forced Landing

4.0

Legion of Lost Flyers

4.0

Danger On Wheels

4.5

She Made Her Bed

3.5

Gun Smoke

5.5

Wrecking Crew

5.5

The Santa Fe Trail

5.2

A Whale of a Tale

4.0

The New Breed

7.0

Coronado 9

6.0

Hollywood on Parade No. A-6

5.0

Hollywood

7.0

Rogue's Gallery

6.0

Three Live Ghosts

5.0

Secret Valley

4.0

Straight, Place and Show

6.0

The Blazing Forest

6.0

Wildcat

6.0

A Dangerous Game

5.0

The Great Barrier

5.0

Lucky Devils

1.0

The Devil's Pipeline

6.0

To the Shores of Hell

5.0

Ready for Love

0.5

Buffalo Bill Rides Again

5.0

Swing with Bing

4.0

No Time to Marry

6.0

Missing Daughters

3.0

Flying Blind

5.0

Torpedo Boat

6.0

Caught

6.0

Wayward

6.0

Sex and the College Girl

4.0

The Calling of Dan Matthews

3.0

Golden Harvest

5.0

The All-American

5.0

The Conquering Horde

5.0

The Blood Ship

6.0

Hollywood Hobbies

6.0

Padlocked

6.0

The French Key

5.0

Your Show of Shows

5.5

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

0.0

The Coast of Folly

0.0

In the Name of Love

0.0

Rolled Stockings

0.0

Helldorado

0.0

Blonde Blackmailer

0.0

Ladies of the Mob

0.0

Manhattan Cocktail

0.0

The Border Legion

0.0

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

0.0

Hell and High Water

0.0

Raymie

0.0

Mutiny in the Arctic

0.0

Raiders of the Desert

0.0

Tropic Fury

0.0

The Leather Pushers

0.0

Song of the Eagle

0.0

Soaring Stars

0.0

The Mine with the Iron Door

0.0

The Return of Wildfire

0.0

Black Diamonds

0.0

Hot Steel

0.0

The Secret Call

0.0

She's a Sheik

0.0

Sky Bride

0.0

Devil's Point

0.0

How to Break 90 #4: Downswing

0.0

Sally in Our Alley

0.0

Figures Don't Lie

0.0

Men of the Timberland

0.0

The Enchanted Hill

0.0

Touchdown!

0.0

Under the Tonto Rim

0.0

The Sky's the Limit

0.0

Grand Canyon

0.0

The Whistler

0.0