Wilfred Lucas
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1871-01-29
Place of birth
Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
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Cast
One Night of Love
1934
5.20
Modern Times
1936
8.28
Love Your Neighbor
1930
0.00
Homicide Squad
1931
0.00
Stormy
1935
0.00
The Hushed Hour
1919
0.00
A Broadway Butterfly
1925
0.00
Brother Orchid
1940
6.53
A Chump at Oxford
1940
6.84
Heroes of the Street
1922
0.00
Paid Back
1922
0.00
The Long Road
1911
0.00
A Temporary Truce
1912
4.00
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912
0.00
The Fighting Sap
1924
0.00
Lightning Romance
1924
0.00
The Super Snooper
1937
0.00
North of Nevada
1924
0.00
Soldiers of Fortune
1919
0.00
Convicted
1931
4.20
The Bad Lands
1925
0.00
The Dragon Murder Case
1934
5.70
The Unwritten Law
1932
0.00
Love Time
1934
0.00
Midnight Mary
1933
6.80
Stockholm ”Queen of the Baltic”
1932
0.00
Brute Force
1914
5.30
The Dark Horse
1932
7.20
Freshman Year
1938
0.00
The Return of Chandu
1934
4.50
The Mayor of Hell
1933
7.10
The House on 56th Street
1933
4.57
Angkor
1935
6.00
What Every Woman Wants
1919
1.00
Idol of the Crowds
1937
4.10
Frisco Kid
1935
6.80
The Girl and Her Trust
1912
6.30
The Sea Wolf
1941
7.15
Racing for Life
1924
0.00
Cross-Examination
1932
4.60
The Galloping Ghost
1931
2.00
His Trust
1911
4.10
Big City Blues
1932
5.30
Varsity Show
1937
6.29
Chandu on the Magic Island
1935
4.80
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911
5.50
Enoch Arden: Part I
1911
5.50
When a Man Loves
1911
4.00
The Transformation of Mike
1912
4.33
The Massacre
1912
5.90
Winning Back His Love
1910
4.00
The Moth
1934
0.00
Love on a Bet
1936
7.00
His Trust Fulfilled
1911
3.70
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
5.90
The Kentucky Derby
1922
5.00
Sister to Judas
1932
0.00
The Three Musketeers
1933
5.25
Criminal Lawyer
1937
5.90
The Lily and the Rose
1915
0.00
Cock o' the Walk
1930
3.10
The Age for Love
1931
0.00
A Terrible Discovery
1911
0.00
The Devil-Doll
1936
6.80
The Baroness and the Butler
1938
5.03
As No Man Has Loved
1925
0.00
Phantom Thunderbolt
1933
4.30
House of Mystery
1931
8.00
Macbeth
1916
0.00
The Spanish Jade
1915
0.00
Red Noses
1932
7.00
Swords and Hearts
1911
4.60
The Greatest Menace
1923
0.00
Man's Genesis
1912
4.60
The Taming of the Shrew
1908
4.90
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
0.00
The Intruder
1933
4.00
Jim Bludso
1917
0.00
Riders of the Purple Sage
1925
5.70
Careless Lady
1932
5.20
Air Fright
1933
5.50
We Who Are About to Die
1937
6.80
A Man to Remember
1938
6.50
Brother Rat
1938
5.00
Night Spot
1938
3.75
Zenobia
1939
4.60
Kind Lady
1935
6.60
Beloved Enemy
1936
6.10
The White Angel
1936
7.20
The Primal Call
1911
4.00
You Said a Mouthful
1932
5.00
Dodge City
1939
6.90
Almost a Gentleman
1939
6.00
Women in the Wind
1939
6.80
Navy Blue and Gold
1937
5.25
Each Dawn I Die
1939
6.79
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
7.84
The Daredevil Drivers
1938
5.00
Four Wives
1939
5.30
Raffles
1939
6.00
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
5.70
Looser Than Loose
1930
4.00
The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939
8.00
The Preview Murder Mystery
1936
5.60
The Day the Bookies Wept
1939
5.00
She Loved a Fireman
1937
6.00
Under Burning Skies
1912
4.70
Women in Hiding
1940
7.00
Men Call It Love
1931
4.50
Strange People
1933
5.00
The Valley of Hate
1924
5.00
Missing Witnesses
1937
5.50
The Secrets of Wu Sin
1932
6.00
The Country Doctor
1936
6.00
Blazing Sixes
1937
6.00
Varsity Show
1937
6.29
Gentleman Burglar
1914
0.00
A Sailor’s Heart
1912
0.00
Empty Holsters
1937
0.00
Those Who Dance
1930
6.00
Rip Roaring Riley
1935
0.00
Show Them No Mercy!
1935
7.00
The Fighting 69th
1940
5.50
High Tension
1936
5.40
The Girl and the Outlaw
1908
3.00
Legion of the Lawless
1940
5.40
Edison, the Man
1940
6.80
A Strange Meeting
1909
4.30
The Devil Horse
1932
4.00
Mile a Minute Love
1937
6.00
I Cover the Waterfront
1933
4.79
Santa Fe Trail
1940
5.70
Virginia City
1940
6.10
Triple Justice
1940
6.00
Prairie Thunder
1937
3.00
Flesh and Blood
1922
5.90
Billy's Stratagem
1912
5.00
The Rose of Kentucky
1911
5.70
The Arizonian
1935
0.00
The Arizona Kid
1930
5.50
California Mail
1936
4.43
Land Beyond the Law
1937
7.00
Talent Scout
1937
6.00
Waterloo Bridge
1940
7.47
The Honor of Thieves
1909
1.50
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
0.00
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
6.12
They Drive by Night
1940
6.91
Women Without Names
1940
4.10
A Woman of Pleasure
1919
0.00
The Beautiful Liar
1921
0.00
Heart Beats of Long Ago
1911
5.00
His Daughter
1911
4.00
Graft
1931
4.50
Over the Wall
1938
5.00
The Tabasco Kid
1932
0.00
Midnight Blunders
1936
4.33
Souls Triumphant
1917
0.00
Hands Up!
1917
0.00
A Love Sublime
1917
0.00
Through the Back Door
1921
6.10
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
1924
4.30
Free Wheeling
1932
7.80
Shrimps for a Day
1934
7.00
Chatterbox
1936
6.00
Cyclone Cavalier
1925
0.00
The Making of a Man
1911
6.30
Her Sacrifice
1926
0.00
The Wood Nymph
1916
0.00
Enoch Arden
1911
5.80
What Price Hollywood?
1932
6.75
A Pueblo Legend
1912
0.00
Just Like a Woman
1912
0.00
Home Folks
1912
0.00
Fate's Interception
1912
0.00
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
4.70
The Man from Kangaroo
1920
5.60
The Westland Case
1937
6.00
Human Cargo
1936
6.00
Fisher Folks
1911
0.00
Tear Gas Squad
1940
4.80
The Sorrows of Satan
1926
6.70
Young Donovan's Kid
1931
0.00
Burnt Fingers
1927
0.00
Rich Man's Folly
1931
4.50
Jazzmania
1923
0.00
The Phantom
1931
3.88
Stranded
1935
5.80
Hello Sister
1930
1.00
Pardon Us
1931
6.42
The Lonedale Operator
1911
6.06
The Greaser's Gauntlet
1908
1.00
Hot Water
1937
5.00
Down on the Farm
1938
0.00
Safety in Numbers
1938
0.00
The Declaration of Independence
1938
6.30
The Man Without a Country
1937
5.70
The Co-respondent
1917
0.00
The Diamond Star
1911
0.00
The Two Paths
1911
0.00
Sins of Ambition
1917
0.00
A Woman Scorned
1911
0.00
The Failure
1911
4.00
Love in the Hills
1911
0.00
The Fighting Breed
1921
0.00
Stranger in Town
1931
3.00
The Girl of the Golden West
1923
0.00
Millie
1931
5.10
Marked Woman
1937
6.50
Black Legion
1937
6.55
Valley of Hate
1924
5.00
Trilby
1923
0.00
Give Me Liberty
1936
6.30
One a Minute
1921
6.30
Naughty Marietta
1935
5.40
Racetrack
1933
0.00
Apples to You!
1934
7.00
The Microscope Mystery
1916
0.00
Call Her Savage
1932
5.50
Acquitted
1916
0.00
Hell-to-Pay Austin
1916
0.00
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909
5.20
The Devil's Brother
1933
6.70
The Renunciation
1909
4.40
A Tender-Hearted Crook
1913
0.00
When Kings Were the Law
1912
0.00
The Rocky Road
1910
4.00
Four Daughters
1938
6.60
The Big Cage
1933
6.00
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1911
5.50
Dishonored
1931
6.77
Pure Gold and Dross
1913
0.00
Across the Dead-Line
1922
0.00
Cleopatra
1934
6.00
The Midnight Patrol
1932
0.00
Lucky Larrigan
1932
0.00
The Miser's Heart
1911
6.00
The Sphinx
1933
4.60
Big Ears
1931
4.50
Les Misérables
1935
7.19
The Widow and the Widower
1913
0.00
Vagabond Lady
1935
7.20
The Judgment House
1917
0.00
How Baxter Butted In
1925
0.00
Madam Satan
1930
5.64
The Price She Paid
1924
4.00
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
6.80
The Girls and Daddy
1909
3.00
Advice to the Lovelorn
1933
7.00
Passion's Pathway
1924
0.00
Devil and the Deep
1932
4.80
Upperworld
1934
6.30
Lawyer Man
1932
6.00
The Breaking Point
1921
0.00
The Mask of Lopez
1924
0.00
A Wild Girl of the Sierras
1916
0.00
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925
0.00
The Westerners
1919
0.00
The Fatal Mistake
1924
0.00
Can a Woman Love Twice?
1923
0.00