page_title: Richard Barthelmess
section_title: Filmography
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Barthelmess / Filmography
caption_attribution_description: English: Collage of Richard Barthelmess in Who's Who on the Screen, 1920.
context_page_description: Richard Semler Barthelmess was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms and Way Down East and was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. The following year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two films: The Patent Leather Kid and The Noose.
context_section_description: Features
  Gloria's Romance (1916) (uncredited)
  War Brides (1916) as Arno
  Snow White (1916) as Pie Man (uncredited)
  Just a Song at Twilight (1916) as George Turner
  The Moral Code (1917) as Gary Miller
  The Eternal Sin (1917) as Gennaro
  The Valentine Girl (1917) as Robert Wentworth
  The Soul of a Magdalen (1917) as Louis Broulette
  The Streets of Illusion (1917) as Donald Morton
  Camille (1917)
  Bab's Diary (1917) as Tommy Gray
  Bab's Burglar (1917) as Tommy Gray
  Nearly Married (1917) as Dick Griffon
  For Valour (1917) as Henry Nobbs
  The Seven Swans (1917) as Prince Charming
  Sunshine Nan (1918) as MacPherson Clark
  Rich Man, Poor Man (1918) as Bayard Varick
  Hit-The-Trail Holliday (1918) as Bobby Jason
  Wild Primrose (1918) as Jack Wilton
  The Hope Chest (1918) as Tom Ballantyne
  Boots (1918) as Everett White
  The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919) as Ralph Grey
  Three Men and a Girl (1919) as Christopher Kent
  Peppy Polly (1919) as Dr. James Merritt
  Broken Blossoms (1919) as Cheng Huan - The Yellow Man
  I'll Get Him Yet (1919) as Scoop McCready
  Scarlet Days (1919) as Don Maria Alvarez
  The Idol Dancer (1920) as Dan McGuire
  The Love Flower (1920) as Bruce Sanders
  Way Down East (1920) as David Bartlett
  Experience (1921) as Youth
  Tol'able David (1921) as David Kinemon
  The Seventh Day (1922) as John Alden Jr.
  Sonny (1922) as Sonny Crosby / Joe
  The Bond Boy (1922) as Peter Newbolt (father) / John Newbolt
  Fury (1923) as Boy Leyton
  The Bright Shawl (1923) as Charles Abbott
  The Fighting Blade (1923) as Karl Van Kerstenbroock
  Twenty-One (1923) as Julian McCullough
  The Enchanted Cottage (1924) as Oliver Bashforth
  Classmates (1924) as Duncan Irving Jr
  New Toys (1925) as Will Webb
  Soul-Fire (1925) as Eric Fane
  Shore Leave (1925) as D.X. (Bilge) Smith
  The Beautiful City (1925) as Tony Gillardi
  Just Suppose (1926) as Prince Rupert of Koronia
  Ranson's Folly (1926) as Lt. Ranson
  The Amateur Gentleman (1926) as Barnabas Barty
  The White Black Sheep (1926) as Robert Kincarin
  The Patent Leather Kid (1927) as Patent Leather Kid
  The Drop Kick (1927) as Jack Hamill
  The Noose (1928) as Nickie Elkins
  The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928) as Chad Buford
  Wheel of Chance (1928) as Nicolai Turkeltaub / Jacob Taline
  Out of the Ruins (1928) as Lt. Pierre Dumont
  Scarlet Seas (1928) as Steven Dunkin
  Weary River (1929) as Jerry Larrabee
  Drag (1929) as David Carroll
  Young Nowheres (1929) as Albert 'Binky' Whalen
  The Show of Shows (1929) as 'Meet My Sister' Presenter
  Son of the Gods (1930) as Sam Lee
  The Dawn Patrol (1930) as Dick Courtney
  The Lash (1930) as Francisco Delfino 'Pancho'
  The Finger Points (1931) as Breckenridge 'Breck' Lee
  The Last Flight (1931) as Cary Lockwood
  Alias the Doctor (1932) as Karl Brenner
  The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) as Marvin Blake
  Central Airport (1933) as James 'Jim' Blaine
  Heroes for Sale (1933) as Tom Holmes
  Massacre (1934) as Chief Joe Thunderhorse
  A Modern Hero (1934) as Pierre Radier aka Paul Rader
  Midnight Alibi (1934) as Lance McGowan / Robert Anders
  Four Hours to Kill! (1935) as Tony Mako
  Spy of Napoleon (1936) as Gerard de Lanoy
  Only Angels Have Wings (1939) as Bat MacPherson
  The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940) as J.B. Roscoe
  The Spoilers (1942) as Bronco Kid Farrow
  The Mayor of 44th Street (1942) as Ed Kirby (final film role)
  Short subjects
  Camille (1926) as Gaston (home movie by cariacaturist Ralph Barton)
  The Stolen Jools (1931) as Himself
  How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: The Putter (1931) as Himself (uncredited)
  Starlit Days at the Lido (1935) as Himself (uncredited)
  Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941) as Himself (uncredited)
caption: Collage of various characters portrayed by Barthelmess, 1920
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