Henry Brazeale Walthall (16 Maret 1878 – 17 Juni 1936) adalah aktor teater dan film berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Namanya dikenal melalui perannya sebagai The Little Colonel dalam D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915).
| Henry B. Walthall | |
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Henry B. Walthall (1934) | |
| Lahir | 16 Maret 1878 Shelby County, Alabama, U.S. |
| Meninggal | 17 Juni 1936 (umur 58) Monrovia, California, U.S. |
| Pekerjaan | Actor |
| Tahun aktif | 1906–1936 |
| Suami/istri | Isabel Fenton (1907–1917) Mary Charleson (1918–1936), 1 child |
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Henry B. Walthall lahir 16 Maret1878, di kawasan ladang kapas milik ayahnya, Shelby County, Alabama. Ayahnya pernah aktif dinas tentara dengan pangkat kapten. Walthall bekerja di ladang dan dididik oleh orang tuanya serta seorang paman yang meminjamkan buku-buku kepadanya. Dia menempuh pendidikan di Howard College selama enam bulan.
Tahun 1898, seama Perang Amerika-Spanyol, dia tercatat sebagai bagian dari Resimen Alabama Pertama. Dia menderita Malaria ketika berada di kamp Jacksonville, Florida, dan perang berakhir sebelum sembuh. Dia mengabdi selama sebelas bulan, dan resimennya memperbolehkan dia pulang ke rumah. Kemudian, dengan uang sebesar $100, dia pergi ke New York untuk mengejar kariernya di dunia keaktoran panggung. Dia bermain peran-peran kecil di Murray Hill Theater. Kemudian dia berafiliasi dengan American Theater dan tak lama kemudian pindah di The Providence, Rhode Island.
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From left: Harlan E. Knight, Peter Richmond, Walthall, Joan Peers, Noah Beery
Di New York tahun 1901, Walthall mendapatkan peran dalam pertunjukan Under Southern Skies oleh Charlotte Blair Parker. Dia tampil selama tiga tahun, di New York dan pentas kelilingnya. Bersama perusahaan Henry Miller dia memperoleh pengakuan di pertunjukan-pertunjukan Teater Broadway antara lain melalui pertunjukan Pippa Passes, The Only Way dan karya William Vaughn Moody, The Great Divide (1906–08). Rekan sesama pemerannya, James Kirkwood memperkenalkan Walthall kepada D. W. Griffith, dan pada hasilnya, Walthall boleh bergabung di Biograph Company.
Kariernya di perfilman dimulai sejak 1909 di Biograph Studios New York dengan peran utama dalam film A Convict's Sacrifice. Film ini juga menampilkan James Kirkwood, dan diarahkan oleh D.W. Griffith. Sebagaimana industri yang sedang bertumbuh dan meningkat popularitasnya, Griffith muncul sebagai sutradara dan Walthall ditemukan olehnya sebagai andalan di perusahaanGriffith, yang kadang-kadang berkarya bersama seperti halnya Owen Moore, Kate Bruce, Lillian dan Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Bobby Harron, Jack dan Mary Pickford. Dia kemudian mengikuti kepindahan Griffith dari New York's Biograph ke California's Reliance-Majestic Studios tahun 1913. Setelah beberapa bulan bersama Reliance, dia bergabung dengan Pathé untuk kurun waktu yang singkat.
Dia memutuskan untuk mengelola bisnis dan membentuk The Union Feature Film Company, perusahaan pertama yang dikembangkan yang seluruhnya memproduksi film-film panjang. Percobaannya kurang menuai sukses sayangnya, dan dia kembali bekerja sama dengan perusahaan Griffith.
Diberi kesempatan mengerjakan film-film pendek di awal tahun, Walthall terkadang dia tampil dalam belasan film setiap tahun. Keberadaannya mendapatkan perhatian nasional pada tahun 1915 atas perannya sebagai Kolonel Ben Cameron dalam film arahan Griffith yang sangat berpengaruh dan kontroversial, berjudul The Birth of a Nation.
Walthall melanjutkan berkarya di film sampai dasawarsa 1920-an, tampil di The Plastic Age bersama Gilbert Roland dan Clara Bow. Dia memerankan sebagai Roger Chillingworth dalam film adaptasi arahan Victor Seastrom produksi 1926 The Scarlet Letter menjadi lawan main Lillian Gish.
Walthall melanjutkan kariernya sampai dasawarsa 1930-an. Setelah penampilannya di film arahan John Ford tahun 1934 berjudul Judge Priest yang dibintangi Will Rogers dia menikmati periode emas kariernya. Dia berperan sebagai Manette dalam A Tale of Two Cities (1935), dibintangi Ronald Colman. Tahun 1936 dia tampil sebagai Marcel dalam film The Devil-Doll. Dia mengalami sakit parah selama film terkhirnya, Clipper. Frank Capra menginginkan Walthall untuk berperan sebagai The High Lama dalam filmnya Lost Horizon tahun 1937.
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| Tahun | Judul | Peran | Catatan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | A Convict's Sacrifice | ||
| 1909 | Pranks | ||
| 1909 | The Sealed Room | The Minstrel | |
| 1909 | In Old Kentucky | Robert, the Confederate Son | |
| 1909 | A Corner in Wheat | The wheat king's assistant | |
| 1909 | The Hessian Renegades | ||
| 1909 | Fools of Fate | ||
| 1909 | A Trap for Santa Claus | Arthur | |
| 1909 | In Little Italy | Victor | |
| 1909 | The Day After | Party Guest | |
| 1909 | The Mended Lute | Indian | |
| 1909 | Choosing a Husband | Harry | |
| 1909 | Getting Even | Miner | |
| 1910 | The Honor of His Family | ||
| 1910 | The Two Brothers | Pedro | |
| 1910 | The Kid | Walter Holden | |
| 1910 | Ramona | Alessandro | |
| 1910 | In the Border States | Confederate Corporal | |
| 1910 | The House with Closed Shutters | The Confederate Soldier | |
| 1910 | Rose O'Salem-Town | The Trapper | |
| 1910 | In Old California | ||
| 1910 | The Gold Seekers | ||
| 1910 | The Oath and the Man | ||
| 1910 | The Sorrows of the Unfaithful | ||
| 1910 | A Summer Idyl | ||
| 1910 | The Armorer's Daughter | ||
| 1911 | A Little Child | ||
| 1912 | Home Folks | ||
| 1912 | The Miser's Daughter | ||
| 1912 | Friends | Dandy Jack | |
| 1912 | The Inner Circle | ||
| 1912 | A Change of Spirit | First Gentleman Thief | |
| 1912 | Two Daughters of Eve | The Father | |
| 1912 | So Near, Yet So Far | ||
| 1912 | A Feud in the Kentucky Hills | Psalm Singer | |
| 1912 | In the Aisles of the Wild | Jim Watson | |
| 1912 | The One She Loved | The Husband | |
| 1912 | The Painted Lady | ||
| 1912 | My Baby | The Husband | |
| 1912 | The Informer | The false Brother | |
| 1912 | Brutality | ||
| 1912 | My Hero | Indian Charlie | |
| 1912 | The Burglar's Dilemma | Householder's Weakling Brother | |
| 1912 | The God Within | The Woodsman | |
| 1913 | The Vengeance of Galora | ||
| 1913 | Oil and Water | The Idealist | |
| 1913 | The Wedding Gown | ||
| 1913 | Three Friends | The Husband | |
| 1913 | Love in an Apartment Hotel | The Young Woman's Fiance | |
| 1913 | Broken Ways | The Road Agent | |
| 1913 | The Sheriff's Baby | First Bandit | |
| 1913 | If We Only Knew | The Father | |
| 1913 | The Lady and the Mouse | ||
| 1913 | The Wanderer | The Wanderer | |
| 1913 | The House of Darkness | ||
| 1913 | The Tenderfoot's Money | The Prospector | |
| 1913 | The Stolen Loaf | The Poor Man | |
| 1913 | Red Hicks Defies the World | ||
| 1913 | The Switch Tower | The Switchman | |
| 1913 | The Mothering Heart | Club Patron | |
| 1913 | The Mistake | Jack, the Friend, a Prospector | |
| 1913 | A Gambler's Honor | Beth's Brother | |
| 1913 | During the Round-Up | The Stranger | |
| 1913 | The Mirror | The Station Agent | |
| 1913 | Two Men of the Desert | First Partner | |
| 1913 | A Woman in the Ultimate | Member of the Badger Gang | |
| 1913 | The Perfidy of Mary | Poet | |
| 1913 | The Battle at Elderbush Gulch | Indian Chief's Son | |
| 1913 | Death's Marathon | The Husband | |
| 1914 | The Green-Eyed Devil | Short film | |
| 1914 | The Mountain Rat | Douglas Williams | |
| 1914 | The Floor Above | Stephen Pryde | |
| 1914 | The Gangsters of New York | Porky Dugan | |
| 1914 | Ashes of the Past | ||
| 1914 | Judith of Bethulia | Holofernes | |
| 1914 | Strongheart | ||
| 1914 | Classmates | Duncan Irving | |
| 1914 | Lord Chumley | Lord Chumley | |
| 1914 | Man's Enemy | ||
| 1914 | The Avenging Conscience | The Nephew | |
| 1914 | Home, Sweet Home | John Howard Payne | |
| 1914 | The Odalisque | ||
| 1915 | The Birth of a Nation | Col. Ben Cameron | |
| 1915 | Beulah | Dr. Guy Hartwell | |
| 1915 | The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 1915 | Ghosts | Captain Arling/Oswald | |
| 1915 | The Woman Hater | ||
| 1916 | The Birth of a Man | ||
| 1916 | The Pillars of Society | Karsten Bernick | |
| 1916 | The Sting of Victory | David Whiting/Walker Whiting | |
| 1916 | The Truant Soul | Dr. John Lancaster/Dr. Lawson | |
| 1916 | The Misleading Lady | Jack Craigen | |
| 1916 | The Strange Case of Mary Page | Phil Langdon, Attorney | Serial; lost film |
| 1917 | Burning the Candle | James Maxwell | |
| 1917 | The Saint's Adventure | Rev. Paul Manson | |
| 1917 | Little Shoes | David Noel | |
| 1917 | National Association's All-Star Picture | ||
| 1918 | His Robe of Honor | Julian Randolph | |
| 1918 | With Hoops of Steel | Emerson Mead | |
| 1918 | The Great Love | Sir Roger Brighton | |
| 1918 | And a Still Small Voice | Clay Randolph | |
| 1918 | Humdrum Brown | Hector "Humdrum" Brown | |
| 1919 | The False Faces | Michael Lanyard, "The Lone Wolf" | |
| 1919 | Modern Husbands | Stephen Duane | |
| 1919 | The Boomerang | George Gray | |
| 1919 | The Long Lane's Turning | Harry Sevier | |
| 1919 | The Long Arm of Mannister | George Mannister | |
| 1920 | The Confession | Father Bartlett | |
| 1920 | Parted Curtains | Joe Jenkins | |
| 1920 | A Splendid Hazard | Karl Breitman | |
| 1921 | Flower of the North | Philip Whittemore | |
| 1921 | The Ableminded Lady | Breezy Bright | |
| 1922 | The Kickback | Aaron Price | |
| 1922 | The Long Chance | Harley P. Hennage | |
| 1922 | The Marriage Chance | Dr. Paul Graydon | |
| 1922 | One Clear Call | Henry Garnett | |
| 1922 | Boy of Mine | William Latimer | |
| 1923 | The Face on the Bar-Room Floor | Robert Stevens | |
| 1923 | The Unknown Purple | Peter Marchmont/Victor Cromport | |
| 1924 | The Bowery Bishop | Norman Strong | |
| 1924 | Single Wives | Franklin Dexter | |
| 1924 | The Woman on the Jury | Prosecuting Attorney | Lost film |
| 1925 | The Girl Who Wouldn't Work | William Hale | |
| 1925 | Kit Carson Over the Great Divide | Dr. Samuel Webb | |
| 1925 | On the Threshold | Andrew Masters | |
| 1925 | The Golden Bed | Colonel Peake | |
| 1925 | The Plastic Age | Henry Carver | |
| 1925 | Kentucky Pride | Mr. Beaumont | |
| 1925 | Dollar Down | Alec Craig | |
| 1925 | Simon the Jester | Brandt | |
| 1926 | Everybody's Acting | Thorpe | |
| 1926 | Three Faces East | George Bennett | |
| 1926 | The Barrier | Gale | |
| 1926 | The Road to Mandalay | Father James | |
| 1926 | The Scarlet Letter | Roger Chillingworth | |
| 1926 | The Unknown Soldier | Mr. Phillips | |
| 1927 | Wings | Mr. Armstrong | |
| 1927 | London After Midnight | Sir James Hamlin | |
| 1927 | The Enchanted Island | Tim Sanborn | |
| 1927 | Fighting Love | Filipo Navarro | |
| 1927 | A Light in the Window | Johann Graff | |
| 1927 | The Rose of Kildare | Bob Avery | |
| 1928 | Freedom of the Press | John Ballard | |
| 1928 | Retribution | Vitaphone Varieties 2418 | |
| 1928 | Love Me and the World Is Mine | Van Denbosch | |
| 1929 | Speakeasy | Fuzzy | |
| 1929 | The Jazz Age | Mr. Maxwell | |
| 1929 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Father Juniper | |
| 1929 | The Trespasser | Fuller | |
| 1929 | Black Magic | Dr. Bradbroke | |
| 1929 | In Old California | Don Pedro DeLeón | |
| 1929 | From Headquarters | Buffalo Bill Ryan | |
| 1929 | The Phantom in the House | Boyd Milburn | |
| 1929 | River of Romance | Gen. Jeff Rumford | |
| 1929 | Stark Mad | Captain Rhodes | Lost film |
| 1929 | Street Corner | Short film | |
| 1930 | Temple Tower | Blackton | |
| 1930 | Abraham Lincoln | Colonel Marshall | |
| 1930 | The Love Trader | Captain Adams | |
| 1930 | Tol'able David | Amos Hatburn | |
| 1930 | Blaze o' Glory | Burke | Lost film |
| 1931 | Anybody's Blonde | The Editor | |
| 1931 | Is There Justice? | District Attorney John Raymond | |
| 1932 | Chandu the Magician | Robert Regent | |
| 1932 | Police Court | Nat Barry | |
| 1932 | The Cabin in the Cotton | Eph Clinton | |
| 1932 | Ride Him, Cowboy | John Gaunt | |
| 1932 | Strange Interlude | Professor Leeds | |
| 1932 | Me and My Gal | Sarge | |
| 1932 | Central Park | Eby | |
| 1932 | Alias Mary Smith | Atwell | |
| 1932 | Klondike | Mark Armstrong | |
| 1932 | Hotel Continental | Winthrop | |
| 1932 | Self-Defense | Dr. Borden | |
| 1932 | The Flaming Signal | Rev. James | |
| 1933 | 42nd Street | The Actor | |
| 1933 | Headline Shooter | Judge Beacon | |
| 1933 | Laughing at Life | Presidente Valenzuela | |
| 1933 | The Sin of Nora Moran | Father Ryan | |
| 1933 | Somewhere in Sonora | Bob Leadly | |
| 1933 | Her Forgotten Past | Mr. Maynard | |
| 1933 | The Whispering Shadow | Serial | |
| 1933 | The Wolf Dog | Jim Courtney | Serial |
| 1934 | Judge Priest | Rev. Ashby Brand | |
| 1934 | A Girl of the Limberlost | Dr. Ammon | |
| 1934 | Viva Villa! | Francisco I. Madero | |
| 1934 | The Scarlet Letter | Roger Chillingworth | |
| 1934 | Men in White | Dr. McCabe | |
| 1934 | Bachelor of Arts | Professor Barth | |
| 1934 | Dark Hazard | Schultz | |
| 1934 | The Murder in the Museum | Bernard Latham Wayne, alias Professor Mysto | |
| 1934 | Beggars in Ermine | Marchant the Blind Man | |
| 1934 | The Lemon Drop Kid | ||
| 1935 | A Tale of Two Cities | Dr. Manette | |
| 1935 | Dante's Inferno | Pop McWade | |
| 1935 | Helldorado | ||
| 1936 | The Devil-Doll | Marcel | |
| 1936 | The Garden Murder Case | Dr. Garden | |
| 1936 | The Mine with the Iron Door | ||
| 1936 | Hearts in Bondage | Captain Buchanan | |
| 1936 | The Last Outlaw | Under Sheriff Calvin Yates | Screening on Broadway when Walthall died |
| 1936 | China Clipper | Dad | Walthall collapsed on the set after completing his scenes and died three weeks later |
Referensi sunting
- ^ Katz, Ephraim (1998). The Film Encyclopedia (edisi ke-3rd). New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN 0-06-273492-X.
- ^ "Obituaries: Henry B. Walthall". Variety: 78. June 24, 1936. Diakses tanggal 2014-12-22.
- ^ "Chats with the Players: Henry B. Walthall". Motion Picture Magazine: 113–115. October 1915. Diakses tanggal 2014-12-22.
- ^ "Henry Walthall, Film Actor, Dead; Veteran of Early Cinema, 58, Made Reputation in 'The Birth of a Nation'". The New York Times. July 18, 1936.
- "Henry B. Walthall". Internet Broadway Database. Diakses tanggal 2014-12-22.
- Capra, Frank (1971). The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography. New York: The MacMillan Company. OCLC 468875274.
- Gish, Lillian (1969). Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. OCLC 3175012.
- ^ . AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2015-12-27. Diakses tanggal 2014-12-22.
- ^ . AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2015-12-27. Diakses tanggal 2014-12-22.
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- Henry B. Walthall di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- Henry B. Walthall di Internet Broadway Database
- Tribute Site
- portrait of Henry B. Walthall (moviecard)
- Literature on Henry B. Walthall
