Matheson Lang
Birthday
1879/05/15
Day of death
1948/04/11 (68 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Also know as
Alexander Matheson Lang
Biography
From Wikipedia Matheson Alexander Lang (May 15, 1879 – April 11, 1948) was a Canadian-born stage and film actor and playwright in the early 20th century. He is best remembered for his performances roles in Great Britain in Shakespeare plays. In 1916, Lang became one of the first major theatre stars to act on film, as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, with his wife as Portia. He went on to appear in over 30 films and was one of Britain's leading movie stars of the 1920s. Among his memorable ro...Read more
Acting
(1921) Carnival
as Sylvio Steno
(1927) The King's Highway
as Paul Clifford
(1933) Channel Crossing
as Jacob Van Eeden
(1935) Drake of England
as Francis Drake
(1934) Little Friend
as John Hughes
(1934) The Great Defender
as Sir Douglas Rolls
(1923) The Hell Ship
as Jan Steen
(1926) The Chinese Bungalow
as Yuan Sing
(1926) The Island of Despair
as Stephen Rhodes
(1936) The Cardinal
as Cardinal de Medici
(1930) The Chinese Bungalow
as Yuan Sing
(1924) White Slippers
as Lionel Hazard
(1924) Slaves of Destiny
as Luke Charnock
(1924) Henry, King of Navarre
as Henry
(1922) Dick Turpin's Ride to York
as Dick Turpin
(1922) A Romance of Old Baghdad
as Prince Omar
(1925) The Secret Kingdom
as John Quarrain
(1928) The Blue Peter
as David Hunter
(1931) Carnival
as Silvio Steno
(1917) Masks and Faces
as Coachman
(1928) The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
as Sir Percy Blakeney
(1923) The Wandering Jew
as Matathias
(1918) Victory and Peace
as Edward Arkwright
(1916) The Merchant of Venice
as Shylock