Birthday
1899/08/30
Day of death
1976/03/28 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Also know as
Van Mattimore, Dick Arlen, Sylvanus Richard Mattimore
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...Read more
(1932) Island of Lost Souls
as Edward Parker
(1932) Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
as Self (uncredited)
(1933) Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as Self
(1933) Alice in Wonderland
as Cheshire Cat
(1929) Thunderbolt
as Bob Moran
(1979) The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(1923) Hollywood
as Richard Arlen
(1927) Wings
as David Armstrong
(1929) The Virginian
as Steven 'Steve'
(1959) Warlock
as Bacon
(1925) The Coast of Folly
as Bather
(1925) In the Name of Love
as Dumas Dufrayne
(1946) Accomplice
as Simon Lash
(1943) Submarine Alert
as Lewis J. 'Lee' Deerhold
(1963) The Crawling Hand
as Lee Barrenger
(1928) Feel My Pulse
as Her Problem
(1933) Three-Cornered Moon
as Dr. Alan Stevens
(1943) Minesweeper
as Richard Houston
(1927) Rolled Stockings
as Ralph Treadway
(1928) Beggars of Life
as The Boy (Jim)
(1935) Helldorado
as Art Ryan
(1945) Identity Unknown
as Johnny March
(1953) Sabre Jet
as Gen. Robert E 'Bob' Hale
(1966) Johnny Reno
as Ned Duggan
(1967) Red Tomahawk
as Deadwood Telegrapher
(1929) The Four Feathers
as Lt. Harry Faversham
(1929) The Man I Love
as Joe "Dum-Dum" Brooks
(1944) Storm Over Lisbon
as John Craig
(1932) Tiger Shark
as Pipes Boley
(1944) The Big Bonanza
as Capt. Jed Kilton
(1930) The Light of Western Stars
as Dick Bailey
(1932) Guilty as Hell
as Frank C. Marsh
(1955) Blonde Blackmailer
as Tony Pelassier
(1929) Dangerous Curves
as Larry Lee
(1944) The Lady and the Monster
as Dr. Patrick Cory
(1937) Artists & Models
as Alan Townsend
(1968) Rogue's Gallery
as Man in Club
(1935) Let 'em Have It
as Mal Stevens
(1948) When My Baby Smiles at Me
as Harvey Howell
(1930) Only Saps Work
as Larry Payne
(1964) Young Fury
as Sheriff Jenkins
(1933) College Humor
as Mondrake
(1968) Buckskin
as Townsman
(1938) Call of The Yukon
as Gaston Rogers
(1965) Apache Uprising
as Captain Gannon
(1936) Three Live Ghosts
as William 'Bill' Jones, an alias of William Foster
(1964) Law of the Lawless
as Ben the Bartender
(1965) Black Spurs
as Pete
(1948) Speed to Spare
as Cliff Jordan
(1944) That's My Baby!
as Tim Jones
(1939) The Man from Montreal
as Clark Manning
(1928) Ladies of the Mob
as Red
(1937) Secret Valley
as Lee Rogers
(1931) The Lawyer's Secret
as Joe Hart
(1938) Straight, Place and Show
as Denny Paine
(1930) Dangerous Paradise
as Heyst
(1952) The Blazing Forest
as Joe Morgan
(1943) Aerial Gunner
as Jon Davis
(1961) Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1942) Wildcat
as Johnny Maverick
(1967) Hostile Guns
as Sheriff Travis
(1941) A Dangerous Game
as Dick Williams
(1930) Burning Up
as Lou Larrigan
(1937) The Great Barrier
as Hickey
(1965) The Human Duplicators
as National Intelligence
(1952) Hurricane Smith
as Brundage
(1944) Timber Queen
as Russell Evans
(1965) Town Tamer
as Doctor Kent
(1945) The Phantom Speaks
as Matt Fraser
(1928) Manhattan Cocktail
as Fred Tilden
(1961) The Last Time I Saw Archie
as Col. Edwin Martin
(1941) Lucky Devils
as Dick McManus
(1940) The Devil's Pipeline
as Dick Talbot
(1926) Behind the Front
as Percy Brown
(1930) The Border Legion
as Jim Cleve
(1966) To the Shores of Hell
as Brig. Gen. F.W. Ramsgate
(1952) Flaming Feather
as Showdown Calhoun
(1956) Hidden Guns
as Sheriff Ward Young
(1943) Alaska Highway
as Woody Ormsby
(1941) Power Dive
as Brad Farrell
(1941) Forced Landing
as Dan Kendall
(1951) Silver City
as Charles Storrs
(1942) A Letter From Bataan
as Pvt. John W. Lewis
(1939) Mutiny on the Blackhawk
as Capt. Robert Lawrence
(1926) Old Ironsides
as Seaman (uncredited)
(1958) The Day of the Trumpet
as Sgt. Jim Heisler
(1934) Ready for Love
as Julian Barrow
(1947) Buffalo Bill Rides Again
as Buffalo Bill
(1940) Swing with Bing
as Himself
(1933) Hell and High Water
as Capt J.J. Jericho
(1960) Raymie
as Chris Garber
(1926) You'd Be Surprised
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1956) The Mountain
as C. W. Rivial
(1963) The Young and the Brave
as Col. Ralph Holbein
(1941) Mutiny in the Arctic
as Dick Barclay
(1941) Raiders of the Desert
as Dick Manning
(1938) No Time to Marry
as Perry Brown
(1939) Missing Daughters
as Wally King
(1939) Tropic Fury
as Dan Burton
(1939) Legion of Lost Flyers
as Gene 'Loop' Gillan
(1940) Danger On Wheels
as "Lucky" Larry Taylor
(1940) The Leather Pushers
as Dick 'Kid' Roberts
(1933) Song of the Eagle
as Bill Hoffman
(1934) She Made Her Bed
as Wild Bill Smith
(1941) Flying Blind
as Jim Clark
(1942) Torpedo Boat
as Skinner Barnes
(1965) The Bounty Killer
as Matthew Ridgeway
(1942) Soaring Stars
as Himself
(1936) The Mine with the Iron Door
as Bob Harvey
(1931) Caught
as Lt. Tom Colton
(1930) The Sea God
as Phillip 'Pink' Barker
(1937) Murder in Greenwich Village
as Steve Havens Jackson Jr.
(1948) The Return of Wildfire
as Dobe Williams
(1932) Wayward
as David Frost
(1964) Sex and the College Girl
as Charles Devon
(1967) Fort Utah
as Sam Tyler
(1940) Black Diamonds
as Walter Norton
(1930) Paramount on Parade
as Hunter (Dream Girl)
(1940) Hot Steel
as Frank Stewart
(1935) The Calling of Dan Matthews
as Dan Matthews
(1950) Kansas Raiders
as Union Captain
(1933) Golden Harvest
as Walt Martin
(1931) The Secret Call
as Tom Blake
(1931) Gun Smoke
as Brad Farley
(1927) She's a Sheik
as Capt. Colton
(1932) Sky Bride
as Bert 'Speed' Condon
(1966) Waco
as Billy Kelly
(1934) Come On, Marines!
as Lucky Davis
(1942) Wrecking Crew
as Matt Carney
(1954) Devil's Point
as John 'Captain' Martin
(1933) How to Break 90 #4: Downswing
as ---
(1930) The Santa Fe Trail
as Stan Hollister
(1932) The All-American
as Gary King
(1931) The Conquering Horde
as Dan McMasters
(1927) Sally in Our Alley
as Jimmie Adams
(1927) The Blood Ship
as John Shreve
(1927) Figures Don't Lie
as Bob Blewe
(1941) Men of the Timberland
as Dick O'Hara
(1935) Hollywood Hobbies
as Himself
(1926) The Enchanted Hill
as Link Halliwell
(1964) The Best Man
as Sen. Oscar Anderson
(1931) Touchdown!
as Dan Curtis
(1928) Under the Tonto Rim
as Edd Denmeade
(1976) A Whale of a Tale
as Mr. Monahan
(1926) Padlocked
as 'Tubby' Clark
(1975) The Sky's the Limit
as Grimes
(1949) Grand Canyon
as Mike Adams
(1976) Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Silent Film Star 2
(1946) The French Key
as Himself (uncredited)
(1950) The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
(1962) The Lucy Show
as Richard
(1963) Petticoat Junction
as Self
(1957) Perry Mason
as Dr. Harrison
(1958) Yancy Derringer
as General Hugh Morgan
(1952) This Is Your Life
as Self
(1950) Your Show of Shows
as ---
(1954) Climax!
as Nevers
(1955) The 20th Century Fox Hour
as ---
(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---
(1965) Branded
as ---
(1959) Lock-Up
as ---
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Damon Ring, Sr.
(1958) Bat Masterson
as John Minor
(1961) The New Breed
as Willits
(1954) The Whistler
as ---
(1960) Coronado 9
as ---
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Christopher Waring
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Sheriff Dan Rainey