Lucien Littlefield

Actor

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Also Known As

Lucien Rameses Littlefield, Lucien L. Littlefield

Birth Place

San Antonio, Texas, USA

Born

August 16, 1895

Died

June 04, 1960

Biography

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Lucien Littlefield was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1913, he began his film career. Littlefield's career in acting began with his roles in various films like "The Hostage" (1917), "Everywoman" (1919) and "Why Change Your Wife?" (1920) with Gloria Swanson. He also appeared in "The Sheik" (1921) with Rudolph Valentino, "Rent Free" (1922) and "The Siren Call" (19...

Filmography

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The High Cost of Loving (1958)

Wink of an Eye (1958)

Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957)

Professor Winthrop

Sudden Danger (1955)

Casanova's Big Night (1954)

The Roar of the Crowd (1953)

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Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Learned A Terrible Lesson

Murder Man, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Very Fatally Dead

Biography

Lucien Littlefield was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1913, he began his film career. Littlefield's career in acting began with his roles in various films like "The Hostage" (1917), "Everywoman" (1919) and "Why Change Your Wife?" (1920) with Gloria Swanson. He also appeared in "The Sheik" (1921) with Rudolph Valentino, "Rent Free" (1922) and "The Siren Call" (1922). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the thirties, appearing in the comedy "Strangers of the Evening" (1932) with ZaSu Pitts, "Downstairs" (1932) with John Gilbert and the dramatic adaptation "Broken Lullaby" (1932) with Lionel Barrymore. He also appeared in the comedy adaptation "High Pressure" (1932) with William Powell. In the latter half of his career, he continued to act in the Gary Cooper dramatic adventure "Souls at Sea" (1937), the Joe E Brown drama "The Gladiator" (1938) and the John Wayne western "Born to the West" (1938). He also appeared in the Neil Hamilton mystery "Hollywood Stadium Mystery" (1938) and "Wide Open Faces" (1938). Littlefield more recently acted on "Circus Boy" (NBC, 1956-58). Littlefield passed away in June 1960 at the age of 65.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The High Cost of Loving (1958)

Wink of an Eye (1958)

Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957)

Professor Winthrop

Sudden Danger (1955)

Casanova's Big Night (1954)

The Roar of the Crowd (1953)

Woman of the North Country (1952)

At Sword's Point (1952)

Corporal Gautier

Susanna Pass (1949)

Russell Masters

Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)

Old man in claim office

Let's Live a Little (1948)

Jinx Money (1948)

Lightnin' in the Forest (1948)

Hollow Triumph (1948)

The Fabulous Joe (1947)

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1947)

Telephone clerk

Sweet Genevieve (1947)

Down to Earth (1947)

Rendezvous with Annie (1946)

That Brennan Girl (1946)

In Old Sacramento (1946)

Scared Stiff (1945)

Charles Waldeck/Preston Waldeck

The Caribbean Mystery (1945)

Lights of Old Santa Fe (1944)

One Body Too Many (1944)

Goodnight, Sweetheart (1944)

The Cowboy and the Senorita (1944)

When the Lights Go on Again (1944)

Casanova in Burlesque (1944)

John Alden Compton

Lady, Let's Dance! (1944)

Zorro's Black Whip (1944)

Johnny Come Lately (1943)

Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (1943)

Silent Witness (1943)

Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943)

Larceny, Inc. (1942)

The Great Man's Lady (1942)

Castle in the Desert (1942)

Mr. & Mrs. North (1942)

Whistling in Dixie (1942)

Corporal Lucken

Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942)

Bells of Capistrano (1942)

Daniel McCracken

This Time for Keeps (1942)

The Little Foxes (1941)

The Great American Broadcast (1941)

Justice of the Peace [Apperson Biggs]

Life with Henry (1941)

Henry Aldrich for President (1941)

Man at Large (1941)

Murder Among Friends (1941)

Li'l Abner (1940)

The Westerner (1940)

Those Were the Days! (1940)

Professor Sillicocks

What a Life (1939)

Unmarried (1939)

School principal

Money to Burn (1939)

Pirates of the Skies (1939)

Dr. [Amos] Pettingill

Mystery Plane (1939)

Jeepers Creepers (1939)

Sabotage (1939)

Scandal Street (1938)

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1938)

Wide Open Faces (1938)

P. T. "Doc" Williams

The Night Hawk (1938)

Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)

The Gladiator (1938)

Professor Abner Danner

Reckless Living (1938)

I Am the Law (1938)

Partners in Crime (1937)

Born to the West (1937)

John, the cattle buyer

Wild Money (1937)

Souls at Sea (1937)

Thunder Trail (1937)

Hotel Haywire (1937)

High, Wide and Handsome (1937)

Wells Fargo (1937)

Postmaster, San Francisco

Rose-Marie (1936)

The Moon's Our Home (1936)

Early to Bed (1936)

Let's Sing Again (1936)

Superintendent Henry Perkins

Magnificent Obsession (1936)

Murder Man (1935)

The Return of Peter Grimm (1935)

Colonel Tom Lawton

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Charles Belknap-Jackson

Sweepstake Annie (1935)

Mr. Henry Foster

One Frightened Night (1935)

I Dream Too Much (1935)

She Gets Her Man (1935)

Cappy Ricks Returns (1935)

The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

Carnival (1935)

Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

Professor Hi De Ho

Thirty Day Princess (1934)

Mandalay (1934)

Love Time (1934)

Willie Obenbiegler

Kiss and Make-Up (1934)

When Strangers Meet (1934)

Marrying Widows (1934)

Gridiron Flash (1934)

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Father William's Son

Sailor's Luck (1933)

The Big Brain (1933)

Justice of Peace

East of Fifth Avenue (1933)

Sweepings (1933)

Professional Sweetheart (1933)

Sons of the Desert (1933)

Dr. Horace Meddick

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

Mr. [Willis] Jackson

Chance at Heaven (1933)

Rainbow over Broadway (1933)

Timothy Chibbins

Downstairs (1932)

Strangers in Love (1932)

Professor Clark

Evenings for Sale (1932)

That's My Boy (1932)

Broken Lullaby (1932)

Strangers of the Evening (1932)

Speed Madness (1932)

The Pride of the Legion (1932)

Shopworn (1932)

High Pressure (1932)

Miss Pinkerton (1932)

If I Had a Million (1932)

Scandal Sheet (1931)

It Pays to Advertise (1931)

Young As You Feel (1931)

Mr. Noah Marley

Reducing (1931)

Misbehaving Ladies (1931)

High Society Blues (1930)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1930)

No, No, Nanette (1930)

Clancy in Wall Street (1930)

She's My Weakness (1930)

Tom Sawyer (1930)

Dark Streets (1929)

Saturday's Children (1929)

This Is Heaven (1929)

Clear the Decks (1929)

Making the Grade (1929)

The Great Divide (1929)

The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929)

A Ship Comes In (1928)

Mother Knows Best (1928)

Do Your Duty (1928)

A Blonde for a Night (1928)

Harold Teen (1928)

The Man in Hobbles (1928)

The Head Man (1928)

Heart to Heart (1928)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1928)

A Texas Steer (1927)

The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Cheating Cheaters (1927)

Taxi Taxi (1927)

My Best Girl (1927)

The Small Bachelor (1927)

Tony Runs Wild (1926)

Brooding Eyes (1926)

The Torrent (1926)

Bachelor Brides (1926)

Twinkletoes (1926)

Take It From Me (1926)

Soul Mates (1925)

Gold and the Girl (1925)

Charley's Aunt (1925)

Tumbleweeds (1925)

The Rainbow Trail (1925)

Innocent Husbands (1925)

What Price Goofy? (1925)

True as Steel (1924)

Mr. Foote, secretary

Edward Littlefield

The Painted Lady (1924)

The Deadwood Coach (1924)

Never Say Die (1924)

Gerald Cranston's Lady (1924)

Stanley Tilotson

A Woman Who Sinned (1924)

Reverend Hillburn

Gold Heels (1924)

Name the Man (1924)

The Tiger's Claw (1923)

Mr. Billings Spends His Dime (1923)

The Rendezvous (1923)

Three Wise Fools (1923)

The French Doll (1923)

Dobbs, the butler

In the Palace of the King (1923)

To Have and To Hold (1922)

Duke of Buckingham

Our Leading Citizen (1922)

Rent Free (1922)

The Siren Call (1922)

Across the Continent (1922)

Her Husband's Trademark (1922)

Manslaughter (1922)

The Little Clown (1921)

The Hell Diggers (1921)

Too Much Speed (1921)

Crazy To Marry (1921)

The Sheik (1921)

The Fourteenth Man (1920)

Wesley Colfax Winslow

The Round-Up (1920)

The Sins of St. Anthony (1920)

Lieut. Humphrey Smith

Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

The Furnace (1920)

Sick Abed (1920)

Jack Straw (1920)

Double Speed (1920)

Eyes of the Heart (1920)

Her First Elopement (1920)

Everywoman (1919)

The Cost of Hatred (1917)

The Hostage (1917)

The Jaguar's Claws (1917)

The Golden Fetter (1917)

The Squaw Man's Son (1917)

To Have and to Hold (1916)

The Blacklist (1916)

Frederick Holtz

The Warrens of Virginia (1915)

Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915)

The Wild Goose Chase (1915)

A Gentleman of Leisure (1915)

The Ghost Breaker (1914)

Writer (Feature Film)

Early to Bed (1936)

Cast (Special)

The Fabulous Sycamores (1955)

Cast (Short)

How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 9 "The Driver" (1931)

Life Events

1913

Began his film career

Videos

Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Learned A Terrible Lesson Framing and scale from Columbia and director Frank Capra, opening the first feature shown (to surprisingly weak box office) at Radio City Music Hall, Clara Blandick greeting fellow missionaries in China, Emmett Corrigan the sanguine bishop, in The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther.

Murder Man, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Very Fatally Dead In the press room at the precinct, crime beat reporters (William Demarest, Bobby Watson, Lucien Littlefield, Fuzzy Knight, and James Stewart as "Shorty") get word of a big time killing, early in The Murder Man, 1935.

Larceny, Inc. (1942) -- (Movie Clip) What Do You Expect For $9.75? Ex-Con and new luggage shop owner Pressure (Edward G. Robinson), hiding his scheme to tunnel into the bank next door, gets rid of his adopted daughter Denny (Jane Wyman) and a salesman (Jack Carson), tells partner Jug (Broderick Crawford) to keep digging, then lays some attitude on a customer (Lucien Littlefield) in Larceny Inc., 1942.

Shopworn (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Study Of The Human Body After routine jousting with the coarser college crowd led by Toby (Robert Alden) waitress Kitty (Barbara Stanwyck) has an adversarial but promising tiff with studious David (Regis Toomey), in Shopworn, 1932.

Return Of Peter Grimm, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Raise Flowers Not Spirits! Opening scene, Lionel Barrymore as grumpy florist Grimm, the reluctant host of a seance run by his medium friend Dr. MacPherson (Edward Ellis), Donald Meek, Ethel Griffies among the irritated guests, in the RKO remake of The Return Of Peter Grimm, 1936, based on a play by David Belasco.

Reducing -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Beasley Marie (Marie Dressler) juggles her decorating, her daughter (Anita Page) and her two suitors, (William Bakewell, Buster Collier Jr.) her sons and her husband in Reducing, 1931.

Ruggles Of Red Gap - (Re-issue trailer) A British valet (Charles Laughton) must adapt to the Wild West when he is won in a poker game in Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935).

Family

Constance Palmer

Daughter

Bibliography

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