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Richard Arlen

Richard Arlen

Acting
30 Aug 1899
† 28 Mar 1976
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Biography

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...

Also Known As

Van Mattimore, Dick Arlen, Sylvanus Richard Mattimore

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