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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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