Louis Wolheim

8 films on Best Blurays5 in HD1 in SD2 with no official release

It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as an extra in the Wharton studio but never received much attention. Barrymore had only to look at him once to realize that Wolheim's face was his fortune. Through Barrymore, Wolheim gained an entree into New York theatrical life. On the legitimate stage he made a great success in "Welcome Wing" and "The Hairy Ape", climaxing these plays by his triumph in "What Price Glory". Louis Wolheim died in Los Angeles, California on 18 February 1931, the result of stomach cancer.

Biography from TMDB

By format

List

5 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Leading role · Director: Lewis Milestone

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Capelight Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

While there are no screen cap comparisons, Germany Capelight Blu-ray has more versions than Universal:

From BR forum:
The original film is 155 min but in the Universal restoration, only 133min was available (survived), and for Capelight it has

Germany 1930 dub (103 mins)
Germany 1952 dub (127 mins)
International version (133 mins)
New extended version (141 mins) with never before released footage from one of the Germany versions (+ 8 mins)
Germany TV versions in SD (tinted, silent)

4.2

The Silver Horde (1930)

Leading role · Director: George Archainbaud

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber RKO Classic Adventures Collection Blu-ray

3.0

The Racket (1928)

Leading role · Director: Lewis Milestone

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray

Video Notes:

2K scan of a surviving 35mm safety fine grain provided by the Academy Film Archive

Two Arabian Knights (1927)

Leading role · Director: Lewis Milestone

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

Supporting role · Director: John S. Robertson

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray, old HD master

3.4

1 in SD

DVD, SD streaming, LaserDisc or VHS

Danger Lights (1931)

Leading role · Director: George B. Seitz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

AlphaVideo DVD

2 with no official release

Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost

The Sin Ship (1931)

Leading role · Director: Louis Wolheim

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Video Notes:

Probably sourced from TCM Streaming

Enemies of Women (1923)

Small role · Director: Alan Crosland

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: blogs.loc.gov (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Unofficial Streaming online

Additional Info:

Library of Congress said in 2019 that it's restoring it after it came to public domain and the source material, a nitrate print in the AFI/Marion Davies Collection, is missing reels 3 and 9 of 11, plus suffers from some deterioration in reels 4, 5, and 8. No update since.

Missing a Louis Wolheim film? Suggest it