Henry B. Walthall
Birthday: 16 March 1878, Shelby City, Alabama, USA
Birth Name: Henry Brazeale Walthall
Height: 170 cm
Henry B. Walthall was a respected stage actor who became a favorite of pioneering film director D.W. Griffith. Born in 1878 in Alabama, Walthall embarked on a law career but quit law school in 1898 to ...Show More
[about getting the role of Holofernes in Judith of Bethulia (1914)] I hadn't expected to play Holofe Show more
[about getting the role of Holofernes in Judith of Bethulia (1914)] I hadn't expected to play Holofernes because I wasn't the type physically. I stayed away from the studio, but [director D.W. Griffith] sent for me. I said, "I can't play the part; I'm too much of a shrimp". But he had tried out a lot of actors, and finally decided that I could do the part to suit him better than anybody else could. So he found a way, just as he always did. He put me on a pedestal and put brass armor on me. I looked like a giant. I stayed up there either on my throne or on a couch all the time. I had two broadswords, and I threw those broadswords around like a giant. The only other time you saw me I was riding in a chariot across the battlefield and, of course, that made me look tall. No, Griffith never said to me, "You're too small!" Hide
Henry B. Walthall's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (10)
Henry B. Walthall'S roles
Col. Ben Cameron
Colonel Marshall
