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Larry Wheat

{{Short description|American actor (1876–1963)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2015}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Larry Wheat

| image = Larry Wheat in Irene.jpg

| caption = Wheat in Irene (1926)

| birth_name = Laurence Wheat

| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|10|10}}

| birth_place = Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|8|7|1876|10|20}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| resting_place = Hollywood Forever Cemetery

| occupation = Actor

| spouse =

| relatives = Kate Rolla (sister)

| years_active = 1921–1947

}}

Laurence Wheat (October 10, 1876 – August 7, 1963) was an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras.

Biography

Born on October 20, 1876,{{cite web | url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Wheat&GSfn=Larry&GSby=1876&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1963&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=7936818&df=all& | publisher=Find a Grave | title=Larry Wheat | accessdate=January 23, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123154838/http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Wheat&GSfn=Larry&GSby=1876&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1963&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=7936818&df=all& | archivedate=January 23, 2015}} in Wheeling, West Virginia, Wheat entered the film industry in 1921 with a supporting role in the film, The Land of Hope, which starred Jason Robards Sr.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=1548 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=The Land of Hope | accessdate=January 23, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402050446/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=1548 | archivedate=April 2, 2014}} During his 27-year career he would appear in over 70 films, in small and supporting roles, many of which were unbilled.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&Type=PN&Tbl=&CatID=DATABIN_CAST&ID=95748&searchedFor=Larry_Wheat_&SortType=ASC&SortCol=RELEASE_YEAR | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Larry Wheat | accessdate=January 23, 2015}} Some of the more notable films in which Wheat appeared include: Peck's Bad Boy (1934), starring Jackie Cooper;{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=6359 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Peck's Bad Boy | accessdate=January 23, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329211645/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=6359 | archivedate=March 29, 2014}} Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur;{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=6328 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | accessdate=January 23, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026054401/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=6328 | archivedate=October 26, 2014}} 1936's The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy;{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=8351 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=The Great Ziegfeld | accessdate=January 23, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402051618/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=8351 | archivedate=April 2, 2014}} arguably one of the greatest films ever made, Citizen Kane (1941), directed, starring and co-written by Orson Welles;{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=27624 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Citizen Kane | accessdate=January 23, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025073736/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=27624 | archivedate=October 25, 2014}} the classic film noir, Murder, My Sweet (1944), directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, and Anne Shirley;{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24087 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Murder, My Sweet | accessdate=January 23, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428043538/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24087 | archivedate=April 28, 2014}} and 1946's The Spiral Staircase, with Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, and Ethel Barrymore.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24977 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=The Spiral Staircase | accessdate=January 23, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430035806/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24977 | archivedate=April 30, 2014}} Wheat's final film role would be in a small unbilled role in the 1947 film, Killer McCoy, starring Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy and Ann Blyth.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=25229 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Killer McCoy | accessdate=January 23, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329171637/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=25229 | archivedate=March 29, 2014}} Wheat died on August 7, 1963, in Los Angeles, California, and was buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Wheat's older sister was opera singer Kate Rolla.{{Cite journal|date=May 24, 1905|title=Footlights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKdEAQAAMAAJ&q=Kate+Rolla&pg=PP324|journal=The Club-Fellow}}{{Cite journal|date=July 1911|title=A Thespian Jack-of-All-Trades|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXIhAQAAMAAJ&q=Kate+Rolla&pg=PA211|journal=The Green Book Magazine|volume=6|pages=211}}

Filmography

(Per AFI database)

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Category:American male silent film actors

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:American male film actors

Category:Male actors from West Virginia

Category:Actors from Wheeling, West Virginia

Category:1876 births

Category:1963 deaths

Category:Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery