Actor, director
After retiring from acting he moved to Detroit, Michigan and became a director-producer of industrial films.
Brother of actress Margaret Landis.
As a juvenile had aspired to become a railway engineer.
Made training films for the military as a captain with US Army Signal Corps in the South Pacific during WW II. After the war he made documentaries in the Far East for the U.S. State Department.
American silent screen star, from a theatrical background. In films from 1917 as the hero of romantic melodramas, action films and serials.
