Niles Welch

Niles Welch, (Niles Eugene Welch) also known as Niles Welsh, (29 July 1888 - 21 November 1976) was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s.

Early life

A native of Hartford, Connecticut, after graduating from St. Paul's School, Welch attended Yale and Columbia University. Later he joined a stock company, and from there toured the U.S. in vaudeville. The first photoplay he worked in was with the Eastern Vitagraph Studios in a picture entitled The Stranger in Grey.

Career

After spending four years on the legitimate stage, Welch started his screen career appearing with World Film Corporation, Universal, Pathé Studios and Goldwyn Pictures. Among his earliest works were two Thomas Ince productions, Stepping Out and The Cup of Life, followed in rapid succession by Miss George Washington, with Marguerite Clark; The Courage of Marge O'Doone, with Pauline Starke; and The Gulf Between (1917) with Grace Darmond, the first feature film produced in the short-lived additive version of Technicolor. His career continued well into the sound era but mainly in bit roles. Later in life, he did wartime foreign-language broadcasts for the Voice of America.

Filmography

• The Only Way (1913)
• The Carpenter (1913)
• Love's Quarantine (1913)
• One Good Joke Deserves Another (1913)
• Our Wives (1913)
• A Yellow Streak (1915)
• Emmy of Stork's Nest (1915)
• A Royal Family (1915)
• Miss George Washington (1916)
• The Garden of Shadows (1916)
• Behind the Veil (1916)
• The Crucial Test (1916)
• The Kiss of Hate (1916)
• Merely Mary Ann (1916)
• Shame (1917)
• The Secret of the Storm Country (1917)
• The Gulf Between (1917)
• One of Many (1917)
• The Face in the Dark (1918)
• The Gates of Gladness (1918)
• Her Boy (1918)
• Beckoning Roads (1919)
• Stepping Out (1919)
• The Virtuous Thief (1919)
• The Law of Men (1919)
• Little Comrade (1919)
• Reclaimed: The Struggle for a Soul Between Love and Hate (1919)
• The Winning Girl (1919)
• Jane Goes A' Wooing (1919)
• The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920)
• The Luck of Geraldine Laird (1920)
• The Way of a Maid (1921)
• The Sin of Martha Queed (1921)
• Remorseless Love (1921)
• The Cup of Life (1921)
• Who Am I? (1921)
• Reputation (1921)
• The Spenders (1921)
• Who Are My Parents? (1922)
• Rags to Riches (1922)
• Under Oath (1922)
• Evidence (1922)
• Reckless Youth (1922)
• Why Announce Your Marriage? (1922)
• The Six-Fifty (1923)
• Sawdust (1923)
• What Wives Want (1923)
• Virtue's Revolt (1924)
• Wine of Youth (1924)
• The Right of the Strongest (1924)
• My Man (1924)
• The Whispered Name (1924)
• The Substitute Wife (1925)
• Ermine and Rhinestones (1925)
• A Little Girl in a Big City (1925)
• Lying Wives (1925)
• The Girl on the Stairs (1925)
• Dangerous Pleasure (1925)
• Fear-Bound (1925)
• Scandal Street (1925)
• Faithful Wives (1926)
• In Borrowed Plumes (1926)
• Spider Webs (1927)
• Carry on Sergeant (1928)
• Hell Divers (1931)
• Convicted (1931)
• The Phantom (1931)
• Sundown Rider (1932)
• Silver Dollar (1932)
• A Scarlet Week-End (1932)
• Come On, Tarzan (1932)
• Night Club Lady (1932)
• McKenna of the Mounted (1932)
• Cornered (1932)
• The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
• Border Devils (1932)
• Cross Examination (1932)
• Manhattan Parade (1932)
• The Rainbow Trail (1932)
• The Women in His Life (1933)
• The Wolf Dog (1933)
• Dangerous Crossroads (1933)
• The Lone Avenger (1933)
• Zoo in Budapest (1933)
• The Constant Woman (1933)
• The Mysterious Rider (1933)
• The Fighting Code (1933)
• Let's Fall in Love (1933)
• The Secret Bride (1934)
• Jealousy (1934)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
• We're Rich Again (1934)
• Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
• Cross Streets (1934)
• Here Comes the Navy (1934)
• I Believed in You (1934)
• The Show-Off (1934)
• This Side of Heaven (1934)
• The Singing Vagabond (1935)
• The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935)
• Music Is Magic (1935)
• Shipmates Forever (1935)
• Riding Wild (1935)
• Stranded (1935)
• Air Hawks (1935)
• The Miracle Rider (1935)
• Stone of Silver Creek (1935)
• Living on Velvet (1935)
• Death Flies East (1935)
• Tomorrow's Youth (1935)
• The Ivory-Handled Gun (1935)
• Empty Saddles (1936)
• What Becomes of the Children? (1936)
• To Mary - with Love (1936)
• Mary of Scotland (1936)
• For the Service (1936)
• The Country Beyond (1936)
• Gentle Julia (1936)
• Foolproof (1936)
• Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
• Thirst Aid (1937)
• The Purple Vigilantes (1938)
• Boy in Court (1940)

External links

• Niles Welch at the Internet Movie Database
• Niles Welch at the Internet Broadway Database

Sources

• The New York Times
• Silent Gents
• Niles Welch portrait NY Public Library (Rose Collection)

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Name	Welch, Niles
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Date of birth	29 July 1888
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Date of death	21 November 1976
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