Wade Boteler
Wade Boteler (October 3, 1888 – May 7, 1943) was an American film actor and writer. He appeared in more than 430 films between 1919 and 1943.
Wade Boteler

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- Name
- Wade Boteler
- Born
- 3 October 1888
- Birthplace
- Santa Ana, California, U.S.
- Died
- 7 May 1943
- Place of death
- Hollywood, California, U.S.
- Spouse
- Ellen Evelyn James (1918 – May 7, 1943); 4 children
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- actor · screenwriter
- Languages
- English
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Wade Boteler (October 3, 1888 – May 7, 1943) was an American film actor and writer. He appeared in more than 430 films between 1919 and 1943.
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Wade Boteler (1888–1943) was an actor and screenwriter, of American nationality. The actor was born in Santa Ana and died in Hollywood. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Wade Boteler • Born — 3 October 1888 • Birthplace — Santa Ana, California, U.S. • Died — 7 May 1943 • Place of death — Hollywood, California, U.S. • Years Active — 1919–1943 • Spouse — Ellen Evelyn James (1918 – May 7, 1943); 4 children
Biography
Biography
He was born in Santa Ana, California, and died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack. Boteler graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After he graduated, he stayed there as a director until he joined the Army in World War I. For three years in the mid-1920s, he worked for Douglas MacLean's film company as both actor and writer. On Broadway, Boteler appeared in the play The Silent Voice (1914).
Partial filmography
Partial filmography
• The False Road (1920) • Lahoma (1920) • An Old Fashioned Boy (1920) • She Couldn't Help It (1920) • Ducks and Drakes (1921) • The Home Stretch (1921) • Fifty Candles (1921) • One Man in a Million (1921) • Blind Hearts (1921) • At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern (1922) • Deserted at the Altar (1922) • Don't Shoot (1922) • The Lying Truth (1922) • The Woman's Side (1922) • Ridin' Wild (1922) • Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923) • The Social Buccaneer (1923) • The Ghost Patrol (1923) • Going Up (1923) • A Man of Action (1923) • Hit and Run (1924) • Through the Dark (1924) • Never Say Die (1924) • Capital Punishment (1925) • Introduce Me (1925) • Jimmie's Millions (1925) • Marriage in Transit (1925) • Havoc (1925) • Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925) • The Last Edition (1925) • Hold That Lion (1926) • That's My Baby (1926) • Let It Rain (1927) • Soft Cushions (1927) • The Baby Cyclone (1928) • Top Sergeant Mulligan (1928) • The Crash (1928) • A Woman Against the World (1928) • Warming Up (1928) (uncredited) • The Toilers (1928) • The Flying Fleet (1929) • The Godless Girl (1929) (uncredited) • Navy Blues (1929) • The Leatherneck (1929) • Dynamite (1929) • Soldiers and Women (1930) • The Devil's Holiday (1930) • Midnight Daddies (1930) • The Way of All Men (1930) • 24 Hours (1931) • Possessed (1931) (uncredited) • The Painted Desert (1931) • Manhattan Tower (1932) • The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) • The Death Kiss (1932) • Speed Demon (1932) • Come on Danger! (1932) • Speed Madness (1932) • End of the Trail (1932) • Hello, Sister! (1933) • Advice to the Lovelorn (1933) • The Kennel Murder Case (1933) (uncredited) • Duck Soup (1933) (uncredited) • Queen Christina (1933) (uncredited) • Hold Your Man (1933) (uncredited) • Unknown Valley (1933) • A Man's Game (1934) • Among the Missing (1934) • Black Fury (1935) • The Headline Woman (1935) • Society Doctor (1935) • Cheers of the Crowd 1935) • Streamline Express (1935) • The Goose and the Gander (1935) • The Bride Walks Out (1936) • The Magnificent Brute (1936) • Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936) • Alibi for Murder (1936) • Shakedown (1936) • Human Cargo (1936) • It Can't Last Forever (1937) • The Frame-Up (1937) • 52nd Street (1937) • The Marines Are Here (1938) • Valley of the Giants (1938) • Youth Takes a Fling (1938) • The Roaring Twenties (1939) (uncredited) • The Oklahoma Kid (1939) • The Green Hornet (1940) • Ski Patrol (1940) • Hot Steel (1940) • Castle on the Hudson (1940) • Three Faces West (1940) • The Howards of Virginia (1940) • Under Texas Skies (1940) • The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941), as Michael Axford, Britt Reid's bodyguard. • Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (1941) • Strange Alibi (1941) • The Body Disappears (1941) • Highway West (1941) • Pacific Blackout (1941) • Timber (1942) • The Secret Code (1942) • I Was Framed (1942) • Escape from Crime (1942) • Find the Blackmailer (1943) • The Last Ride (1944)

Still from the American comedy mystery film Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925).
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Film actor Wade Boteler.
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- 1.Katchmer, George A. A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. 34–35. 2009. 9781476609058.
- 2.A conservative in films, Boteler achieves quietly. The Los Angeles Times. 41. July 15, 1928.
- 3.Wade Boteler Free-Lances in Butler Film. The Los Angeles Times. 42. July 31, 1927.
- 4.Playbill. Wade Boteler. Playbill Vault.
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