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
Boteler in 1921
Born	(1888-10-03)October 3, 1888 Santa Ana, California, U.S.
Died	May 7, 1943(1943-05-07) (aged 54) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Years active	1919–1943
Spouse(s)	Ellen Evelyn James (1918 – May 7, 1943); 4 children

Biography

He was born in Santa Ana, California, and died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack.^[1]

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.^[2] For three years in the mid-1920s, he worked for Douglas MacLean's film company as both actor and writer.^[3]

On Broadway, Boteler appeared in the play The Silent Voice (1914).^[4]

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)