Gladden James


Gladden James was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1911 and 1946. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio and died in Hollywood, California, from leukemia.

Family

In 1914 he married Julia Nagl, a 1911 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Nebraska and later a Broadway actress who he appeared with in Officer 666, in Texas while on a picture taking assignment with the US government. They had one child, Jacqueline F. James, a medical doctor, before divorcing in 1917.

Partial filmography

The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray The Man Who Couldn't Beat God Mortmain In Honor's Web Thou Shalt Not The Road of Ambition Bucking the Tiger The Broken Violin Marry in Haste Sweet Sixteen Paradise Island Gabriel Over the White House The Mayor of Hell Queen Christina The Captain Hates the Sea The Whole Town's Talking Charlie Chan in Shanghai Annie Oakley Magnificent Obsession Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Captain January Charlie Chan at the Opera Captains Courageous The Toast of New York Mr. Moto's Gamble Test Pilot Boys Town Rose of Washington Square Another Thin Man Swanee River The Earl of Chicago Johnny Apollo Maryland I Wanted Wings The People vs. Dr. Kildare Design for Scandal For Me and My Gal Tennessee Johnson The Meanest Man in the World Wilson Casanova Brown Week-End at the Waldorf Adventure The Hoodlum Saint The Strange Love of Martha Ivers