A Kansas native whose parents had once performed on stage, Pallette attended Culver Military Academy before spending six years in stock-company theatre and even working as a jockey, experiences that shaped his early performing skills. He entered silent cinema as an extra and stuntman around 1910, earning his first credit in the short Western The Fugitive (1913) and soon appearing in D. W. Griffith… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 The Birth of a Nation 1915 The Lady Eve 1941 ★ 7.3 The Lady Eve 1941
Horace Pike ★ 7.1 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916
Prosper Latour (French Story) ★ 7.2 The Mark of Zorro 1940
Friar Felipe ★ 7 Shanghai Express 1932
Sam Salt ★ 6.9 Heaven Can Wait 1943
E.F. Strabel ★ 6.9 The Battle of the Century 1927
Insurance agent (uncredited) ★ 6.7 Topper 1937
Casey ★ 6.9 The Bride Came C.O.D. 1941
Lucius K. Winfield ★ 6.7 The Ghost Goes West 1935
Mr. Joe Martin ★ 6.7 Stowaway 1936
Colonel ★ 6.6 The Love Parade 1929
Minister of War ★ 6.4 One Hundred Men and a Girl 1937
John R. Frost ★ 6.4 The Three Musketeers 1921
Aramis ★ 6.4 Tales of Manhattan 1942
Luther ★ 6.4 Swamp Water 1941
Jeb McKane ★ 6.2 Suspense 1946
Harry Wheeler ★ 6.4 The Ten Commandments 1923
Israelite Slave (uncredited) ★ 6.2 The Second 100 Years 1927
Dinner Host (uncredited) ★ 6 Sugar Daddies 1927
Hardy look-alike ★ 5.8 The Big Street 1942
Nicely Nicely Johnson ★ 5.9 Chicago 1927
Rodney Casley ★ 5.9 Bordertown 1935
Charles 'Charlie' Roark ★ 5.8 The Canary Murder Case 1929
Sergeant Heath ★ 6.1 The Kennel Murder Case 1933
Detective Heath ★ 5.9 The Gang's All Here 1943
Andrew Mason Sr. ★ 5.6 The Stolen Jools 1931
Reporter ★ 5 Fighting Caravans 1931
Seth Higgins ★ 5.2 Tarzan of the Apes 1918
★ 5.9 The Birth of a Nation 1915
Union Soldier (uncredited) Start from another title 
