- One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
- Barthelmess made 75 films in the twenty years between his first feature in 1916 and his semi-retirement from the screen in 1936. He appeared in only six more films between 1936 and 1942. His silent films number 57. His early talkies number 19.
- Co-founder of Inspiration Pictures along with Charles H. Duell and Henry King in 1921.
- Screen actor and film producer.
- Son of actress Caroline Harris.
- Interred at the Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA.
- Founder of Richard Barthelmess Productions, a film production company, in 1923.
- His great uncle, the Reverend William Boone, was the first Episcopal Bishop of Shanghai, China, and his great grandfather was the first Episcopal Bishop in China.
- In February of 1914, Barthelmess and another Trinity College student were booked on drunkenness charges. The prosecutor, not wanting to blemish their student records, let them go.
- Had one daughter, Mary, with Mary Hay.
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