An imposing character actor from the stage, Walter Rodgers made a screen career of portraying Ulysses S. Grant. Rodgers was Grant in D.W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1924), Hoot Gibson's The Flaming Frontier (1926), The Heart of Maryland, and the talkies Silver Dollar (1932) and Gold Is Where You Find It (1938). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi