Mark Stebbing in the Vitagraph film The Better Man, based on the novel by Cyrus Townsend Brady.

Courtleigh played opposite Ann Pennington in her first two films, Susie Snowflake and The Rainbow Princess, both released in 1916.

His last film, Children of Destiny, another Brady story, was released in 1920 by Weber Productions.

[3] In July 1915, Courtleigh married actress Ethel Fleming,[5] whom he met when they were working for different companies at a studio in Long Beach, California.

[6] Courtleigh died in Philadelphia on March 13, 1918, an early casualty of the worldwide flu pandemic at age 26.