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Henry Kolker

Henry Kolker

Actor · Born 1874-11-12 · Berlin, Germany

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Holiday (1938) — Edward Seton
  2. Baby Face (1933) — J.R. Carter
  3. Mad Love (1935) — Prefect Rosset
  4. Imitation of Life (1934) — Dr. Preston (uncredited)
  5. Union Pacific (1939) — Asa M. Barrows
  6. A Woman's Face (1941) — Judge
  7. The Black Room (1935) — Baron de Berghman
  8. Bullets or Ballots (1936) — Mr. Hollister
  9. Bluebeard (1944) — Deschamps
  10. Theodora Goes Wild (1936) — Jonathan Grant
  11. Jewel Robbery (1932) — Baron Franz Hohenfels
  12. Romeo and Juliet (1936) — Friar Laurence
  13. Abraham Lincoln (1930) — New Englander (uncredited)
  14. Marie Antoinette (1938) — Court Aide (uncredited)
  15. Coquette (1929) — Jasper Carter
  16. Black Moon (1934) — The Psychiatrist
  17. The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) — Horace Smith
  18. The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) — Warder (uncredited)
  19. Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) — Paul Lamartine
  20. Great Guy (1936) — Abel Canning
  21. The Ghost Walks (1934) — Dr. Kent
  22. The Real Glory (1939) — The General
  23. Now and Forever (1934) — Mr. Clark
  24. Wonder Bar (1934) — R. H. Renaud
  25. Too Hot to Handle (1938) — Pearly Todd
  26. The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) — District Attorney Stacey
  27. Reunion in France (1942) — General Bartholomew (uncredited)
  28. Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) — Theodore Arno
  29. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) — Nicolo Polo
  30. The Power and the Glory (1933) — Mr. Borden
  31. The Valiant (1929) — Judge
  32. The Keyhole (1933) — Schuyler Brooks
  33. The Girl from Missouri (1934) — Senator Titcombe
  34. The Yellow Ticket (1931) — Passport Clerk
  35. Hello, Sister! (1933) — Jameson Brewster - Bank President
  36. Rasputin and the Empress (1932) — Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
  37. I Loved a Woman (1933) — Mr. Sanborn
  38. A Lost Lady (1934) — John Ormsby
  39. Reckless (1935) — Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
  40. Journal of a Crime (1934) — Henri Marcher

Directed

  1. The Woman Michael Married (1919) — Director
  2. A Man's Country (1919) — Director
  3. The Great Well (1924) — Director
  4. Heart of Twenty (1920) — Director
  5. Disraeli (1921) — Director
  6. The Purple Highway (1923) — Director
  7. The Greatest Love (1920) — Director
  8. I Will Repay (1924) — Director
  9. The Fighter (1921) — Director
  10. Bucking the Tiger (1921) — Director
  11. The Leopardess (1923) — Director
  12. The Palace of Darkened Windows (1920) — Director
  13. The Snow Bride (1923) — Director
  14. The Third Generation (1920) — Director
  15. Sant'Ilario (1923) — Director