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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 12, 1874
Place of Birth:
Berlin, Germany
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Henry Kolker
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Bluebeard | Deschamps |
| 1943 | Sarong Girl | Jefferson Baxter |
| 1942 | Reunion in France | General Bartholomew (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Sing for Your Supper | Myron T. Hayworth |
| 1941 | A Woman's Face | Judge |
| 1941 | The Great Swindle | Stewart Cordell |
| 1941 | Las Vegas Nights | William Stevens Sr. |
| 1941 | The Parson of Panamint | Judge Arnold Mason |
| 1941 | The Man Who Lost Himself | T.J. Mulhausen |
| 1940 | Money and the Woman | Mr. Rollins |
| 1940 | Grand Ole Opry | William C. Scully |
| 1939 | Hidden Power | Weston |
| 1939 | Let Us Live | Chief of Police |
| 1939 | Here I Am a Stranger | R.J. Bennett |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Asa M. Barrows |
| 1939 | The Real Glory | The General |
| 1939 | These Glamour Girls | Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Main Street Lawyer | Donnelly, District Attorney |
| 1939 | Parents on Trial | James Wesley |
| 1938 | Holiday | Edward Seton |
| 1938 | The Cowboy and the Lady | Horace Smith |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | Nicolo Polo |
| 1938 | Too Hot to Handle | Pearly Todd |
| 1938 | The Invisible Menace | Col. Hackett |
| 1938 | Love Is a Headache | Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Safety in Numbers | Dr. Lawrence Edmonds |
| 1938 | Marie Antoinette | Court Aide (uncredited) |
| 1937 | They Wanted to Marry | Mr. Hunter |
| 1937 | The Devil Is Driving | Charles Stevens |
| 1937 | Maid of Salem | Crown Chief Justice Laughton |
| 1937 | Once a Doctor | Bruce Nordland |
| 1937 | Thoroughbreds Don't Cry | "Doc" Godfrey |
| 1937 | Under Cover of Night | District Attorney Pritchard |
| 1937 | Green Light | Dr. Lane |
| 1937 | Let Them Live | Judge Lederer |
| 1936 | Bullets or Ballots | Mr. Hollister |
| 1936 | Great Guy | Abel Canning |
| 1936 | The Man Who Lived Twice | Judge Henry Treacher |
| 1936 | Sitting on the Moon | Worthington |
| 1936 | My Marriage | Maj. Vaile |
| 1936 | Theodora Goes Wild | Jonathan Grant |
| 1936 | Romeo and Juliet | Friar Laurence |
| 1936 | Collegiate | Mr. MacGregor |
| 1935 | The Black Room | Baron de Berghman |
| 1935 | Charlie Chan in Paris | Paul Lamartine |
| 1935 | Mad Love | Prefect Rosset |
| 1935 | The Florentine Dagger | Auctioneer |
| 1935 | The Mystery Man | Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas |
| 1935 | Honeymoon Limited | Mr. Randall |
| 1935 | Reckless | Mr. Gearhart (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Society Doctor | Dr. Harvey |
| 1935 | Red Hot Tires | Martin Sanford |
| 1935 | One New York Night | Arthur Carlisle |
| 1935 | Times Square Lady | Mr. Fielding |
| 1935 | A Dog of Flanders | Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Here Comes the Band | Simmon's Attorney |
| 1935 | Red Salute | Dean |
| 1935 | The Case of the Curious Bride | District Attorney Stacey |
| 1935 | I Live My Life | Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited) |
| 1935 | Diamond Jim | J.C. Randolf - Bank President |
| 1935 | Frisco Waterfront | District Attorney |
| 1935 | Shipmates Forever | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1935 | The Last Days of Pompeii | Warder (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Go Into Your Dance | Doctor |
| 1935 | 3 Kids and a Queen | Crippet |
| 1935 | Spring Tonic | Mr. Enix |
| 1934 | Name the Woman | Judge Adams |
| 1934 | Black Moon | The Psychiatrist |
| 1934 | Love Time | Emperor Francis I |
| 1934 | Bedside | Maritza's Manager |
| 1934 | Wonder Bar | R. H. Renaud |
| 1934 | Sing Sing Nights | Kurt Nordon |
| 1934 | A Lost Lady | John Ormsby |
| 1934 | Success at Any Price | Hatfield |
| 1934 | The Ghost Walks | Dr. Kent |
| 1934 | I've Got Your Number | Lawyer Robert Kirkland |
| 1934 | Whom the Gods Destroy | Carlo - the Puppeteer |
| 1934 | The Hell Cat | C.W. Sloane |
| 1934 | Blind Date | J.W. Hartwell Sr. |
| 1934 | The Girl from Missouri | Senator Titcombe |
| 1934 | Lady by Choice | Opper |
| 1934 | The Band Plays On | Professor Hackett |
| 1934 | Let's Try Again | Mr. Blake |
| 1934 | Journal of a Crime | Henri Marcher |
| 1934 | She Loves Me Not | Charles M. Lawton |
| 1934 | One Exciting Adventure | Customer, Oscar |
| 1934 | Now and Forever | Mr. Clark |
| 1934 | Let's Talk It Over | Doctor |
| 1934 | Million Dollar Ransom | Dr. Davis (Uncredited) |
| 1934 | Imitation of Life | Dr. Preston (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Baby Face | J.R. Carter |
| 1933 | The Power and the Glory | Mr. Borden |
| 1933 | I Loved a Woman | Mr. Sanborn |
| 1933 | Gigolettes of Paris | Police Interrogator |
| 1933 | The Keyhole | Schuyler Brooks |
| 1933 | The Narrow Corner | Mr. Blake, Fred's Father |
| 1933 | Hello, Sister! | Jameson Brewster - Bank President |
| 1933 | Blood Money | Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited) |
| 1933 | A Bedtime Story | Agent de Police |
| 1933 | Notorious But Nice | Defense Attorney Clark |
| 1933 | Meet the Baron | Baron Munchausen |
| 1933 | Golden Harvest | Henry Flint |
| 1933 | Bureau of Missing Persons | Theodore Arno |
| 1932 | Faithless | Mr. Carter |
| 1932 | The Washington Masquerade | Stapleton |
| 1932 | The Crash | John Fair |
| 1932 | Jewel Robbery | Baron Franz Hohenfels |
| 1932 | Devil and the Deep | Hutton |
| 1932 | The First Year | Peter Barstow |
| 1932 | Rasputin and the Empress | Chief of Secret Police (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Indiscreet | Mr. Woodward |
| 1931 | The Unholy Garden | Col. Lautrac |
| 1931 | I Like Your Nerve | Areal Pacheco |
| 1931 | The Yellow Ticket | Passport Clerk |
| 1931 | Don't Bet on Women | Butterfield (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Quick Millions | District Attorney (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Spy | Tchijinski |
| 1930 | The Bad One | Prosecutor |
| 1930 | Good Intentions | Butler |
| 1930 | The Way of All Men | Sharp |
| 1930 | East Is West | Mr. Benson |
| 1930 | One Heavenly Night | Prefect of Police |
| 1930 | Du Barry, Woman of Passion | D'Aiguillon |
| 1930 | Abraham Lincoln | New Englander (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Coquette | Jasper Carter |
| 1929 | The Valiant | Judge |
| 1929 | Love, Live & Laugh | Enrico |
| 1928 | Don't Marry | General Willoughby |
| 1928 | Soft Living | Rodney S. Bowen |
| 1928 | Midnight Rose | Corbin |
| 1928 | The Beautiful Spy | Viceroy Cisneros |
| 1927 | A Kiss in a Taxi | Leon Lambert |
| 1926 | The Palace of Pleasure | Don Sebastian, Premier |
| 1926 | Hell's Four Hundred | John Gilmore |
| 1925 | Sally, Irene and Mary | Marcus Morton |
| 1925 | Any Woman | Egbert Phillips |
| 1921 | A Man of Stone | (Uncredited) |
| 1919 | The Brat | A Dandy |
| 1919 | Blackie's Redemption | Fred the Count |
| 1919 | The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns | Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| 1918 | The House of Mirth | Lawrence Selden |
| 1918 | Social Hypocrites | Dr. Frank Simpson |
| 1918 | The Shell Game | Lawrence Gray |
| 1916 | Gloria's Romance | Dr. Stephen Royce |
| 1915 | How Molly Malone Made Good | Himself |
| 1915 | The Warning | Robert Denman |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
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