Henry Kolker
Born November 12, 1874 (Age: 151)
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Berlin, Germany
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.
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.
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Filmography
Reunion in France
1942
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as General Bartholomew (uncredited)
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Age: 68
Sing for Your Supper
1941
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as Myron T. Hayworth
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Age: 67
The Parson of Panamint
1941
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as Judge Arnold Mason
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Age: 66
A Woman's Face
1941
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as Judge
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Age: 66
The Great Swindle
1941
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as Stewart Cordell
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Age: 66
Las Vegas Nights
1941
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as William Stevens Sr.
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Age: 66
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
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as T.J. Mulhausen
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Age: 66
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
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as Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
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Age: 58
Faithless
1932
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as Mr. Carter
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Age: 57
The Crash
1932
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as John Fair
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Age: 57
Devil and the Deep
1932
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as Hutton
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Age: 57
The First Year
1932
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as Peter Barstow
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Age: 57
The Washington Masquerade
1932
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as Stapleton
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Age: 57
Jewel Robbery
1932
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as Baron Franz Hohenfels
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Age: 57
The Yellow Ticket
1931
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as Passport Clerk
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Age: 56
The Unholy Garden
1931
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as Col. Lautrac
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Age: 56
I Like Your Nerve
1931
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as Areal Pacheco
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Age: 56
The Spy
1931
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as Tchijinski
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Age: 56
Indiscreet
1931
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as Mr. Woodward
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Age: 56
Quick Millions
1931
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as District Attorney (uncredited)
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Age: 56
Don't Bet on Women
1931
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as Butterfield (uncredited)
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Age: 56
One Heavenly Night
1930
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as Prefect of Police
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Age: 56
Abraham Lincoln
1930
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as New Englander (uncredited)
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Age: 55
East Is West
1930
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as Mr. Benson
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Age: 55
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
1930
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as D'Aiguillon
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Age: 55
The Way of All Men
1930
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as Sharp
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Age: 55
Good Intentions
1930
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as Butler
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Age: 55
The Bad One
1930
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as Prosecutor
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Age: 55
A Man of Stone
1921
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as (Uncredited)
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Age: 46
The House of Mirth
1918
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as Lawrence Selden
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Age: 43
Social Hypocrites
1918
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as Dr. Frank Simpson
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Age: 43
The Shell Game
1918
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as Lawrence Gray
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Age: 43
No Image
The Warning
1915
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as Robert Denman
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Age: 41