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Aliases: Генри Колкер , Joseph Henry Kolker

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Berlin, Germany

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Movie Involvements: 100

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Baby Face
Average
7

Baby Face

(1933) J.P. Carter
Union Pacific
Average
7

Union Pacific

(1939) Asa M. Barrows
Mad Love
Average
7

Mad Love

(1935) Prefect Rosset
Reunion in France
Average
7

Reunion in France

(1942) General Bartholomew (uncredited)
The Black Room
Average
7

The Black Room

(1935) Baron de Berghman
Imitation of Life
Average
7

Imitation of Life

(1934) Dr. Preston (uncredited)
Abraham Lincoln
Average
5

Abraham Lincoln

(1930) New Englander (uncredited)
Bullets or Ballots
Average
7

Bullets or Ballots

(1936) Mr. Hollister

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1944 Deschamps
1943 Jefferson Baxter
1942 General Bartholomew (uncredited)
1941 Myron T. Hayworth
Judge Arnold Mason
Judge
Stewart Cordell
William Stevens Sr.
T.J. Mulhausen
1940 Mr. Rollins
William C. Scully
1939 Donnelly, District Attorney
R.J. Bennett
The General
James Wesley
Weston
Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
Asa M. Barrows
Chief of Police
1938 Horace Smith
Pearly Todd
Court Aide (uncredited)
Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
Edward Seton
Nicolo Polo
Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
Col. Hackett
1937 "Doc" Godfrey
Charles Stevens
Judge Lederer
Dr. Lane
Crown Chief Justice Laughton
Mr. Hunter
Bruce Nordland
District Attorney Pritchard
1936 Abel Canning
Jonathan Grant
Judge Henry Treacher
Worthington
Friar Laurence
Mr. Hollister
Maj. Vaile
Mr. MacGregor
1935 District Attorney
Crippet
Warder (uncredited)
Doctor (uncredited)
Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
Dean
J.C. Randolf - Bank President
Simmon's Attorney
Baron de Berghman
Prefect Rosset
Mr. Randall
Mr. Enix
Doctor
Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
District Attorney Stacey
Auctioneer
Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
Mr. Fielding
Arthur Carlisle
Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
Martin Sanford
Dr. Harvey
Paul Lamartine
1934 Professor Hackett
Kurt Nordon
Dr. Kent
Dr. Preston (uncredited)
Emperor Francis I
Opper
John Ormsby
Customer, Oscar
Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
Mr. Clark
Charles M. Lawton
Senator Titcombe
Judge Adams
J.W. Hartwell Sr.
Carlo - the Puppeteer
Mr. Blake
C.W. Sloane
The Psychiatrist
Doctor
R. H. Renaud
Hatfield
Henri Marcher
Lawyer Robert Kirkland
Maritza's Manager
1933 Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
Baron Munchausen
Mr. Borden
Police Interrogator
Mr. Sanborn
Henry Flint
Theodore Arno
Defense Attorney Clark
J.P. Carter
Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
Agent de Police
Jameson Brewster - Bank President
Schuyler Brooks
1932 Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
Mr. Carter
John Fair
Hutton
Peter Barstow
Stapleton
Baron Franz Hohenfels
1931 Passport Clerk
Col. Lautrac
Areal Pacheco
Tchijinski
Mr. Woodward
District Attorney (uncredited)
Butterfield (uncredited)
1930 Prefect of Police
New Englander (uncredited)
Mr. Benson
D'Aiguillon
Sharp
Butler
Prosecutor
1929 Enrico
Judge
Jasper Carter
1928 General Willoughby
Viceroy Cisneros
Corbin
Rodney S. Bowen
1927 Leon Lambert
1926 N/A
1925 Marcus Morton
Egbert Phillips
1919 A Dandy
1918 Lawrence Selden
Dr. Frank Simpson
1916 Dr. Stephen Royce
1915 Himself
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1915 Story
Year Role Movie/Tv

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