Henry Kolker
Age: N/A | From: Berlin, Germany
Person Details
Birthday:
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
(1933) J.P. Carter
Union Pacific
(1939) Asa M. Barrows
Mad Love
(1935) Prefect Rosset
Reunion in France
(1942) General Bartholomew (uncredited)
The Black Room
(1935) Baron de Berghman
Imitation of Life
(1934) Dr. Preston (uncredited)
Abraham Lincoln
(1930) New Englander (uncredited)
Bullets or Ballots
(1936) Mr. HollisterActing
| 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
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1924 | Director | |
| 1923 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 1921 | Director | |
| 1920 | Director | |
| 1919 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | Story | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
