Henry Kolker
AKA: Генри Колкер
Birthday: 1874-11-12
Died: 1947-07-15
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
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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.
Filmography
Character: Myron T. Hayworth
Character: Baron de Berghman
Character: Paul Lamartine
Character: Stewart Cordell
Character: Prefect Rosset
Character: The Psychiatrist
Character: Chief of Police
Character: Emperor Francis I
Character: Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
Character: General Willoughby
Character: Judge Henry Treacher
Character: Maritza's Manager
Character: Police Interrogator
Character: Schuyler Brooks
Character: Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
Character: Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
Character: Asa M. Barrows
Character: William C. Scully
Character: Jameson Brewster - Bank President
Character: Jefferson Baxter
Character: Rodney S. Bowen
Character: Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
Character: Agent de Police
Character: Lawyer Robert Kirkland
Character: Carlo - the Puppeteer
Character: Defense Attorney Clark
Character: J.W. Hartwell Sr.
Character: Prefect of Police
Character: Charles Stevens
Character: Senator Titcombe
Character: Jonathan Grant
Character: Martin Sanford
Character: Arthur Carlisle
Character: Professor Hackett
Character: Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
Character: Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
Character: Simmon's Attorney
Character: William Stevens Sr.
Character: Charles M. Lawton
Character: Customer, Oscar
Character: Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
Character: Passport Clerk
Character: Baron Munchausen
Character: Crown Chief Justice Laughton
Character: Butterfield (uncredited)
Character: Bruce Nordland
Character: Baron Franz Hohenfels
Character: Judge Arnold Mason
Character: Donnelly, District Attorney
Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
Character: District Attorney Stacey
Character: Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
Character: J.C. Randolf - Bank President
Character: T.J. Mulhausen
Character: District Attorney Pritchard
Character: Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
Character: District Attorney
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Character: Egbert Phillips
Character: Friar Laurence
Character: Warder (uncredited)
Character: Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
Character: Lawrence Selden
Character: Dr. Frank Simpson
Character: New Englander (uncredited)
Character: Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
Character: Dr. Preston (uncredited)
Character: Viceroy Cisneros
Character: Dr. Stephen Royce
Character: Court Aide (uncredited)
Character: General Bartholomew (uncredited)