Louis Calhern
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Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor. For portraying Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee (1950), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Calhern began working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s; the most notable being The Blot in 1921. A 1921 newspaper article commented, "The new arrival in stardom is Louis Calhern, who, until Miss Weber engaged him to enact the leading male role in What's Worth While?, had been playing leads in the Morosco Stock company of Los Angeles." In 1923 Calhern left the movies, but would return to the screen eight years later after the advent of sound pictures. He was primarily cast as a character actor in films while he continued to play leading roles on the stage. He reached his peak in the 1950s as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Among his many memorable screen roles were Ambassador Trentino in the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup (1933) and three that he appeared in at MGM in 1950: a singing role as Buffalo Bill in the film version of the musical Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's film noir The Asphalt Jungle, and his Oscar-nominated performance as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee (re-creating his role from the Broadway stage). He was also praised for his portrayal of the title role in the John Houseman production of Julius Caesar (adapted from the Shakespeare play) in 1953, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Calhern also played the role of the devious George Caswell, the manipulative board member of Tredway Corporation in the 1954 production of Executive Suite. Calhern's other film roles included the grandfather in The Red Pony (1949), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious (1946). A performance as Uncle Willie in High Society (1956), a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, turned out to be his final film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Calhern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Notorious (1946)
as Captain Paul Prescott
High Society (1956)
as Uncle Willie
Julius Caesar (1953)
as Julius Caesar
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
Duck Soup (1933)
as Ambassador Trentino
The Prodigal (1955)
as Nahreeb
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
as Jim Murdock
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
as Randolph Van Cleve
It's a Big Country (1951)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Juarez (1939)
as LeMarc
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
as De Villefort Jr.
Athena (1954)
as Grandpa Mulvain
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
as Col. Zapt
Devil's Doorway (1950)
as Verne Coolan
The Blot (1921)
as Phil West
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
as Major Dort
Betrayed (1954)
as Gen. Ten Eyck
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
as Prefect Allus Martius
Rhapsody (1954)
as Nicholas Durant
Executive Suite (1954)
as George Nyle Caswell
The Red Pony (1949)
as Grandfather
We're Not Married! (1952)
as Freddie Melrose
Latin Lovers (1953)
as Grandfather Eduardo Santos
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Up in Arms (1944)
as Colonel Ashley
Woman Wanted (1935)
as Smiley
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
as Leroy Sunderland
Becoming Marilyn (2022)
Actor
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
as Dr. Brockdorf
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
as Horatio Robinson
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
as Joe Finn
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
as Gregory Elliott
The Student Prince (1954)
as King of Karlsberg
Arch of Triumph (1948)
as Boris Morosov
Confidentially Connie (1953)
as Opie Bedloe
Diplomaniacs (1933)
as Winkelreid
Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
as Dr. Kessler
I Take This Woman (1940)
as Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
Blonde Crazy (1931)
as 'Dapper Dan' Barker
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
as James A. Michener
The Woman Accused (1933)
as Leo Young
Remains to Be Seen (1953)
as Benjamin Goodman
Night After Night (1932)
as Dick Bolton
A Life of Her Own (1950)
as Jim Leversoe
The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
as Ottaviano
They Call It Sin (1932)
as Ford Humphries
Frisco Jenny (1933)
as Steve Dutton
Fast Company (1938)
as Elias Z. Bannerman
Invitation (1952)
as Simon Bowker
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self
The Arizonian (1935)
as Sheriff Jake Mannen
The Red Danube (1949)
as Colonel Piniev
The Road to Singapore (1931)
as Dr. George March
Strictly Personal (1933)
as Jack Magruder
The Man with Two Faces (1934)
as Stanley Vance
Okay, America! (1932)
as Mileaway Russell
The Man with a Cloak (1951)
as Charles Theverner
Forever, Darling (1956)
as Charles Y. Bewell
Stolen Heaven (1931)
as Steve Perry
Afraid to Talk (1932)
as Asst. District Attorney John Wade
Washington Story (1952)
as Charles W. Birch
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
as Don Andre - The Viceroy
Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
as Arthur Aldrich
Her Husband Lies (1937)
as Joe Sorrell
Nobody's Darling (1943)
as Curtis Farnsworth
The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
as Oliver Wendell Holmes
The World Gone Mad (1933)
as Christopher Bruno
Too Wise Wives (1921)
as David Graham
Sweet Adeline (1934)
as Major Jim Day
The Last Moment (1923)
as Harry Gaines
What's Worth While? (1921)
as 'Squire' Elton