Henry Kolker
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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.
Known for
Credits
Baby Face (1933)
as J.R. Carter
Union Pacific (1939)
as Asa M. Barrows
A Woman's Face (1941)
as Judge
Holiday (1938)
as Edward Seton
Imitation of Life (1934)
as Dr. Preston (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Court Aide (uncredited)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
as Friar Laurence
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
as Mr. Hollister
The Real Glory (1939)
as The General
Love, Live & Laugh (1929)
as Enrico
Mad Love (1935)
as Prefect Rosset
The Warning (1915)
as Robert Denman
Reunion in France (1942)
as General Bartholomew (uncredited)
Wonder Bar (1934)
as R. H. Renaud
Jewel Robbery (1932)
as Baron Franz Hohenfels
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
as Nicolo Polo
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
as Horace Smith
My Marriage (1936)
as Maj. Vaile
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
as Pearly Todd
Pleasure Crazed (1929)
as Col. Farquar
Society Doctor (1935)
as Dr. Harvey
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
as Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
as Jonathan Grant
Hello, Sister! (1933)
as Jameson Brewster - Bank President
Let Us Live (1939)
as Chief of Police
Let's Try Again (1934)
as Mr. Blake
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
as New Englander (uncredited)
Reckless (1935)
as Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
as Theodore Arno
The Hell Cat (1934)
as C.W. Sloane
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
as Paul Lamartine
Great Guy (1936)
as Abel Canning
I Live My Life (1935)
as Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
Black Moon (1934)
as The Psychiatrist
Sisters Under the Skin (1934)
as Jones
Sarong Girl (1943)
as Jefferson Baxter
The Black Room (1935)
as Baron de Berghman
Maid of Salem (1937)
as Crown Chief Justice Laughton
A Lost Lady (1934)
as John Ormsby
Meet the Baron (1933)
as Baron Munchausen
Devil and the Deep (1932)
as Hutton
The Florentine Dagger (1935)
as Auctioneer
Now and Forever (1934)
as Mr. Clark
The Washington Masquerade (1932)
as Stapleton
One Exciting Adventure (1934)
as Customer, Oscar
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
as Warder (uncredited)
Blood Money (1933)
as Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
The Keyhole (1933)
as Schuyler Brooks
Collegiate (1935)
as Mr. MacGregor
The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
as Judge Treacher
Bluebeard (1944)
as Deschamps
Hell's Four Hundred (1926)
as John Gilmore
Red Salute (1935)
as Dean
The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
as District Attorney Stacey
Wet Paint (1926)
as A Husband
Money and the Woman (1940)
as Mr. Rollins
Times Square Lady (1935)
as Mr. Fielding
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933)
as The Judge
Blackie's Redemption (1919)
as Fred the Count
Sing Sing Nights (1934)
as Kurt Nordon
The Yellow Ticket (1931)
as Passport Clerk
Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
as Marcus Morton
Don't Marry (1928)
as General Willoughby
A Man of Stone (1921)
as (Uncredited)
Las Vegas Nights (1941)
as William Stevens Sr.
The Girl from Missouri (1934)
as Senator Titcombe
Diamond Jim (1935)
as J.C. Randolf - Bank President
Main Street Lawyer (1939)
as Donnelly, District Attorney
These Glamour Girls (1939)
as Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
She Loves Me Not (1934)
as Charles M. Lawton
Quick Millions (1931)
as District Attorney (uncredited)
A Dog of Flanders (1935)
as Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
Red Hot Tires (1935)
as Martin Sanford
Blind Date (1934)
as J.W. Hartwell Sr.
Here Comes the Band (1935)
as Simmon's Attorney
Golden Harvest (1933)
as Henry Flint
Million Dollar Ransom (1934)
as Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
The Invisible Menace (1938)
as Col. Hackett
The Great Swindle (1941)
as Stewart Cordell
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
as "Doc" Godfrey
Safety in Numbers (1938)
as Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
The Power and the Glory (1933)
as Mr. Borden
The Unholy Garden (1931)
as Col. Lautrac
Name the Woman (1934)
as Judge Adams
Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
as Carlo - the Puppeteer
The Crash (1932)
as John Fair
Annie Laurie (1927)
Actor
Under Cover of Night (1937)
as District Attorney Pritchard
The Valiant (1929)
as Judge
Green Light (1937)
as Dr. Lane
The Narrow Corner (1933)
as Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
Let's Talk It Over (1934)
as Doctor
Let Them Live (1937)
as Judge Lederer
The Mystery Man (1935)
as Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
I Loved a Woman (1933)
as Mr. Sanborn
One New York Night (1935)
as Arthur Carlisle
The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
as T.J. Mulhausen
Love Is a Headache (1938)
as Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
Coquette (1929)
as Jasper Carter
Sitting on the Moon (1936)
as Worthington
The Bad One (1930)
as Prosecutor
Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
as R.J. Bennett
The Devil Is Driving (1937)
as Charles Stevens
Indiscreet (1931)
as Mr. Woodward
3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
as Crippet
Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
as D'Aiguillon
Success at Any Price (1934)
as Hatfield
I've Got Your Number (1934)
as Lawyer Robert Kirkland
Journal of a Crime (1934)
as Henri Marcher
The Parson of Panamint (1941)
as Judge Arnold Mason
The Parisian Tigress (1919)
as Henri Dutray
I Like Your Nerve (1931)
as Areal Pacheco
Love Time (1934)
as Emperor Francis I
They Wanted to Marry (1937)
as Mr. Hunter
Grand Ole Opry (1940)
as William C. Scully
Rough House Rosie (1927)
as W.S. Davids
Bedside (1934)
as Maritza's Manager
Notorious But Nice (1933)
as Defense Attorney Clark
The Ghost Walks (1934)
as Dr. Kent
Good Intentions (1930)
as Butler
The Way of All Men (1930)
as Sharp
Go Into Your Dance (1935)
as Doctor
Once a Doctor (1937)
as Bruce Nordland
Spring Tonic (1935)
as Mr. Enix
The Band Plays On (1934)
as Professor Hackett
Shipmates Forever (1935)
as Doctor (uncredited)
Sing for Your Supper (1941)
as Myron T. Hayworth
The Beautiful Spy (1928)
as Viceroy Cisneros
Lady by Choice (1934)
as Opper
The Palace of Pleasure (1926)
as Don Sebastian, Premier
Faithless (1932)
as Mr. Carter
Gloria's Romance (1916)
as Dr. Stephen Royce
A Bedtime Story (1933)
as Agent de Police
Any Woman (1925)
as Egbert Phillips
Don't Bet on Women (1931)
as Butterfield (uncredited)
Frisco Waterfront (1935)
as District Attorney
Hidden Power (1939)
as Weston
Gigolettes of Paris (1933)
as Police Interrogator
A Kiss in a Taxi (1927)
as Leon Lambert
Honeymoon Limited (1935)
as Mr. Randall
Her Purchase Price (1919)
as Duke of Wryden
The Spy (1931)
as Tchijinski
Social Hypocrites (1918)
as Dr. Frank Simpson
The First Year (1932)
as Peter Barstow
The House of Mirth (1918)
as Lawrence Selden
The Brat (1919)
as A Dandy
Soft Living (1928)
as Rodney S. Bowen
One Heavenly Night (1930)
as Prefect of Police
East Is West (1930)
as Mr. Benson
The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns (1919)
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
How Molly Malone Made Good (1915)
as Himself
Midnight Rose (1928)
as Corbin
Parents on Trial (1939)
as James Wesley
The Shell Game (1918)
as Lawrence Gray