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.
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Credits
High Society (1956)
as Uncle Willie
Notorious (1946)
as Paul Prescott
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
Betrayed (1954)
as Gen. Ten Eyck
Julius Caesar (1953)
as Julius Caesar
Juarez (1939)
as LeMarc
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
Diplomaniacs (1933)
as Winkelreid
Duck Soup (1933)
as Ambassador Trentino
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
as Col. Zapt
Athena (1954)
as Grandpa Mulvain
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
as Randolph Van Cleve
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
as Leroy Sunderland
Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
as Dr. Kessler
Executive Suite (1954)
as George Nyle Caswell
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
as James A. Michener
Rhapsody (1954)
as Nicholas Durant
The Man with a Cloak (1951)
as Charles Theverner
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
We're Not Married! (1952)
as Freddie Melrose
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
as Major Dort
Arch of Triumph (1948)
as Boris Morosov
The Prodigal (1955)
as Nahreeb
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
as Jim Murdock
Confidentially Connie (1953)
as Opie Bedloe
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
as Joe Finn
The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
as Ottaviano
The Woman Accused (1933)
as Leo Young
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
as Dr. Brockdorf
Up in Arms (1944)
as Colonel Ashley
It's a Big Country (1951)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Okay, America! (1932)
as Mileaway Russell
Devil's Doorway (1950)
as Verne Coolan
Invitation (1952)
as Simon Bowker
The Red Danube (1949)
as Colonel Piniev
The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
as Oliver Wendell Holmes
Her Husband Lies (1937)
as Joe Sorrell
Forever, Darling (1956)
as Charles Y. Bewell
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
as Gregory Elliott
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
as Prefect Allus Martius
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
as De Villefort Jr.
Afraid to Talk (1932)
as Asst. District Attorney John Wade
Night After Night (1932)
as Dick Bolton
The Red Pony (1949)
as Grandfather
Remains to Be Seen (1953)
as Benjamin Goodman
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self
Frisco Jenny (1933)
as Steve Dutton
The Man with Two Faces (1934)
as Stanley Vance
The Student Prince (1954)
as King of Karlsberg
The World Gone Mad (1933)
as Christopher Bruno
A Life of Her Own (1950)
as Jim Leversoe
Blonde Crazy (1931)
as 'Dapper Dan' Barker
Becoming Marilyn (2022)
as (archive footage)
They Call It Sin (1932)
as Ford Humphries
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
The Road to Singapore (1931)
as Dr. George March
The Blot (1921)
as Phil West
Latin Lovers (1953)
as Grandfather Eduardo Santos
Stolen Heaven (1931)
as Steve Perry
I Take This Woman (1940)
as Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
Fast Company (1938)
as Elias Z. Bannerman
Woman Wanted (1935)
as Smiley
Strictly Personal (1933)
as Jack Magruder
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
as Horatio Robinson
Too Wise Wives (1921)
as David Graham
The Arizonian (1935)
as Sheriff Jake Mannen
Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
as Arthur Aldrich
Sweet Adeline (1934)
as Major Jim Day
Nobody's Darling (1943)
as Curtis Farnsworth
What's Worth While? (1921)
as 'Squire' Elton
Washington Story (1952)
as Charles W. Birch
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
as Don Andre - The Viceroy
The Last Moment (1923)
as Harry Gaines