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