Henry Kolker
Acting
Born 1874-11-12
Died 1947-07-15
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.
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Baby Face
Don't Marry
A Lost Lady
My Marriage
Union Pacific
Holiday
A Woman's Face
Society Doctor
Hello, Sister!
Romeo and Juliet
Sant'Ilario
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Marie Antoinette
The Black Room
Mad Love
The Real Glory
Rasputin and the Empress
The Cowboy and the Lady
Let's Try Again
Collegiate
Wonder Bar
Abraham Lincoln
Imitation of Life
Pleasure Crazed
Bullets or Ballots
Charlie Chan in Paris
Too Hot to Handle
Reunion in France
Times Square Lady
Main Street Lawyer
Wet Paint
The Keyhole
The Last Days of Pompeii
The Leopardess
Let Us Live
She Loves Me Not
I Live My Life
Meet the Baron
Sally, Irene and Mary
Bluebeard
The Man Who Lived Twice
Red Salute
Jewel Robbery
3 Kids and a Queen
Maid of Salem
I've Got Your Number
Reckless
Love, Live & Laugh
Sisters Under the Skin
Whom the Gods Destroy
Bureau of Missing Persons
The Washington Masquerade
Blood Money
Under Cover of Night
Safety in Numbers
Theodora Goes Wild
Golden Harvest
The Case of the Curious Bride
The Man Who Lost Himself
Green Light
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