Henry Kolker
Biography
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.
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Movies (50)
Bluebeard
as Deschamps
1944
Sarong Girl
as Jefferson Baxter
1943
Reunion in France
as General Bartholomew (uncredited)
1942
Sing for Your Supper
as Myron T. Hayworth
1941
The Parson of Panamint
as Judge Arnold Mason
1941
A Woman's Face
as Judge
1941
The Great Swindle
as Stewart Cordell
1941
Las Vegas Nights
as William Stevens Sr.
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
as T.J. Mulhausen
1941
Money and the Woman
as Mr. Rollins
1940
Grand Ole Opry
as William C. Scully
1940
Main Street Lawyer
as Donnelly, District Attorney
1939
Here I Am a Stranger
as R.J. Bennett
1939
The Real Glory
as The General
1939
Parents on Trial
as James Wesley
1939
Hidden Power
as Weston
1939
These Glamour Girls
as Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
1939
Union Pacific
as Asa M. Barrows
1939
Let Us Live
as Chief of Police
1939
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Horace Smith
1938
Too Hot to Handle
as Pearly Todd
1938
Marie Antoinette
as Court Aide (uncredited)
1938
Safety in Numbers
as Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
1938
Holiday
as Edward Seton
1938
The Adventures of Marco Polo
as Nicolo Polo
1938
Love Is a Headache
as Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
1938
The Invisible Menace
as Col. Hackett
1938
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
as "Doc" Godfrey
1937
The Devil Is Driving
as Charles Stevens
1937
Let Them Live
as Judge Lederer
1937
Green Light
as Dr. Lane
1937
Maid of Salem
as Crown Chief Justice Laughton
1937
They Wanted to Marry
as Mr. Hunter
1937
Once a Doctor
as Bruce Nordland
1937
Under Cover of Night
as District Attorney Pritchard
1937
Great Guy
as Abel Canning
1936
Theodora Goes Wild
as Jonathan Grant
1936
The Man Who Lived Twice
as Judge Treacher
1936
Sitting on the Moon
as Worthington
1936
Romeo and Juliet
as Friar Laurence
1936
Bullets or Ballots
as Mr. Hollister
1936
My Marriage
as Maj. Vaile
1936
Collegiate
as Mr. MacGregor
1936
Frisco Waterfront
as District Attorney
1935
3 Kids and a Queen
as Crippet
1935
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Warder (uncredited)
1935
Shipmates Forever
as Doctor (uncredited)
1935
I Live My Life
as Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
1935
Red Salute
as Dean
1935
Diamond Jim
as J.C. Randolf - Bank President
1935