Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 12, 1874
Died
Jul 15, 1947
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Credits
169 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Bluebeard
Deschamps
Sarong Girl
Jefferson Baxter
Reunion in France
General Bartholomew (uncredited)
Sing for Your Supper
Myron T. Hayworth
The Parson of Panamint
Judge Arnold Mason
A Woman's Face
Judge
The Great Swindle
Stewart Cordell
Las Vegas Nights
William Stevens Sr.
The Man Who Lost Himself
T.J. Mulhausen
Money and the Woman
Mr. Rollins
Grand Ole Opry
William C. Scully
Main Street Lawyer
Donnelly, District Attorney
The Real Glory
The General
Here I Am a Stranger
R.J. Bennett
Parents on Trial
James Wesley
Hidden Power
Weston
These Glamour Girls
Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Asa M. Barrows
Let Us Live
Chief of Police
The Cowboy and the Lady
Horace Smith
Too Hot to Handle
Pearly Todd
Marie Antoinette
Court Aide (uncredited)
Safety in Numbers
Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
Holiday
Edward Seton
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Nicolo Polo
Love Is a Headache
Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
The Invisible Menace
Col. Hackett
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
"Doc" Godfrey
The Devil Is Driving
Charles Stevens
Let Them Live
Judge Lederer
Green Light
Dr. Lane
Maid of Salem
Crown Chief Justice Laughton
They Wanted to Marry
Mr. Hunter
Once a Doctor
Bruce Nordland
Under Cover of Night
District Attorney Pritchard
Great Guy
Abel Canning
Theodora Goes Wild
Jonathan Grant
The Man Who Lived Twice
Judge Treacher
Sitting on the Moon
Worthington
Romeo and Juliet
Friar Laurence
Bullets or Ballots
Mr. Hollister
My Marriage
Maj. Vaile
Collegiate
Mr. MacGregor
Frisco Waterfront
District Attorney
3 Kids and a Queen
Crippet
The Last Days of Pompeii
Warder (uncredited)
Shipmates Forever
Doctor (uncredited)
I Live My Life
Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
Red Salute
Dean
Diamond Jim
J.C. Randolf - Bank President