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

Myron T. Hayworth

Sing for Your Supper

Baron de Berghman

The Black Room

Prosecutor

The Bad One

Judge Adams

Name the Woman

Paul Lamartine

Charlie Chan in Paris

Judge

A Woman's Face

Stewart Cordell

The Great Swindle

Weston

Hidden Power

J.R. Carter

Baby Face

Mr. Hollister

Bullets or Ballots

Prefect Rosset

Mad Love

The Psychiatrist

Black Moon

Deschamps

Bluebeard

Auctioneer

The Florentine Dagger

Butler

Good Intentions

Sharp

The Way of All Men

Edward Seton

Holiday

Abel Canning

Great Guy

Chief of Police

Let Us Live

Emperor Francis I

Love Time

Mr. Woodward

Indiscreet

Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas

The Mystery Man

Jasper Carter

Coquette

Col. Lautrac

The Unholy Garden

General Willoughby

Don't Marry

Mr. Borden

The Power and the Glory

Judge Treacher

The Man Who Lived Twice

Mr. Sanborn

I Loved a Woman

Horace Smith

The Cowboy and the Lady

Judge

The Valiant

Maritza's Manager

Bedside

A Dandy

The Brat

R. H. Renaud

Wonder Bar

Mr. Benson

East Is West

Nicolo Polo

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Areal Pacheco

I Like Your Nerve

Kurt Nordon

Sing Sing Nights

Worthington

Sitting on the Moon

Mr. Carter

Faithless

Police Interrogator

Gigolettes of Paris

Schuyler Brooks

The Keyhole

Mr. Randall

Honeymoon Limited

John Ormsby

A Lost Lady

Hatfield

Success at Any Price

Mr. Rollins

Money and the Woman

Mr. Blake, Fred's Father

The Narrow Corner

Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)

Reckless

R.J. Bennett

Here I Am a Stranger

Pearly Todd

Too Hot to Handle

Asa M. Barrows

Union Pacific

Dr. Kent

The Ghost Walks

William C. Scully

Grand Ole Opry

Jameson Brewster - Bank President

Hello, Sister!

Jefferson Baxter

Sarong Girl

Rodney S. Bowen

Soft Living

Maj. Vaile

My Marriage

Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)

Blood Money

Agent de Police

A Bedtime Story

Lawyer Robert Kirkland

I've Got Your Number

Carlo - the Puppeteer

Whom the Gods Destroy

Mr. Hunter

They Wanted to Marry

Defense Attorney Clark

Notorious But Nice

C.W. Sloane

The Hell Cat

J.W. Hartwell Sr.

Blind Date

Prefect of Police

One Heavenly Night

Charles Stevens

The Devil Is Driving

Senator Titcombe

The Girl from Missouri

Stapleton

The Washington Masquerade

Dr. Harvey

Society Doctor

Jonathan Grant

Theodora Goes Wild

Martin Sanford

Red Hot Tires

Arthur Carlisle

One New York Night

Opper

Lady by Choice

Enrico

Love, Live & Laugh

Col. Hackett

The Invisible Menace

Professor Hackett

The Band Plays On

Mr. Fielding

Times Square Lady

Mr. Blake

Let's Try Again

Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)

Love Is a Headache

Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)

A Dog of Flanders

The General

The Real Glory

Simmon's Attorney

Here Comes the Band

Henri Marcher

Journal of a Crime

William Stevens Sr.

Las Vegas Nights

Charles M. Lawton

She Loves Me Not

Customer, Oscar

One Exciting Adventure

Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)

These Glamour Girls

John Fair

The Crash

Mr. Clark

Now and Forever

Don Sebastian, Premier

The Palace of Pleasure

Passport Clerk

The Yellow Ticket

Baron Munchausen

Meet the Baron

Crown Chief Justice Laughton

Maid of Salem

Butterfield (uncredited)

Don't Bet on Women

Bruce Nordland

Once a Doctor

Baron Franz Hohenfels

Jewel Robbery

Corbin

Midnight Rose

Dean

Red Salute

Judge Arnold Mason

The Parson of Panamint

Donnelly, District Attorney

Main Street Lawyer

James Wesley

Parents on Trial

Hutton

Devil and the Deep

District Attorney (uncredited)

Quick Millions

"Doc" Godfrey

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

District Attorney Stacey

The Case of the Curious Bride

Peter Barstow

The First Year

Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)

I Live My Life

J.C. Randolf - Bank President

Diamond Jim

Himself

How Molly Malone Made Good

Henry Flint

Golden Harvest

T.J. Mulhausen

The Man Who Lost Himself

D'Aiguillon

Du Barry, Woman of Passion

District Attorney Pritchard

Under Cover of Night

Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)

Rasputin and the Empress

Marcus Morton

Sally, Irene and Mary

District Attorney

Frisco Waterfront

Dr. Lane

Green Light

Theodore Arno

Bureau of Missing Persons

Doctor (uncredited)

Shipmates Forever

Egbert Phillips

Any Woman

Friar Laurence

Romeo and Juliet

Warder (uncredited)

The Last Days of Pompeii

Dr. Lawrence Edmonds

Safety in Numbers

Doctor

Go Into Your Dance

Doctor

Let's Talk It Over

Judge Lederer

Let Them Live

Crippet

3 Kids and a Queen

Lawrence Selden

The House of Mirth

Dr. Frank Simpson

Social Hypocrites

New Englander (uncredited)

Abraham Lincoln

Dr. Davis (Uncredited)

Million Dollar Ransom

Dr. Preston (uncredited)

Imitation of Life

Viceroy Cisneros

Una nueva y gloriosa nación

Leon Lambert

A Kiss in a Taxi

Dr. Stephen Royce

Gloria's Romance

Court Aide (uncredited)

Marie Antoinette

General Bartholomew (uncredited)

Reunion in France

Mr. Enix

Spring Tonic

Mr. MacGregor

Collegiate

Tchijinski

The Spy

John Gilmore

Hell's Four Hundred

Lawrence Gray

The Shell Game

(Uncredited)

A Man of Stone

Fred the Count

Blackie's Redemption

Kaiser Wilhelm II

The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns

Robert Denman

The Warning

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

146

Gender

Male

Birthday

1874-11-12

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Also Known As

Генри Колкер