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.
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
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
146
Gender
Male
Birthday
1874-11-12
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Also Known As
Генри Колкер