Henry Kolker
Biography
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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.
Acting (144 movies)
Sing for Your Supper
1941
The Black Room
1935
The Bad One
1930
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935
Name the Woman
1934
A Woman's Face
1941
The Great Swindle
1941
Hidden Power
1939
Baby Face
1933
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Mad Love
1935
Black Moon
1934
Bluebeard
1944
The Florentine Dagger
1935
Good Intentions
1930
The Way of All Men
1930
Holiday
1938
Great Guy
1936
Let Us Live
1939
Love Time
1934
Indiscreet
1931
The Mystery Man
1935
Coquette
1929
The Unholy Garden
1931
The Power and the Glory
1933
The Man Who Lived Twice
1936
I Loved a Woman
1933
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
The Valiant
1929
Bedside
1934
The Brat
1919
Wonder Bar
1934
East Is West
1930
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
I Like Your Nerve
1931
Sing Sing Nights
1934
Sitting on the Moon
1936
Faithless
1932
Gigolettes of Paris
1933
The Keyhole
1933
Honeymoon Limited
1935
A Lost Lady
1934
Success at Any Price
1934
Money and the Woman
1940
The Narrow Corner
1933
Reckless
1935
Here I Am a Stranger
1939
Too Hot to Handle
1938
Union Pacific
1939
The Ghost Walks
1934
Grand Ole Opry
1940
Hello, Sister!
1933
Sarong Girl
1943
Soft Living
1928
My Marriage
1936
Blood Money
1933
A Bedtime Story
1933
Whom the Gods Destroy
1934
I've Got Your Number
1934
They Wanted to Marry
1937
Notorious But Nice
1933
The Hell Cat
1934
Blind Date
1934
One Heavenly Night
1930
The Devil Is Driving
1937
The Girl from Missouri
1934
The Washington Masquerade
1932
Society Doctor
1935
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
One New York Night
1935
Red Hot Tires
1935
Lady by Choice
1934
Love, Live & Laugh
1929
The Invisible Menace
1938
The Band Plays On
1934
Times Square Lady
1935
Let's Try Again
1934
Love Is a Headache
1938
A Dog of Flanders
1935
The Real Glory
1939
Here Comes the Band
1935
Journal of a Crime
1934
Las Vegas Nights
1941
She Loves Me Not
1934
One Exciting Adventure
1934
These Glamour Girls
1939
The Crash
1932
Now and Forever
1934
The Palace of Pleasure
1926
The Yellow Ticket
1931
Meet the Baron
1933
Maid of Salem
1937
Don't Bet on Women
1931
Once a Doctor
1937
Jewel Robbery
1932
Midnight Rose
1928
Red Salute
1935
The Parson of Panamint
1941
Main Street Lawyer
1939
Parents on Trial
1939
Directing (11 movies)
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