Henry Kolker
Acting
🎂 1874-11-12
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.
Cast credits(146)
Asa M. Barrows
1939
James Wesley
1939
Hutton
1932
Donnelly, District Attorney
1939
Simmon's Attorney
1935
Customer, Oscar
1934
Charles Stevens
1937
Baron Munchausen
1933
Dean
1935
Edward Seton
1938
J.R. Carter
1933
Henry Flint
1933
New Englander (uncredited)
1930
Friar Laurence
1936
Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
1938
Deschamps
1944
Col. Hackett
1938
District Attorney
1935
Court Aide (uncredited)
1938
Judge Treacher
1936
General Bartholomew (uncredited)
1942
Emperor Francis I
1934
Warder (uncredited)
1935
Agent de Police
1933
Jasper Carter
1929
Horace Smith
1938
District Attorney (uncredited)
1931
Abel Canning
1936
Mr. Randall
1935
Police Interrogator
1933
Mr. Clark
1934
Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
1935
Mr. Fielding
1935
Prefect of Police
1930
Defense Attorney Clark
1933
The General
1939
Mr. Hollister
1936
T.J. Mulhausen
1941
Mr. MacGregor
1936
Worthington
1936
Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
1933
Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
1934
Jonathan Grant
1936
Arthur Carlisle
1935
Doctor
1935
John Ormsby
1934
Dr. Lane
1937
Stapleton
1932
Maj. Vaile
1936
Crown Chief Justice Laughton
1937
District Attorney Stacey
1935
Mr. Woodward
1931
Lawyer Robert Kirkland
1934
Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
1935
The Psychiatrist
1934
District Attorney Pritchard
1937
Prefect Rosset
1935
General Willoughby
1928
Judge
1941
Mr. Hunter
1937
R.J. Bennett
1939
Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
1933
Chief of Police
1939
Judge Arnold Mason
1941
Mr. Rollins
1940
J.W. Hartwell Sr.
1934
Mr. Blake
1934
Baron Franz Hohenfels
1932
Professor Hackett
1934
Tchijinski
1931
Mr. Carter
1932
C.W. Sloane
1934
Mr. Benson
1930
Weston
1939
Schuyler Brooks
1933
Dr. Kent
1934
Dr. Preston (uncredited)
1934
Mr. Enix
1935
J.C. Randolf - Bank President
1935
Doctor (uncredited)
1935
Dr. Harvey
1935
Theodore Arno
1933
Nicolo Polo
1938
"Doc" Godfrey
1937
Crippet
1935
Leon Lambert
1927
Paul Lamartine
1935
Judge
1929
Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
1932
Butterfield (uncredited)
1931
Mr. Sanborn
1933
William Stevens Sr.
1941
Bruce Nordland
1937
Rodney S. Bowen
1928
Judge Lederer
1937
Fred the Count
1919
Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
1938
Auctioneer
1935
Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
1935
Baron de Berghman
1935
Butler
1930
Kurt Nordon
1934
Prosecutor
1930
William C. Scully
1940
Hatfield
1934
Stewart Cordell
1941
Pearly Todd
1938
Lawrence Selden
1918
R. H. Renaud
1934
Passport Clerk
1931
Maritza's Manager
1934
Himself
1915
Henri Marcher
1934
Opper
1934
Areal Pacheco
1931
D'Aiguillon
1930
Col. Lautrac
1931
Martin Sanford
1935
Mr. Borden
1933
(Uncredited)
1921
Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
1939
Sharp
1930
Dr. Stephen Royce
1916
Senator Titcombe
1934
Robert Denman
1915
Charles M. Lawton
1934
Jameson Brewster - Bank President
1933
Judge Adams
1934
Jefferson Baxter
1943
Egbert Phillips
1925
John Gilmore
1926
Marcus Morton
1925
Myron T. Hayworth
1941
Doctor
1934
Kaiser Wilhelm II
1919
Enrico
1929
Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
1935
Peter Barstow
1932
Lawrence Gray
1918
John Fair
1932
Don Sebastian, Premier
1926
Corbin
1928
Viceroy Cisneros
1928
Dr. Frank Simpson
1918
Carlo - the Puppeteer
1934
A Dandy
1919
