Henry Kolker

Known for ActingBorn 1874-11-12Died 1947-07-15Berlin, Germany

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.Read more

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Hidden Power

One New York Night

Love Time

Let's Talk It Over

Sisters Under the Skin

The First Year

Don't Marry

The Great Well

The Purple Highway

The Fighter

Heart of Twenty

The Parisian Tigress

Frisco Waterfront

Name the Woman

Good Intentions

Love, Live & Laugh

Soft Living

Midnight Rose

The Beautiful Spy

Hell's Four Hundred

The Snow Bride

Bucking the Tiger

Her Purchase Price

The Woman Michael Married

The Band Plays On

Sing for Your Supper

The Great Swindle

Parents on Trial

Let Them Live

The Hell Cat

Blind Date

One Exciting Adventure

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!

The Spy

Wet Paint

The Leopardess

The Greatest Love

The Palace of Darkened Windows

A Man's Country

The Man Who Lived Twice

Grand Ole Opry

A Dog of Flanders

The Girl from Missouri

Here I Am a Stranger

Holiday

Quick Millions

Society Doctor

Baby Face