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Henry Kolker is a Actor and Director American born on 12 november 1874 at Quincy (USA)

Henry Kolker

Henry Kolker
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Birth name J. Henry Kolker
Nationality USA
Birth 12 november 1874 at Quincy (USA)
Death 15 july 1947 (at 72 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. He 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.

Biography

Au théâtre, Henry Kolker joue à Broadway (New York) entre 1904 et 1917, exclusivement dans des pièces.

Au cinéma, il débute en 1914 comme réalisateur et, à ce titre, tourne dix-huit films jusqu'en 1924, donc uniquement durant la période du muet. Sa réalisation la plus notoire est sans doute Disraeli (1921), deuxième biographie filmée de Benjamin Disraeli, avec George Arliss dans le rôle-titre (qu'il reprendra dans une troisième version, parlante, en 1929).

Comme acteur, Henry Kolker apparaît dans cent soixante-dix films américains (dont vingt-six muets), entre 1915 et 1947, année de sa mort. Entre autres, il collabore avec les réalisateurs Henry Hathaway, Alfred E. Green et George Cukor ; dans Roméo et Juliette de ce dernier, en 1936, il tient le rôle de Frère Laurence, un de ses plus connus, aux côtés de Norma Shearer et Leslie Howard.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Henry Kolker (127 films)

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Actor

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, 1h50
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Dorothy Christy, Thurston Hall
Roles Dr Benbow
Rating68% 3.448083.448083.448083.448083.44808
Walter Mitty (Kaye) is an "inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey", henpecked and harassed by everyone in his life including his bossy mother, his overbearing, idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his childishly dimwitted fiancée Gertrude Griswold, and Gertrude's obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby Wadsworth and loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Griswold.
Bluebeard
Bluebeard (1944)
, 1h12
Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Peinture, Serial killer films, Children's films
Actors John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stössel, Teala Loring, George Irving
Roles Deschamps
Rating58% 2.949232.949232.949232.949232.94923
All Paris is frightened by the murders attributed to "Bluebeard". Modiste Lucille (Jean Parker) is introduced to Gaston Morrell (John Carradine), a puppeteer and painter, by her friend. They are attracted to each other, and she accepts a commission to design some costumes for his puppets.
Reunion in France, 1h44
Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Albert Bassermann, John Carradine
Roles General Bartholomew (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1499053.1499053.1499053.1499053.149905
1940 in Paris, Michele de la Becque (Joan Crawford) is a career woman in love with industrial designer Robert Cortot (Philip Dorn). Together they enjoy a luxurious lifestyle unfazed by the approach of World War II. After the Battle of France and subsequent German occupation, Michele discovers her lover is socializing with German officers and his plants are manufacturing weapons for them. She confronts him and he does not deny her evidence. She is outraged. She aids a downed American in the Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force bomber pilot Pat Talbot (John Wayne) from Pennsylvania and finds herself falling in love with him. Later, she discovers Cortot is turning out defective weapons for the Germans and organizing a French fighting force. Michele is happily reunited with Cortot.
A Woman's Face, 1h46
Directed by George Cukor, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Reginald Owen, Albert Bassermann, Marjorie Main
Roles Judge
Rating71% 3.5958853.5958853.5958853.5958853.595885
Set in Sweden, the film is shown in flashbacks in the course of a trial in which a young woman with a half-hidden face, Anna Holm, is charged with murder. The events, as described by the witnesses, begin years before when aristocrat Torsten Barring hosts a party at a tavern. The guests include Vera, the faithless wife of noted plastic surgeon Gustaf Segert. When the tavern refuses to extend his credit, Torsten meets the proprietress Anna — whose face is badly scarred from a fire 22 years ago caused by her father. Torsten treats Anna as if she is beautiful and charming rather than scarred and unpleasant. Anna is suspicious, and Torsten implies that he may need her help in the future.
Sing for Your Supper
Directed by Charles Barton
Genres Comedy
Actors Jinx Falkenburg, Mukesh, Jagathy Sreekumar, Buddy Rogers, Suman Ranganathan, Eve Arden
Roles Myron T. Hayworth
Rating58% 2.926882.926882.926882.926882.92688
The story is around Ramachandran (Mukesh) who comes back from Dubai to the village posing as a rich business man with a fortune. Actually, he was a victim of visa fraud and was acting as assistant to lottery ticket seller Adimakkannu(Mamukkoya). Rumours of his fortune was actually spread by his friends. But Ramachandran plays along and try to take over the major factory in the village, Archana Mills.
The Real Glory, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Stuart Heisler, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Actors Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen, Broderick Crawford, Kay Johnson
Roles The General
Rating64% 3.2454753.2454753.2454753.2454753.245475
In 1906, Alipang (Tetsu Komai) and his Muslim Moro guerrillas are terrorizing the people of the Philippine island of Mindanao, raiding villages, killing the men, and carrying off the women and children for slaves. Instead of maintaining garrisons indefinitely to protect the Filipinos, the U.S. army tests out a new tactic at Fort Mysang. The army detachment is replaced by a handful of officers – Colonel Hatch (Roy Gordon), Captains Manning (Russell Hicks) and Hartley (Reginald Owen), and Lieutenants McCool (David Niven) and Larsen (Broderick Crawford) - who are to train the native Philippine Constabulary to take over the burden. Army doctor Lieutenant Canavan (Gary Cooper) is sent along to keep them healthy. They are welcomed by a skeptical Padre Rafael (Charles Waldron).
Union Pacific, 2h15
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson, Charles Barton, James Patrick Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy
Roles Asa M. Barrows
Rating70% 3.542083.542083.542083.542083.54208
The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California, but financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau. Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Let Us Live, 1h8
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter, Stanley Ridges, Henry Kolker
Roles Chief of Police
Rating66% 3.3427253.3427253.3427253.3427253.342725
On the eve of his marriage to waitress Mary Roberts (O'Sullivan), taxi driver "Brick" Tennant is questioned as a murder suspect along with 120 other drivers, because a taxi served as the getaway car in a theater robbery in which a man was killed. When one of the witnesses swears that Brick and his friend Joe Linden (Baxter) were the killers, the district attorney (Ridges), eager for a conviction, brings the taxi drivers to trial even though Brick and Mary were in a church when the robbery took place. Although innocent, Brick and Joe are found guilty and sentenced to die on the electric chair. Mary, however, refuses to give up hope, and when she unearths a bullet from another robbery that was shot from the murder weapon, she convinces Police Lieutenant Everett (Bellamy) that the wrong men have been convicted. To prove Brick and Joe's innocence Everett and Mary search for the real culprits . As the time of his execution approaches, Brick is transformed from an idealistic youth into a man whose faith in the system has been shattered. On the day of the execution, Mary and Everett finally find the real culprits. The governor then pardons Brick, but although his life has been spared, his faith can never be repaired.
These Glamour Girls, 1h19
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Jane Bryan, Anita Louise
Roles Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.144683.144683.144683.144683.14468
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead she stays and shows up both him and his classmates snooty dates.