Henry Kolker is a Actor and Director American born on 12 november 1874 at Quincy (USA)
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Birth name J. Henry KolkerNationality USABirth 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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