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