Henry Kolker
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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.
Movies
Bluebeard
Deschamps
Sarong Girl
Jefferson Baxter
Reunion in France
General Bartholomew (uncredited)
Sing for Your Supper
Myron T. Hayworth
The Parson of Panamint
Judge Arnold Mason
A Woman's Face
Judge
The Great Swindle
Stewart Cordell
Las Vegas Nights
William Stevens Sr.
The Man Who Lost Himself
T.J. Mulhausen
Money and the Woman
Mr. Rollins
Grand Ole Opry
William C. Scully
Main Street Lawyer
Donnelly, District Attorney
Here I Am a Stranger
R.J. Bennett
The Real Glory
The General
Parents on Trial
James Wesley
Hidden Power
Weston
These Glamour Girls
Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Asa M. Barrows
Let Us Live
Chief of Police
The Cowboy and the Lady
Horace Smith
Too Hot to Handle
Pearly Todd
Marie Antoinette
Court Aide (uncredited)
Safety in Numbers
Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
Holiday
Edward Seton
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Nicolo Polo
Love Is a Headache
Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
The Invisible Menace
Col. Hackett
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
"Doc" Godfrey
The Devil Is Driving
Charles Stevens
Let Them Live
Judge Lederer
Green Light
Dr. Lane
Maid of Salem
Crown Chief Justice Laughton
They Wanted to Marry
Mr. Hunter
Once a Doctor
Bruce Nordland
Under Cover of Night
District Attorney Pritchard
Great Guy
Abel Canning
Theodora Goes Wild
Jonathan Grant
The Man Who Lived Twice
Judge Treacher
Sitting on the Moon
Worthington
Romeo and Juliet
Friar Laurence
Bullets or Ballots
Mr. Hollister
My Marriage
Maj. Vaile
Collegiate
Mr. MacGregor
Frisco Waterfront
District Attorney
3 Kids and a Queen
Crippet
The Last Days of Pompeii
Warder (uncredited)
Shipmates Forever
Doctor (uncredited)
I Live My Life
Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
Red Salute
Dean
Diamond Jim
J.C. Randolf - Bank President
Here Comes the Band
Simmon's Attorney
The Black Room
Baron de Berghman
Mad Love
Prefect Rosset
Honeymoon Limited
Mr. Randall
Spring Tonic
Mr. Enix
Go Into Your Dance
Doctor
Reckless
Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
The Case of the Curious Bride
District Attorney Stacey
The Florentine Dagger
Auctioneer
A Dog of Flanders
Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
One New York Night
Arthur Carlisle
Times Square Lady
Mr. Fielding
The Mystery Man
Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
Red Hot Tires
Martin Sanford
Society Doctor
Dr. Harvey
Charlie Chan in Paris
Paul Lamartine
The Band Plays On
Professor Hackett
Sing Sing Nights
Kurt Nordon
The Ghost Walks
Dr. Kent
Imitation of Life
Dr. Preston (uncredited)
Love Time
Emperor Francis I
Lady by Choice
Opper
A Lost Lady
John Ormsby
One Exciting Adventure
Customer, Oscar
Million Dollar Ransom
Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
She Loves Me Not
Charles M. Lawton
Now and Forever
Mr. Clark
The Girl from Missouri
Senator Titcombe
Name the Woman
Judge Adams
Blind Date
J.W. Hartwell Sr.
Whom the Gods Destroy
Carlo - the Puppeteer
Let's Try Again
Mr. Blake
The Hell Cat
C.W. Sloane
Black Moon
The Psychiatrist
Let's Talk It Over
Doctor
Sisters Under the Skin
Jones
Wonder Bar
R. H. Renaud
Success at Any Price
Hatfield
Journal of a Crime
Henri Marcher
I've Got Your Number
Lawyer Robert Kirkland
Bedside
Maritza's Manager
Blood Money
Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
Meet the Baron
Baron Munchausen
The Power and the Glory
Mr. Borden
Gigolettes of Paris
Police Interrogator
I Loved a Woman
Mr. Sanborn
Golden Harvest
Henry Flint
Bureau of Missing Persons
Theodore Arno
Notorious But Nice
Defense Attorney Clark
Baby Face
J.R. Carter
The Narrow Corner
Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
A Bedtime Story
Agent de Police
Hello, Sister!
Jameson Brewster - Bank President
The Keyhole
Schuyler Brooks
Rasputin and the Empress
Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
Faithless
Mr. Carter
The Crash
John Fair
Devil and the Deep
Hutton
The First Year
Peter Barstow
The Washington Masquerade
Stapleton
Jewel Robbery
Baron Franz Hohenfels
The Yellow Ticket
Passport Clerk
The Unholy Garden
Col. Lautrac
I Like Your Nerve
Areal Pacheco
The Spy
Tchijinski
Indiscreet
Mr. Woodward
Quick Millions
District Attorney (uncredited)
Don't Bet on Women
Butterfield (uncredited)
One Heavenly Night
Prefect of Police
Abraham Lincoln
New Englander (uncredited)
East Is West
Mr. Benson
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
D'Aiguillon
The Way of All Men
Sharp
Good Intentions
Butler
The Bad One
Prosecutor
Love, Live & Laugh
Enrico
Pleasure Crazed
Col. Farquar
The Valiant
Judge
Coquette
Jasper Carter
Don't Marry
General Willoughby
The Beautiful Spy
Viceroy Cisneros
Midnight Rose
Corbin
Soft Living
Rodney S. Bowen
A Kiss in a Taxi
Leon Lambert
Wet Paint
A Husband
Hell's Four Hundred
John Gilmore
The Palace of Pleasure
Don Sebastian, Premier
Sally, Irene and Mary
Marcus Morton
Any Woman
Egbert Phillips
A Man of Stone
(Uncredited)
The Brat
A Dandy
Her Purchase Price
Duke of Wryden
Blackie's Redemption
Fred the Count
The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
Kaiser Wilhelm II
The House of Mirth
Lawrence Selden
Social Hypocrites
Dr. Frank Simpson
The Shell Game
Lawrence Gray
Gloria's Romance
Dr. Stephen Royce
The Warning
Robert Denman