Henry Kolker
Birthday: 1874-11-12
Deathday: 1947-07-15
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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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.
Credits
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1944-10-26 | Bluebeard | Deschamps |
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1943-06-11 | Sarong Girl | Jefferson Baxter |
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1942-12-25 | Reunion in France | General Bartholomew (uncredited) |
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1941-12-04 | Sing for Your Supper | Myron T. Hayworth |
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1941-07-25 | The Parson of Panamint | Judge Arnold Mason |
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1941-05-09 | A Woman's Face | Judge |
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1941-04-10 | The Great Swindle | Stewart Cordell |
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1941-03-28 | Las Vegas Nights | William Stevens Sr. |
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1941-03-21 | The Man Who Lost Himself | T.J. Mulhausen |
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1940-08-17 | Money and the Woman | Mr. Rollins |
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1940-06-25 | Grand Ole Opry | William C. Scully |
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1939-11-02 | Main Street Lawyer | Donnelly, District Attorney |
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1939-09-29 | Here I Am a Stranger | R.J. Bennett |
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1939-09-29 | The Real Glory | The General |
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1939-09-21 | Parents on Trial | James Wesley |
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1939-09-07 | Hidden Power | Weston |
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1939-08-18 | These Glamour Girls | Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited) |
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1939-05-05 | Union Pacific | Asa M. Barrows |
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1939-03-29 | Let Us Live | Chief of Police |
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1938-11-17 | The Cowboy and the Lady | Horace Smith |
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1938-09-16 | Too Hot to Handle | Pearly Todd |
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1938-08-26 | Marie Antoinette | Court Aide (uncredited) |
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1938-05-30 | Safety in Numbers | Dr. Lawrence Edmonds |
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1938-05-26 | Holiday | Edward Seton |
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1938-04-07 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | Nicolo Polo |
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1938-01-14 | Love Is a Headache | Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited) |
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1938-01-11 | The Invisible Menace | Col. Hackett |
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1937-11-25 | Thoroughbreds Don't Cry | "Doc" Godfrey |
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1937-06-25 | The Devil Is Driving | Charles Stevens |
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1937-04-25 | Let Them Live | Judge Lederer |
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1937-02-20 | Green Light | Dr. Lane |
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1937-02-12 | Maid of Salem | Crown Chief Justice Laughton |
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1937-02-05 | They Wanted to Marry | Mr. Hunter |
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1937-01-23 | Once a Doctor | Bruce Nordland |
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1937-01-08 | Under Cover of Night | District Attorney Pritchard |
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1936-12-01 | Great Guy | Abel Canning |
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1936-11-12 | Theodora Goes Wild | Jonathan Grant |
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1936-09-25 | The Man Who Lived Twice | Judge Henry Treacher |
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1936-09-11 | Sitting on the Moon | Worthington |
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1936-09-03 | Romeo and Juliet | Friar Laurence |
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1936-06-06 | Bullets or Ballots | Mr. Hollister |
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1936-01-31 | My Marriage | Maj. Vaile |
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1936-01-22 | Collegiate | Mr. MacGregor |
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1935-12-03 | Frisco Waterfront | District Attorney |
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1935-10-21 | 3 Kids and a Queen | Crippet |
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1935-10-18 | The Last Days of Pompeii | Warder (uncredited) |
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1935-10-12 | Shipmates Forever | Doctor (uncredited) |
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1935-10-04 | I Live My Life | Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited) |
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1935-09-12 | Red Salute | Dean |
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1935-09-01 | Diamond Jim | J.C. Randolf - Bank President |
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1935-08-30 | Here Comes the Band | Simmon's Attorney |
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1935-07-15 | The Black Room | Baron de Berghman |
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1935-07-12 | Mad Love | Prefect Rosset |
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1935-07-01 | Honeymoon Limited | Mr. Randall |
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1935-06-27 | Spring Tonic | Mr. Enix |
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1935-04-20 | Go Into Your Dance | Doctor |
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1935-04-19 | Reckless | Mr. Gearhart (uncredited) |
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1935-04-13 | The Case of the Curious Bride | District Attorney Stacey |
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1935-03-30 | The Florentine Dagger | Auctioneer |
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1935-03-22 | A Dog of Flanders | Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited) |
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1935-03-08 | One New York Night | Arthur Carlisle |
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1935-03-08 | Times Square Lady | Mr. Fielding |
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1935-02-12 | The Mystery Man | Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas |
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1935-02-02 | Red Hot Tires | Martin Sanford |
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1935-01-25 | Society Doctor | Dr. Harvey |
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1935-01-21 | Charlie Chan in Paris | Paul Lamartine |
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1934-12-21 | The Bands Plays On | Professor Hackett |
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1934-12-14 | Sing Sing Nights | Kurt Nordon |
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1934-12-01 | The Ghost Walks | Dr. Kent |
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1934-11-23 | Imitation of Life | Dr. Preston (uncredited) |
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1934-11-03 | Love Time | Emperor Francis I |
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1934-10-15 | Lady by Choice | Opper |
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1934-09-29 | A Lost Lady | John Ormsby |
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1934-09-01 | One Exciting Adventure | Customer, Oscar |
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1934-09-01 | Million Dollar Ransom | Dr. Davis (Uncredited) |
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1934-08-31 | She Loves Me Not | Charles M. Lawton |
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1934-08-31 | Now and Forever | Mr. Clark |
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1934-08-03 | The Girl from Missouri | Senator Titcombe |
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1934-07-25 | Name the Woman | Judge Adams |
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1934-07-20 | Blind Date | J.W. Hartwell Sr. |
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1934-07-12 | Whom the Gods Destroy | Carlo - the Puppeteer |
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1934-07-06 | Let's Try Again | Mr. Blake |
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1934-06-16 | The Hell Cat | C.W. Sloane |
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1934-06-15 | Black Moon | The Psychiatrist |
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1934-06-01 | Let's Talk It Over | Doctor |
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1934-03-31 | Wonder Bar | R. H. Renaud |
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1934-03-16 | Success at Any Price | Hatfield |
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1934-03-10 | Journal of a Crime | Henri Marcher |
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1934-02-24 | I've Got Your Number | Lawyer Robert Kirkland |
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1934-01-27 | Bedside | Maritza's Manager |
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1933-11-17 | Blood Money | Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited) |
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1933-10-20 | Meet the Baron | Baron Munchausen |
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1933-10-06 | The Power and the Glory | Mr. Borden |
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1933-10-05 | Gigolettes of Paris | Police Interrogator |
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1933-09-23 | I Loved a Woman | Mr. Sanborn |
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1933-09-21 | Golden Harvest | Henry Flint |
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1933-09-16 | Bureau of Missing Persons | Theodore Arno |
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1933-08-04 | Notorious But Nice | Defense Attorney Clark |
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1933-07-13 | Baby Face | J.R. Carter |
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1933-07-08 | The Narrow Corner | Mr. Blake, Fred's Father |
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1933-04-22 | A Bedtime Story | Agent de Police |
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1933-04-14 | Hello, Sister! | Jameson Brewster - Bank President |
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1933-03-25 | The Keyhole | Schuyler Brooks |
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1932-12-23 | Rasputin and the Empress | Chief of Secret Police (uncredited) |
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1932-10-15 | Faithless | Mr. Carter |
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1932-10-09 | The Crash | John Fair |
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1932-08-12 | Devil and the Deep | Hutton |
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1932-07-30 | The First Year | Peter Barstow |
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1932-07-09 | The Washington Masquerade | Stapleton |
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1932-07-08 | Jewel Robbery | Baron Franz Hohenfels |
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1931-10-30 | The Yellow Ticket | Passport Clerk |
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1931-10-06 | The Unholy Garden | Col. Lautrac |
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1931-09-12 | I Like Your Nerve | Areal Pacheco |
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1931-04-26 | The Spy | Tchijinski |
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1931-04-25 | Indiscreet | Mr. Woodward |
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1931-04-17 | Quick Millions | District Attorney (uncredited) |
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1931-02-15 | Don't Bet on Women | Butterfield (uncredited) |
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1930-12-25 | One Heavenly Night | Prefect of Police |
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1930-11-08 | Abraham Lincoln | New Englander (uncredited) |
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1930-10-23 | East Is West | Mr. Benson |
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1930-10-10 | Du Barry, Woman of Passion | D'Aiguillon |
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1930-09-03 | The Way of All Men | Sharp |
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1930-06-29 | Good Intentions | Butler |
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1930-05-03 | The Bad One | Prosecutor |
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1929-11-02 | Love, Live & Laugh | Enrico |
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1929-05-19 | The Valiant | Judge |
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1929-03-30 | Coquette | Jasper Carter |
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1928-06-13 | Don't Marry | General Willoughby |
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1928-05-10 | The Beautiful Spy | Viceroy Cisneros |
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1928-02-26 | Midnight Rose | Corbin |
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1928-02-05 | Soft Living | Rodney S. Bowen |
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1927-02-22 | A Kiss in a Taxi | Leon Lambert |
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1926-03-14 | Hell's Four Hundred | John Gilmore |
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1926-01-10 | The Palace of Pleasure | Don Sebastian, Premier |
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1925-12-27 | Sally, Irene and Mary | Marcus Morton |
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1925-05-04 | Any Woman | Egbert Phillips |
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1921-11-10 | A Man of Stone | (Uncredited) |
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1919-09-01 | The Brat | A Dandy |
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1919-04-14 | Blackie's Redemption | Fred the Count |
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1919-01-01 | The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns | Kaiser Wilhelm II |
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1918-08-05 | The House of Mirth | Lawrence Selden |
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1918-04-06 | Social Hypocrites | Dr. Frank Simpson |
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1918-03-04 | The Shell Game | Lawrence Gray |
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1916-05-22 | Gloria's Romance | Dr. Stephen Royce |