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.
As Actor/Actress
Wonder Bar
R. H. Renaud
A Woman's Face
Judge
Vivir para gozar
Edward Seton
Sarong Girl
Jefferson Baxter
Baby Face
J.R. Carter
Society Doctor
Dr. Harvey
Union Pacific
Asa M. Barrows
María Antonieta
Court Aide (uncredited)
Imitación de la vida
Dr. Preston (uncredited)
Las manos de Orlac
Prefect Rosset
The Crash
John Fair
Black Moon
The Psychiatrist
Blood Money
Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
Bullets or Ballots
Mr. Hollister
Romeo and Juliet
Friar Laurence
Golden Harvest
Henry Flint
Abraham Lincoln
New Englander (uncredited)
Rasputin and the Empress
Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
La indómita
Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
Spring Tonic
Mr. Enix
El vaquero y la dama
Horace Smith
Reunion in France
General Bartholomew (uncredited)
The Black Room
Baron de Berghman
Good Intentions
Butler
The Real Glory
The General
A Lost Lady
John Ormsby
Hello, Sister!
Jameson Brewster - Bank President
Theodora Goes Wild
Jonathan Grant
The Last Days of Pompeii
Warder (uncredited)
The Power and the Glory
Mr. Borden
Behind the Camera
The Great Well
Director
The Woman Michael Married
Director
Disraeli
Director
The Fighter
Director
The Palace of Darkened Windows
Director
The Man with the Iron Heart
Historia
The Greatest Love
Director
A Man's Country
Director
The Leopardess
Director
The Snow Bride
Director
The Third Generation
Director, Guionista
Bucking the Tiger
Director
The Purple Highway
Director
I Will Repay
Director