Acting
Henry Kolker
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.
Filmography
Bluebeard
Film · 1944
Sarong Girl
Film · 1943
Reunion in France
Film · 1942
Sing for Your Supper
Film · 1941
A Woman's Face
Film · 1941
The Great Swindle
Film · 1941
Las Vegas Nights
Film · 1941
The Parson of Panamint
Film · 1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
Film · 1941
Money and the Woman
Film · 1940
Grand Ole Opry
Film · 1940
Hidden Power
Film · 1939
Let Us Live
Film · 1939
Here I Am a Stranger
Film · 1939
Union Pacific
Film · 1939
The Real Glory
Film · 1939
These Glamour Girls
Film · 1939
Main Street Lawyer
Film · 1939
Parents on Trial
Film · 1939
Holiday
Film · 1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
Film · 1938
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Film · 1938
Too Hot to Handle
Film · 1938
The Invisible Menace
Film · 1938
Love Is a Headache
Film · 1938
Safety in Numbers
Film · 1938
Marie Antoinette
Film · 1938
They Wanted to Marry
Film · 1937
The Devil Is Driving
Film · 1937
Maid of Salem
Film · 1937
Once a Doctor
Film · 1937
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Film · 1937
Under Cover of Night
Film · 1937
Green Light
Film · 1937
Let Them Live
Film · 1937
Bullets or Ballots
Film · 1936
Great Guy
Film · 1936
The Man Who Lived Twice
Film · 1936
Sitting on the Moon
Film · 1936
My Marriage
Film · 1936
Theodora Goes Wild
Film · 1936
Romeo and Juliet
Film · 1936
The Black Room
Film · 1935
Charlie Chan in Paris
Film · 1935
Mad Love
Film · 1935
The Florentine Dagger
Film · 1935
The Mystery Man
Film · 1935
Honeymoon Limited
Film · 1935
Reckless
Film · 1935
Society Doctor
Film · 1935
Red Hot Tires
Film · 1935
One New York Night
Film · 1935
Times Square Lady
Film · 1935
A Dog of Flanders
Film · 1935
Here Comes the Band
Film · 1935
Red Salute
Film · 1935
The Case of the Curious Bride
Film · 1935
I Live My Life
Film · 1935
Diamond Jim
Film · 1935
Frisco Waterfront
Film · 1935
Shipmates Forever
Film · 1935
The Last Days of Pompeii
Film · 1935
Go Into Your Dance
Film · 1935
3 Kids and a Queen
Film · 1935
Spring Tonic
Film · 1935
Collegiate
Film · 1935
Name the Woman
Film · 1934
Black Moon
Film · 1934
Love Time
Film · 1934
Bedside
Film · 1934
Wonder Bar
Film · 1934
Sing Sing Nights
Film · 1934
A Lost Lady
Film · 1934
Success at Any Price
Film · 1934
The Ghost Walks
Film · 1934
I've Got Your Number
Film · 1934
Whom the Gods Destroy
Film · 1934
The Hell Cat
Film · 1934
Blind Date
Film · 1934
The Girl from Missouri
Film · 1934
Lady by Choice
Film · 1934
The Band Plays On
Film · 1934
Let's Try Again
Film · 1934
Journal of a Crime
Film · 1934
She Loves Me Not
Film · 1934
One Exciting Adventure
Film · 1934
Now and Forever
Film · 1934
Let's Talk It Over
Film · 1934
Million Dollar Ransom
Film · 1934
Imitation of Life
Film · 1934
Sisters Under the Skin
Film · 1934
Baby Face
Film · 1933
The Power and the Glory
Film · 1933
I Loved a Woman
Film · 1933
Gigolettes of Paris
Film · 1933
The Keyhole
Film · 1933
The Narrow Corner
Film · 1933
Hello, Sister!
Film · 1933
Blood Money
Film · 1933
A Bedtime Story
Film · 1933
Notorious But Nice
Film · 1933
Meet the Baron
Film · 1933
Golden Harvest
Film · 1933
Bureau of Missing Persons
Film · 1933
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Film · 1933
Gabriel Over the White House
Film · 1933
Faithless
Film · 1932
The Washington Masquerade
Film · 1932
The Crash
Film · 1932
Jewel Robbery
Film · 1932
Devil and the Deep
Film · 1932
The First Year
Film · 1932
Rasputin and the Empress
Film · 1932
Indiscreet
Film · 1931
The Unholy Garden
Film · 1931
I Like Your Nerve
Film · 1931
The Yellow Ticket
Film · 1931
Don't Bet on Women
Film · 1931
Quick Millions
Film · 1931
The Spy
Film · 1931
The Bad One
Film · 1930
The Way of All Men
Film · 1930
Good Intentions
Film · 1930
East Is West
Film · 1930
One Heavenly Night
Film · 1930
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Film · 1930
Abraham Lincoln
Film · 1930
Coquette
Film · 1929
The Valiant
Film · 1929
Love, Live & Laugh
Film · 1929
Pleasure Crazed
Film · 1929
Don't Marry
Film · 1928
Soft Living
Film · 1928
Midnight Rose
Film · 1928
The Beautiful Spy
Film · 1928
A Kiss in a Taxi
Film · 1927
Annie Laurie
Film · 1927
Rough House Rosie
Film · 1927
The Palace of Pleasure
Film · 1926
Hell's Four Hundred
Film · 1926
Wet Paint
Film · 1926
Sally, Irene and Mary
Film · 1925
Any Woman
Film · 1925
A Man of Stone
Film · 1921
The Brat
Film · 1919
Blackie's Redemption
Film · 1919
The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
Film · 1919
Her Purchase Price
Film · 1919
The Parisian Tigress
Film · 1919
The House of Mirth
Film · 1918
Social Hypocrites
Film · 1918
The Shell Game
Film · 1918
Gloria's Romance
Film · 1916
How Molly Malone Made Good
Film · 1915
The Warning
Film · 1915