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.
Acting
Movie
Holiday
as Edward Seton
1938
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Baby Face
as J.R. Carter
1933
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Mad Love
as Prefect Rosset
1935
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Imitation of Life
as Dr. Preston (uncredited)
1934
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Union Pacific
as Asa M. Barrows
1939
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A Woman's Face
as Judge
1941
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The Black Room
as Baron de Berghman
1935
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Bullets or Ballots
as Mr. Hollister
1936
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Theodora Goes Wild
as Jonathan Grant
1936
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Bluebeard
as Deschamps
1944
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Jewel Robbery
as Baron Franz Hohenfels
1932
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Abraham Lincoln
as New Englander (uncredited)
1930
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Romeo and Juliet
as Friar Laurence
1936
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Marie Antoinette
as Court Aide (uncredited)
1938
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Coquette
as Jasper Carter
1929
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Black Moon
as The Psychiatrist
1934
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The Cowboy and the Lady
as Horace Smith
1938
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The Last Days of Pompeii
as Warder (uncredited)
1935
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Charlie Chan in Paris
as Paul Lamartine
1935
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The Real Glory
as The General
1939
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Now and Forever
as Mr. Clark
1934
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Great Guy
as Abel Canning
1936
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Wonder Bar
as R. H. Renaud
1934
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Too Hot to Handle
as Pearly Todd
1938
Crew
Movie
The Woman Michael Married
Director
1919
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A Man's Country
Director
1919
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The Great Well
Director
1924
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Heart of Twenty
Director
1920
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Disraeli
Director
1921
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The Purple Highway
Director
1923
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The Greatest Love
Director
1920
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I Will Repay
Director
1924
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The Fighter
Director
1921
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Bucking the Tiger
Director
1921
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The Leopardess
Director
1923
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The Palace of Darkened Windows
Director
1920