Henry Kolker
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1874-11-12
Place of birth
Berlin, Germany
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Cast
Sing for Your Supper
1941
6.00
The Black Room
1935
6.48
The Bad One
1930
6.30
Name the Woman
1934
0.00
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935
6.50
A Woman's Face
1941
6.80
Hidden Power
1939
0.00
The Great Swindle
1941
0.00
Baby Face
1933
7.22
Bullets or Ballots
1936
6.60
Mad Love
1935
7.00
Black Moon
1934
5.30
Bluebeard
1944
5.35
The Florentine Dagger
1935
5.70
The Way of All Men
1930
4.00
Good Intentions
1930
0.00
Holiday
1938
7.28
Great Guy
1936
6.20
Let Us Live
1939
6.80
Love Time
1934
0.00
Indiscreet
1931
6.00
The Mystery Man
1935
5.40
Coquette
1929
5.70
The Unholy Garden
1931
6.30
Don't Marry
1928
0.00
The Power and the Glory
1933
5.70
The Man Who Lived Twice
1936
6.70
I Loved a Woman
1933
4.54
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
6.26
The Valiant
1929
6.00
Bedside
1934
5.40
The Brat
1919
0.00
Wonder Bar
1934
5.88
East Is West
1930
4.00
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
6.00
I Like Your Nerve
1931
5.70
Sitting on the Moon
1936
4.30
Sing Sing Nights
1934
2.75
Faithless
1932
6.60
Gigolettes of Paris
1933
5.00
Honeymoon Limited
1935
5.33
The Keyhole
1933
4.67
A Lost Lady
1934
5.64
Success at Any Price
1934
3.78
Money and the Woman
1940
3.50
The Narrow Corner
1933
5.50
Reckless
1935
5.00
Here I Am a Stranger
1939
7.00
Too Hot to Handle
1938
5.75
Union Pacific
1939
6.58
The Ghost Walks
1934
5.35
Grand Ole Opry
1940
7.00
Hello, Sister!
1933
5.79
Sarong Girl
1943
0.00
Soft Living
1928
0.00
My Marriage
1936
5.00
Blood Money
1933
7.00
A Bedtime Story
1933
4.50
I've Got Your Number
1934
6.00
Whom the Gods Destroy
1934
5.50
They Wanted to Marry
1937
5.00
Notorious But Nice
1933
5.50
The Hell Cat
1934
6.00
Blind Date
1934
7.00
One Heavenly Night
1930
5.20
The Devil Is Driving
1937
5.00
The Girl from Missouri
1934
6.90
The Washington Masquerade
1932
6.50
Society Doctor
1935
6.30
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
6.50
Red Hot Tires
1935
5.80
One New York Night
1935
0.00
Lady by Choice
1934
6.30
Love, Live & Laugh
1929
0.00
The Invisible Menace
1938
3.80
The Band Plays On
1934
8.50
Times Square Lady
1935
6.00
Let's Try Again
1934
2.00
Love Is a Headache
1938
5.70
A Dog of Flanders
1935
7.00
The Real Glory
1939
6.30
Here Comes the Band
1935
5.00
Journal of a Crime
1934
5.70
Las Vegas Nights
1941
5.50
She Loves Me Not
1934
5.60
One Exciting Adventure
1934
0.00
These Glamour Girls
1939
5.50
The Crash
1932
4.80
Now and Forever
1934
6.60
The Palace of Pleasure
1926
0.00
The Yellow Ticket
1931
4.73
Meet the Baron
1933
4.20
Maid of Salem
1937
5.90
Don't Bet on Women
1931
4.14
Once a Doctor
1937
6.30
Jewel Robbery
1932
6.50
Midnight Rose
1928
0.00
Red Salute
1935
5.60
The Parson of Panamint
1941
5.00
Main Street Lawyer
1939
2.00
Parents on Trial
1939
0.00
Devil and the Deep
1932
4.80
Quick Millions
1931
7.10
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
1937
5.70
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935
5.97
The First Year
1932
0.00
I Live My Life
1935
6.38
Diamond Jim
1935
6.00
How Molly Malone Made Good
1915
5.00
Golden Harvest
1933
5.00
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
4.30
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
1930
5.40
Under Cover of Night
1937
5.70
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
5.10
Sally, Irene and Mary
1925
5.50
Frisco Waterfront
1935
0.00
Green Light
1937
6.40
Bureau of Missing Persons
1933
5.56
Shipmates Forever
1935
6.50
Any Woman
1925
0.00
Romeo and Juliet
1936
6.20
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
5.65
Safety in Numbers
1938
0.00
Go Into Your Dance
1935
6.80
Let's Talk It Over
1934
0.00
Let Them Live
1937
0.00
3 Kids and a Queen
1935
6.00
The House of Mirth
1918
0.00
Social Hypocrites
1918
0.00
Abraham Lincoln
1930
5.40
Million Dollar Ransom
1934
5.00
Imitation of Life
1934
7.00
The Beautiful Spy
1928
0.00
A Kiss in a Taxi
1927
0.00
Gloria's Romance
1916
6.00
Marie Antoinette
1938
6.50
Reunion in France
1942
6.40
Spring Tonic
1935
5.30
Collegiate
1936
0.00
The Spy
1931
0.00
Hell's Four Hundred
1926
0.00
The Shell Game
1918
0.00
A Man of Stone
1921
0.00
Blackie's Redemption
1919
0.00
The Warning
1915
0.00
Pleasure Crazed
1929
0.00
Her Purchase Price
1919
0.00
Sisters Under the Skin
1934
0.00
Wet Paint
1926
0.00
The Parisian Tigress
1919
0.00