Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1874-11-12
Day of Death
1947-07-15
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Henry Kolker
Biography
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 (152)
Bluebeard
1944
Sarong Girl
1943
Reunion in France
1942
Sing for Your Supper
1941
The Parson of Panamint
1941
A Woman's Face
1941
The Great Swindle
1941
Las Vegas Nights
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
Money and the Woman
1940
Grand Ole Opry
1940
Main Street Lawyer
1939
Here I Am a Stranger
1939
The Real Glory
1939
