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Henry Kolker
Berlin, Germany
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 Americ…
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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.
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1944
Bluebeard
Movie Deschamps
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1943
Sarong Girl
Movie Jefferson Baxter
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1942
Reunion in France
Movie General Bartholomew (uncredited)
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1941
Sing for Your Supper
Movie Myron T. Hayworth
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1941
The Parson of Panamint
Movie Judge Arnold Mason
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1941
A Woman's Face
Movie Judge
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1941
The Great Swindle
Movie Stewart Cordell
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1941
Las Vegas Nights
Movie William Stevens Sr.
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1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
Movie T.J. Mulhausen
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1940
Money and the Woman
Movie Mr. Rollins
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1940
Grand Ole Opry
Movie William C. Scully
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1939
Main Street Lawyer
Movie Donnelly, District Attorney
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1939
The Real Glory
Movie The General
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1939
Here I Am a Stranger
Movie R.J. Bennett
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1939
Parents on Trial
Movie James Wesley
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1939
Hidden Power
Movie Weston
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1939
These Glamour Girls
Movie Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
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1939
Union Pacific
Movie Asa M. Barrows
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1939
Let Us Live
Movie Chief of Police
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1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
Movie Horace Smith
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1938
Too Hot to Handle
Movie Pearly Todd
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1938
Marie Antoinette
Movie Court Aide (uncredited)
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1938
Safety in Numbers
Movie Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
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1938
Holiday
Movie Edward Seton
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1938
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Movie Nicolo Polo
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1938
Love Is a Headache
Movie Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
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1938
The Invisible Menace
Movie Col. Hackett
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1937
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Movie "Doc" Godfrey
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1937
The Devil Is Driving
Movie Charles Stevens
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1937
Let Them Live
Movie Judge Lederer
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1937
Green Light
Movie Dr. Lane
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1937
Maid of Salem
Movie Crown Chief Justice Laughton
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1937
They Wanted to Marry
Movie Mr. Hunter
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1937
Once a Doctor
Movie Bruce Nordland
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1937
Under Cover of Night
Movie District Attorney Pritchard
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1936
Great Guy
Movie Abel Canning
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1936
Theodora Goes Wild
Movie Jonathan Grant
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1936
The Man Who Lived Twice
Movie Judge Treacher
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1936
Sitting on the Moon
Movie Worthington
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1936
Romeo and Juliet
Movie Friar Laurence
