Henry Kolker
Birthday: 1874-11-13 | Place of Birth: Berlin, GermanyFrom 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Deschamps
as Jefferson Baxter
as William Stevens Sr.
as Mr. Rollins
as William C. Scully
as Asa M. Barrows
as Chief of Police
as Donnelly, District Attorney
as Col. Hackett
as Edward Seton
as Horace Smith
as Pearly Todd
as "Doc" Godfrey
as Charles Stevens
as Dr. Lane
as Mr. Hunter
as Abel Canning
as Jonathan Grant
as Judge Henry Treacher
as Worthington
as Baron de Berghman
as Paul Lamartine
as Prefect Rosset
