Henry Kolker
Known For
Acting
Born
1874-11-12 in Berlin, Germany
Died
1947-07-15
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.
Most Known For
Wonder Bar
as R. H. Renaud
Collegiate
as Mr. MacGregor
Sarong Girl
as Jefferson Baxter
Society Doctor
as Dr. Harvey
Bullets or Ballots
as Mr. Hollister
Hello, Sister!
as Jameson Brewster - Bank President
Love, Live & Laugh
as Enrico
Name the Woman
as Judge Adams
Mad Love
as Prefect Rosset
Imitation of Life
as Dr. Preston (uncredited)
A Woman's Face
as Judge
Holiday
as Edward Seton
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Horace Smith
Baby Face
as J.R. Carter
Sing Sing Nights
as Kurt Nordon
Union Pacific
as Asa M. Barrows
Marie Antoinette
as Court Aide (uncredited)
Pleasure Crazed
as Col. Farquar
My Marriage
as Maj. Vaile
The Hell Cat
as C.W. Sloane