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Henry Kolker
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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.
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As actor
Bluebeard
Sarong Girl
Reunion in France
Sing for Your Supper
A Woman's Face
The Great Swindle
Las Vegas Nights
The Parson of Panamint
The Man Who Lost Himself
Money and the Woman
Grand Ole Opry
Hidden Power
Let Us Live
Here I Am a Stranger
Union Pacific
The Real Glory
These Glamour Girls
Main Street Lawyer
Parents on Trial
Holiday
The Cowboy and the Lady
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Too Hot to Handle
The Invisible Menace
Love Is a Headache
Safety in Numbers
Marie Antoinette
They Wanted to Marry
The Devil Is Driving
Maid of Salem