Henry Kolker
Known for: Acting
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
Film
Baby Face
J.R. Carter
1933
Film
Union Pacific
Asa M. Barrows
1939
Film
A Woman's Face
Judge
1941
Film
Marie Antoinette
Court Aide (uncredited)
1938
Film
Holiday
Edward Seton
1938
Film
A Lost Lady
John Ormsby
1934
Film
My Marriage
Maj. Vaile
1936
Film
Hello, Sister!
Jameson Brewster - Bank President
1933
Film
Imitation of Life
Dr. Preston (uncredited)
1934
Film
Abraham Lincoln
New Englander (uncredited)
1930
Film
Pleasure Crazed
Col. Farquar
1929
Film
Mad Love
Prefect Rosset
1935
Film
The Black Room
Baron de Berghman
1935
Film
The Real Glory
The General
1939
Film
The Cowboy and the Lady
Horace Smith
1938
Film
Bullets or Ballots
Mr. Hollister
1936
Film
Reunion in France
General Bartholomew (uncredited)
1942
Film
Romeo and Juliet
Friar Laurence
1936
Film
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Nicolo Polo
1938
Film
Wonder Bar
R. H. Renaud
1934
Film
Reckless
Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
1935
Film
Rasputin and the Empress
Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
1932
Film
Jewel Robbery
Baron Franz Hohenfels
1932
Film
Charlie Chan in Paris
Paul Lamartine
1935
Film
Society Doctor
Dr. Harvey
1935
Film
Too Hot to Handle
Pearly Todd
1938
Film
Let Us Live
Chief of Police
1939
Don't Marry
General Willoughby
1928
Film
Diamond Jim
J.C. Randolf - Bank President
1935
Film
I Live My Life
Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
1935
Film
Wet Paint
A Husband
1926
Film
Sisters Under the Skin
Jones
1934
Film
Collegiate
Mr. MacGregor
1935
Film
Let's Try Again
Mr. Blake
1934
Film
These Glamour Girls
Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
1939
Film
Name the Woman
Judge Adams
1934
Film
Red Salute
Dean
1935
Film
The Washington Masquerade
Stapleton
1932
Film
She Loves Me Not
Charles M. Lawton
1934
Film
The Mystery Man
Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
1935
Film
Golden Harvest
Henry Flint
1933
Film
Green Light
Dr. Lane
1937
The Warning
Robert Denman
1915
Film
A Man of Stone
(Uncredited)
1921
Film
Now and Forever
Mr. Clark
1934
Film
Blind Date
J.W. Hartwell Sr.
1934
Film
3 Kids and a Queen
Crippet
1935
Film
Meet the Baron
Baron Munchausen
1933
Film
Great Guy
Abel Canning
1936
Film
Blood Money
Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
1933
Film
Coquette
Jasper Carter
1929
Film
Sally, Irene and Mary
Marcus Morton
1925
Film
Times Square Lady
Mr. Fielding
1935
Film
The Hell Cat
C.W. Sloane
1934
Film
The Crash
John Fair
1932
Film
Bluebeard
Deschamps
1944
Film
The Unholy Garden
Col. Lautrac
1931
Film
The Last Days of Pompeii
Warder (uncredited)
1935
Film
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
"Doc" Godfrey
1937
Film
Journal of a Crime
Henri Marcher
1934
Film
Under Cover of Night
District Attorney Pritchard
1937
Film
Bureau of Missing Persons
Theodore Arno
1933
Film
Sing Sing Nights
Kurt Nordon
1934
Film
The Keyhole
Schuyler Brooks
1933
Film
Maid of Salem
Crown Chief Justice Laughton
1937
Film
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
D'Aiguillon
1930
Film
Shipmates Forever
Doctor (uncredited)
1935
Film
The Case of the Curious Bride
District Attorney Stacey
1935
Film
Main Street Lawyer
Donnelly, District Attorney
1939
Film
Go Into Your Dance
Doctor
1935
Film
Honeymoon Limited
Mr. Randall
1935
Film
Let Them Live
Judge Lederer
1937
Film
I've Got Your Number
Lawyer Robert Kirkland
1934
Film
The Valiant
Judge
1929
Film
The Man Who Lived Twice
Judge Treacher
1936
Film
The Florentine Dagger
Auctioneer
1935
Film
The Invisible Menace
Col. Hackett
1938
Film
Notorious But Nice
Defense Attorney Clark
1933
Film
Spring Tonic
Mr. Enix
1935
Film
One New York Night
Arthur Carlisle
1935
Film
Whom the Gods Destroy
Carlo - the Puppeteer
1934
Film
Bedside
Maritza's Manager
1934
Film
Love Is a Headache
Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
1938
Film
Devil and the Deep
Hutton
1932
Film
Safety in Numbers
Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
1938
Film
I Loved a Woman
Mr. Sanborn
1933
Film
Theodora Goes Wild
Jonathan Grant
1936
Film
The Power and the Glory
Mr. Borden
1933
Film
Hidden Power
Weston
1939
Film
One Heavenly Night
Prefect of Police
1930
Hell's Four Hundred
John Gilmore
1926
Film
The Yellow Ticket
Passport Clerk
1931
Film
The Narrow Corner
Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
1933
Film
Quick Millions
District Attorney (uncredited)
1931
Film
Love Time
Emperor Francis I
1934
Film
The Ghost Walks
Dr. Kent
1934
Film
The Band Plays On
Professor Hackett
1934
Film
The Parisian Tigress
Henri Dutray
1919
Film
Love, Live & Laugh
Enrico
1929
Film
Once a Doctor
Bruce Nordland
1937
Film
Good Intentions
Butler
1930
Film
Faithless
Mr. Carter
1932
Film
Sarong Girl
Jefferson Baxter
1943
Film
The Girl from Missouri
Senator Titcombe
1934
Film
Let's Talk It Over
Doctor
1934
Film
The Bad One
Prosecutor
1930
Film
A Bedtime Story
Agent de Police
1933
Film
Blackie's Redemption
Fred the Count
1919
Film
Success at Any Price
Hatfield
1934
Film
Money and the Woman
Mr. Rollins
1940
Film
One Exciting Adventure
Customer, Oscar
1934
Film
The First Year
Peter Barstow
1932
Film
Las Vegas Nights
William Stevens Sr.
1941
Film
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
The Judge
1933
Film
Frisco Waterfront
District Attorney
1935
Film
Sitting on the Moon
Worthington
1936
Film
The Man Who Lost Himself
T.J. Mulhausen
1941
Film
Grand Ole Opry
William C. Scully
1940
Film
Lady by Choice
Opper
1934
Film
Million Dollar Ransom
Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
1934
Film
Don't Bet on Women
Butterfield (uncredited)
1931
Film
The Spy
Tchijinski
1931
Film
The Great Swindle
Stewart Cordell
1941
Film
The Devil Is Driving
Charles Stevens
1937
Film
I Like Your Nerve
Areal Pacheco
1931
Film
They Wanted to Marry
Mr. Hunter
1937
Film
A Kiss in a Taxi
Leon Lambert
1927
Film
Parents on Trial
James Wesley
1939
Film
Black Moon
The Psychiatrist
1934
Film
Red Hot Tires
Martin Sanford
1935
Film
Her Purchase Price
Duke of Wryden
1919
Film
A Dog of Flanders
Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
1935
Film
The Parson of Panamint
Judge Arnold Mason
1941
Film
East Is West
Mr. Benson
1930
Film
How Molly Malone Made Good
Himself
1915
Film
Indiscreet
Mr. Woodward
1931
Film
The Brat
A Dandy
1919
Film
Here Comes the Band
Simmon's Attorney
1935
Film
The House of Mirth
Lawrence Selden
1918
Film
Sing for Your Supper
Myron T. Hayworth
1941
Film
The Palace of Pleasure
Don Sebastian, Premier
1926
Film
Any Woman
Egbert Phillips
1925
Film
Soft Living
Rodney S. Bowen
1928
Film
Annie Laurie
1927
Film
Gloria's Romance
Dr. Stephen Royce
1916
Film
Midnight Rose
Corbin
1928
Film
Here I Am a Stranger
R.J. Bennett
1939
Film
The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
Kaiser Wilhelm II
1919
Film
The Beautiful Spy
Viceroy Cisneros
1928
Film
Social Hypocrites
Dr. Frank Simpson
1918
Film
Gigolettes of Paris
Police Interrogator
1933
Film
The Way of All Men
Sharp
1930
Film
The Shell Game
Lawrence Gray
1918