Actor

Henry Kolker

154 movies as actor · 15 as director

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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.

Known for

Holiday

1938 · Comedy, Romance

Baby Face

1933 · Drama

Mad Love

1935 · Horror, Thriller

Imitation of Life

1934 · Drama, Romance

Union Pacific

1939 · Drama, Western

A Woman's Face

1941 · Drama, Thriller

The Black Room

1935 · Horror, Crime

Bullets or Ballots

1936 · Crime, Drama

Bluebeard

1944 · Crime, Thriller

Theodora Goes Wild

1936 · Comedy, Romance

Jewel Robbery

1932 · Romance, Comedy

Abraham Lincoln

1930 · History, Drama

Henry Kolker movies

Bluebeard

1944 · Deschamps

Sarong Girl

1943 · Jefferson Baxter

Reunion in France

1942 · General Bartholomew (uncredited)

Sing for Your Supper

1941 · Myron T. Hayworth

The Parson of Panamint

1941 · Judge Arnold Mason

A Woman's Face

1941 · Judge

The Great Swindle

1941 · Stewart Cordell

Las Vegas Nights

1941 · William Stevens Sr.

The Man Who Lost Himself

1941 · T.J. Mulhausen

Money and the Woman

1940 · Mr. Rollins

Grand Ole Opry

1940 · William C. Scully

Main Street Lawyer

1939 · Donnelly, District Attorney

Here I Am a Stranger

1939 · R.J. Bennett

The Real Glory

1939 · The General

Parents on Trial

1939 · James Wesley

Hidden Power

1939 · Weston

These Glamour Girls

1939 · Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)

Union Pacific

1939 · Asa M. Barrows

Let Us Live

1939 · Chief of Police

The Cowboy and the Lady

1938 · Horace Smith

Too Hot to Handle

1938 · Pearly Todd

Marie Antoinette

1938 · Court Aide (uncredited)

Safety in Numbers

1938 · Dr. Lawrence Edmonds

Holiday

1938 · Edward Seton

The Adventures of Marco Polo

1938 · Nicolo Polo

Love Is a Headache

1938 · Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)

The Invisible Menace

1938 · Col. Hackett

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

1937 · "Doc" Godfrey

The Devil Is Driving

1937 · Charles Stevens

Let Them Live

1937 · Judge Lederer

Green Light

1937 · Dr. Lane

Maid of Salem

1937 · Crown Chief Justice Laughton

They Wanted to Marry

1937 · Mr. Hunter

Once a Doctor

1937 · Bruce Nordland

Under Cover of Night

1937 · District Attorney Pritchard

Great Guy

1936 · Abel Canning

Theodora Goes Wild

1936 · Jonathan Grant

The Man Who Lived Twice

1936 · Judge Treacher

Sitting on the Moon

1936 · Worthington

Romeo and Juliet

1936 · Friar Laurence

Bullets or Ballots

1936 · Mr. Hollister

My Marriage

1936 · Maj. Vaile

Collegiate

1935 · Mr. MacGregor

Frisco Waterfront

1935 · District Attorney

3 Kids and a Queen

1935 · Crippet

The Last Days of Pompeii

1935 · Warder (uncredited)

Shipmates Forever

1935 · Doctor (uncredited)

I Live My Life

1935 · Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)

Red Salute

1935 · Dean

Diamond Jim

1935 · J.C. Randolf - Bank President

Here Comes the Band

1935 · Simmon's Attorney

The Black Room

1935 · Baron de Berghman

Mad Love

1935 · Prefect Rosset

Honeymoon Limited

1935 · Mr. Randall

Spring Tonic

1935 · Mr. Enix

Go Into Your Dance

1935 · Doctor

Reckless

1935 · Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)

The Case of the Curious Bride

1935 · District Attorney Stacey

The Florentine Dagger

1935 · Auctioneer

A Dog of Flanders

1935 · Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)

One New York Night

1935 · Arthur Carlisle

Times Square Lady

1935 · Mr. Fielding

The Mystery Man

1935 · Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas

Red Hot Tires

1935 · Martin Sanford

Society Doctor

1935 · Dr. Harvey

Charlie Chan in Paris

1935 · Paul Lamartine

The Band Plays On

1934 · Professor Hackett

Sing Sing Nights

1934 · Kurt Nordon

The Ghost Walks

1934 · Dr. Kent

Imitation of Life

1934 · Dr. Preston (uncredited)

Love Time

1934 · Emperor Francis I

Lady by Choice

1934 · Opper

A Lost Lady

1934 · John Ormsby

One Exciting Adventure

1934 · Customer, Oscar

Million Dollar Ransom

1934 · Dr. Davis (Uncredited)

She Loves Me Not

1934 · Charles M. Lawton

Now and Forever

1934 · Mr. Clark

The Girl from Missouri

1934 · Senator Titcombe

Name the Woman

1934 · Judge Adams

Blind Date

1934 · J.W. Hartwell Sr.

Whom the Gods Destroy

1934 · Carlo - the Puppeteer

Let's Try Again

1934 · Mr. Blake

The Hell Cat

1934 · C.W. Sloane

Black Moon

1934 · The Psychiatrist

Let's Talk It Over

1934 · Doctor

Sisters Under the Skin

1934 · Jones

Wonder Bar

1934 · R. H. Renaud

Success at Any Price

1934 · Hatfield

Journal of a Crime

1934 · Henri Marcher

I've Got Your Number

1934 · Lawyer Robert Kirkland

Bedside

1934 · Maritza's Manager

Blood Money

1933 · Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)

Meet the Baron

1933 · Baron Munchausen

The Power and the Glory

1933 · Mr. Borden

Gigolettes of Paris

1933 · Police Interrogator

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!

1933 · The Judge

I Loved a Woman

1933 · Mr. Sanborn

Golden Harvest

1933 · Henry Flint

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933 · Theodore Arno

Notorious But Nice

1933 · Defense Attorney Clark

Baby Face

1933 · J.R. Carter

The Narrow Corner

1933 · Mr. Blake, Fred's Father

A Bedtime Story

1933 · Agent de Police

Hello, Sister!

1933 · Jameson Brewster - Bank President

The Keyhole

1933 · Schuyler Brooks

Rasputin and the Empress

1932 · Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)

Faithless

1932 · Mr. Carter

The Crash

1932 · John Fair

Devil and the Deep

1932 · Hutton

The First Year

1932 · Peter Barstow

The Washington Masquerade

1932 · Stapleton

Jewel Robbery

1932 · Baron Franz Hohenfels

The Yellow Ticket

1931 · Passport Clerk

The Unholy Garden

1931 · Col. Lautrac

I Like Your Nerve

1931 · Areal Pacheco

The Spy

1931 · Tchijinski

Indiscreet

1931 · Mr. Woodward

Quick Millions

1931 · District Attorney (uncredited)

Don't Bet on Women

1931 · Butterfield (uncredited)

One Heavenly Night

1930 · Prefect of Police

Abraham Lincoln

1930 · New Englander (uncredited)

East Is West

1930 · Mr. Benson

Du Barry, Woman of Passion

1930 · D'Aiguillon

The Way of All Men

1930 · Sharp

Good Intentions

1930 · Butler

The Bad One

1930 · Prosecutor

Love, Live & Laugh

1929 · Enrico

Pleasure Crazed

1929 · Col. Farquar

The Valiant

1929 · Judge

Coquette

1929 · Jasper Carter

Don't Marry

Don't Marry

1928 · General Willoughby

The Beautiful Spy

1928 · Viceroy Cisneros

Midnight Rose

1928 · Corbin

Soft Living

1928 · Rodney S. Bowen

Rough House Rosie

1927 · W.S. Davids

Annie Laurie

1927

A Kiss in a Taxi

1927 · Leon Lambert

Wet Paint

1926 · A Husband

Hell's Four Hundred

Hell's Four Hundred

1926 · John Gilmore

The Palace of Pleasure

1926 · Don Sebastian, Premier

Sally, Irene and Mary

1925 · Marcus Morton

Any Woman

1925 · Egbert Phillips

A Man of Stone

1921 · (Uncredited)

The Brat

1919 · A Dandy

Her Purchase Price

1919 · Duke of Wryden

Blackie's Redemption

1919 · Fred the Count

The Parisian Tigress

1919 · Henri Dutray

The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns

1919 · Kaiser Wilhelm II

The House of Mirth

1918 · Lawrence Selden

Social Hypocrites

1918 · Dr. Frank Simpson

The Shell Game

1918 · Lawrence Gray

Gloria's Romance

1916 · Dr. Stephen Royce

The Warning

The Warning

1915 · Robert Denman

How Molly Malone Made Good

1915 · Himself

Directed by Henry Kolker

The Great Well

1924

I Will Repay

1924

The Purple Highway

1923

The Snow Bride

1923

The Leopardess

1923

Sant'Ilario

Sant'Ilario

1923

Disraeli

1921

The Fighter

1921

Bucking the Tiger

1921

The Greatest Love

1920

The Palace of Darkened Windows

1920

Heart of Twenty

Heart of Twenty

1920

The Third Generation

1920

The Woman Michael Married

1919

A Man's Country

1919

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