Henry Kolker
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 (153 Appearances)
Bluebeard
Sarong Girl
Reunion in France
Sing for Your Supper
The Parson of Panamint
A Woman's Face
The Great Swindle
Las Vegas Nights
The Man Who Lost Himself
Money and the Woman
Grand Ole Opry
Main Street Lawyer
Here I Am a Stranger
The Real Glory
Parents on Trial
Hidden Power
These Glamour Girls
Union Pacific
Let Us Live
The Cowboy and the Lady
Too Hot to Handle
Marie Antoinette
Safety in Numbers
Holiday
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Love Is a Headache
The Invisible Menace
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
The Devil Is Driving
Let Them Live
Green Light
Maid of Salem
They Wanted to Marry
Once a Doctor
Under Cover of Night
Great Guy
Theodora Goes Wild
The Man Who Lived Twice
Sitting on the Moon
Romeo and Juliet
Bullets or Ballots
My Marriage
Collegiate
Frisco Waterfront
3 Kids and a Queen
The Last Days of Pompeii
Shipmates Forever
I Live My Life
Red Salute
Diamond Jim
Here Comes the Band
The Black Room
Mad Love
Honeymoon Limited
Spring Tonic
Go Into Your Dance
Reckless
The Case of the Curious Bride
The Florentine Dagger
A Dog of Flanders
One New York Night
Times Square Lady
The Mystery Man
Red Hot Tires
Society Doctor
Charlie Chan in Paris
The Band Plays On
Sing Sing Nights
The Ghost Walks
Imitation of Life
Love Time
Lady by Choice
A Lost Lady
Million Dollar Ransom
One Exciting Adventure
She Loves Me Not
Now and Forever
The Girl from Missouri
Name the Woman
Blind Date
Whom the Gods Destroy
Let's Try Again
The Hell Cat
Black Moon
Let's Talk It Over
Sisters Under the Skin
Wonder Bar
Success at Any Price
Journal of a Crime
I've Got Your Number
Bedside
Blood Money
Meet the Baron
The Power and the Glory
Gigolettes of Paris
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
I Loved a Woman
Golden Harvest
Bureau of Missing Persons
Notorious But Nice
Baby Face
The Narrow Corner
A Bedtime Story
Hello, Sister!
The Keyhole
Rasputin and the Empress
Faithless
The Crash
Devil and the Deep
The First Year
The Washington Masquerade
Jewel Robbery
The Yellow Ticket
The Unholy Garden
I Like Your Nerve
The Spy
Indiscreet
Quick Millions
Don't Bet on Women
One Heavenly Night
Abraham Lincoln
East Is West
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
The Way of All Men
Good Intentions
The Bad One
Love, Live & Laugh
Pleasure Crazed
The Valiant
Coquette
Don't Marry
The Beautiful Spy
Midnight Rose
Soft Living
Annie Laurie
A Kiss in a Taxi
Wet Paint
Hell's Four Hundred
The Palace of Pleasure
Sally, Irene and Mary
Any Woman
A Man of Stone
Her Purchase Price
The Brat
Blackie's Redemption
The Parisian Tigress
The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
The House of Mirth
Social Hypocrites
The Shell Game
Gloria's Romance
The Warning
How Molly Malone Made Good