Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1895-02-18 (61 years old)
Deathday
1956-05-12
Place of Birth
Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Also known As
Carl Henry Vogt
Louis Calhearn
Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor. For portraying Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee (1950), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Calhern began working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s; the most notable being The Blot in 1921. A 1921 newspaper article commented, "The new arrival in stardom is Louis Calhern, who, until Miss Weber engaged him to enact the leading male role in What's Worth While?, had been playing leads in the Morosco Stock company of Los Angeles." In 1923 Calhern left...
1946
as Captain Paul Prescott
1933
as Ambassador Trentino
1923
as Harry Gaines
1951
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1952
as Freddie Melrose
1956
as Uncle Willie
1949
as Grandfather
1950
as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
1955
as Jim Murdock
1950
as Verne Coolan
1956
as Charles Y. Bewell
1952
as Col. Zapt
1948
as Boris Morosov
1949
as Colonel Piniev
1931
as 'Dapper Dan' Barker
1932
as Joe Finn
1954
as George Nyle Caswell
1950
as Horatio Robinson
1934
as Major Jim Day
1934
as De Villefort Jr.
1939
as Dr. Kessler
1950
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
1953
as Julius Caesar
1954
as King of Karlsberg
1943
as Randolph Van Cleve
1933
as Leo Young
1932
as Mileaway Russell
1932
as Asst. District Attorney John Wade
1932
as Dick Bolton
1933
as Steve Dutton
1934
as Stanley Vance
1951
as Charles Theverner
1954
as Gen. Ten Eyck
1954
as James A. Michener
1940
as Dr. Brockdorf
1950
as Oliver Wendell Holmes
1954
as Nicholas Durant
1954
as Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain
1936
as Leroy Sunderland
1933
as Christopher Bruno
1944
as Don Andre - The Viceroy
1934
as Ottaviano
1944
as Colonel Ashley
1952
as Simon Bowker
1950
as Gregory Elliott
1955
as Nahreeb
1938
as Elias Z. Bannerman
1931
as Steve Perry
1935
as Sheriff Jake Mannen
1940
as Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
1935
as Prefect Allus Martius
1952
as Charles W. Birch
1953
as Grandfather Eduardo Santos
1950
as Jim Leversoe
1986
as Self (from The Asphalt Jungle [1950]) (archive footage)
1931
as Dr. George March
1953
as Benjamin Goodman
1937
as Joe Sorrell
1935
as Smiley
1939
as Arthur Aldrich
1921
as Phil West
1933
as Winkelreid
1932
as Ford Humphries
1953
as Self
1953
as Opie Bedloe
1952
as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
1933
as Jack Magruder
1939
as LeMarc
1943
as Curtis Farnsworth
1937
as Major Dort
1921
as David Graham
1976
as (archive footage)
1921
as 'Squire' Elton
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