Louis Calhern

Personal Info

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

Louis Calhern

Biography

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...

Acting

1946

Notorious

as Captain Paul Prescott

1933

Duck Soup

as Ambassador Trentino

1923

The Last Moment

as Harry Gaines

1951

It's a Big Country

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1952

We're Not Married!

as Freddie Melrose

1956

High Society

as Uncle Willie

1949

The Red Pony

as Grandfather

1950

Annie Get Your Gun

as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody

1955

Blackboard Jungle

as Jim Murdock

1950

Devil's Doorway

as Verne Coolan

1956

Forever, Darling

as Charles Y. Bewell

1952

1948

Arch of Triumph

as Boris Morosov

1949

The Red Danube

as Colonel Piniev

1931

Blonde Crazy

as 'Dapper Dan' Barker

1954

Executive Suite

as George Nyle Caswell

1950

Two Weeks with Love

as Horatio Robinson

1934

Sweet Adeline

as Major Jim Day

1934

The Count of Monte Cristo

as De Villefort Jr.

1939

Fifth Avenue Girl

as Dr. Kessler

1950

The Asphalt Jungle

as Alonzo D. Emmerich

1953

Julius Caesar

as Julius Caesar

1954

The Student Prince

as King of Karlsberg

1943

Heaven Can Wait

as Randolph Van Cleve

1933

The Woman Accused

as Leo Young

1932

Okay, America!

as Mileaway Russell

1932

Afraid to Talk

as Asst. District Attorney John Wade

1932

Night After Night

as Dick Bolton

1933

Frisco Jenny

as Steve Dutton

1934

The Man with Two Faces

as Stanley Vance

1951

The Man with a Cloak

as Charles Theverner

1954

Betrayed

as Gen. Ten Eyck

1954

Men of the Fighting Lady

as James A. Michener

1940

1950

The Magnificent Yankee

as Oliver Wendell Holmes

1954

Rhapsody

as Nicholas Durant

1954

Athena

as Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain

1936

The Gorgeous Hussy

as Leroy Sunderland

1933

The World Gone Mad

as Christopher Bruno

1944

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as Don Andre - The Viceroy

1934

1944

Up in Arms

as Colonel Ashley

1952

Invitation

as Simon Bowker

1950

Nancy Goes to Rio

as Gregory Elliott

1955

The Prodigal

as Nahreeb

1938

Fast Company

as Elias Z. Bannerman

1931

Stolen Heaven

as Steve Perry

1935

The Arizonian

as Sheriff Jake Mannen

1940

I Take This Woman

as Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen

1935

The Last Days of Pompeii

as Prefect Allus Martius

1952

Washington Story

as Charles W. Birch

1953

Latin Lovers

as Grandfather Eduardo Santos

1950

A Life of Her Own

as Jim Leversoe

1986

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (from The Asphalt Jungle [1950]) (archive footage)

1931

The Road to Singapore

as Dr. George March

1953

Remains to Be Seen

as Benjamin Goodman

1937

Her Husband Lies

as Joe Sorrell

1935

Woman Wanted

as Smiley

1939

1921

The Blot

as Phil West

1933

Diplomaniacs

as Winkelreid

1932

They Call It Sin

as Ford Humphries

1953

Confidentially Connie

as Opie Bedloe

1952

The Bad and the Beautiful

as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)

1933

Strictly Personal

as Jack Magruder

1939

Juarez

as LeMarc

1943

Nobody's Darling

as Curtis Farnsworth

1937

1921

Too Wise Wives

as David Graham

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1921

What's Worth While?

as 'Squire' Elton

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