Henry Kolker

Henry Kolker
Born	November 13, 1870 (or 1874) Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
Died	July 15, 1947(1947-07-15) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor Film director
Years active	1914 - 1947

Henry Kolker (November 13, 1870 [some sources indicate 1874], Quincy, Illinois – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. 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.

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.

Selected filmography

• How Molly Malone Made Good (1915) (*cameo; himself)
• Gloria's Romance (1916)
• The Red Lantern (1919)
• I Will Repay (1923)
• The Great Well (1924)
• Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
• Rough House Rosie (1927)
• Annie Laurie (1927)
• Coquette (1929)
• The Valiant (1929)
• The Bad One (1930)
• I Like Your Nerve (1931)
• Indiscreet (1931)
• Rasputin and the Empress (1932) uncredited
• Jewel Robbery (1932)
• Faithless (1932)
• Baby Face (1933)
• The Power and the Glory (1933)
• Wonder Bar (1934)
• Journal of a Crime (1934)
• A Lost Lady (1934)
• Lady by Choice (1934)
• The Ghost Walks (1934)
• The Great Impersonation (1935)
• The Florentine Dagger (1935)
• Red Salute (1935)
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
• The Black Room (1935)
• Great Guy (1936)
• Sitting on the Moon (1936)
• Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
• The Invisible Menace (1938)
• The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
• Holiday (1938)
• Union Pacific (1939)

External links

• Henry Kolker at the Internet Movie Database
• Henry Kolker at the Internet Broadway Database
• Henry Kolker at Find a Grave
• Henry Kolker photo portraits at NYP Library