1895-02-18 Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
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 the movies, but would return to the screen eight years later after the advent of sound pictures. He was primarily cast as a character actor in films while he continued to play leading roles on the stage. He reached his peak in the 1950s as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Among his many memorable screen roles were Ambassador Trentino in the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup (1933) and three that he appeared in at MGM in 1950: a singing role as Buffalo Bill in the film version of the musical Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's film noir The Asphalt Jungle, and his Oscar-nominated performance as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee (re-creating his role from the Broadway stage). He was also praised for his portrayal of the title role in the John Houseman production of Julius Caesar (adapted from the Shakespeare play) in 1953, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Calhern also played the role of the devious George Caswell, the manipulative board member of Tredway Corporation in the 1954 production of Executive Suite. Calhern's other film roles included the grandfather in The Red Pony (1949), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious (1946). A performance as Uncle Willie in High Society (1956), a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, turned out to be his final film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Calhern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
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High Society | Uncle Willie | 1956-07-17 |
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Forever, Darling | Charles Y. Bewell | 1956-02-09 |
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The Prodigal | Nahreeb | 1955-05-06 |
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Blackboard Jungle | Jim Murdock | 1955-03-25 |
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The Student Prince | King of Karlsberg | 1954-06-15 |
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Athena | Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain | 1954-11-04 |
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Executive Suite | George Nyle Caswell | 1954-04-30 |
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Rhapsody | Nicholas Durant | 1954-04-16 |
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Men of the Fighting Lady | James A. Michener | 1954-05-07 |
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Betrayed | Gen. Ten Eyck | 1954-09-07 |
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Confidentially Connie | Opie Bedloe | 1953-03-12 |
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Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | 1953-06-04 |
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Latin Lovers | Grandfather Eduardo Santos | 1953-08-12 |
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Main Street to Broadway | Self | 1953-10-12 |
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Remains to Be Seen | Benjamin Goodman | 1953-05-15 |
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Invitation | Simon Bowker | 1952-01-29 |
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The Prisoner of Zenda | Col. Zapt | 1952-11-04 |
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The Bad and the Beautiful | Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited) | 1952-12-25 |
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Washington Story | Charles W. Birch | 1952-07-01 |
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We're Not Married! | Freddie Melrose | 1952-07-11 |
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The Man with a Cloak | Charles Theverner | 1951-11-27 |
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It's a Big Country | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1951-11-20 |
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A Life of Her Own | Jim Leversoe | 1950-09-01 |
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Nancy Goes to Rio | Gregory Elliott | 1950-03-10 |
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The Magnificent Yankee | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1950-12-20 |
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Annie Get Your Gun | Col. Buffalo Bill Cody | 1950-05-17 |
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The Asphalt Jungle | Alonzo D. Emmerich | 1950-05-12 |
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Devil's Doorway | Verne Coolan | 1950-08-18 |
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Two Weeks with Love | Horatio Robinson | 1950-11-10 |
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The Red Pony | Grandfather | 1949-03-08 |
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The Red Danube | Colonel Piniev | 1949-10-14 |
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Arch of Triumph | Boris Morosov | 1948-02-17 |
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Notorious | Captain Paul Prescott | 1946-08-21 |
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Up in Arms | Colonel Ashley | 1944-02-17 |
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Don Andre - The Viceroy | 1944-02-11 |
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Heaven Can Wait | Randolph Van Cleve | 1943-08-05 |
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Nobody's Darling | Curtis Farnsworth | 1943-08-27 |
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Dr. Brockdorf | 1940-02-23 |
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I Take This Woman | Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen | 1940-02-02 |
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective | Arthur Aldrich | 1939-12-22 |
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Juarez | LeMarc | 1939-06-10 |
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Fifth Avenue Girl | Dr. Kessler | 1939-09-22 |
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Fast Company | Elias Z. Bannerman | 1938-07-05 |
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The Life of Emile Zola | Major Dort | 1937-09-09 |
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Her Husband Lies | Joe Sorrell | 1937-03-13 |
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The Gorgeous Hussy | Leroy Sunderland | 1936-08-28 |
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The Last Days of Pompeii | Prefect Allus Martius | 1935-10-18 |
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Woman Wanted | Smiley | 1935-08-02 |
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The Arizonian | Sheriff Jake Mannen | 1935-06-27 |
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Sweet Adeline | Major Jim Day | 1934-12-29 |
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The Man with Two Faces | Stanley Vance | 1934-08-04 |
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The Affairs of Cellini | Ottaviano | 1934-08-24 |
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The Count of Monte Cristo | De Villefort Jr. | 1934-09-06 |
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Duck Soup | Ambassador Trentino | 1933-11-12 |
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Diplomaniacs | Winkelreid | 1933-04-28 |
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Strictly Personal | Jack Magruder | 1933-03-17 |
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The World Gone Mad | Christopher Bruno | 1933-04-15 |
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The Woman Accused | Leo Young | 1933-02-17 |
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Frisco Jenny | Steve Dutton | 1933-01-14 |
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Afraid to Talk | Asst. District Attorney John Wade | 1932-11-17 |
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Night After Night | Dick Bolton | 1932-10-29 |
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They Call It Sin | Ford Humphries | 1932-11-05 |
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Okay, America! | Mileaway Russell | 1932-09-08 |
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing | Joe Finn | 1932-12-24 |
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Blonde Crazy | 'Dapper Dan' Barker | 1931-09-16 |
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Stolen Heaven | Steve Perry | 1931-02-20 |
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The Road to Singapore | Dr. George March | 1931-09-02 |
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The Last Moment | Harry Gaines | 1923-06-07 |
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What's Worth While? | 'Squire' Elton | 1921-02-27 |
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Too Wise Wives | David Graham | 1921-05-22 |
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The Blot | Phil West | 1921-09-04 |
