- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 18, 1895
- Place of Birth
- Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
- Died
- May 12, 1956
Louis Calhern
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-G…
Filmography
movieBecoming Marilyn
2022 · (archive footage)
movieThat's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
movieHigh Society
1956 · Uncle Willie
movieForever, Darling
1956 · Charles Y. Bewell
movieThe Prodigal
1955 · Nahreeb
movieBlackboard Jungle
1955 · Jim Murdock
movieAthena
1954 · Grandpa Mulvain
movieBetrayed
1954 · Gen. Ten Eyck
movieThe Student Prince
1954 · King of Karlsberg
movieMen of the Fighting Lady
1954 · James A. Michener
movieExecutive Suite
1954 · George Nyle Caswell
movieRhapsody
1954 · Nicholas Durant
movieMain Street to Broadway
1953 · Self
movieLatin Lovers
1953 · Grandfather Eduardo Santos
movieJulius Caesar
1953 · Julius Caesar
movieRemains to Be Seen
1953 · Benjamin Goodman
movieConfidentially Connie
1953 · Opie Bedloe
movieThe Bad and the Beautiful
1952 · Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Prisoner of Zenda
1952 · Col. Zapt
movieWe're Not Married!
1952 · Freddie Melrose
movieWashington Story
1952 · Charles W. Birch
movieInvitation
1952 · Simon Bowker
movieThe Man with a Cloak
1951 · Charles Theverner
movieIt's a Big Country
1951 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Magnificent Yankee
1950 · Oliver Wendell Holmes
movieTwo Weeks with Love
1950 · Horatio Robinson
movieA Life of Her Own
1950 · Jim Leversoe
movieDevil's Doorway
1950 · Verne Coolan
movieAnnie Get Your Gun
1950 · Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
movieThe Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Alonzo D. Emmerich
movieNancy Goes to Rio
1950 · Gregory Elliott
movieThe Red Danube
1949 · Colonel Piniev
movieThe Red Pony
1949 · Grandfather
tvThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
movieArch of Triumph
1948 · Boris Morosov
movieNotorious
1946 · Paul Prescott
movieUp in Arms
1944 · Colonel Ashley
movieThe Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944 · Don Andre - The Viceroy
movieNobody's Darling
1943 · Curtis Farnsworth
movieHeaven Can Wait
1943 · Randolph Van Cleve
movieDr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940 · Dr. Brockdorf
movieI Take This Woman
1940 · Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
movieCharlie McCarthy, Detective
1939 · Arthur Aldrich
movieFifth Avenue Girl
1939 · Dr. Kessler
movieJuarez
1939 · LeMarc
movieFast Company
1938 · Elias Z. Bannerman
movieThe Life of Emile Zola
1937 · Major Dort
movieHer Husband Lies
1937 · Joe Sorrell
movieThe Gorgeous Hussy
1936 · Leroy Sunderland
movieThe Last Days of Pompeii
1935 · Prefect Allus Martius
movieWoman Wanted
1935 · Smiley
movieThe Arizonian
1935 · Sheriff Jake Mannen
movieSweet Adeline
1934 · Major Jim Day
movieThe Count of Monte Cristo
1934 · De Villefort Jr.
movieThe Affairs of Cellini
1934 · Ottaviano
movieThe Man with Two Faces
1934 · Stanley Vance
movieDuck Soup
1933 · Ambassador Trentino
movieDiplomaniacs
1933 · Winkelreid
movieThe World Gone Mad
1933 · Christopher Bruno
movieStrictly Personal
1933 · Jack Magruder
movieThe Woman Accused
1933 · Leo Young
movieFrisco Jenny
1933 · Steve Dutton
movie20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932 · Joe Finn
movieAfraid to Talk
1932 · Asst. District Attorney John Wade
movieThey Call It Sin
1932 · Ford Humphries
movieNight After Night
1932 · Dick Bolton
movieOkay, America!
1932 · Mileaway Russell
movieBlonde Crazy
1931 · 'Dapper Dan' Barker
movieThe Road to Singapore
1931 · Dr. George March
movieStolen Heaven
1931 · Steve Perry
movieThe Last Moment
1923 · Harry Gaines
movieThe Blot
1921 · Phil West
movieToo Wise Wives
1921 · David Graham
movieWhat's Worth While?
1921 · 'Squire' Elton