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-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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA, 1895-02-18

Died: 1956-05-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1921	What's Worth While?	'Squire' Elton	0
2	1921	Too Wise Wives	David Graham	51
3	1921	The Blot	Phil West	64
4	1923	The Last Moment	Harry Gaines	0
5	1931	Stolen Heaven	Steve Perry	50
6	1931	The Road to Singapore	Dr. George March	56
7	1931	Blonde Crazy	'Dapper Dan' Barker	70
8	1932	Okay, America!	Mileaway Russell	53
9	1932	Night After Night	Dick Bolton	62
10	1932	They Call It Sin	Ford Humphries	58
11	1932	Afraid to Talk	Asst. District Attorney John Wade	60
12	1932	20,000 Years in Sing Sing	Joe Finn	63
13	1933	Frisco Jenny	Steve Dutton	63
14	1933	The Woman Accused	Leo Young	59
15	1933	Strictly Personal	Jack Magruder	50
16	1933	The World Gone Mad	Christopher Bruno	43
17	1933	Diplomaniacs	Winkelreid	70
18	1933	Duck Soup	Ambassador Trentino	73
19	1934	The Man with Two Faces	Stanley Vance	66
20	1934	The Affairs of Cellini	Ottaviano	51
21	1934	The Count of Monte Cristo	De Villefort Jr.	68
22	1934	Sweet Adeline	Major Jim Day	57
23	1935	The Arizonian	Sheriff Jake Mannen	0
24	1935	Woman Wanted	Smiley	63
25	1935	The Last Days of Pompeii	Prefect Allus Martius	56
26	1936	The Gorgeous Hussy	Leroy Sunderland	53
27	1937	Her Husband Lies	Joe Sorrell	60
28	1937	The Life of Emile Zola	Major Dort	66
29	1938	Fast Company	Elias Z. Bannerman	54
30	1939	Juarez	LeMarc	65
31	1939	Fifth Avenue Girl	Dr. Kessler	70
32	1939	Charlie McCarthy, Detective	Arthur Aldrich	60
33	1940	I Take This Woman	Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen	62
34	1940	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	Dr. Brockdorf	64
35	1943	Heaven Can Wait	Randolph Van Cleve	69
36	1943	Nobody's Darling	Curtis Farnsworth	0
37	1944	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Don Andre - The Viceroy	60
38	1944	Up in Arms	Colonel Ashley	60
39	1946	Notorious	Captain Paul Prescott	77
40	1948	Arch of Triumph	Boris Morosov	58
41	1949	The Red Pony	Grandfather	57
42	1949	The Red Danube	Colonel Piniev	63
43	1950	Nancy Goes to Rio	Gregory Elliott	57
44	1950	The Asphalt Jungle	Alonzo D. Emmerich	75
45	1950	Annie Get Your Gun	Col. Buffalo Bill Cody	68
46	1950	Devil's Doorway	Verne Coolan	70
47	1950	A Life of Her Own	Jim Leversoe	53
48	1950	Two Weeks with Love	Horatio Robinson	61
49	1950	The Magnificent Yankee	Oliver Wendell Holmes	54
50	1951	It's a Big Country	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	53
51	1951	The Man with a Cloak	Charles Theverner	69
52	1952	Invitation	Simon Bowker	65
53	1952	Washington Story	Charles W. Birch	60
54	1952	We're Not Married!	Freddie Melrose	59
55	1952	The Prisoner of Zenda	Col. Zapt	68
56	1952	The Bad and the Beautiful	Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)	73
57	1953	Confidentially Connie	Opie Bedloe	53
58	1953	Remains to Be Seen	Benjamin Goodman	57
59	1953	Julius Caesar	Julius Caesar	71
60	1953	Latin Lovers	Grandfather Eduardo Santos	46
61	1953	Main Street to Broadway	Self	65
62	1954	Rhapsody	Nicholas Durant	67
63	1954	Executive Suite	George Nyle Caswell	70
64	1954	Men of the Fighting Lady	James A. Michener	62
65	1954	The Student Prince	King of Karlsberg	64
66	1954	Betrayed	Gen. Ten Eyck	56
67	1954	Athena	Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain	56
68	1955	Blackboard Jungle	Jim Murdock	69
69	1955	The Prodigal	Nahreeb	40
70	1956	Forever, Darling	Charles Y. Bewell	70
71	1956	High Society	Uncle Willie	69
72	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
73	1986	Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend	Self (from The Asphalt Jungle [1950]) (archive footage)	75

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1921