
Acting
Born November 12, 1874 · Berlin, Germany
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. 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. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor. 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. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.

The Great Well
1924

I Will Repay
1924

The Purple Highway
1923

The Snow Bride
1923

The Leopardess
1923
Sant'Ilario
1923

Disraeli
1921

The Fighter
1921

Bucking the Tiger
1921

The Greatest Love
1920

The Palace of Darkened Windows
1920
Heart of Twenty
1920

The Third Generation
1920

The Woman Michael Married
1919

A Man's Country
1919

Bluebeard
1944

Sarong Girl
1943

Reunion in France
1942

Sing for Your Supper
1941

The Parson of Panamint
1941

A Woman's Face
1941

The Great Swindle
1941

Las Vegas Nights
1941

The Man Who Lost Himself
1941

Money and the Woman
1940

Grand Ole Opry
1940

Main Street Lawyer
1939

Here I Am a Stranger
1939

The Real Glory
1939

Parents on Trial
1939

Hidden Power
1939

These Glamour Girls
1939

Union Pacific
1939

Let Us Live
1939

The Cowboy and the Lady
1938

Too Hot to Handle
1938

Marie Antoinette
1938

Safety in Numbers
1938

Holiday
1938

The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938

Love Is a Headache
1938

The Invisible Menace
1938

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
1937

The Devil Is Driving
1937