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Louis Calhern
Actor
Born February 18, 1895Died May 12, 1956 (61 years)
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.
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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.
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Known For
Louis Calhern Filmography
| 2022 | Becoming Marilyn · as Alonzo D. Emmerich |
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood · as Winkelreid |
| 1990 | Intimate Portrait (TV Series) · as Alonzo D. Emmerich |
| 1986 | Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend · as Alonzo D. Emmerich |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II · as (archive Footage) |
| 1956 | High Society · as Uncle Willie |
| 1956 | Forever, Darling · as Charles Y. Bewell |
| 1955 | Blackboard Jungle · as Jim Murdock |
| 1955 | The Prodigal · as Nahreeb |
| 1954 | Men of the Fighting Lady · as James A. Michener |
| 1954 | Athena · as Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain |
| 1954 | Betrayed · as Gen. Ten Eyck |
| 1954 | The Student Prince · as King Of Karlsberg |
| 1954 | Rhapsody · as Nicholas Durant |
| 1954 | Executive Suite · as George Nyle Caswell |
| 1953 | Latin Lovers · as Grandfather Eduardo Santos |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar · as Julius Caesar |
| 1953 | Remains to Be Seen · as Benjamin Goodman |
| 1953 | Confidentially Connie · as Opie Bedloe |
| 1952 | The Bad and the Beautiful · as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1952 | We're Not Married! · as Freddie Melrose |
| 1952 | The Prisoner of Zenda · as Col. Zapt |
| 1952 | Washington Story · as Charles W. Birch |
| 1952 | Invitation · as Simon Bowker |
| 1951 | The Man with a Cloak · as Charles Theverner |
| 1951 | It's a Big Country: An American Anthology · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1951 | The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Magnificent Yankee · as Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| 1950 | Two Weeks with Love · as Horatio Robinson |
| 1950 | A Life of Her Own · as Jim Leversoe |
| 1950 | Devil's Doorway · as Verne Coolan |
| 1950 | Annie Get Your Gun · as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody |
| 1950 | The Asphalt Jungle · as Alonzo D. Emmerich |
| 1950 | Nancy Goes to Rio · as Gregory Elliott |
| 1949 | The Red Danube · as Colonel Piniev |
| 1949 | The Red Pony · as Grandfather |
| 1948 | Arch of Triumph · as Boris Morosov |
| 1946 | Notorious · as Captain Paul Prescott |
| 1944 | Up in Arms · as Colonel Ashley |
| 1944 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey · as Don Andre - The Viceroy |
| 1943 | Nobody's Darling · as Curtis Farnsworth |
| 1943 | Heaven Can Wait · as Randolph Van Cleve |
| 1940 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet · as Dr. Brockdorf |
| 1940 | I Take This Woman · as Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen |
| 1939 | Charlie McCarthy, Detective · as Arthur Aldrich |
| 1939 | Fifth Avenue Girl · as Dr. Kessler |
| 1939 | Juarez · as Lemarc |
| 1938 | Fast Company · as Elias Z. Bannerman |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola · as Major Dort |
| 1936 | The Gorgeous Hussy · as Leroy Sunderland |
| 1935 | The Last Days of Pompeii · as Prefect Allus Martius |
| 1935 | Woman Wanted · as Smiley |
| 1935 | The Arizonian · as Sheriff Jake Mannen |
| 1934 | Sweet Adeline · as Major Jim Day |
| 1934 | The Count of Monte Cristo · as De Villefort Jr. |
| 1934 | The Affairs of Cellini · as Ottaviano |
| 1934 | The Man with Two Faces · as Stanley Vance |
| 1933 | Duck Soup · as Ambassador Trentino |
| 1933 | Diplomaniacs · as Winkelreid |
| 1933 | The World Gone Mad · as Christopher Bruno |
| 1933 | Strictly Personal · as Jack Magruder |
| 1933 | The Woman Accused · as Leo Young |
| 1932 | Frisco Jenny · as Steve Dutton |
| 1932 | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing · as Joe Finn |
| 1932 | Afraid to Talk · as Asst. District Attorney John Wade |
| 1932 | They Call It Sin · as Ford Humphries |
| 1932 | Night After Night · as Dick Bolton |
| 1932 | Okay America! · as Mileaway Russell |
| 1931 | Blonde Crazy · as 'dapper Dan' Barker |
| 1931 | The Road to Singapore · as Dr. George March |
| 1931 | Stolen Heaven · as Steve Perry |
| 1921 | The Blot · as Phil West |
| 1921 | Too Wise Wives · as David Graham |
| 1953 | Main Street to Broadway · as Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) · as Self |