Louis Calhern
Known for Acting · 74 credits
- Born
- 1895-02-18
- Died
- 1956-05-12
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
- Also known as
- Carl Henry Vogt · Louis Calhearn
Biography
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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Known For
TV Shows (1)
Movies (73)
Julius Caesar
1953
as Julius Caesar
High Society
1956
as Uncle Willie
Notorious
1946
as Captain Paul Prescott
Executive Suite
1954
as George Nyle Caswell
Blackboard Jungle
1955
as Jim Murdock
Juarez
1939
as LeMarc
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
Duck Soup
1933
as Ambassador Trentino
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
Heaven Can Wait
1943
as Randolph Van Cleve
Betrayed
1954
as Gen. Ten Eyck
Frisco Jenny
1933
as Steve Dutton
Woman Wanted
1935
as Smiley
Latin Lovers
1953
as Grandfather Eduardo Santos
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
as Prefect Allus Martius
The Woman Accused
1933
as Leo Young
Fast Company
1938
as Elias Z. Bannerman
Men of the Fighting Lady
1954
as James A. Michener
Annie Get Your Gun
1950
as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934
as De Villefort Jr.
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
The Prodigal
1955
as Nahreeb
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
as Major Dort
Blonde Crazy
1931
as 'Dapper Dan' Barker
We're Not Married!
1952
as Freddie Melrose
Athena
1954
as Grandpa Mulvain
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
as Col. Zapt
Arch of Triumph
1948
as Boris Morosov
Two Weeks with Love
1950
as Horatio Robinson
The Blot
1921
as Phil West
Up in Arms
1944
as Colonel Ashley
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
as Joe Finn
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
as Dr. Brockdorf
A Life of Her Own
1950
as Jim Leversoe
It's a Big Country
1951
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
They Call It Sin
1932
as Ford Humphries
Forever, Darling
1956
as Charles Y. Bewell
Main Street to Broadway
1953
as Self
Rhapsody
1954
as Nicholas Durant
Becoming Marilyn
2022
Invitation
1952
as Simon Bowker
The Red Danube
1949
as Colonel Piniev
The Red Pony
1949
as Grandfather
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
as Leroy Sunderland
The Affairs of Cellini
1934
as Ottaviano
Strictly Personal
1933
as Jack Magruder
The Man with a Cloak
1951
as Charles Theverner
The Arizonian
1935
as Sheriff Jake Mannen
The World Gone Mad
1933
as Christopher Bruno
Fifth Avenue Girl
1939
as Dr. Kessler
Devil's Doorway
1950
as Verne Coolan
The Man with Two Faces
1934
as Stanley Vance
The Magnificent Yankee
1950
as Oliver Wendell Holmes
I Take This Woman
1940
as Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
Okay, America!
1932
as Mileaway Russell
Remains to Be Seen
1953
as Benjamin Goodman
Nancy Goes to Rio
1950
as Gregory Elliott
The Student Prince
1954
as King of Karlsberg
Afraid to Talk
1932
as Asst. District Attorney John Wade
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944
as Don Andre - The Viceroy
Night After Night
1932
as Dick Bolton
The Last Moment
1923
as Harry Gaines
Confidentially Connie
1953
as Opie Bedloe
Sweet Adeline
1934
as Major Jim Day
Diplomaniacs
1933
as Winkelreid
Her Husband Lies
1937
as Joe Sorrell
Stolen Heaven
1931
as Steve Perry
The Road to Singapore
1931
as Dr. George March
Washington Story
1952
as Charles W. Birch
What's Worth While?
1921
as 'Squire' Elton
Too Wise Wives
1921
as David Graham
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939
as Arthur Aldrich
Nobody's Darling
1943
as Curtis Farnsworth
About 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 Wort… With 74 credits spanning from 1921 to 2022, Louis Calhern has appeared in 73 films and 1 TV show.
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- Julius Caesar (1953) — as Julius Caesar
- High Society (1956) — as Uncle Willie
- Notorious (1946) — as Captain Paul Prescott
- Executive Suite (1954) — as George Nyle Caswell
- Blackboard Jungle (1955) — as Jim Murdock
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