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person_profile-Louis Calhern

Louis Calhern Died at age: 61

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Louis Calhern

Date of Birth:

Feb 18, 1895

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

May 12, 1956

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Louis Calhern

Found 73 Movies in total

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

Self (from The Asphalt Jungle [1950]) (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1986

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1976

High Society

Uncle Willie ( Actor )

... 1956

Forever, Darling

Charles Y. Bewell ( Actor )

... 1956

The Prodigal

Nahreeb ( Actor )

... 1955

Blackboard Jungle

Jim Murdock ( Actor )

... 1955

Athena

Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain ( Actor )

... 1954

Betrayed

Gen. Ten Eyck ( Actor )

... 1954

The Student Prince

King of Karlsberg ( Actor )

... 1954

Men of the Fighting Lady

James A. Michener ( Actor )

... 1954

Executive Suite

George Nyle Caswell ( Actor )

... 1954

Rhapsody

Nicholas Durant ( Actor )

... 1954

... 1953

Latin Lovers

Grandfather Eduardo Santos ( Actor )

... 1953

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar ( Actor )

... 1953

Remains to Be Seen

Benjamin Goodman ( Actor )

... 1953

Confidentially Connie

Opie Bedloe ( Actor )

... 1953

The Bad and the Beautiful

Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1952

The Prisoner of Zenda

Col. Zapt ( Actor )

... 1952

We're Not Married!

Freddie Melrose ( Actor )

... 1952

Washington Story

Charles W. Birch ( Actor )

... 1952

Invitation

Simon Bowker ( Actor )

... 1952

The Man with a Cloak

Charles Theverner ( Actor )

... 1951

It's a Big Country

Narrator (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1951

The Magnificent Yankee

Oliver Wendell Holmes ( Actor )

... 1950

Two Weeks with Love

Horatio Robinson ( Actor )

... 1950

Devil's Doorway

Verne Coolan ( Actor )

... 1950

A Life of Her Own

Jim Leversoe ( Actor )

... 1950

Annie Get Your Gun

Col. Buffalo Bill Cody ( Actor )

... 1950

The Asphalt Jungle

Alonzo D. Emmerich ( Actor )

... 1950

Nancy Goes to Rio

Gregory Elliott ( Actor )

... 1950

The Red Danube

Colonel Piniev ( Actor )

... 1949

The Red Pony

Grandfather ( Actor )

... 1949

Arch of Triumph

Boris Morosov ( Actor )

... 1948

Notorious

Captain Paul Prescott ( Actor )

... 1946

Up in Arms

Colonel Ashley ( Actor )

... 1944

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Don Andre - The Viceroy ( Actor )

... 1944

Nobody's Darling

Curtis Farnsworth ( Actor )

... 1943

Heaven Can Wait

Randolph Van Cleve ( Actor )

... 1943

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Dr. Brockdorf ( Actor )

... 1940

I Take This Woman

Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen ( Actor )

... 1940

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Arthur Aldrich ( Actor )

... 1939

5th Ave Girl

Dr. Kessler ( Actor )

... 1939

Juarez

LeMarc ( Actor )

... 1939

Fast Company

Elias Z. 'Eli' Bannerman ( Actor )

... 1938

The Life of Emile Zola

Major Dort ( Actor )

... 1937

Her Husband Lies

Joe Sorrell ( Actor )

... 1937

The Gorgeous Hussy

Leroy Sunderland ( Actor )

... 1936

The Last Days of Pompeii

Prefect Allus Martius ( Actor )

... 1935

Woman Wanted

Smiley ( Actor )

... 1935

The Arizonian

Sheriff Jake Mannen ( Actor )

... 1935

Sweet Adeline

Major Jim Day ( Actor )

... 1934

The Count of Monte Cristo

De Villefort Jr. ( Actor )

... 1934

The Affairs of Cellini

Ottaviano ( Actor )

... 1934

The Man with Two Faces

Stanley Vance ( Actor )

... 1934

Duck Soup

Ambassador Trentino ( Actor )

... 1933

Diplomaniacs

Winkelreid ( Actor )

... 1933

The World Gone Mad

Christopher Bruno ( Actor )

... 1933

Strictly Personal

Jack Magruder ( Actor )

... 1933

The Woman Accused

Leo Young ( Actor )

... 1933

Frisco Jenny

Steve Dutton ( Actor )

... 1933

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

Joe Finn ( Actor )

... 1932

Afraid to Talk

Asst. District Attorney John Wade ( Actor )

... 1932

They Call It Sin

Ford Humphries ( Actor )

... 1932

Night After Night

Dick Bolton ( Actor )

... 1932

Okay, America!

Mileaway Russell ( Actor )

... 1932

Blonde Crazy

'Dapper Dan' Barker ( Actor )

... 1931

The Road to Singapore

Dr. George March ( Actor )

... 1931

Stolen Heaven

Steve Perry ( Actor )

... 1931

The Last Moment

Harry Gaines ( Actor )

... 1923

The Blot

Phil West ( Actor )

... 1921

Too Wise Wives

David Graham ( Actor )

... 1921

What's Worth While?

'Squire' Elton ( Actor )

... 1921