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