Acting · Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA · Born February 18, 1895
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.
MovieBecoming Marilyn
2022
as (archive footage)
MovieThat's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
MovieHigh Society
1956
as Uncle Willie
MovieForever, Darling
1956
as Charles Y. Bewell
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1955
as Nahreeb
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1955
as Jim Murdock
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1954
as Grandpa Mulvain
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1954
as Gen. Ten Eyck
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1954
as King of Karlsberg
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1954
as James A. Michener
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1954
as George Nyle Caswell
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1954
as Nicholas Durant
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1953
as Self
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1953
as Grandfather Eduardo Santos
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1953
as Julius Caesar
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1953
as Benjamin Goodman
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1953
as Opie Bedloe
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1952
as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
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1952
as Col. Zapt
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1952
as Freddie Melrose
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1952
as Charles W. Birch
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1952
as Simon Bowker
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1951
as Charles Theverner
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1951
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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1950
as Oliver Wendell Holmes
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1950
as Horatio Robinson
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1950
as Jim Leversoe
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1950
as Verne Coolan
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1950
as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
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1950
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
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1950
as Gregory Elliott
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1949
as Colonel Piniev
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1949
as Grandfather
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1948
as Self
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1948
as Boris Morosov
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1946
as Paul Prescott
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1944
as Colonel Ashley
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1944
as Don Andre - The Viceroy
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1943
as Curtis Farnsworth
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1943
as Randolph Van Cleve
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1940
as Dr. Brockdorf
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1940
as Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
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1939
as Arthur Aldrich
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1939
as Dr. Kessler
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1939
as LeMarc
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1938
as Elias Z. Bannerman
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1937
as Major Dort
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1937
as Joe Sorrell
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1936
as Leroy Sunderland
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1935
as Prefect Allus Martius
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1935
as Smiley
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1935
as Sheriff Jake Mannen
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1934
as Major Jim Day
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1934
as De Villefort Jr.
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1934
as Ottaviano
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1934
as Stanley Vance
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1933
as Ambassador Trentino
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1933
as Winkelreid
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1933
as Christopher Bruno
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1933
as Jack Magruder
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1933
as Leo Young
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1933
as Steve Dutton
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1932
as Joe Finn
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1932
as Asst. District Attorney John Wade
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1932
as Ford Humphries
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1932
as Dick Bolton
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as Mileaway Russell
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1931
as 'Dapper Dan' Barker
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1931
as Dr. George March
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1931
as Steve Perry
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1923
as Harry Gaines
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1921
as Phil West
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1921
as David Graham
MovieWhat's Worth While?
1921
as 'Squire' Elton
