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Henry Kolker was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Early on in his acting career, Kolker landed roles in various films, including "Gloria's Romance" (1916), "Sally, Irene and Mary" (1925) and "Winning the Futurity" (1926). He also appeared in "Rough House Rosie" (1927), the Mary Pickford dramatic adaptation "Coquette" (1929) and "The Valiant" (1929). His passion for a...

Filmography

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Don't Bet on Women (1931)

Good Intentions (1930)

Love, Live and Laugh (1929)

The Great Well (1924)

The Snow Bride (1923)

The Leopardess (1923)

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Jewel Robbery (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Kindly Put Up Your Hands

Jewel Robbery (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Studied In Paris

Biography

Henry Kolker was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Early on in his acting career, Kolker landed roles in various films, including "Gloria's Romance" (1916), "Sally, Irene and Mary" (1925) and "Winning the Futurity" (1926). He also appeared in "Rough House Rosie" (1927), the Mary Pickford dramatic adaptation "Coquette" (1929) and "The Valiant" (1929). His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like the drama "I Loved a Woman" (1933) with Edward G Robinson, "Meet the Baron" (1933) with Jack Pearl and the Douglas Fairbanks Jr. thriller "The Narrow Corner" (1933). He also appeared in "The Power and the Glory" (1933). In the latter half of his career, he continued to act in "Romeo and Juliet" (1936), the comedy "Theodora Goes Wild" (1936) with Irene Dunne and the dramatic period piece "Maid of Salem" (1937) with Claudette Colbert. He also appeared in the mystery "Under Cover of Night" (1937) with Edmund Lowe and "Green Light" (1937) with Errol Flynn. Kolker last acted in the thriller "Bluebeard" (1944) with John Carradine. Kolker passed away in July 1947 at the age of 77.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Don't Bet on Women (1931)

Good Intentions (1930)

Love, Live and Laugh (1929)

The Great Well (1924)

The Snow Bride (1923)

The Leopardess (1923)

The Purple Highway (1923)

I Will Repay (1923)

Bucking the Tiger (1921)

The Fighter (1921)

Disraeli (1921)

Who Am I? (1921)

The Third Generation (1920)

The Palace of Darkened Windows (1920)

The Greatest Love (1920)

Bright Skies (1920)

The Heart of Twenty (1920)

A Man's Country (1919)

The Woman Michael Married (1919)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Bluebeard (1944)

Sarong Girl (1943)

Mr. Jefferson Baxter

Reunion in France (1942)

General Bartholomae

The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)

[T. J.] Mulhausen

Sing for Your Supper (1941)

Myron T. Hayworth

Las Vegas Nights--"The Last Frontier Town" (1941)

William Stevens, Sr.

The Parson of Panamint (1941)

Judge Arnold Mason

The Great Swindle (1941)

Stewart Cordell

A Woman's Face (1941)

Money and the Woman (1940)

Grand Ole Opry (1940)

William C. Skully

Here I Am a Stranger (1939)

Union Pacific (1939)

Should Husbands Work? (1939)

Main Street Lawyer (1939)

Hidden Power (1939)

Let Us Live (1939)

Chief of police

Parents on Trial (1939)

The Real Glory (1939)

These Glamour Girls (1939)

Love Is a Headache (1938)

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

Too Hot to Handle (1938)

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

The Invisible Menace (1938)

Colonel Hackett

Safety in Numbers (1938)

Dr. Lawrence Edmonds

Under Cover of Night (1937)

District Attorney Prichard

Green Light (1937)

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

Let Them Live (1937)

Mr. Lyons [alias of Anthony William Lederer]

The Devil Is Driving (1937)

Once a Doctor (1937)

Dr. Bruce Nordland

Great Guy (1937)

They Wanted to Marry (1937)

Mr. [William Gordon] Hunter

Conquest (1937)

Senator Wybitski

Maid of Salem (1937)

Crown Chief Justice Laughton

Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Romeo and Juliet (1936)

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

My Marriage (1936)

The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)

Judge [Henry] Treacher

In His Steps (1936)

Sitting on the Moon (1936)

I Live My Life (1935)

Relative at Mrs. Gage's

Go into Your Dance (1935)

The Great Impersonation (1935)

Spring Tonic (1935)

Shipmates Forever (1935)

Red Salute (1935)

Collegiate (1935)

Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)

Diamond Jim (1935)

Ladies Love Danger (1935)

One New York Night (1935)

[Arthur] Carlisle

Three Kids and a Queen (1935)

Here Comes the Band (1935)

Simmons' lawyer

Times Square Lady (1935)

Mr. [Adam J.] Fielding

Frisco Waterfront (1935)

District Attorney

Red Hot Tires (1935)

Mad Love (1935)

The Black Room (1935)

Baron de Berghman

Society Doctor (1935)

The Mystery Man (1935)

Ellwyn A. Jonas

Honeymoon, Limited (1935)

The Florentine Dagger (1935)

The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)

State's attorney

Blind Date (1934)

She Loves Me Not (1934)

Charles M. Lawton

Black Moon (1934)

Million Dollar Ransom (1934)

Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)

Journal of a Crime (1934)

The Girl from Missouri (1934)

Senator Titcombe

Lady by Choice (1934)

The Hell Cat (1934)

Stamboul Quest (1934)

Sisters Under the Skin (1934)

Sing Sing Nights (1934)

Success at Any Price (1934)

One Exciting Adventure (1934)

Customer, Oscar

A Lost Lady (1934)

Now and Forever (1934)

Love Time (1934)

Emperor Francis 1st

Let's Try Again (1934)

Name the Woman (1934)

The Ghost Walks (1934)

Wonder Bar (1934)

Imitation of Life (1934)

Kid Millions (1934)

I've Got Your Number (1934)

Robert Kirkland

The Band Plays On (1934)

Professor Hackett

The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

Theatre manager

Massacre (1934)

Senator Woolsey

Let's Talk It Over (1934)

Blood Money (1933)

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933)

A Bedtime Story (1933)

Agent of police

Golden Harvest (1933)

I Loved a Woman (1933)

The Narrow Corner (1933)

The Keyhole (1933)

Schuyler Brooks

Hello, Sister! (1933)

Jamieson Brewster, vice-president of bank

Meet the Baron (1933)

Baron Munchausen

Gigolettes of Paris (1933)

Police interrogator

Notorious but Nice (1933)

Defense attorney Clark

The Power and the Glory (1933)

Baby Face (1933)

Rasputin and the Empress (1933)

Head of secret police

Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)

Mr. [Theodore] Arno

Down to Earth (1932)

The Washington Masquerade (1932)

The First Year (1932)

Faithless (1932)

Devil and the Deep (1932)

Commander Hutton

Jewel Robbery (1932)

The Crash (1932)

The Unholy Garden (1931)

Prefect of police

Don't Bet on Women (1931)

Indiscreet (1931)

One Heavenly Night (1931)

Prefect of police

I Like Your Nerve (1931)

Good Intentions (1930)

The Bad One (1930)

Prosecuting attorney

Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)

The Way of All Men (1930)

East Is West (1930)

The Valiant (1929)

Coquette (1929)

Pleasure Crazed (1929)

Colonel Farquar

Love, Live and Laugh (1929)

Soft Living (1928)

Rodney S. Bowen

The Charge of the Gauchos (1928)

Don't Marry (1928)

General Willoughby

Midnight Rose (1928)

Rough House Rosie (1927)

A Kiss in a Taxi (1927)

Wet Paint (1926)

The Palace of Pleasure (1926)

Hell's 400 (1926)

Winning the Futurity (1926)

Any Woman (1925)

Egbert Phillips

Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)

The Brat (1919)

A man about town

Her Purchase Price (1919)

The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? the Fall of the Hohenzollerns (1919)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

The Parisian Tigress (1919)

Blackie's Redemption (1919)

Tangled Threads (1919)

Doctor MacGregor

The Great Victory (1919)

The Shell Game (1918)

The House of Mirth (1918)

Lawrence Selden

Social Hypocrites (1918)

Dr. Frank Simpson

Gloria's Romance (1916)

How Molly Malone Made Good (1915)

The Warning (1915)

The Bigger Man (1915)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Third Generation (1920)

The Third Generation (1920)

Life Events

Videos

Jewel Robbery (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Kindly Put Up Your Hands First appearance of the star William Powell, who never is named throughout the picture, in his suave invasion of a top Vienna jewelry store, Baroness Kay Francis gasping with her perfectly cordial husband and lover (Henry Kolker, Hardie Albright), Lee Kohlmar the jeweler, in Warner Bros. Jewel Robbery, 1932.

Jewel Robbery (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Studied In Paris From William Powell's first scene as "The Robber," Countess Teri (Kay Francis), her husband (Henry Kolker), the proprietor (Lee Kohlmar) and the commissioner (Hardie Albright), irritated but impressed in a Vienna jewel shop, in Jewel Robbery, 1932.

Reckless (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Everything's Been Done Before Jean Harlow as headliner Mona rehearsing one of her many nifty numbers, this one by Jack King, Edwin Knopf and Harold Adamson, Allan Jones’ vocal, as her just barely not-boyfriend, sports agent Riley (William Powell), stops in to ask about her pending marriage to a rich playboy, in MGM’s Reckless, 1935.

Gabriel Over The White House (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Dictatorship! Pretty sure Senator Langham (Henry Kolker) is still in office, interrupted here by President Hammond (Walter Huston) seeking dramatic action before a joint session of Congress in Gabriel over the White House 1933.

Power And The Glory, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Old Sissy Aide Henry (Ralph Morgan) narrates in flashback from Preston Sturges' original screenplay, recalling the time his boss and lifelong pal Garner (Spencer Tracy) received an old rival (Henry Kolker) and his pretty daughter (Helen Vinson), in The Power And The Glory, 1933.

Let Us Live -- (Movie Clip) The Law Says They're Guilty! Cop Ralph Bellamy (as "Lt. Everett") covers a lot of ground as Mary (Maureen O'Sullivan) brings evidence that her condemned husband is innocent, though the D-A (Stanley Ridges) and police chief (Henry Kolker) are not persuaded, in Let Us Live, 1939.

Union Pacific (1939) -- (Movie Clip) You Take It All Crooked banker Barrows (Henry Kolker) in St. Louis to visit fixer Campeau (Brian Donlevy) about slowing down the railroad, also meeting his partner Dick (Robert Preston), early in C.B. De Mille's Union Pacific, 1939.

Black Moon (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Change Too Much First scene, spooky modern mom Juanita (Dorothy Burgess) beating tropical drums with little Nancy (Cora Sue Collins), her husband Stephen (Jack Holt) doing some exposition with a shrink (Henry Kolker), opening Columbia's Black Moon, 1934.

Woman's Face, A -- (Movie Clip) Royal Swedish Court From credits, star (Joan Crawford) not quite seen, then introductions of witnesses and characters (Albert Bassermann, Reginald Owen, Connie Gilchrist, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek, Melvyn Douglas, Osa Massen), in George Cukor's A Woman's Face, 1941.

Adventures of Marco Polo, The -- (Movie Clip) Open, Venice Opening for Samuel Goldwyn's The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1938, starring Gary Cooper and Basil Rathbone, ending with Ernest Truex (as "Binguccio") inventing a modern swimming pool game on the canals of Venice.

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