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