Louis Calhern

Acting · Born 1895-02-18 in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA

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…

Filmography

• Notorious as Captain Paul Prescott
• Duck Soup as Ambassador Trentino
• The Asphalt Jungle as Alonzo D. Emmerich
• Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar
• The Bad and the Beautiful as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
• It's a Big Country as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• We're Not Married! as Freddie Melrose
• High Society as Uncle Willie
• The Red Pony as Grandfather
• Annie Get Your Gun as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody

TV

• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self