Acting

Henry Kolker

Born November 12, 1874 · Berlin, Germany

Died July 15, 1947 · aged 72

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career be…

Known For

Baby Face

Baby Face · 1933

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

A Lost Lady

A Lost Lady · 1934

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

Hello, Sister!

Hello, Sister! · 1933

MovieDramaRomance

While Peggy deeply falls in love with Jimmy, her best friend Millie becomes increasingly frustrated with men and very jealous with Peggy, so she tries everything to destroy the new love.

Society Doctor

Society Doctor · 1935

Two surgeons in love with a nurse end their rivalry in the operating room.

My Marriage

My Marriage · 1936

MovieCrimeDrama

When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.

Wonder Bar

Wonder Bar · 1934

MovieCrimeDrama

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

Collegiate

Collegiate · 1936

A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet · 1936

Romeo and Juliet

MovieDramaRomance

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Movies

Baby Face

Baby Face · 1933

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

A Lost Lady

A Lost Lady · 1934

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

Hello, Sister!

Hello, Sister! · 1933

MovieDramaRomance

While Peggy deeply falls in love with Jimmy, her best friend Millie becomes increasingly frustrated with men and very jealous with Peggy, so she tries everything to destroy the new love.

Society Doctor

Society Doctor · 1935

Two surgeons in love with a nurse end their rivalry in the operating room.

My Marriage

My Marriage · 1936

MovieCrimeDrama

When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.

Wonder Bar

Wonder Bar · 1934

MovieCrimeDrama

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

Collegiate

Collegiate · 1936

A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet · 1936

Romeo and Juliet

MovieDramaRomance

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Charlie Chan in Paris

Charlie Chan in Paris · 1935

Charlie Chan in Paris

MovieCrimeMystery

Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.

A Woman's Face

A Woman's Face · 1941

MovieDramaThriller

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Reunion in France

Reunion in France · 1942

Reunion in France

MovieDramaRomance

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots · 1936

Bullets or Ballots

MovieCrimeDrama

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Union Pacific

Union Pacific · 1939

MovieDramaWestern

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Sarong Girl

Sarong Girl · 1943

MovieMusicComedy

A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.

Sing Sing Nights

Sing Sing Nights · 1934

Sing Sing Nights

A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.

Holiday

Holiday · 1938

MovieComedyRomance

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

Let's Try Again

Let's Try Again · 1934

Let's Try Again

To divorce, or not to divorce. That is the question pondered by a married couple of 10 years who miss their burning desire for each other (Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard) in this 1934 film directed by Worthington Miner.

She Loves Me Not

She Loves Me Not · 1934

She Loves Me Not

MovieComedyCrime

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

Let Us Live

Let Us Live · 1939

MovieCrimeDrama

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.

Pleasure Crazed

Pleasure Crazed · 1929

Pleasure Crazed

Pleasure Crazed is a 1929 American sound drama film directed by Donald Gallaher.

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette · 1938

Marie Antoinette

MovieDramaHistory

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

Meet the Baron

Meet the Baron · 1933

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life · 1934

Imitation of Life

MovieDramaRomance

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

The Cowboy and the Lady

The Cowboy and the Lady · 1938

The Cowboy and the Lady

MovieComedyRomance

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.