Louis Calhern
Louis Calhern
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.
Acted Movies
Director: Charles Walters
Writers: John Patrick,
Cast: Bing Crosby, Celeste Holm, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, John Lund, Louis Armstrong, Louis Calhern, Lydia Reed, Margalo Gillmore, Sidney Blackmer,
Director: Richard Brooks
Writers: Richard Brooks,
Cast: Anne Francis, Basil Ruysdael, Emile Meyer, Glenn Ford, John Hoyt, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes, Richard Kiley, Sidney Poitier, Warner Anderson,
Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Ernest Lehman,
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dean Jagger, Fredric March, June Allyson, Louis Calhern, Nina Foch, Paul Douglas, Shelley Winters, Walter Pidgeon, William Holden,
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writers: Edward E. Rose,
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Francis Pierlot, James Mason, Jane Greer, Lewis Stone, Louis Calhern, Peter Brocco, Robert Coote, Robert Douglas, Stewart Granger,
Director: George Sidney
Writers: Sidney Sheldon,
Cast: Benay Venuta, Betty Hutton, Clinton Sundberg, Edward Arnold, Evelyn Beresford, Howard Keel, J. Carrol Naish, Keenan Wynn, Louis Calhern, Mae Clarke,
Director: John Huston
Writers: John Huston,
Cast: Anthony Caruso, Barry Kelley, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, John McIntire, Louis Calhern, Marc Lawrence, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden,
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Ben Hecht,
Cast: Alex Minotis, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Eberhard Krumschmidt, Ingrid Bergman, Ivan Triesault, Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern, Moroni Olsen, Reinhold Schünzel,
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writers: Samson Raphaelson,
Cast: Allyn Joslyn, Charles Coburn, Don Ameche, Eugene Pallette, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, Louis Calhern, Marjorie Main, Signe Hasso, Spring Byington,
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Writers: Harvey F. Thew,
Cast: Elissa Landi, Georgia Caine, Irene Hervey, Lawrence Grant, Louis Calhern, O. P. Heggie, Raymond Walburn, Robert Donat, Sidney Blackmer, Walter Walker,
