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High Society

as Uncle Willie

1956
Forever, Darling

as Charles Y. Bewell

1956
Blackboard Jungle

as Jim Murdock

1955
Executive Suite

as George Nyle Caswell

1954
Betrayed

as Gen. Ten Eyck

1954
Athena

as Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain

1954
Rhapsody

as Nicholas Durant

1954
Julius Caesar

as Jules César

1953
Latin Lovers

as Grandfather Eduardo Santos

1953
Remains to Be Seen

as Benjamin Goodman

1953
Confidentially Connie

as Opie Bedloe

1953
We're Not Married!

as Freddie Melrose

1952
The Prisoner of Zenda

as Col. Zapt

1952
The Man with a Cloak

as Charles Theverner

1951
The Asphalt Jungle

as Alonzo D. Emmerich

1950
Annie Get Your Gun

as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody

1950
Devil's Doorway

as Verne Coolan

1950
Two Weeks with Love

as Horatio Robinson

1950
Nancy Goes to Rio

as Gregory Elliott

1950
A Life of Her Own

as Jim Leversoe

1950
The Red Pony

as Grandfather

1949
The Red Danube

as Colonel Piniev

1949
Notorious

as Captain Paul Prescott

1946
Up in Arms

as Colonel Ashley

1944
Heaven Can Wait

as Randolph Van Cleve

1943
Nobody's Darling

as Curtis Farnsworth

1943
5th Ave Girl

as Dr. Kessler

1939
Fast Company

as Elias Z. 'Eli' Bannerman

1938
The Life of Emile Zola

as Major Dort

1937
The Gorgeous Hussy

as Leroy Sunderland

1936
Louis Calhern Louis Calhern

Birthday

1895-02-19

Place of Birth

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 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.
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