Louis Calhern
Feb 18, 1895 — May 12, 1956 (61 years)
Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
69 Movies
Louis Calhern, an actor from Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA, began their career in the 1920s. They are internationally recognised for their role in Notorious as Paul Prescott. They have also starred in Duck Soup and The Asphalt Jungle. Their filmography spans 69 films across 105 years, working mainly across genres like drama, romance, comedy.
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Louis Calhern
69 Movies
Louis Calhern, an actor from Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA, began their career in the 1920s. They are internationally recognised for their role in Notorious as Paul Prescott. They have also starred in Duck Soup and The Asphalt Jungle. Their filmography spans 69 films across 105 years, working mainly across genres like drama, romance, comedy.
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High Society
1956
Notorious
1946
Juarez
1939
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Betrayed
1954
Athena
1954
Confidentially Connie
1953
Julius Caesar
1953
Diplomaniacs
1933
Duck Soup
1933
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
Fifth Avenue Girl
1939
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
Heaven Can Wait
1943
Blackboard Jungle
1955
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
Men of the Fighting Lady
1954
The Man with a Cloak
1951
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
We're Not Married!
1952
Annie Get Your Gun
1950
Her Husband Lies
1937
Two Weeks with Love
1950
Executive Suite
1954
The Student Prince
1954
Up in Arms
1944
Latin Lovers
1953
Remains to Be Seen
1953
Arch of Triumph
1948
Forever, Darling
1956
Nancy Goes to Rio
1950
The Red Pony
1949
The Woman Accused
1933
Blonde Crazy
1931
Devil's Doorway
1950
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
A Life of Her Own
1950
The Prodigal
1955
Fast Company
1938
I Take This Woman
1940
Night After Night
1932
Washington Story
1952
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
The Red Danube
1949
Invitation
1952
The Blot
1921
Sweet Adeline
1934
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
The Magnificent Yankee
1950
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Uncle Willie
1956
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Forever, Darling
Charles Y. Bewell
1956
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The Prodigal
Nahreeb
1955
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Blackboard Jungle
Jim Murdock
1955
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Athena
Grandpa Mulvain
1954
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Betrayed
Gen. Ten Eyck
1954
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The Student Prince
King of Karlsberg
1954
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Men of the Fighting Lady
James A. Michener
1954
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Executive Suite
George Nyle Caswell
1954
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Is Louis Calhern still alive?
Louis Calhern passed away on May 12, 1956 at age 61.
What are the most famous roles of Louis Calhern?
Louis Calhern is best known for roles in Notorious, Duck Soup, The Asphalt Jungle.
How many movies has Louis Calhern been in?
Over a 35-year career (since 1921), Louis Calhern has appeared in 71 movies and 1 TV shows.
What was Louis Calhern's first movie?
The career of Louis Calhern began with What's Worth While? (1921).
What is Louis Calhern's most recent movie or series?
Louis Calhern's most recent release is High Society, which premiered on July 17, 1956.
What TV shows has Louis Calhern appeared in?
On television, Louis Calhern has appeared in The Ed Sullivan Show.
Louis Calhern
1895-02-18 · Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
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.Louis Calhern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.