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 behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.
152 movies
Bluebeard
1944·5.5
Sarong Girl
1943·7.0
Reunion in France
1942·6.4
Sing for Your Supper
1941·8.0
The Parson of Panamint
1941·5.8
A Woman's Face
1941·6.8
The Great Swindle
1941·8.0
Las Vegas Nights
1941·6.4
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941·5.4
Money and the Woman
1940·4.4
Grand Ole Opry
1940·7.5
Main Street Lawyer
1939·5.0
Here I Am a Stranger
1939·7.3
The Real Glory
1939·6.3
Parents on Trial
1939·8.0
Hidden Power
1939·10.0
These Glamour Girls
1939·5.9
Union Pacific
1939·6.7
Let Us Live
1939·6.8
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938·6.3
Too Hot to Handle
1938·6.0
Marie Antoinette
1938·6.6
Safety in Numbers
1938·7.0
Holiday
1938·7.3
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938·6.2
Love Is a Headache
1938·6.5
The Invisible Menace
1938·4.3
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
1937·5.9
The Devil Is Driving
1937·6.5
Let Them Live
1937·8.0
Green Light
1937·6.7
Maid of Salem
1937·6.2
They Wanted to Marry
1937·5.8
Once a Doctor
1937·6.5
Under Cover of Night
1937·6.0
Great Guy
1936·6.3
Theodora Goes Wild
1936·6.6
The Man Who Lived Twice
1936·7.5
Sitting on the Moon
1936·5.3
Romeo and Juliet
1936·6.3
Bullets or Ballots
1936·6.6
My Marriage
1936·6.7
Collegiate
1935·7.0
Frisco Waterfront
1935·9.0
3 Kids and a Queen
1935·6.8
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935·5.8
Shipmates Forever
1935·6.6
I Live My Life
1935·6.7
Red Salute
1935·6.0
Diamond Jim
1935·6.5
Here Comes the Band
1935·7.0
The Black Room
1935·6.5
Mad Love
1935·7.0
Honeymoon Limited
1935·5.8
Spring Tonic
1935·6.5
Go Into Your Dance
1935·7.2
Reckless
1935·5.1
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935·6.0
The Florentine Dagger
1935·6.8
A Dog of Flanders
1935·7.5
One New York Night
1935·7.5
Times Square Lady
1935·7.0
The Mystery Man
1935·5.6
Red Hot Tires
1935·6.0
Society Doctor
1935·7.3
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935·6.6
The Band Plays On
1934·8.3
Sing Sing Nights
1934·4.2
The Ghost Walks
1934·5.6
Imitation of Life
1934·7.0
Love Time
1934·10.0
Lady by Choice
1934·6.9
A Lost Lady
1934·5.8
One Exciting Adventure
1934·8.0
Million Dollar Ransom
1934·5.0
She Loves Me Not
1934·6.0
Now and Forever
1934·6.8
The Girl from Missouri
1934·7.4
Name the Woman
1934·9.0
Blind Date
1934·8.0
Whom the Gods Destroy
1934·6.0
Let's Try Again
1934·3.5
The Hell Cat
1934·8.0
Black Moon
1934·5.5
Let's Talk It Over
1934·10.0
Sisters Under the Skin
1934·10.0
Wonder Bar
1934·6.0
Success at Any Price
1934·4.1
Journal of a Crime
1934·5.9
I've Got Your Number
1934·6.8
Bedside
1934·5.6
Blood Money
1933·7.1
Meet the Baron
1933·5.3
The Power and the Glory
1933·5.9
Gigolettes of Paris
1933·5.7
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
1933·8.0
I Loved a Woman
1933·4.8
Golden Harvest
1933·6.5
Bureau of Missing Persons
1933·5.7
Notorious But Nice
1933·6.7
Baby Face
1933·7.2
The Narrow Corner
1933·5.8
A Bedtime Story
1933·5.7
Hello, Sister!
1933·6.0
The Keyhole
1933·4.8
Rasputin and the Empress
1932·5.5
Faithless
1932·7.0
The Crash
1932·5.5
Devil and the Deep
1932·5.0
The First Year
1932·10.0
The Washington Masquerade
1932·6.8
Jewel Robbery
1932·6.5
The Yellow Ticket
1931·5.1
The Unholy Garden
1931·6.8
I Like Your Nerve
1931·5.9
The Spy
1931·8.0
Indiscreet
1931·6.2
Quick Millions
1931·7.3
Don't Bet on Women
1931·4.9
One Heavenly Night
1930·6.8
Abraham Lincoln
1930·5.5
East Is West
1930·5.3
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
1930·6.0
The Way of All Men
1930·5.3
Good Intentions
1930·9.0
The Bad One
1930·7.0
Love, Live & Laugh
1929·9.0
Pleasure Crazed
1929·7.0
The Valiant
1929·6.1
Coquette
1929·5.9
Don't Marry
1928·10.0
The Beautiful Spy
1928·9.0
Midnight Rose
1928·9.0
Soft Living
1928·9.0
A Kiss in a Taxi
1927·7.0
Wet Paint
1926·8.0
Hell's Four Hundred
1926·9.0
The Palace of Pleasure
1926·7.0
Sally, Irene and Mary
1925·5.7
Any Woman
1925·7.0
A Man of Stone
1921·0.0
The Brat
1919·0.0
Her Purchase Price
1919·9.0
Blackie's Redemption
1919·0.0
The Parisian Tigress
1919·10.0
The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
1919·7.0
The House of Mirth
1918·0.0
Social Hypocrites
1918·0.0
The Shell Game
1918·0.0
Gloria's Romance
1916·6.0
The Warning
1915·0.0
How Molly Malone Made Good
1915·5.0