Louis Calhern

Actor

Born: February 18, 1895
Died: May 12, 1956 (age 61)
From: 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…

Filmography (73)

Becoming Marilyn (2022)
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
(archive footage)
High Society (1956)
Uncle Willie
Forever, Darling (1956)
Charles Y. Bewell
The Prodigal (1955)
Nahreeb
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Jim Murdock
Athena (1954)
Grandpa Mulvain
Betrayed (1954)
Gen. Ten Eyck
The Student Prince (1954)
King of Karlsberg
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
James A. Michener
Executive Suite (1954)
George Nyle Caswell
Rhapsody (1954)
Nicholas Durant
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
Self
Latin Lovers (1953)
Grandfather Eduardo Santos
Julius Caesar (1953)
Julius Caesar
Remains to Be Seen (1953)
Benjamin Goodman
Confidentially Connie (1953)
Opie Bedloe
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
Col. Zapt
We're Not Married! (1952)
Freddie Melrose
Washington Story (1952)
Charles W. Birch
Invitation (1952)
Simon Bowker
The Man with a Cloak (1951)
Charles Theverner
It's a Big Country (1951)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
Horatio Robinson
A Life of Her Own (1950)
Jim Leversoe
Devil's Doorway (1950)
Verne Coolan
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Alonzo D. Emmerich