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...
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...
Known For
Notorious
as Captain Paul Prescott
Duck Soup
as Ambassador Trentino
The Asphalt Jungle
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
Cast Credits
High Society
as Uncle Willie
Forever, Darling
as Charles Y. Bewell
The Prodigal
as Nahreeb
Blackboard Jungle
as Jim Murdock
Athena
as Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain
Betrayed
as Gen. Ten Eyck
The Student Prince
as King of Karlsberg
Men of the Fighting Lady
as James A. Michener
Executive Suite
as George Nyle Caswell
Rhapsody
as Nicholas Durant
Latin Lovers
as Grandfather Eduardo Santos
Julius Caesar
as Julius Caesar
Remains to Be Seen
as Benjamin Goodman
Confidentially Connie
as Opie Bedloe
The Bad and the Beautiful
as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Col. Zapt
We're Not Married!
as Freddie Melrose
Washington Story
as Charles W. Birch
Invitation
as Simon Bowker
The Man with a Cloak
as Charles Theverner
It's a Big Country
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Magnificent Yankee
as Oliver Wendell Holmes
Two Weeks with Love
as Horatio Robinson
A Life of Her Own
as Jim Leversoe
Devil's Doorway
as Verne Coolan
Annie Get Your Gun
as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
The Asphalt Jungle
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
Nancy Goes to Rio
as Gregory Elliott
The Red Danube
as Colonel Piniev
The Red Pony
as Grandfather