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 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.

Known For	Acting
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Birthday	1895-02-18
Place of Birth	Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Also Known As	Carl Henry Vogt, Louis Calhearn,

Notorious

Duck Soup

The Last Moment

It's a Big Country

We're Not Married!

High Society

The Red Pony

Annie Get Your Gun

Blackboard Jungle

Devil's Doorway

Forever, Darling

The Prisoner of Zenda

Arch of Triumph

The Red Danube

Blonde Crazy

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

Executive Suite

Two Weeks with Love

Sweet Adeline

The Count of Monte Cristo

Fifth Avenue Girl

The Asphalt Jungle

Julius Caesar

The Student Prince

Heaven Can Wait

The Woman Accused

Okay, America!

Afraid to Talk

Night After Night

Frisco Jenny

The Man with Two Faces

The Man with a Cloak

Betrayed

Men of the Fighting Lady

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

The Magnificent Yankee

Rhapsody

Athena

The Gorgeous Hussy

The World Gone Mad

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Affairs of Cellini

Up in Arms

Invitation

Nancy Goes to Rio

The Prodigal

Fast Company

Stolen Heaven

The Arizonian

I Take This Woman

The Last Days of Pompeii

Washington Story

Latin Lovers

A Life of Her Own

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

The Road to Singapore

Remains to Be Seen

Her Husband Lies

Woman Wanted

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

The Blot

Diplomaniacs

They Call It Sin

Main Street to Broadway

Confidentially Connie

The Bad and the Beautiful

Strictly Personal

Juarez

Nobody's Darling

The Life of Emile Zola

Too Wise Wives

That's Entertainment, Part II

What's Worth While?