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Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 β 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.
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Filmography
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Movies 74
self 2
Voice 2
TV Shows 1
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
High Society (1956)
Forever, Darling (1956)
The Prodigal (1955)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Athena (1954)
Betrayed (1954)
The Student Prince (1954)
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
Executive Suite (1954)
Rhapsody (1954)
Latin Lovers (1953)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Remains to Be Seen (1953)
Confidentially Connie (1953)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
We're Not Married! (1952)
Washington Story (1952)
Invitation (1952)
The Man with a Cloak (1951)
It's a Big Country (1951)
The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
Devil's Doorway (1950)
A Life of Her Own (1950)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
The Red Danube (1949)
The Red Pony (1949)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Notorious (1946)
Up in Arms (1944)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
Nobody's Darling (1943)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
I Take This Woman (1940)
Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
5th Ave Girl (1939)
Juarez (1939)
Fast Company (1938)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Her Husband Lies (1937)
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
Woman Wanted (1935)
The Arizonian (1935)
Sweet Adeline (1934)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
The Man with Two Faces (1934)
Duck Soup (1933)
Diplomaniacs (1933)
The World Gone Mad (1933)
Strictly Personal (1933)
The Woman Accused (1933)
Frisco Jenny (1933)
Afraid to Talk (1932)
They Call It Sin (1932)
Night After Night (1932)
Okay, America! (1932)
Blonde Crazy (1931)
The Road to Singapore (1931)
Stolen Heaven (1931)
The Last Moment (1923)
The Blot (1921)
Too Wise Wives (1921)
What's Worth While? (1921)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1895-02-18
Deathday1956-05-12 (61 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
RelationshipsNatalie Schafer (1933-01-01 - 1942-01-01), Ilka Chase (1926-01-01 - 1927-01-01), Julia Hoyt (1927-01-01 - 1932-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsCarl Henry Vogt, Louis Calhearn
AwardsDonaldson Awards
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