Birthday
1895/02/18
Day of death
1956/05/12 (61 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Also know as
Carl Henry Vogt, Louis Calhearn
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...Read more
(1946) Notorious
as Captain Paul Prescott
(1933) Duck Soup
as Ambassador Trentino
(1923) The Last Moment
as Harry Gaines
(1951) It's a Big Country
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1952) We're Not Married!
as Freddie Melrose
(1956) High Society
as Uncle Willie
(1949) The Red Pony
as Grandfather
(1950) Annie Get Your Gun
as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
(1955) Blackboard Jungle
as Jim Murdock
(1950) Devil's Doorway
as Verne Coolan
(1956) Forever, Darling
as Charles Y. Bewell
(1952) The Prisoner of Zenda
as Col. Zapt
(1948) Arch of Triumph
as Boris Morosov
(1949) The Red Danube
as Colonel Piniev
(1931) Blonde Crazy
as 'Dapper Dan' Barker
(1932) 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
as Joe Finn
(1954) Executive Suite
as George Nyle Caswell
(1950) Two Weeks with Love
as Horatio Robinson
(1934) Sweet Adeline
as Major Jim Day
(1934) The Count of Monte Cristo
as De Villefort Jr.
(1939) Fifth Avenue Girl
as Dr. Kessler
(1950) The Asphalt Jungle
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
(1953) Julius Caesar
as Jules César
(1954) The Student Prince
as King of Karlsberg
(1943) Heaven Can Wait
as Randolph Van Cleve
(1933) The Woman Accused
as Leo Young
(1932) Okay, America!
as Mileaway Russell
(1932) Afraid to Talk
as Asst. District Attorney John Wade
(1932) Night After Night
as Dick Bolton
(1933) Frisco Jenny
as Steve Dutton
(1934) The Man with Two Faces
as Stanley Vance
(1951) The Man with a Cloak
as Charles Theverner
(1954) Betrayed
as Gen. Ten Eyck
(1954) Men of the Fighting Lady
as James A. Michener
(1940) Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Dr. Brockdorf
(1950) The Magnificent Yankee
as Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1954) Rhapsody
as Nicholas Durant
(1954) Athena
as Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain
(1936) The Gorgeous Hussy
as Leroy Sunderland
(1933) The World Gone Mad
as Christopher Bruno
(1944) The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Don Andre - The Viceroy
(1934) The Affairs of Cellini
as Ottaviano
(1944) Up in Arms
as Colonel Ashley
(1952) Invitation
as Simon Bowker
(1950) Nancy Goes to Rio
as Gregory Elliott
(1955) The Prodigal
as Nahreeb
(1938) Fast Company
as Elias Z. Bannerman
(1931) Stolen Heaven
as Steve Perry
(1935) The Arizonian
as Sheriff Jake Mannen
(1940) I Take This Woman
as Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
(1935) The Last Days of Pompeii
as Prefect Allus Martius
(1952) Washington Story
as Charles W. Birch
(1953) Latin Lovers
as Grandfather Eduardo Santos
(1950) A Life of Her Own
as Jim Leversoe
(1986) Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from The Asphalt Jungle [1950]) (archive footage)
(1931) The Road to Singapore
as Dr. George March
(1953) Remains to Be Seen
as Benjamin Goodman
(1937) Her Husband Lies
as Joe Sorrell
(1935) Woman Wanted
as Smiley
(1939) Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Arthur Aldrich
(1921) The Blot
as Phil West
(1933) Diplomaniacs
as Winkelreid
(1932) They Call It Sin
as Ford Humphries
(1953) Main Street to Broadway
as Self
(1953) Confidentially Connie
as Opie Bedloe
(1952) The Bad and the Beautiful
as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
(1933) Strictly Personal
as Jack Magruder
(1939) Juarez
as LeMarc
(1943) Nobody's Darling
as Curtis Farnsworth
(1937) The Life of Emile Zola
as Major Dort
(1921) Too Wise Wives
as David Graham
(1976) That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1921) What's Worth While?
as 'Squire' Elton
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self