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Louis Calhern
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American stage and screen actor (1895-1956)
Film & TV
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…
Known for
- Becoming Marilyn — (archive footage)2022
- That's Entertainment, Part II — (archive footage)1976
- High Society — Uncle Willie1956
- Forever, Darling — Charles Bewell1956
- Blackboard Jungle — Jim Murdock1955
- The Prodigal — Nahreeb1955
- Executive Suite — George Nyle Caswell1954
- The Student Prince — King of Karlsberg1954
- Betrayed — Gen. Ten Eyck1954
- Men of the Fighting Lady — James A. Michener1954
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Key facts
- Born
- Carl Henry Vogt , ( 1895-02-19 ) February 19, 1895, Brooklyn , New York, U.S.
- Died
- May 12, 1956 (1956-05-12) (aged 61), Nara, Nara , Japan
- Resting place
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1921 – 1956
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Army
- Conflicts
- World War I Western Front
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Tokyo
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- World War I
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- Louis Calhern 1946.JPG
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1895-02-19
- date of death
- 1956-05-12
- Commons category
- Louis Calhern
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- place of burial
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- Louis Calhern
- start of work period
- 1921-00-00
- name in native language
- Louis Calhern
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Encyclopedic overview
Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known by his stage name Louis Calhern, was an American actor. Described as a “star leading man of the theater and a star character actor of the screen,” he appeared in over 100 roles on the Broadway stage and in films and television, between 1923 and 1956. He was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for portraying U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the 1950 film The Magnificent Yankee.
Often cast in films as distinguished and sophisticated characters, Calhern's other notable film roles included the scheming Ambassador Trentino in the classic Marx Brothers comedy Duck Soup (1933), the antagonist to Robert Donat's Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), the head of the US Secret Service in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946), the pivotal villain Alonzo Emmerich in John Huston’s film noir The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Buffalo Bill in the musical Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and the title character in Joseph L. Mankiewicz all-star 1953 film adaptation of Julius Caesar. He won a Special Jury Prize at the 15th Venice International Film Festival for his performance in Executive Suite (1954).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louis Calhern” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.