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Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director.
Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films.
On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor.
Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.
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13 July 1933
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
15 July 1935
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron.
25 December 1942
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
26 May 1938
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him.
06 April 1918
While playing cards, Col. Francis Fielding is unjustly accused of cheating by the Earl of St. Albans.
04 October 1935
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
09 May 1941
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
12 October 1935
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
23 January 1937
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods).
01 September 1935
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
10 March 1934
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
06 June 1936
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob.
05 February 1928
Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon.
26 August 1938
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries.
04 August 1933
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler.
01 September 1919
An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing.
27 January 1934
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
30 March 1929
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
16 September 1933
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work.
14 December 1934
A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him.
31 August 1934
Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life.
20 July 1934
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
24 February 1934
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
16 March 1934
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
08 July 1932
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
14 April 1933
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together.
09 October 1932
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
07 April 1938
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
12 July 1935
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
01 December 1936
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
15 October 1932
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
01 July 1935
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
25 March 1933
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
19 May 1929
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
21 January 1935
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket.
16 September 1938
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding.
02 November 1939
A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.
11 January 1938
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder.
18 August 1939
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her.
30 March 1935
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
23 November 1934
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
15 October 1934
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.
08 January 1937
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
19 April 1935
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
06 October 1933
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company.
23 December 1932
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
25 July 1941
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the town's glory days.
20 April 1935
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
06 October 1931
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it.
12 September 1931
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country.
25 June 1940
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
23 September 1933
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
01 December 1934
A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
04 May 1925
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money.
18 October 1935
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
15 June 1934
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
28 March 1941
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub.
25 September 1936
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
17 August 1940
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
01 September 1934
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
