
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

I Live My Life
MOVIE • 1935

Wonder Bar
MOVIE • 1934

Baby Face
MOVIE • 1933

Main Street Lawyer
MOVIE • 1939

Bullets or Ballots
MOVIE • 1936

Charlie Chan in Paris
MOVIE • 1935

Mad Love
MOVIE • 1935

Holiday
MOVIE • 1938

Union Pacific
MOVIE • 1939

Collegiate
MOVIE • 1936

Romeo and Juliet
MOVIE • 1936

Sarong Girl
MOVIE • 1943

A Woman's Face
MOVIE • 1941

Marie Antoinette
MOVIE • 1938

Theodora Goes Wild
MOVIE • 1936

Reunion in France
MOVIE • 1942

Society Doctor
MOVIE • 1935

The Cowboy and the Lady
MOVIE • 1938