Henry Kolker
Oyuncu · 1874 – 1947 · Berlin, Germany
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.
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Film7.2DramLilly (Baby Face), sefalet içinde yaşadığı onca yıldan sonra hayat basamaklarını tırmanmanın kolay yolunu bulmuştur; önüne gelenle yatmak... Lilly, babasının gizlice içki sattığı, bodrumdaki barda başlayan yolculuğuna, New York’un şaaşalı ofis binalarının çatı katında devam edecektir. Üstelik tüm basamakları tek tek çıkarak... Bankanın Alt-Düzey Yöneticisi Jimmy McCoy, Lilly’e önemli bir terfi imkanı olduğunu söyler. Fakat bir şart vardır; bankanın müdürüyle yatmak... Jimmy’nin son zamanlarda görememekten şikayetçi olduğu Lilly şöyle der; "Geceleri yatağa erken girebilmek için çok çalışıyorum."
Film6.8DramGerilimA female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
A Woman's Face
1941 · 74 votes
Film6.5KorkuSuçIn 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. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
The Black Room
1935 · 63 votes
Film6.6DramTarihThe young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Marie Antoinette
1938 · 37 votes
Film6.3KomediRomantikMary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938 · 29 votes
Film6.7DramWesternOne of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Union Pacific
1939 · 82 votes
Film7.0DramRomantikA 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.
Imitation of Life
1934 · 88 votes
Film6.1KomediMaceraWhile in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
Too Hot to Handle
1938 · 22 votes
Film7.3KomediRomantikJohnny 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. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Holiday
1938 · 306 votes
Film6.2RomantikMaceraThe Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938 · 19 votes
Film6.6KomediDramA society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
I Live My Life
1935 · 10 votes
Film6.0KomediSuçAfter giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
The Case of the Curious Bride
1935 · 21 votes
Film7.2DramTwo surgeons in love with a nurse end their rivalry in the operating room.
Society Doctor
1935 · 4 votes
Film7.0KomediMüzikA Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
Collegiate
1935 · 1 votes
Film7.5KomediGizemFoxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
One New York Night
1935 · 2 votes
Film6.6SuçGizemCharlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935 · 22 votes
Film6.6SuçDramAfter 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. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Film6.0KomediSuçA cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
She Loves Me Not
1934 · 11 votes
Film5.5TarihDramAn episodic dramatization of the 18th President of the United States' life, including his early years, affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, debates with Stephen A. Douglas, the election of 1860, his presidency during the Civil War, and finally his assassination at Ford's Theater in 1865.
Abraham Lincoln
1930 · 42 votes
Film6.3DramSavaşFort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.
The Real Glory
1939 · 23 votes
Film7.5DramAdaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
A Dog of Flanders
1935 · 2 votes
Film5.7KomediDramSally, Irene and Mary are chorus girls who each have a different approach to life and love. The three women face temptation, betrayal and tragedy while performing together in a Broadway show.
Sally, Irene and Mary
1925 · 8 votes
Film7.0KorkuGerilimAktris Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), Paris, Fransa'daki 'Théâtre des Horreurs' daki son performansından sonra dinlenmektedir. Radyodan eşi Stephen Orlac'ın (Colin Clive) çaldığı piyanoyu dinlerken, Yvonne'un her gösterisini izlemiş olan ve evliliğinden bihaber Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre) tarafından karşılanır. Kocasıyla İngiltere'ye taşınmak üzere olduğunda ise Gogol tiyatronun kalbi kırık bir biçimde ayrılır, Yvonne'un karakteri Galatea'nın balmumu figürünü alır ve ertesi gün evine teslim edilmesini ayarlar.
Film6.6KomediRomantikThe small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
Theodora Goes Wild
1936 · 51 votes