Louis Calhern
1895-02-18 ( 130 years old ) in 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 newspaper article commented, "The new arrival in stardom is Louis Calhern, who, until Miss Weber engaged him to enact the leading male role in What's Worth While?, had been playing leads in the Morosco Stock company of Los Angeles." In 1923 Calhern left the movies, but would return to the screen eight years later after the advent of sound pictures. He was primarily cast as a character actor in films while he continued to play leading roles on the stage. He reached his peak in the 1950s as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Among his many memorable screen roles were Ambassador Trentino in the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup (1933) and three that he appeared in at MGM in 1950: a singing role as Buffalo Bill in the film version of the musical Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's film noir The Asphalt Jungle, and his Oscar-nominated performance as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee (re-creating his role from the Broadway stage). He was also praised for his portrayal of the title role in the John Houseman production of Julius Caesar (adapted from the Shakespeare play) in 1953, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Calhern also played the role of the devious George Caswell, the manipulative board member of Tredway Corporation in the 1954 production of Executive Suite. Calhern's other film roles included the grandfather in The Red Pony (1949), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious (1946). A performance as Uncle Willie in High Society (1956), a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, turned out to be his final film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Calhern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend 1986-04-19
That's Entertainment, Part II 1976-05-16
High Society 1956-07-17
Forever, Darling 1956-02-09
The Prodigal 1955-05-06
Blackboard Jungle 1955-03-25
Athena 1954-11-04
Betrayed 1954-09-07
The Student Prince 1954-06-15
Men of the Fighting Lady 1954-05-07
Executive Suite 1954-04-30
Rhapsody 1954-04-16
Main Street to Broadway 1953-10-12
Latin Lovers 1953-08-12
Julius Caesar 1953-06-04
Remains to Be Seen 1953-05-15
Confidentially Connie 1953-03-12
The Bad and the Beautiful 1952-12-25
The Prisoner of Zenda 1952-11-04
We're Not Married! 1952-07-11
Washington Story 1952-07-01
Invitation 1952-01-29
The Man with a Cloak 1951-11-27
It's a Big Country 1951-11-20
The Magnificent Yankee 1950-12-20
Two Weeks with Love 1950-11-10
Devil's Doorway 1950-09-15
A Life of Her Own 1950-09-01
Annie Get Your Gun 1950-05-17
The Asphalt Jungle 1950-05-12
Nancy Goes to Rio 1950-03-10
The Red Danube 1949-10-14
The Red Pony 1949-03-08
Arch of Triumph 1948-02-17
Notorious 1946-08-21
Up in Arms 1944-02-17
The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1944-02-11
Nobody's Darling 1943-08-27
Heaven Can Wait 1943-08-05
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 1940-02-23
I Take This Woman 1940-02-02
Charlie McCarthy, Detective 1939-12-22
Fifth Avenue Girl 1939-09-22
Juarez 1939-06-10
Fast Company 1938-07-05
The Life of Emile Zola 1937-09-09
Her Husband Lies 1937-03-13
The Gorgeous Hussy 1936-08-28
The Last Days of Pompeii 1935-10-18
Woman Wanted 1935-08-02
The Arizonian 1935-06-27
Sweet Adeline 1934-12-29
The Count of Monte Cristo 1934-09-06
The Affairs of Cellini 1934-08-24
The Man with Two Faces 1934-08-04
Duck Soup 1933-11-12
Diplomaniacs 1933-04-28
The World Gone Mad 1933-04-15
Strictly Personal 1933-03-17
The Woman Accused 1933-02-17
Frisco Jenny 1933-01-14
20,000 Years in Sing Sing 1932-12-24
Afraid to Talk 1932-11-17
They Call It Sin 1932-11-05
Night After Night 1932-10-29
Okay, America! 1932-09-08
Blonde Crazy 1931-09-16
The Road to Singapore 1931-09-02
Stolen Heaven 1931-02-20
The Last Moment 1923-06-07
The Blot 1921-09-04
Too Wise Wives 1921-05-22
What's Worth While? 1921-02-27

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