Louis Calhern

Acting

Louis Calhern

Born 1895-02-18 Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA 73 films

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 Loui…

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Filmography

73 films
High Society poster

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporte…

High Society

★ 6.8 1956

The Prodigal poster

A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring…

The Prodigal

★ 4.6 1955

Athena poster

A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthu…

Athena

★ 5.8 1954

Betrayed poster

When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initia…

Betrayed

★ 5.8 1954

Rhapsody poster

A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where h…

Rhapsody

★ 6.6 1954