Biography
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...
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Complete Filmography

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
as Self (from The Asphalt Jungle [1950]) (archive footage)
Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddes...

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...

High Society
1956
as Uncle Willie
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really st...

Forever, Darling
1956
as Charles Y. Bewell
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can se...

The Prodigal
1955
as Nahreeb
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the ...

Blackboard Jungle
1955
as Jim Murdock
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadi...

Athena
1954
as Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

Betrayed
1954
as Gen. Ten Eyck
Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Ri...

The Student Prince
1954
as King of Karlsberg
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.

Men of the Fighting Lady
1954
as James A. Michener
A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy an...

Executive Suite
1954
as George Nyle Caswell
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.

Rhapsody
1954
as Nicholas Durant
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano stude...

Main Street to Broadway
1953
as Self
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspira...

Latin Lovers
1953
as Grandfather Eduardo Santos
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.

Julius Caesar
1953
as Julius Caesar
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.

Remains to Be Seen
1953
as Benjamin Goodman
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

Confidentially Connie
1953
as Opie Bedloe
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up h...

The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
as Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...

The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
as Col. Zapt
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ...

We're Not Married!
1952
as Freddie Melrose
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally m...

Washington Story
1952
as Charles W. Birch
A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.

Invitation
1952
as Simon Bowker
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.

The Man with a Cloak
1951
as Charles Theverner
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is b...

It's a Big Country
1951
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best director...

The Magnificent Yankee
1950
as Oliver Wendell Holmes
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Two Weeks with Love
1950
as Horatio Robinson
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for th...

A Life of Her Own
1950
as Jim Leversoe
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

Devil's Doorway
1950
as Verne Coolan
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

Annie Get Your Gun
1950
as Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of v...

Nancy Goes to Rio
1950
as Gregory Elliott
Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.

The Red Danube
1949
as Colonel Piniev
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

The Red Pony
1949
as Grandfather
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the ...

Arch of Triumph
1948
as Boris Morosov
In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is...

Notorious
1946
as Captain Paul Prescott
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war c...

Up in Arms
1944
as Colonel Ashley
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944
as Don Andre - The Viceroy
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the lif...

Nobody's Darling
1943
as Curtis Farnsworth
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the up...

Heaven Can Wait
1943
as Randolph Van Cleve
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy...

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
as Dr. Brockdorf
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

I Take This Woman
1940
as Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic i...

Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939
as Arthur Aldrich
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. Wh...

Fifth Avenue Girl
1939
as Dr. Kessler
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Juarez
1939
as LeMarc
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

Fast Company
1938
as Elias Z. Bannerman
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

The Life of Emile Zola
1937
as Major Dort
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins...

Her Husband Lies
1937
as Joe Sorrell
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful...

The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
as Leroy Sunderland
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who i...

The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
as Prefect Allus Martius
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 ...

Woman Wanted
1935
as Smiley
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Bax...

The Arizonian
1935
as Sheriff Jake Mannen
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore ...

Sweet Adeline
1934
as Major Jim Day
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infur...

The Count of Monte Cristo
1934
as De Villefort Jr.
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himse...

The Affairs of Cellini
1934
as Ottaviano
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

The Man with Two Faces
1934
as Stanley Vance
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartme...

Duck Soup
1933
as Ambassador Trentino
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

Diplomaniacs
1933
as Winkelreid
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks ...

The World Gone Mad
1933
as Christopher Bruno
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.

Strictly Personal
1933
as Jack Magruder
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these wer...

The Woman Accused
1933
as Leo Young
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Gle...

Frisco Jenny
1933
as Steve Dutton
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the ...

20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
as Joe Finn
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Afraid to Talk
1932
as Asst. District Attorney John Wade
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

They Call It Sin
1932
as Ford Humphries
A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a cru...

Night After Night
1932
as Dick Bolton
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.

Okay, America!
1932
as Mileaway Russell
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

Blonde Crazy
1931
as 'Dapper Dan' Barker
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

The Road to Singapore
1931
as Dr. George March
A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

Stolen Heaven
1931
as Steve Perry
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As...

The Last Moment
1923
as Harry Gaines
Hercules Napoleon Cameron, who finds his adventure in books, is searching the waterfront with Alice Winthrop for a friend's father when they are shang...

The Blot
1921
as Phil West
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful...

Too Wise Wives
1921
as David Graham
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.

What's Worth While?
1921
as 'Squire' Elton
A rich woman and a poor man fall in love, but they face the opposition of her family.