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Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor. Well known to fans of film noir for his role as attorney Alonzo Emmerich, the pivotal villain in The Asphalt Jungle (1950), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Oliver Wendell ...
Louis Calhern. Actor: Duck Soup. Tall, distinguished, aristocratic Louis Calhern seemed to be the poster boy for old-money, upper-crust urban society, but he was actually born Carl Vogt, to middle-class parents in New York City.
Louis Calhern. Actor: Duck Soup. Tall, distinguished, aristocratic Louis Calhern seemed to be the poster boy for old-money, upper-crust urban society, but he was actually born Carl Vogt, to middle-class parents in New York City.
Nov 5, 2011 · Louis Calhern was a star leading man of the theater and a star character actor of the screen. Extraordinarily versatile, he gave stature to whatever role he undertook, regardless of the size. Fans of Hollywood's Golden Age all know that a movie can only be better for his presence.
NARA, Japan, May 12 (AP)-- Louis Calhern, distinguished star of Broadway and Hollywood, died of a heart atack today while on location for his sixty-ninth film, "The Teahouse of the...
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.
Birthday: Feb 19, 1895. Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA. In silent films as a young man but best remembered for his elderly roles of the 1950s, notably as the lead in "Julius Caesar" (1953)...
Louis Calhern was an affable Hollywood character who moved easily from swindlers and rouges to avuncular figures as his hair turned from black to silver. He had an interesting relapse into villainy in "The Asphalt Jungle" and was an unexpectedly impressive Julius Caesar.
Well known to film noir fans for his role as the pivotal villain in 1950's The Asphalt Jungle, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee later that year.
(1895–1956), actor. The lanky, suave leading man of screen and stage made his theatrical debut while still a boy with Cecil Spooner's stock company in his native New York. ... From: Calhern, Louis in The Oxford Companion to American Theatre » Subjects: Performing arts — Theatre. Reference entries.
