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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.
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.
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.
Biography. 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) and as Oliver Wendell Holmes in John Sturges's "The Magnificent Yankee" (1950).
Julius Caesar: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern. The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus.
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.
Louis Calhern died of a sudden heart attack on May 12, 1956 while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon in Tokyo, Japan, and had to be replaced by character actor Paul Ford.
