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Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director.
Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films.
On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor.
Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.
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13 July 1933
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
17 April 1931
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
01 December 1936
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
20 April 1935
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
06 April 1918
While playing cards, Col. Francis Fielding is unjustly accused of cheating by the Earl of St. Albans.
04 August 1933
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler.
10 May 1928
A complete version of the film is held by Cineteca Del Friuli.
23 January 1937
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods).
01 July 1935
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
10 March 1934
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
10 January 1926
Don Sebastian, Portuguese Premier, sets a price on the head of royalist Ricardo Madons. Madons is in love with actress Lola Montez, whom Sebastian also adores.
03 September 1930
A variety of broad-painted and unlikely characters are trapped in an underground café when a Mississippi River levee breaks and causes flood havoc above and below.
11 June 1943
A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
24 February 1934
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
14 December 1934
A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him.
02 February 1935
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
21 October 1935
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
26 April 1931
Sweethearts pitted against lovers, wives against husbands, sons against mothers, in a frantic struggle to escape the clutch and claw of the 'Tcheka,' Russia's sinister spy system.
12 February 1937
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts.
30 August 1935
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher.
15 June 1934
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
03 November 1934
Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him to play with more feeling, for he is playing a piece by Franz Schubert, her favorite composer.
25 December 1930
A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
27 June 1935
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
09 May 1941
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
29 June 1930
When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past!
17 November 1933
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
05 October 1933
Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell.
23 October 1930
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee.
31 January 1936
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
11 January 1938
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder.
02 November 1939
A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.
26 August 1938
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries.
26 October 1944
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
15 April 1934
Wealthy, aging millionaire John Hunter Yates (Frank Morgan) seeks to recapture his youth by pursuing a young actress, Blossom Bailey (Elissa Landi), leading him from America to Europe, where he finances her and a musician lover, only to realize his mistakes and return to his neglected wife, Elinor, understanding their true connection.
26 May 1938
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him.
29 September 1939
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.
19 May 1929
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
15 July 1935
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron.
08 November 1930
An episodic dramatization of the 18th President of the United States' life, including his early years, affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, debates with Stephen A.
25 June 1940
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
04 May 1925
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money.
07 April 1938
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
12 July 1935
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
31 March 1933
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
23 November 1934
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
02 September 1915
I.M. Mann, millionaire president of a large corporation, is known as "the man with the iron heart." James Boyd, cashier for Mann's corporation, is delayed one morning because of a dying mother, and is discharged.
18 October 1935
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 his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
25 April 1931
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
31 August 1934
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
03 May 1930
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello.
08 July 1932
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels deals with the tedium of her aristocratic Vienna life with a long line of lovers.
22 February 1927
Bebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was really more slapstick than farce.
16 June 1934
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her.
03 September 1936
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
21 January 1935
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket.
31 March 1934
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man.
16 March 1934
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
01 June 1934
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
07 July 1929
Pleasure Crazed is a 1929 American sound drama film directed by Donald Gallaher.
