Louis Calhern
Gender: Male
Born: 19th February 1895
Died: 12th May 1956
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Blackboard Jungle, The Asphalt Jungle, Julius Caesar, Rhapsody, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Prodigal, The Student Prince, Nancy Goes to Rio, The Blot, The Magnificent Yankee, The Affairs of Cellini, Athena, The Man with a Cloak, Arch of Triumph, High Society, Duck Soup, Betrayed, The Count of Monte Cristo, Heaven Can Wait, Executive Suite, Devil's Doorway, Forever, Darling, Latin Lovers, Frisco Jenny, Men of the Fighting Lady, Two Weeks with Love, The Red Pony, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Annie Get Your Gun, Notorious, We're Not Married!, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Last Days of Pompeii, Confidentially Connie, Stolen Heaven, The Red Danube, Woman Wanted, Remains to Be Seen, Diplomaniacs, The Arizonian
Louis Calhern (February 19, 1895 - May 12, 1956) was an American stage and screen actor.
Louis Calhern was born Carl Henry Vogt on February 19, 1895 in Brooklyn. His family left New York while he was still a child and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. While playing high school football, a stage manager from a touring theatrical stock company spotted him, and hired him as a bit player. Just prior to World War I, Calhern decided to move back to New York to pursue an acting career. He began as a prop boy and bit player with touring companies and burlesque companies. His burgeoning career was interrupted by the war and he served overseas in the military during World War I.
He became a matinee idol by virtue of a play titled Cobra, and soon began to act in films. In the early 30s he was primarily cast as a character actor in Hollywood, while he continued to play leading roles on stage. He reached his peak in the 1950s as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Among his most memorable roles were three that he played in 1950: a singing one as Buffalo Bill in the film version of Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's
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