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Carl Henry Vogt, 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 the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Birth Name
Carl Henry Vogt
Born
Tuesday, 19 February 1895
Died
Saturday, 12 May 1956
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| American Cinema | Alonzo D. Emmerich | 1995 |
| Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Alonzo D. Emmerich / Self (from The Asphalt Jungle [1950]) (archive footage) | 1987 |
| American Masters | Alonzo D. Emmerich | 1986 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | Buffalo Bill Cody / (archive footage) | 1976 |
| High Society | Uncle Willie | 1956 |
| Forever, Darling | Charles Y. Bewell | 1956 |
| Blackboard Jungle | Jim Murdock | 1955 |
| The Prodigal | Nahreeb | 1955 |
| Athena | Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain / Grandpa Ulysses | 1954 |
| Betrayed | Gen. Ten Eyck | 1954 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| American Cinema | Alonzo D. Emmerich | 1995 |
| Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Alonzo D. Emmerich / Self (from The Asphalt Jungle [1950]) (archive footage) | 1987 |
| American Masters | Alonzo D. Emmerich | 1986 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | Buffalo Bill Cody / (archive footage) | 1976 |
| High Society | Uncle Willie | 1956 |
| Forever, Darling | Charles Y. Bewell | 1956 |
| Blackboard Jungle | Jim Murdock | 1955 |
| The Prodigal | Nahreeb | 1955 |
| Athena | Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain / Grandpa Ulysses | 1954 |
| Betrayed | Gen. Ten Eyck | 1954 |
| The Student Prince | King of Karlsberg / King Ferdinand of Karlsberg | 1954 |
| Men of the Fighting Lady | James A. Michener | 1954 |
| Executive Suite | George Nyle Caswell | 1954 |
| Rhapsody | Nicholas Durant | 1954 |
| Main Street to Broadway | Louis Calhern / Self | 1953 |
| Latin Lovers | Grandfather Eduardo Santos | 1953 |
| Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | 1953 |
| Remains to Be Seen | Benjamin Goodman | 1953 |
| Confidentially Connie | Opie Bedloe | 1953 |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Georgia Lorrison's Father | 1952 |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Col. Zapt | 1952 |
| We're Not Married! | Frederick C. 'Freddie' Melrose / Freddie Melrose | 1952 |
| Washington Story | Charles W. Birch | 1952 |
| Invitation | Simon Bowker | 1952 |
| The Man with a Cloak | Charles Francois Thevenet / Charles Theverner | 1951 |
| It's a Big Country: An American Anthology | Narrator | 1951 |
| The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story | (archive footage) | 1951 |
| The Magnificent Yankee | Oliver Wendell Holmes / Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Magnificent Yankee | 1950 |
| Two Weeks with Love | Horatio Robinson | 1950 |
| A Life of Her Own | Jim Leversoe | 1950 |
| Devil's Doorway | Verne Coolan | 1950 |
| Annie Get Your Gun | Buffalo Bill Cody / Col. Buffalo Bill Cody | 1950 |
| The Asphalt Jungle | Alonzo D. Emmerich | 1950 |
| Nancy Goes to Rio | Gregory Elliott | 1950 |
| The Red Danube | Colonel Piniev | 1949 |
| The Red Pony | Grandfather | 1949 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self / Buffalo Bill Cody | 1948 |
| Tonight on Broadway | Self | 1948 |
| Arch of Triumph | 'Col.' Boris Morosov / Boris Morosov | 1948 |
| Notorious | Paul Prescott / Captain Paul Prescott | 1946 |
| Up in Arms | Colonel Ashley | 1944 |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Don Andre - The Viceroy | 1944 |
| Nobody's Darling | Curtis Farnsworth | 1943 |
| Heaven Can Wait | Randolph Van Cleve | 1943 |
| Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Dr. Brockdorf | 1940 |
| I Take This Woman | Dr. Duveen / Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen | 1940 |
| Charlie McCarthy, Detective | Arthur Aldrich | 1939 |
| Fifth Avenue Girl | Dr. Kessler | 1939 |
| Juarez | Le Marc / LeMarc | 1939 |
| Fast Company | Elias Z. 'Eli' Bannerman | 1938 |
| The Life of Emile Zola | Major Dort / Maj. Dort | 1937 |
| Her Husband Lies | Joe Sorrell | 1937 |
| The Gorgeous Hussy | Sunderland / Leroy Sunderland | 1936 |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | Prefect (Allus Martius) / Prefect Allus Martius | 1935 |
| Woman Wanted | Smiley / Smiley Gordon | 1935 |
| The Arizonian | Sheriff Jake Mannen | 1935 |
| Sweet Adeline | Major Day / Major Jim Day | 1934 |
| The Affairs of Cellini | Ottaviano | 1934 |
| The Man with Two Faces | Stanley Vance | 1934 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | De Villefort Jr. / Raymond de Villefort Jr. | 1934 |
| Duck Soup | Ambassador Trentino | 1933 |
| Diplomaniacs | Winkelreid | 1933 |
| The World Gone Mad | Christopher Bruno | 1933 |
| Strictly Personal | Magruder / Jack Magruder | 1933 |
| The Woman Accused | Leo Young | 1933 |
| Frisco Jenny | Steve Dutton | 1933 |
| 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | Joe Finn | 1932 |
| Afraid to Talk | Asst. District Attorney John Wade | 1932 |
| Night After Night | Dick Bolton | 1932 |
| They Call It Sin | Ford Humphries | 1932 |
| Okay America! | Mileaway Russell | 1932 |
| Blonde Crazy | Dapper Dan Barker / 'Dapper Dan' Barker | 1931 |
| The Road to Singapore | Dr. George March | 1931 |
| Stolen Heaven | Steve Perry | 1931 |
| The Last Moment | Harry Gaines | 1923 |
| Woman, Wake Up | Monte Collins | 1922 |
| The Blot | Phil West | 1921 |
| Too Wise Wives | Mr. David Graham / David Graham | 1921 |
| What's Worth While? | 'Squire' Elton | 1921 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1951 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1951 | Golden Globe | Best Actor - Drama | Nominated |
