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Louis Calhern

Louis Calhern

Acting
18 Feb 1895
12 May 1956
Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA

Biography

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. Calhern began working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s; the most notable being The Blot in 1921. A 1921 newspaper article commented, "The new arrival in stardom is Louis Calhern, who, until Miss Weber engaged...

Also Known As

Carl Henry Vogt, Louis Calhearn

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