Louis Calhern

Louis Calhern
Calhern in 1946
Born	Carl Henry Vogt (1895-02-19)February 19, 1895 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	May 12, 1956(1956-05-12) (aged 61) Nara, Nara, Japan
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1921–1956
Spouses	Ilka Chase ​ ​ (m. 1926; div. 1927)​ Julia Hoyt ​ ​ (m. 1927; div. 1932)​ Natalie Schafer ​ ​ (m. 1933; div. 1942)​ Marianne Stewart ​ ​ (m. 1946; div. 1955)​

Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known by his stage name Louis Calhern, was an American actor.^[1] Described as a “star leading man of the theater and a star character actor of the screen,”^[2] he was appeared in over 100 roles on the Broadway stage and in films and television, between 1923 and 1956. He was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for portraying U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the 1950 film The Magnificent Yankee.

Often cast in films as distinguished and sophisticated characters,^[2] Calhern's other notable film roles included the scheming Ambassador Trentino in the classic Marx Brothers comedy Duck Soup (1933), the antagonist to Robert Donat's Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), the head of the US Secret Service in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946), the pivotal villain Alonzo Emmerich in John Huston’s film noir The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Buffalo Bill in the musical Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and the title character in Joseph L. Mankiewicz all-star 1953 film adaptation of Julius Caesar. He won a Special Jury Prize at the 15th Venice International Film Festival for his performance in Executive Suite (1954).