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Louis Calhern
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Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor. Well known to fans of film noir for his role as Alonzo Emmerich, the pivotal villain in 1950's The Asphalt Jungle, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee later that year.
Calhern was born Carl Henry Vogt in Brooklyn, New York, in 1895, the son of German immigrants Eugene Adolf Vogt and Hubertina Friese Vogt. He had one known sibling, a sister. His father was a tobacco dealer. His family left New York while he was in elementary school and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was raised. While playing high school football, a stage manager from a touring theatrical stock company noticed the tall, handsome youth and hired him as a bit player. Another source states "Grace George hired his entire high school football team as supers for a Shakespearean play." Due to the anti-German sentiment during World War I, he changed his German given name, Carl. His stage name is an amalgam of his hometown of St. Louis and his first and middle names, Carl and Henry (Calhern).
Just before World War I, Calhern returned to New York to pursue an acting career. He began as a prop boy and bit player with various touring and burlesque companies. He became a matinee idol after being in a play titled Cobra.
Calhern's Broadway credits include:
Roger Bloomer (1923)
The Song and Dance Man (1923–1924)
Cobra (1924)
In a Garden (1925–1926)
Hedda Gabler (1926)
The Woman Disputed (1926–1927)
Up the Line (1926)
The Dark (1927)
Savages Under the Skin (1927)
A Distant Drum (1928)
Gypsy (1929)
The Love Duel (1929)
The Rhapsody (1930)
The Tyrant (1930)
Give Me Yesterday (1931)
Brief Moment (1931–1932)
The Inside Story (1932)
Birthday (1934–1935)
Hell Freezes Over (1935–1936)
Robin Landing (1937)
Summer Night (1939)
The Great Big Doorstep (1942)
Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944–1945)
The Magnificent Yankee (1946)
The Survivors (1948)
The Play's the Thing (1948)
King Lear (1950–1951)
The Wooden Dish (1955)
Calhern's burgeoning career was interrupted by World War I; he served in France in the 143rd Field Artillery of the U.
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