1. Carl Henry Vogt, known by his stage name Louis Calhern, was an American actor.
18 Facts About Louis Calhern
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Louis Calhern was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for portraying US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the 1950 film The Magnificent Yankee.
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Louis Calhern won a Special Jury Prize at the 15th Venice International Film Festival for his performance in Executive Suite.
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Just before World War I, Louis Calhern returned to New York to pursue an acting career.
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Louis Calhern began as a prop boy and bit player with various touring and burlesque companies.
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Louis Calhern became a matinee idol after being in a play titled Cobra.
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Louis Calhern's stage name is an amalgam of his adopted hometown of St Louis and his first and middle names, Carl and Henry.
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Louis Calhern began working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s, the most notable being The Blot.
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In 1923, Louis Calhern left the movies, deciding to devote his career entirely to the stage.
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Louis Calhern returned to films early in the sound era where he was primarily cast as a character actor, while he continued to play leading roles on the stage.
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In 1945, Louis Calhern won the Donaldson Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in The Magnificent Yankee.
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In 1948, Louis Calhern joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a contract player, receiving wide acclaim for three diverse roles that he appeared in for the studio in 1950: a singing role as Buffalo Bill in the film version of the musical Annie Get Your Gun; as a double-crossing lawyer and sugar daddy to a young Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle; and his Oscar-nominated performance as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee.
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Louis Calhern was cast in the title role of Joseph L Mankiewicz's 1953 all-star film version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, earning more praise.
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Louis Calhern played the role of the devious George Caswell, the manipulative board member of Tredway Corporation, in the 1954 production of Executive Suite, followed by the role of a jaded, acerbic high school teacher in Blackboard Jungle.
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Louis Calhern battled alcoholism for much of his adult life; as a result, he lost several important screen and stage roles.
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Louis Calhern ultimately overcame his alcohol addiction by the late 1940s.
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On May 12 1956, Louis Calhern died unexpectedly at age 61 of a heart attack in Nara, Japan, while there to film The Teahouse of the August Moon.
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Louis Calhern's body was cremated and was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.