Tall, distinguished, aristocratic Louis Calhern seemed to be the poster boy for old-money, upper-crust urban society, but he was actually born Carl Vogt, to middle-class parents in New York City. His family moved to St. Louis when he was a child, and it was while playing football in high school there that he was spotted by a representative of a ...
February 19, 1895, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Died
May 12, 1956, Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Place Of Birth
Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Height
6' 1½" (1.87 m)
Profession
Actor, Soundtrack, Miscellaneous Crew
Spouse
Marianne Stewart (m. 1946–1955)
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama
Star Sign
Pisces
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Trademark
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Tall frame, erect carriage and often upturned nose
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Snobby and/or excessively-powerful characters
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Quote
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[Romantic suggestions for André Previn] Take my advice. Forget it with chorus girls. Find somebody older. Get some cuff links.
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Fact
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Calhern joined the famed actors club, The Lambs, in NYC in 1922.
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Appeared as a character in Gore Vidal's 1974 novel "Myron," his sequel to Myra Breckinridge (1970), co-starring with Maria Montez and Bruce Cabot in the apocryphal movie "Siren of Babylon" that is being shot on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot in 1948 in the novel. In the "movie," Calhern "played" the role of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar.
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In Executive Suite (1954) he plays an unscrupulous businessman who tries to take advantage of the situation after the president of a corporation dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. Calhern also died suddenly from the same cause.
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