Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874 [some sources 1870] – July 15, 1947) was an American stage and film actor and director. Early years Kolker was born in Quincy, Illinois. Career Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career before entering silent films. He began acting professionally in stock theater in 1895. On stage he appeared opposite actresses such as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker began acting in films in 1915. He is best remembered for his movie roles, including one in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as an elderly CEO. Another well-remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually tried his hand at directing. Kolker's best-known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however are said to exist in Europe and Russia. Personal life Kolker was married to Lillian Carroll; they divorced in 1926. Soon after the divorce, he married Margaret Bruen. Kolker died on July 15, 1947, aged 72. Selected filmography As actor The Bigger Man (1915) as John Stoddard The Warning (1915) as Robert Denman How Molly Made Good (1915, cameo as himself) Gloria's Romance (1916) as Dr. Stephen Royce The Shell Game (1918) as Lawrence Gray Social Hypocrites (1918) as Dr. Frank Simpson The House of Mirth (1918) as Lawrence Selden The Great Victory (1918) as Kaiser Wilhelm II The Parisian Tigress (1919) as Henri Dutray Blackie's Redemption (1919) as Fred the Count The Red Lantern (1919) Tangled Threads (1919) as Dr. MacGregor The Brat (1919) as A Dandy Her Purchase Price (1919) as Duke of Wryden A Man of Stone (1921) Any Woman (1925) as Egbert Phillips Sally, Irene and Mary (1925) as Marcus Morton The Palace of Pleasure (1926) as Premier Hell's Four Hundred (1926) as John Gilmore Winning the Futurity (1926) (scenes deleted) Wet Paint (1926) as A Husband A Kiss in a Taxi (1927) as Leon Lambert Annie Laurie (1927) as King's Representative Rough House Rosie (1927) as W.S. Davids Soft Living (1928) as Roidney S. Bowen Midnight Rose (1928) as Corbin The Charge of the Gauchos (1928) as Viceroy Cisneros Don't Marry (1928) as Gen. Willoughby Coquette (1929) as Jasper Carter The