Louis Calhern
Louis Calhern was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on February 19th, 1895 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 61, Louis Calhern biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895-May 12, 1956), also known as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee (1950).
Early life
Calhern was born in 1895, the son of German immigrants Eugene Adolf Vogt and Hubertina Friese Vogt. He had one identified sibling, a sister. His father was a tobacco dealer. As he was in elementary school, his family left New York and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was raised. A stage manager from a touring musical stock company noticed the tall, handsome youth and recruited him as a bit player while playing high school football. "Grace George recruited his entire high school football team as supers for a Shakespearean play," another source says. Due to the anti-German sentiments during World War I, he thought it would be safe to rename his Teutonic given name. Carl and Henry (Calhern) is a mix of his hometown of St. Louis and his first and middle names.
Personal life
Calhern was married four times: Julia Hoyt from 1926 to 1932, Julia Hoyt from 1933 to 1942, Natalie Schafer from 1934 to 1955, and Marianne Stewart from 1946 to 1955. Both four marriages ended in divorce.
Calhern suffered with alcoholism for a large part of his adult life; as a result, he has had to cancel several important film and stage roles. Calhern's inability to recover from his heroin use ended their marriage, according to former wife Schafer. Although Calhern was keen to consult physicians, she said Calhern declined to attend Alcoholics Anonymous because he was an atheist and considered the association to be a religious group. Calhern recovered from his heroin use in the late 1940s.