Lee Kohlmar

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Lee Kohlmar , born in Kohlmeier , (born February 27, 1873 in Forth , German Empire , † May 14, 1946 in Hollywood , California , United States ) was a German-American actor and director .

Lee Kohlmar on the lobby card for Secret Gift (1920)

Life

Not much is known about the life of Lee Kohlmar. As a teenager he emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1888 and was naturalized shortly afterwards. In 1902 he married Mina Wolferman (* 1884; † unknown), with whom he had the son Fred Kohlmar . Between 1912 and 1932 Kohlmar played ten plays on Broadway . In 1916 he made his film debut and subsequently also worked as a director, before concentrating entirely on his acting career from 1921. While he got bigger roles in the silent film era, Kohlmar's film appearances became smaller and smaller with the introduction of the sound film. In 1941 he had his last of at least 55 film roles on the side of the Marx Brothers . He died of a heart attack five years later at the age of 73.

Filmography

actor

  • 1916: The Heritage of Valor
  • 1918: It Can't Be Done
  • 1920: Beautifully Trimmed
  • 1920: The Flaming Disc
  • 1920: The Last Nip
  • 1920: The Secret Gift
  • 1921: Two Orphans of the Storm
  • 1922: Breaking Home Ties
  • 1923: Potash and Mother of Pearl
  • 1930: Caught Short
  • 1930: Children of Pleasure
  • 1930: Melody Man
  • 1930: Personality
  • 1930: The Kibitzer
  • 1930: The Sins of the Children
  • 1930: The Thirteenth Prisoner
  • 1932: A thief with class (Jewel Robbery)
  • 1932: False Faces
  • 1932: Scarlet Dawn
  • 1932: Silver Dollar
  • 1932: The Match King
  • 1932: The Strange Case of Clara Deane
  • 1932: The Tenderfoot
  • 1933: Forgotten
  • 1933: I Love That Man
  • 1933: King Kong's son (The Son of Kong)
  • 1933: Roman Scandals
  • 1933: They did him wrong (She Done Him Wrong)
  • 1934: The Rothschilds (The House of Rothschild)
  • 1934: Liebesreigen (Music in the Air)
  • 1934: Napoleon on Broadway (Twentieth Century)
  • 1934: Shoot the Works
  • 1934: When Strangers Meet
  • 1935: Break of Hearts
  • 1935: Death from a Distance
  • 1935: A Butler in America (Ruggles of Red Gap)
  • 1935: Four Hours to Kill!
  • 1935: Here Comes Cookie
  • 1935: Love in Bloom
  • 1935: McFadden's Flats
  • 1935: One More Spring
  • 1935: You don't kiss spies (rendezvous)
  • 1935: The Best Man Wins
  • 1935: The Farmer Takes a Wife
  • 1935: The Girl Friend
  • 1936: A Son Comes Home
  • 1936: Echo Mountain
  • 1936: slogan!
  • 1936: Ramona
  • 1936: Wanted: Jane Turner
  • 1937: Fly Away Baby
  • 1937: The King and the Chorus Girl
  • 1937: Vogues of 1938
  • 1940: Four Sons
  • 1941: The Marx Brothers in the department store (The Big Store)

Director

  • 1916: Toto of the Byways
  • 1921: Bandits Beware
  • 1921: Fighting Blood
  • 1921: The Cactus Kid
  • 1921: The Man Who Woke Up
  • 1921: The Wild Wild West
  • 1921: Who Was the Man?
  • 1921: Beating the Game
  • 1921: high heels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martina Switalski: Shalom Forth - Jewish village life in Franconia . Waxmann Verlag, 2012, p. 264 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Lee Kohlmar on a private genealogy site
personal data
SURNAME Kohlmar, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohlmeier (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American actor and director in the USA
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Forth , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1946
Place of death Hollywood , California , United States