Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. He came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films.On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton.