- In 1950 he replaced Frank Morgan as Buffalo Bill, after he died of a heart attack while filming Annie Get Your Gun (1950). In 1956, Paul Ford replaced Calhern after he died of a heart attack while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956).
- Calhern joined the famed actors club, The Lambs, in NYC in 1922.
- He has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Duck Soup (1933), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Notorious (1946), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Blackboard Jungle (1955).
- 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.
- Was in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Heaven Can Wait (1943) and Julius Caesar (1953), with the first of these the only winner.
- 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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