Fred Kohler
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From Wikipedia Fred Kohler (April 20, 1888 – October 28, 1938) was an American actor known for his playing heavies. Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri. As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to support himself. He lost part of his right hand in a mining accident during this time. Eventually he was able to join a touring company, and worked steadily in show business for several years. America's budding film industry drew a 20-something Kohler to Hollywood, where he made his start in silent films. His first role was in the 1911 short The Code of Honor, and he had an uncredited role in Cecil B. DeMille's feature film Joan the Woman (1917), but a steady stream of parts did not begin until The Tiger's Trail (1919). Kohler's stern features earned him a niche playing villains. His role as Bauman in The Iron Horse (1924) is a notable example. With the advent of the talkies, Kohler reprised many of his silent roles in remakes with sound, particularly in Westerns based on novels by Zane Grey. At the beginning of the sound era, he appeared in the Allan Dwan film Tide of Empire (1929) alongside Renée Adorée and Tom Keene. Kohler died of a heart attack on October 28, 1938 at age 50. He was buried in an unmarked grave at Inglewood Park Cemetery in South Los Angeles community of Inglewood, California. His son Fred Kohler, Jr. (1911–1993) was also an actor in many western films.
Known for
Credits
Queen Christina (1934)
as Member of the Court at Abdication (uncredited)
The Plainsman (1936)
as Jake - A Teamster
Frisco Kid (1935)
as Shanghai Duck
The Buccaneer (1938)
as Gramby (as Fred Hohler Sr.)
The Iron Horse (1925)
as Bauman
The Scrapper (1922)
as Oleson
Dangerous Intrigue (1936)
as Brant
Deluge (1933)
as Jepson
Woman Hungry (1931)
as Kampen
Hell's Heroes (1929)
as 'Wild Bill' Kearney
Half a Sinner (1934)
as Brick
Other Men's Women (1931)
as Haley
Mississippi (1935)
as Captain Blackie
Underworld (1927)
as Buck Mulligan
The River of Romance (1929)
as Captain Blackie
Forbidden Valley (1938)
as Matt Rogan
Thunderbolt (1929)
as 'Bad Al' Friedberg
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
The Spieler (1928)
as Red Moon
Horses' Collars (1935)
as Double Deal Decker
The Way of All Flesh (1927)
as The Tough
The Texas Rangers (1936)
as Jess Higgins
Goin' to Town (1935)
as Buck Gonzales
The Wolf Dog (1933)
as Joe Stevens
The Rider of Death Valley (1932)
as Lew Grant
Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
as Rand
Cyclone Bliss (1921)
as Jack Hall
Trimmed (1922)
as Young Bill Young
Forgotten Faces (1928)
Actor
Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
as Captain Gulner
Shadows of the North (1923)
as Ray Brent
Old Ironsides (1926)
as Second Mate (uncredited)
Lightning Triggers (1935)
as Bull Thompson
Little Man, What Now? (1934)
as Karl Goebbler
The Rough Riders (1927)
as Sergeant Stanton
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
as Auctioneer at New Orleans slave market
X Marks the Spot (1931)
as Edward P. Riggs
Yellow Men and Gold (1922)
as Craven
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930)
as Self
The Loves of Carmen (1927)
as Gypsy Chief
The Thundering Herd (1925)
as Follansbee
Blockade (1938)
as Pietro
The Accusing Finger (1936)
as Curly-haired Convict
Call Her Savage (1932)
as Silas Jennings
Honor of the Range (1934)
as Rawhide
West of the Pecos (1934)
as Sawtelle
Fighting Caravans (1931)
as Lee Murdock
Conflict (1921)
as Jevons' foreman (uncredited)
The Eleventh Hour (1923)
as Barbara's Uncle
Corsair (1931)
as Big John
Under a Texas Moon (1930)
as Bad Man
The Man from Hell (1934)
as Mayor Anse McCloud
Men of Action (1935)
as Thorenson
The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936)
as General Jason Burr
The Tiger's Trail (1919)
as 'Bull' Shotwell
Gangs of New York (1938)
as Kruger
The Vanishing Pioneer (1928)
as Sheriff Murdock
The Country Beyond (1926)
as Joe Leseur
A Soldier's Plaything (1930)
as Hank
The Dummy (1929)
as Joe Cooper
The Bar-C Mystery (1926)
Actor
Under the Tonto Rim (1933)
as Munther
North of Hudson Bay (1923)
as Armand LeMoir
Times Square Lady (1935)
as "Dutch" Meyers
Dick Turpin (1925)
as Ring Announcer (uncredited)
The Case of Lena Smith (1929)
as Stefan
Painted Desert (1938)
as Hugh Fawcett
The Gay Defender (1927)
as Jake Hamby
Riders of the Purple Sage (1925)
as Henchman Tom Metzger (uncredited)
Say It with Songs (1929)
as Fred, Joe's Cellmate
Three Who Paid (1923)
as Jim Quade
The Son of the Wolf (1922)
as Malemute Kid
The Right of Way (1930)
as Joseph Portugais
The Light of Western Stars (1930)
as H.W. Stack
Danger Quest (—)
as Otto Shugars
The Fiddlin' Buckaroo (1933)
as Wolf Morgan
A Daughter of the Law (1921)
as George Stacey
The Flame of Life (1923)
as Spring
His Back Against the Wall (1922)
as Arizona Pete
The Red Warning (1923)
as Tom Jeffries
Perils of the Yukon (1922)
as Capt. Whipple
Behind the Door (1919)
Actor
Stairs of Sand (1929)
as Boss Stone
The Showdown (1928)
as Winter
The Last Round-up (1934)
as Sam Gulden
With Stanley in Africa (1922)
Actor
Without Compromise (1922)
as Cass Blake
Ship of Wanted Men (1933)
as Chuck Young
Broadway Babies (1929)
as Perc Gessant
The Ice Flood (1926)
Actor
Stormy (1935)
as Deem Dorn
Winds of Chance (1925)
as Joe McCaskey
The Constant Woman (1933)
as Speakeasy Bouncer
Tide of Empire (1929)
as Cannon
The Lash (1930)
as Peter Harkness
The Blood Ship (1927)
as First Mate Fitz
The Leatherneck (1929)
as Heckla
Billy The Kid Returns (1938)
as Matson
Shootin' Irons (1927)
as Dick Hardman
Carnival Boat (1932)
as Hack Logan
Polly of the Storm Country (1920)
Actor
Hell's Hole (1923)
as Prisoner
Roadhouse Nights (1930)
as Sam Horner
Sal of Singapore (1928)
as Captain Sunday
The Kentucky Colonel (1920)
as Jim Britsides
The Prairie Pirate (1925)
as Aguilar - the Bandit
Thru the Flames (1923)
as 'Red' Burke
Heart of the West (1936)
as Barton
Lawless Valley (1938)
as Tom Marsh
Open Range (1927)
as Sam Hardman
The Fourth Horseman (1932)
as Honest Ben Jones
Border Brigands (1935)
as Captain Conyda
Chinatown Charlie (1928)
as Monk
Wilderness Mail (1935)
as Lobo McBain / Landau
The City Gone Wild (1927)
as Gunner Gallagher
Soldiers of Fortune (1919)
as McWilliams
The Clean Up (1923)
as Jack Wolff
The Quitter (1929)
as Duffy Thompson
Fighting Fury (1924)
as 'Two-finger' Larkin
The Texas Bad Man (1932)
as Gore Hampton
Partners of the Tide (1921)
as First Mate
Hard Rock Harrigan (1935)
as Black Jack Riley
The Drag Net (1928)
as 'Gabby' Steve
For the Service (1936)
as Bruce Howard
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 (1930)
as Fred Kohler
The Stampede (1921)
as Steve Norton