Fred Kohler

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: Acting

Born: Dubuque, Iowa, USA, 1888-04-18

Died: 1938-10-28

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1919	The Tiger's Trail	'Bull' Shotwell	0
2	1919	Soldiers of Fortune	McWilliams	0
3	1919	Behind the Door		69
4	1920	Polly of the Storm Country		75
5	1921	Cyclone Bliss	Jack Hall	0
6	1921	Partners of the Tide	First Mate	0
7	1921	The Stampede	Steve Norton	50
8	1921	Conflict	Jevons' foreman (uncredited)	0
9	1921	A Daughter of the Law	George Stacey	50
10	1922	Yellow Men and Gold	Craven	0
11	1922	His Back Against the Wall	Arizona Pete	0
12	1922	Trimmed	Young Bill Young	0
13	1922	Perils of the Yukon	Capt. Whipple	0
14	1922	Without Compromise	Cass Blake	0
15	1923	Three Who Paid	Jim Quade	0
16	1923	The Flame of Life	Spring	0
17	1923	The Eleventh Hour	Barbara's Uncle	0
18	1923	Shadows of the North	Ray Brent	0
19	1923	Hell's Hole	Prisoner	0
20	1923	North of Hudson Bay	Armand LeMoir	56
21	1923	The Red Warning	Tom Jeffries	0
22	1924	The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln	Auctioneer at New Orleans slave market	0
23	1924	Fighting Fury	'Two-finger' Larkin	0
24	1925	Dick Turpin	Ring Announcer (uncredited)	53
25	1925	The Thundering Herd	Follansbee	0
26	1925	Riders of the Purple Sage	Henchman Tom Metzger (uncredited)	57
27	1925	Winds of Chance	Joe McCaskey	48
28	1925	The Iron Horse	Bauman	66
29	1925	The Prairie Pirate	Aguilar - the Bandit	0
30	1926	The Ice Flood		0
31	1926	The Country Beyond	Joe Leseur	0
32	1926	Old Ironsides	Second Mate (uncredited)	62
33	1927	The Blood Ship	First Mate Fitz	70
34	1927	Underworld	Buck Mulligan	70
35	1927	The Loves of Carmen	Gypsy Chief	52
36	1927	The Rough Riders	Sergeant Stanton	40
37	1927	The Way of All Flesh	The Tough	69
38	1927	Shootin' Irons	Dick Hardman	0
39	1927	Open Range	Sam Hardman	0
40	1927	The City Gone Wild	Gunner Gallagher	0
41	1927	The Gay Defender	Jake Hamby	0
42	1928	The Showdown	Winter	0
43	1928	Chinatown Charlie	Monk	0
44	1928	The Drag Net	'Gabby' Steve	60
45	1928	The Vanishing Pioneer	Sheriff Murdock	0
46	1928	Sal of Singapore	Captain Sunday	50
47	1928	The Spieler	Red Moon	82
48	1929	The Case of Lena Smith		52
49	1929	The Leatherneck	Heckla	54
50	1929	The Dummy	Joe Cooper	0
51	1929	Tide of Empire	Cannon	59
52	1929	The Quitter	Duffy Thompson	0
53	1929	Stairs of Sand	Boss Stone	0
54	1929	Thunderbolt	'Bad Al' Friedberg	58
55	1929	The River of Romance	Captain Blackie	0
56	1929	Broadway Babies	Perc Gessant	52
57	1929	Say It with Songs	Fred, Joe's Cellmate	53
58	1929	Hell's Heroes	'Wild Bill' Kearney	70
59	1930	Roadhouse Nights	Sam Horner	45
60	1930	Under a Texas Moon	Bad Man	10
61	1930	The Light of Western Stars	H.W. Stack	28
62	1930	An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee	Self	34
63	1930	A Soldier's Plaything	Hank	45
64	1930	Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5	Fred Kohler	0
65	1930	The Right of Way	Joseph Portugais	52
66	1930	The Lash	Peter Harkness	53
67	1931	Other Men's Women	Haley	57
68	1931	Fighting Caravans	Lee Murdock	50
69	1931	Woman Hungry	Kampen	0
70	1931	Corsair	Big John	44
71	1931	X Marks the Spot	Edward P. Riggs	60
72	1932	Carnival Boat	Hack Logan	50
73	1932	The Rider of Death Valley	Lew Grant	70
74	1932	The Texas Bad Man	Gore Hampton	10
75	1932	The Fourth Horseman	Honest Ben Jones	0
76	1932	Call Her Savage	Silas Jennings	58
77	1932	Wild Horse Mesa	Rand	0
78	1933	The Constant Woman	Speakeasy Bouncer	50
79	1933	Under the Tonto Rim	Munther	0
80	1933	The Fiddlin' Buckaroo	Wolf Morgan	0
81	1933	Deluge	Jepson	56
82	1933	Ship of Wanted Men	Chuck Young	20
83	1933	The Wolf Dog	Joe Stevens	78
84	1933	Queen Christina	Member of the Court at Abdication (uncredited)	68
85	1934	Honor of the Range	Rawhide	50
86	1934	The Last Round-up	Sam Gulden	0
87	1934	Half a Sinner	Brick	0
88	1934	Little Man, What Now?	Karl Goebbler	63
89	1934	The Man from Hell	Mayor Anse McCloud	45
90	1934	West of the Pecos	Sawtelle	0
91	1935	Horses' Collars	Double Deal Decker	60
92	1935	Times Square Lady	"Dutch" Meyers	60
93	1935	Mississippi	Captain Blackie	67
94	1935	Goin' to Town	Buck Gonzales	53
95	1935	Border Brigands	Captain Conyda	0
96	1935	Hard Rock Harrigan	Black Jack Riley	30
97	1935	Lightning Triggers	Bull Thompson	0
98	1935	Men of Action	Thorenson	50
99	1935	Stormy	Deem Dorn	0
100	1935	Frisco Kid	Shanghai Duck	68
101	1936	Heart of the West	Barton	45
102	1936	For the Service	Bruce Howard	0
103	1936	The Vigilantes Are Coming	General Jason Burr	55
104	1936	The Texas Rangers	Jess Higgins	64
105	1936	The Plainsman	Jake - A Teamster	63
106	1936	The Accusing Finger	Curly-haired Convict	47
107	1937	Daughter of Shanghai	Captain Gulner	54
108	1938	The Buccaneer	Gramby (as Fred Hohler Sr.)	64
109	1938	Forbidden Valley	Matt Rogan	60
110	1938	Gangs of New York	Kruger	49
111	1938	Blockade	Pietro	54
112	1938	Painted Desert	Hugh Fawcett	58
113	1938	Billy The Kid Returns	Matson	45
114	1938	Lawless Valley	Tom Marsh	50
115	1994	Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her	Self (archive footage)	0

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