Personal Info
Birth date
1888-04-18 (137 Years)
Day of death
1938-10-28
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Also known as
Fred Kohler Sr.
Frederick L. Kohler
Jack Kohler
John Kohler
Fredrick Louis Kohler
Fred Kohler
Biography
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.
Filmography
Queen Christina
6.8
Overview:
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.The Plainsman
6.3
Overview:
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.The Iron Horse
6.643
Overview:
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.Hell's Heroes
7
Overview:
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).Billy The Kid Returns
4.5
Overview:
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.Times Square Lady
6
Overview:
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.Frisco Kid
6.8
Overview:
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.Blockade
5.636
Overview:
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.Daughter of Shanghai
5.4
Overview:
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.Underworld
7.045
Overview:
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.Mississippi
6.7
Overview:
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.Call Her Savage
5.882
Overview:
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.Fighting Caravans
5
Overview:
Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson (Ernest Torrence) and Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice (Lili Damita) into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California.Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
NYR
Overview:
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and television.The Texas Rangers
6.4
Overview:
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.Thunderbolt
5.821
Overview:
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.Other Men's Women
5.7
Overview:
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.The Lash
5.3
Overview:
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.Little Man, What Now?
6.333
Overview:
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.Corsair
4.4
Overview:
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.Stormy
NYR
Overview:
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.Deluge
5.6
Overview:
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.The Way of All Flesh
6.929
Overview:
The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.The Man from Hell
4.5
Overview:
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
NYR
Overview:
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.Gangs of New York
4.889
Overview:
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.The River of Romance
NYR
Overview:
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.Acting
1994Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her as Self (archive footage)
1938Lawless Valley as Tom Marsh
1938Billy The Kid Returns as Matson
1938Painted Desert as Hugh Fawcett
1938Blockade as Pietro
1938Gangs of New York as Kruger
1938Forbidden Valley as Matt Rogan
1938The Buccaneer as Gramby (as Fred Hohler Sr.)
1937Daughter of Shanghai as Captain Gulner
1936The Accusing Finger as Curly-haired Convict
1936The Plainsman as Jake - A Teamster
1936The Texas Rangers as Jess Higgins
1936The Vigilantes Are Coming as General Jason Burr
1936For the Service as Bruce Howard
1936Heart of the West as Barton
1935Frisco Kid as Shanghai Duck
1935Stormy as Deem Dorn
1935Men of Action as Thorenson
1935Hard Rock Harrigan as Black Jack Riley
1935Lightning Triggers as Bull Thompson
1935Border Brigands as Captain Conyda
1935Goin' to Town as Buck Gonzales
1935Mississippi as Captain Blackie
1935Times Square Lady as "Dutch" Meyers
1935Horses' Collars as Double Deal Decker
1934West of the Pecos as Sawtelle
1934The Man from Hell as Mayor Anse McCloud
1934Little Man, What Now? as Karl Goebbler
1934Half a Sinner as Brick
1934The Last Round-up as Sam Gulden
1934Honor of the Range as Rawhide
1933Queen Christina as Member of the Court at Abdication (uncredited)
1933The Wolf Dog as Joe Stevens
1933Ship of Wanted Men as Chuck Young
1933Deluge as Jepson
1933The Fiddlin' Buckaroo as Wolf Morgan
1933Under the Tonto Rim as Munther
1933The Constant Woman as Speakeasy Bouncer
1932Wild Horse Mesa as Rand
1932Call Her Savage as Silas Jennings
1932The Fourth Horseman as Honest Ben Jones
1932The Texas Bad Man as Gore Hampton
1932The Rider of Death Valley as Lew Grant
1932Carnival Boat as Hack Logan
1931X Marks the Spot as Edward P. Riggs
1931Corsair as Big John
1931Woman Hungry as Kampen
1931Fighting Caravans as Lee Murdock
1931Other Men's Women as Haley
1930The Lash as Peter Harkness
1930The Right of Way as Joseph Portugais
1930Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 as Fred Kohler
1930A Soldier's Plaything as Hank
1930An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee as Self
1930The Light of Western Stars as H.W. Stack
1930Under a Texas Moon as Bad Man
1930Roadhouse Nights as Sam Horner
1929Hell's Heroes as 'Wild Bill' Kearney
1929Say It with Songs as Fred, Joe's Cellmate
1929Broadway Babies as Perc Gessant
1929The River of Romance as Captain Blackie
1929Thunderbolt as 'Bad Al' Friedberg
1929Stairs of Sand as Boss Stone
1929The Quitter as Duffy Thompson
1929Tide of Empire as Cannon
1929The Dummy as Joe Cooper
1929The Leatherneck as Heckla
1929The Case of Lena Smith as Unknown
1928The Spieler as Red Moon
1928Sal of Singapore as Captain Sunday
1928The Vanishing Pioneer as Sheriff Murdock
1928The Drag Net as 'Gabby' Steve
1928Chinatown Charlie as Monk
1928The Showdown as Winter
1927The Gay Defender as Jake Hamby
1927The City Gone Wild as Gunner Gallagher
1927Open Range as Sam Hardman
1927Shootin' Irons as Dick Hardman
1927The Way of All Flesh as The Tough
1927The Rough Riders as Sergeant Stanton
1927The Loves of Carmen as Gypsy Chief
1927Underworld as Buck Mulligan
1927The Blood Ship as First Mate Fitz
1926Old Ironsides as Second Mate (uncredited)
1926The Country Beyond as Joe Leseur
1926The Ice Flood as Unknown
1925The Prairie Pirate as Aguilar - the Bandit
1925The Iron Horse as Bauman
1925Winds of Chance as Joe McCaskey
1925Riders of the Purple Sage as Henchman Tom Metzger (uncredited)
1925The Thundering Herd as Follansbee
1925Dick Turpin as Ring Announcer (uncredited)
1924Fighting Fury as 'Two-finger' Larkin
1924The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln as Auctioneer at New Orleans slave market
1923The Red Warning as Tom Jeffries
1923North of Hudson Bay as Armand LeMoir
1923Hell's Hole as Prisoner
1923Shadows of the North as Ray Brent
1923The Eleventh Hour as Barbara's Uncle
1923The Flame of Life as Spring
1923Three Who Paid as Jim Quade
1922Without Compromise as Cass Blake
1922Perils of the Yukon as Capt. Whipple
1922Trimmed as Young Bill Young
1922His Back Against the Wall as Arizona Pete
1922Yellow Men and Gold as Craven
1921A Daughter of the Law as George Stacey
1921Conflict as Jevons' foreman (uncredited)
1921The Stampede as Steve Norton
1921Partners of the Tide as First Mate
1921Cyclone Bliss as Jack Hall
1920Polly of the Storm Country as Unknown
1919Behind the Door as Unknown
1919Soldiers of Fortune as McWilliams
1919The Tiger's Trail as 'Bull' Shotwell