Fred Kohler

Highest Rated: 100% The Plainsman (1936)

Lowest Rated: 50% Goin' to Town (1935)

Birthday: Apr 20, 1888

Birthplace: Not Available

Nominated by film historian William K. Everson as "the best western badman of all," American actor Fred Kohler Sr. began appearing onscreen in 1911. A homely man with a burly physique and huge, bearlike hands, Kohler seemed born to play characters who'd sell liquor to Indians, kidnap the sheriff's daughter, burn out homesteaders and shoot stagecoach guards in the back. In virtually all his films, Kohler wore the same costume: a stained frock coat, ostentatiously flowered vest and sloppily knotted string tie. As the principal heavy in 1924's The Iron Horse, Kohler had a rugged fistfight with leading man George O'Brien; these two actors continued to clash on-screen into the B-westerns of the '30s, including Kohler's final picture Lawless Valley (1938). This last-mentioned film is worth noting because it teamed Kohler with his equally unsavory-looking actor son, Fred Kohler Jr. (Senior's wife was one-time musical comedy actress Maxine Marshall, whom he'd met in vaudeville.) Apparently, if the part was good enough and the character bad enough, Fred Kohler Sr. would appear in any sort of film, from such top-drawer epics as Cecil B. DeMille's The Buccaneer (1938), to such meager-budgeted fare as the Three Stooges short Horses Collars (1935).

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Roadhouse Nights	Actor	—	2012
67%	Ruby	Jake Miller	—	1977
No Score Yet	Blockade	Pietro	—	1938
No Score Yet	Forbidden Valley	Regan	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Buccaneer	Gramby	—	1938
No Score Yet	Billy the Kid Returns	Matson	—	1938
94%	Daughter of Shanghai	Capt. Gulner	—	1937
No Score Yet	Arizona Mahoney	Blair	—	1936
100%	The Plainsman	Jake	—	1936
79%	The Texas Rangers	Higgins	—	1936
No Score Yet	Heart of the West	Barton	—	1936
No Score Yet	Frisco Kid	Shanghai Duck	—	1935
No Score Yet	Mississippi	Capt. Blackie	—	1935
No Score Yet	Lightning Triggers	Actor	—	1935
No Score Yet	Times Square Lady	Dutch Meyers	—	1935
No Score Yet	Wilderness Mail	Actor	—	1935
No Score Yet	Border Brigands	Conyda	—	1935
No Score Yet	Hell in a Circus	Speakeasy Bouncer	—	1935
No Score Yet	Hard Rock Harrigan	Black Jack Riley	—	1935
50%	Goin' to Town	Buck Gonzales	—	1935
No Score Yet	Little Man, What Now?	Communist	—	1934
No Score Yet	Honor of the Range	Rawhide	—	1934
No Score Yet	Deluge	Jephson	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Fiddlin' Buckaroo	Wolf	—	1933
No Score Yet	Carnival Boat	Hack Logan	—	1932
No Score Yet	Texas Bad Man	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	When the West Was Young	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	Wild Horse Mesa	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	X Marks the Spot	Riggs	—	1931
No Score Yet	Fighting Caravans	Lee Murdock	—	1931
No Score Yet	Other Men's Women	Haley	—	1931
No Score Yet	Corsair	Big John	—	1931
No Score Yet	A Soldier's Plaything	Hank	—	1930
No Score Yet	The Light of Western Stars	Stack	—	1930
No Score Yet	Hell's Heroes	`Wild Bill' Kearney	—	1930
No Score Yet	Say It with Songs	Joe's Cellmate	—	1929
No Score Yet	The Leatherneck	Heckla	—	1929
60%	The Case of Lena Smith	Stefan	—	1929
70%	Thunderbolt	`Bad Al' Friedberg	—	1929
No Score Yet	Tide of Empire	Cannon	—	1929
No Score Yet	The Rough Riders	Sgt. Stanton	—	1927
88%	The Way of All Flesh	The Tough	—	1927
No Score Yet	Loves of Carmen	Gypsy Chief	—	1927
89%	Underworld	"Buck" Mulligan	—	1927
100%	Old Ironsides	2nd Mate	—	1926
No Score Yet	Dick Turpin	Taylor	—	1925
No Score Yet	Riders of the Purple Sage	Metzger	—	1925
82%	The Iron Horse	Bauman	—	1924
No Score Yet	Abraham Lincoln	Slave Auctioneer	—	1924
No Score Yet	Anna Christie	Bit	—	1923

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Fred Kohler

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