Fred Kohler

Born: 1888-04-18

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.


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Queen Christina

as Member of the Court at Abdication (uncredited)
Released: 1933-12-26

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she...

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Underworld

as 'Buck' Mulligan
Released: 1927-08-20

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze,...

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The Iron Horse

as Bauman
Released: 1924-08-24

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy,...

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Mississippi

as Captain Blackie (as Captain Blackie Jr.)
Released: 1935-03-22

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished...

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Fighting Caravans

as Lee Murdock
Released: 1931-02-01

Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail,...

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Thunderbolt

as 'Bad Al' Friedberg
Released: 1929-06-20

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed...

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The Buccaneer

as Gramby (as Fred Hohler Sr.)
Released: 1938-02-04

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

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Frisco Kid

as Shanghai Duck
Released: 1935-11-30

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him...

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Tide of Empire

as Cannon
Released: 1929-03-23

California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for...

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The Plainsman

as Jake - A Teamster
Released: 1936-11-16

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

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Other Men's Women

as Haley
Released: 1931-01-17

The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the...

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The Quitter

as Duffy Thompson
Released: 1929-04-01

Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and...

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Dick Turpin

as Ring Announcer (uncredited)
Released: 1925-02-01

In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to...

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Forbidden Valley

as Matt Rogan
Released: 1938-02-13

In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder....

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Call Her Savage

as Silas Jennings
Released: 1932-11-24

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him....

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Deluge

as Jepson
Released: 1933-08-17

A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a...

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Daughter of Shanghai

as Captain Gulner
Released: 1937-12-17

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

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Without Compromise

as Cass Blake
Released: 1922-10-29

When the ability of Dick Leighton (William Farnum), Sheriff of Randolph, Oregon, to enforce law...

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Hell's Heroes

as 'Wild Bill' Kearney
Released: 1929-12-27

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered...

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Old Ironsides

as Second Mate (uncredited)
Released: 1926-12-06

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old...

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Billy The Kid Returns

as Matson
Released: 1938-09-04

After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for...

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Carnival Boat

as Hack Logan
Released: 1932-03-19

Buck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants...

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The Texas Rangers

as Jess Higgins
Released: 1936-08-28

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned...

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Corsair

as Big John
Released: 1931-11-28

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

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Little Man, What Now?

as Karl Goebbler
Released: 1934-06-04

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the...

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Shootin' Irons

as Dick Hardman
Released: 1927-10-08

Story of a rancher clearing his girlfriend's father of a crime he didn't commit

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The Way of All Flesh

as The Tough
Released: 1927-10-01

The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August...

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Behind the Door

as uncredited
Released: 1919-12-14

Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the...

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Gangs of New York

as Kruger
Released: 1938-05-23

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

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The Wolf Dog

as Joe Stevens
Released: 1933-09-29

The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and ...

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Goin' to Town

as Buck Gonzales
Released: 1935-04-25

Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her...

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Chinatown Charlie

as Monk
Released: 1928-04-15

A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in...

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Horses' Collars

as Double Deal Decker
Released: 1935-01-10

The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a...

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Fighting Fury

as 'Two-finger' Larkin
Released: 1924-08-24

A Spanish-American boy raised by his Mexican servant, Clay Hill, Jr. vows vengeance on the three...

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Painted Desert

as Hugh Fawcett
Released: 1938-08-12

A cowboy and a bandit face off over possession of a valuable mine.

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Say It with Songs

as Fred, Joe's Cellmate
Released: 1929-08-05

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur...

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The Accusing Finger

as Curly-haired Convict
Released: 1936-11-17

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself...

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The Right of Way

as Joseph Portugais
Released: 1930-12-11

Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the...

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The Leatherneck

as Heckla
Released: 1929-02-24

A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and...

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Open Range

as Sam Hardman
Released: 1927-11-05

Hired ranch hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of...

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The Spieler

as Red Moon
Released: 1928-12-20

After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.

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The Dummy

as Joe Cooper
Released: 1929-03-09

The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump...

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The Rider of Death Valley

as Lew Grant
Released: 1932-04-23

Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The...

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Roadhouse Nights

as Sam Horner
Released: 1930-02-15

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic...

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The Vanishing Pioneer

as Sheriff Murdock
Released: 1928-06-23

A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply...

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Stormy

as Deem Dorn
Released: 1935-10-21

A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.

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Broadway Babies

as Perc Gessant
Released: 1929-06-30

Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are...

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Riders of the Purple Sage

as Henchman Tom Metzger (uncredited)
Released: 1925-03-15

A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.

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The Showdown

as Winter
Released: 1928-02-25

Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.

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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1994-08-09

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of...

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Blockade

as Pietro
Released: 1938-06-17

A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War....

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Heart of the West

as Barton
Released: 1936-02-24

Problems come in the form of one of Hopalong Cassidy's neighbors, but the matter is settled when...

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The Constant Woman

as Speakeasy Bouncer
Released: 1933-03-12

A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds...

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Honor of the Range

as Rawhide
Released: 1934-04-15

After Sheriff Ken puts money in the safe, his brother Clem gives Rawhide the combination. With...

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Hell's Hole

as Prisoner
Released: 1923-09-23

Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a...

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The Thundering Herd

as Follansbee
Released: 1925-03-01

Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.

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Stairs of Sand

as Boss Stone
Released: 1929-06-08

An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in...

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River of Romance

as Captain Blackie
Released: 1929-06-28

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having...

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The Vigilantes Are Coming

as General Jason Burr
Released: 1936-08-21

A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian...

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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

as Auctioneer at New Orleans slave market
Released: 1924-02-02

A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the...

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North of Hudson Bay

as Armand LeMoir
Released: 1923-11-18

On a steamboat heading North, where his brother has struck gold, Mike Dane falls in love with...

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Half a Sinner

as Brick
Released: 1934-06-01

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.

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Woman Hungry

as Kampen
Released: 1931-04-04

This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The...

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Sal of Singapore

as Captain Sunday
Released: 1928-11-04

SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of...

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Conflict

as Jevons' foreman (uncredited)
Released: 1921-10-23

A society girl goes to live in the woods with her evil uncle and his wicked housekeeper.

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The Loves of Carmen

as Gypsy Chief
Released: 1927-09-03

Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter,...

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Times Square Lady

as "Dutch" Meyers
Released: 1935-03-08

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's...

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The Light of Western Stars

as H.W. Stack
Released: 1930-04-19

A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who...

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Cyclone Bliss

as uncredited
Released: 1921-01-20

Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen...

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Men of Action

as Thorenson
Released: 1935-07-13

A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.

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The Rough Riders

as Sergeant Stanton
Released: 1927-09-30

The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its...

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The Prairie Pirate

as Aguilar - the Bandit
Released: 1925-10-10

A young woman finds herself trapped by a bandit gang. Rather than be raped by the gang, she...

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Wild Horse Mesa

as Rand
Released: 1932-11-25

Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of...

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Lawless Valley

as Tom Marsh
Released: 1938-11-03

After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.

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For the Service

as Bruce Howard
Released: 1936-06-01

Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service....

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The Drag Net

as 'Gabby' Steve
Released: 1928-05-01

A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount...

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The Tiger's Trail

as 'Bull' Shotwell
Released: 1919-04-20

A cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out...

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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

as Self
Released: 1930-08-01

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a...

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The Country Beyond

as Joe Leseur
Released: 1926-10-17

In the Canadian mountains an orphan girl, Valencia, is left in the care of the abusive Hawkins...

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Border Brigands

as Captain Conyda
Released: 1935-05-31

Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.

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The Stampede

as Steve Norton
Released: 1921-10-01

Easterner Robert Wagner has been lured West by the Government's announcement of new land grants....

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The Last Round-up

as Sam Gulden
Released: 1934-05-01

Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on...

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X Marks the Spot

as Edward P. Riggs
Released: 1931-12-13

The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to...

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Winds of Chance

as Joe McCaskey
Released: 1925-08-15

A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.

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Perils of the Yukon

as Capt. Whipple
Released: 1922-07-24

A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by...

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Under the Tonto Rim

as Munther
Released: 1933-04-07

Western comedy.

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The Case of Lena Smith

as uncredited
Released: 1929-01-29

A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is...

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The Eleventh Hour

as Barbara's Uncle
Released: 1923-07-19

An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.

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The Lash

as Peter Harkness
Released: 1930-12-14

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people...

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The Texas Bad Man

as Gore Hampton
Released: 1932-06-29

The Rangers have planted wanted posters of their man Tom Logan around hoping he can join the...

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West of the Pecos

as Sawtelle
Released: 1934-12-27

Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.

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The Man from Hell

as Mayor Anse McCloud
Released: 1934-08-28

A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough...

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A Soldier's Plaything

as Hank
Released: 1930-10-30

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after...

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Polly of the Storm Country

as uncredited
Released: 1920-04-04

Polly Hopkins belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are...

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Under a Texas Moon

as Bad Man
Released: 1930-04-01

A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of...

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The Fourth Horseman

as Honest Ben Jones
Released: 1932-09-25

Retiring from a life of train robbing, Benjamin R. Jones takes over the ghost town of Stillwell,...

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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5

as Fred Kohler
Released: 1930-12-01

Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.

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The Gay Defender

as Jake Hamby
Released: 1927-12-10

Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin...

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The Blood Ship

as First Mate Fitz
Released: 1927-07-18

A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is...

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Lightning Triggers

as Bull Thompson
Released: 1935-07-01

Reb Russell (Reb Russell), undercover agent for the Cattleman's Protective Association, goes...

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The Red Warning

as Tom Jeffries
Released: 1923-12-17

Phillip Haver, who, along with his friend Toby Jones, finds David Ainslee dying in the desert....

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Soldiers of Fortune

as McWilliams
Released: 1919-11-22

Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron...

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Yellow Men and Gold

as Craven
Released: 1922-05-20

Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers...

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Ship of Wanted Men

as Chuck Young
Released: 1933-09-08

A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition...

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His Back Against the Wall

as Arizona Pete
Released: 1922-05-21

Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart...

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Trimmed

as Young Bill Young
Released: 1922-07-03

Returning from service in the A. E. F., Dale Garland is given a rousing reception by his...

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Shadows of the North

as Ray Brent
Released: 1923-08-27

Based on the novel by Edison Marshall

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A Daughter of the Law

as George Stacey
Released: 1921-11-01

When Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang, his sister tries to...

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Partners of the Tide

as First Mate
Released: 1921-03-20

The Allen spinsters adopt Bradley Nickerson, who grows up with Gussie Baker, the little girl...

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The City Gone Wild

as Gunner Gallagher
Released: 1927-11-12

Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns...

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The Fiddlin' Buckaroo

as Wolf Morgan
Released: 1933-07-20

Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin'...

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The Flame of Life

as Spring
Released: 1923-02-05

Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus...

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