Fred Kohler (April 20, 1888 – October 28, 1938) was an American actor.
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.
Frederick Koch (January 6, 1903 - August 24, 1969), known professionally as Fred Kohler, was an American wrestling promoter who produced the popular DuMont Television Network program Wrestling From Marigold (1949-1955). Kohler promoted matches in Chicago, Illinois for over thirty years and was responsible for such talents as Verne Gagne and promoter Jim Barnett. He was also president of the National Wrestling Alliance from 1961 to 1962.
Kohler was born in Chicago on January 6, 1903 along with his twin sister Mildred to German immigrants Fritz and Katie Koch. Fritz owned Koch's Hall, a social club on Chicago's North Side. Young Fred was exposed to wrestling at Koch's Hall and is said to have promoted his earliest matches there. After graduating from Lane Tech high school, where he was captain of the school football team, he worked for a time at the local YMCA and as a die machinist. He kept the machinist job until well after he was established as a promoter.
Fred Kohler (22 April 1920 - 11 August 2014) was a German-born American inventor, author and lecturer who appears to be the first person to write about the human species becoming a "Societal Organism" (his original terminology) or Super Organism (in the popular modern usage) as a further development in the human evolution of life.
Kohler was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1920 into a secular, middle-class family of mostly German-Jewish ancestry. His mother died when he was eight years old and his father died when he was eleven. Kohler, an only child, was granted a life-saving visa as an orphan to enter the USA in 1935.
After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1937 he was admitted to Cooper Union, a highly competitive, "tuition-free" college where he was, in 1942, granted a degree in Chemical Engineering.
Kohler obtained American citizenship in 1943. Unable to join the Armed Forces in World War II because of eyesight problems, he engaged in war work as an engineer.
Fred Kohler, Jr. was an American actor who performed in a number of Westerns such as The Pecos Kid and Toll of the Desert.
Kohler's father was actor Fred Kohler.
Kohler and his father appeared twice in the same film. In RKO's Lawless Valley, they played outlaws who were father and son and in one scene, Fred Kohler, Jr. says to his father's character "Aw, that's crazy!," and Fred Sr. responds "Careful, son, you're talkin' to your dad, ya know!"