Don Kohler

Acting
1910-07-17
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles

#1Four Star Playhouse

Drama Series - 1952, 16 episodes as Steward

6.8 / 10
DramaComedy

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.

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#2The War of the Worlds

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Colonel (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
Sci-FiAction

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.

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#3The Harder They Fall

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Reporter (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
Drama

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.

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#4Affair in Trinidad

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Jimmy Peters, Reporter (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
RomanceThrillerMystery

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

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#5O. Henry's Full House

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Secretary (segment "The Last Leaf") (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
ComedyDrama

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

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#6The Street with No Name

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as FBI Agent Richard Atkins (Uncredited)

6.4 / 10
CrimeThriller

After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.

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#7No Way Out

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Orderly (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
DramaCrimeThriller

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.

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#8Three for the Show

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Joe (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
MusicComedyRomance

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.

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#9You Gotta Stay Happy

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Ted

6.8 / 10
ComedyRomance

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.

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#10The Killer That Stalked New York

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Ted James (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Thriller

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.

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#11The House on Telegraph Hill

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Chemist (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ThrillerDramaMystery

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

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#12A Blueprint for Murder

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Ship's Officer (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
MysteryCrimeThriller

Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.

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#13Assignment: Paris

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Bert (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
ThrillerDrama

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

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#14Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Reporter (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
Comedy

Posing as a man over 70, a lecturer (Clifton Webb) enters an old-folks home to prove age is a state of mind.

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#15Miss Mink of 1949

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Skeet Price

5.7 / 10

Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.

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#16Sticky My Fingers ... Fleet My Feet

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10

Sticky My Fingers ... Fleet My Feet is a 1970 short film directed by John D. Hancock. It follows a group of Madison Avenue touch football buffs who are beaten by a teenaged boy and begin to feel their age. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

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