Paul Koslo

Paul Koslo
Koslo in 1974
Born	Manfred Koslowski (1944-06-27)June 27, 1944 Germany
Died	January 9, 2019(2019-01-09) (aged 74) Lake Hughes, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Film, television actor
Years active	1966–2004
Spouse	Allaire Paterson-Koslo (1997-2019) 1 child

Paul Koslo (born Manfred Koslowski; June 27, 1944 – January 9, 2019)^[1] was a German-born Canadian actor.

Career

Koslo started his career in such 1970s films as Nam's Angels a.k.a. The Losers, Vanishing Point and The Stone Killer. He also appeared opposite Charlton Heston in the science fiction film The Omega Man, in a sympathetic co-starring role. He portrayed villains in Joe Kidd (1972), Mr. Majestyk (1974), and The Drowning Pool (1975).

He and fellow Omega Man co-star Anthony Zerbe also appeared in Rooster Cogburn (1975). After a solid supporting part as a Jewish concentration camp survivor in the critically acclaimed Voyage of the Damned (1976), as well as the mayor in Heaven's Gate (1980), he began a long run of portraying villainous types in productions such as Roots: The Next Generations and The Glitter Dome. In rare, in-depth interviews with both Psychotronic Video and Shock Cinema (issue No. 14) magazines, Koslo spoke about his experiences working in several films with Charles Bronson and in The Omega Man with Heston.

Starting in the late 1970s, Koslo appeared (usually as a villain) in a string of television shows such as The Rockford Files, Mission: Impossible, Barnaby Jones, The Incredible Hulk, Quincy, M.E., Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, T. J. Hooker, The A-Team, The Fall Guy, Dallas and Hunter. In the Highway to Heaven episode "The Torch" he played a leader of the American Nazi Party. Koslo found it tough to deliver his character's often bigotry-riddled dialogue, and during the filming of a scene set at a Nazi rally the cast and crew were heckled by passers-by, since the scene was filmed on location in downtown Los Angeles with swastikas decorating the outside of a building.^[2] He also appeared as Jesse James in The Dukes of Hazzard seventh-season episode "Go West, Young Dukes".

In the 1980s, along with television appearances, he appeared in several independent action films (most of them straight-to-video). He was also in Loose Cannons (1990) and appeared as the Russian battle-robot pilot Alexander in the science fiction film Robot Jox (1990).

Personal life

Koslo met his wife, Allaire Paterson, at the MET Theatre in Hollywood, when he produced a one-woman show, Purple Breasts, a critically acclaimed play she co-wrote and starred in. They married in 1997 and had one child together.^{[citation needed]}

Paul Koslo lived in Vasquez Rocks, CA and was also the owner of the Red Rock Inn.

Koslo died on January 9, 2019, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 74.^[3]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	Julius Caesar	Cinna il cospiratore	TV movie
1969	House of Zodiac
1970	Nam's Angels (aka The Losers[4])	Limpy
1971	Vanishing Point	Deputy Charlie Scott
	Scandalous John	Pipes
	The Omega Man	Dutch
	The Birdmen	Davies	TV movie
	Welcome Home, Soldier Boys	Shooter
1972	Joe Kidd	Roy
	The Daughters of Joshua Cabe	Deke Wetherall	TV movie
1973	Lolly-Madonna XXX	Villum Gutshall
	Cleopatra Jones	Gang Member
	The Stone Killer	Langley
	The Laughing Policeman	Haygood
1974	Mr. Majestyk	Bobby Kopas
	Bootleggers	Othar Pruitt
	Freebie and the Bean	Whitey
1975	The Drowning Pool	Candy
	Rooster Cogburn	Luke
1976	Voyage of the Damned	Aaron Pozner
	Scott Free	Al	TV movie
1977	The Ransom	Victor	Also known as Assault on Paradise
1978	Tomorrow Never Comes	Willy
1979	Love and Bullets	Huntz
1980	Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case	Ralph Larson	TV movie
	Heaven's Gate	Mayor Charlie Lezak
1981	Inmates: A Love Story	Virgil	TV movie
1983	Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues	Holt	TV movie
	Hambone and Hillie	Jere
1984	The Glitter Dome	Griswold Veals	TV movie
1985	The Annihilators	Roy Boy Jagger
1987	Caribe	Mercenary
1988	A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon	Al Reardon
1989	Robot Jox	Alexander
1990	Loose Cannons	Grimmer
	Xtro II: The Second Encounter	Dr. Alex Summerfield
	Solar Crisis	Haas
1991	Conagher	Kiowa Staples	TV movie
1993	Chained Heat II	Franklin Goff
1996	Downdraft	Gen. Devlin	TV movie
	Judge and Jury	Lockhart
1999	Inferno	Ives
2004	Y.M.I.	Intruder
	Breaking the Fifth	Himself	(final film role)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	Festival	Raskolnikov	2 episodes
1971	Bearcats!	Billy Ray Joiner	Episode: "The Devil Wears Armor"
	Longstreet	Bobby Karp	Season 1, episode 7: "The Shape of Nightmares"
1972	Mission Impossible	Ollie Shanks	Season 6, episode 20: "Double Dead"
	Ironside	Donald Flood	Season 5, episode 23: "His Fiddlers Three"
1974	The Manhunter	Tommy Wednesday	Season 1, episode 3: "The Baby-Faced Killers"
	Gunsmoke	Cory	Season 20, episode 10: "In Performance of Duty"
1974–1975	Cannon	Drake / Ace	2 episodes
1975	Petrocelli	Morgan	Season 2, episode 2: "Mark of Cain"
	Police Woman	Johnny 'Sticker' Hughes	Season 2, episode 2: "The Score"
	Switch	Roy Moss	Season 1, episode 6: "The Man Who Couldn't Lose"
1976	Police Story	Sleepy	Season 4, episode 3: "Two Frogs on a Mongoose"
	Captains and the Kings	Rufus	Season 1, episode 8: "Chapter VIII"
1976–1979	The Rockford Files	'Whispering Willie' Green / Pittson	2 episodes
1976–1979	Hawaii Five-O	Rolly / Charlie Turner	2 episodes
1977	Barnaby Jones	Tony Slayton	Season 5, episode 19: "Anatomy of Fear"
	Most Wanted	Jimmy	Season 1, episode 21: "The Dutchman"
1978	David Cassidy: Man Undercover	Max	Season 1, episode 4: "Deadly Convoy"
	Dallas	Al Parker	Season 2, episode 13: "Kidnapped"
1979	How the West Was Won	Jobe	Season 3, episode 3: "The Enemy"
	Roots: The Next Generations	Earl Crowther	4 episodes
	CHiPs	Verne	Season 2, episode 22: "Ride the Whirlwind"
	The Sacketts	Kid Newton	2 episodes
1980	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Commander Reeve	Episode: "A Dream of Jennifer"
	Galactica 1980	Billy Eheres	Season 1, episode 6: "Spaceball"
	Paris	Phil Storch	Season 1, episode 13: "America the Beautiful"
1980–1981	The Incredible Hulk	Doug Hewitt / Carl Rivers	2 episodes
1981	Hart to Hart	Val Rankin	Season 2, episode 12: "Murder in the Saddle"
	Quincy, M.E.	John Doe Killer	Season 6, episode 18: "Vigil of Fear"
	Nero Wolfe	Daniel Masters	Season 1, episode 14: "Sweet Revenge"
	The Greatest American Hero	Bad B	Season 2, episode 4: "Hog Wild"
	Today's FBI	Cooper	Season 1, episode 5: "The Fugitive"
1982	Strike Force	Randy	Season 1, episode 8: "The Outcast"
	Cassie & Co.	Carl Pilgrim	Season 1, episode 4: "Dark Side of the Moon"
	Bret Maverick	Fletcher Mayberry	Season 1, episode 11: "A Night at the Red Ox"
	Trapper John, M.D.	Kenny	Season 4, episode 7: "The Ransom"
	Gavilan	Cutter	Season 1, episode 2: "Pirates"
1983–1985	The A-Team	Tanen / Deputy Sneed	2 episodes
1984	Matt Houston	Andrew	Season 2, episode 15: "Houston Is Dead"
	Legmen	Len Weiner	Season 1, episode 5: "Poseidon Indenture"
	Blue Thunder	Johnny Irons	Season 1, episode 9: "The Long Flight"
	You Are the Jury	Ed Harrison	Season 1, episode 1: "The Case of the People of Florida vs. Joseph Landrum"
	The Paper Chase	Joe Bob Carter	Season 2, episode 11: "Burden of Proof"
	Jessie		Season 1, episode 2: "The Lady Killer"
	Knight Rider	Lyle Austin	Season 3, episode 3: "The Ice Bandits"
	The Dukes of Hazzard	Jesse James	Episode: "Go West, Young Dukes"
	T. J. Hooker	Pyro	Season 4, episode 9: "The Confession"
1985	The Hitchhiker	Rico	Season 2, episode 5: "Petty Thieves"
	Crazy Like a Fox		Season 1, episode 5: "Motor Homicide"
	Wildside	Sven Johnson	Season 1, episode 3: "The Crimea of the Century"
	Misfits of Science	Skinner	Season 1, episode 9: "Twin Engines"
1986	Highway to Heaven	Jan Baldt	Season 2, episode 21: "The Torch"
	MacGyver	Dr. Suvarin	Season 1, episode 21: "A Prisoner of Conscience"
1988	Falcon Crest	George Westcott	2 episodes
	Ohara	Ray Willard	Season 2, episode 17: "Open Season"
	The Highwayman		Episode: "Haunted Highway"
1989	Hunter	Bass	2 episodes
1990	The Outsiders	Officer Dickey	Episode: "Pilot"
	Life Goes On	Farmer Jack	2 episodes
	The Flash	Johnny Ray Hix	Episode: "Sins of the Father"
1998	Walker, Texas Ranger	Matthew Leach	Season 6, episode 8: "Second Chance"
2000	Stargate SG-1	Terok	Season 4, episode 14: "The Serpent's Venom"

References

1. "Paul Koslo, Actor in 'The Omega Man' and 'The Stone Killer,' Dies at 74".
2. McCray, Kent; Landon, Cindy (2005). Highway to Heaven Season 2: Audio Commentary - "The Torch" (DVD). A&E Television Networks. Event occurs at 19:35-20:47.
3. Petski, Denise (January 14, 2019). "Paul Koslo Dies: Veteran Character Actor Was 74".
4. Devine, Jeremy M. & Schatz, William. Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second, McFarland, 1995, p. 60.

Further reading

• Humphreys, Justin (2006). "Paul Koslo". Names You Never Remember, With Faces You Never Forget : Interviews with the Movies' Character Actors (softcover) (First ed.). Albany, GA: BearManor Media. pp. 192–217. ISBN 978-1-62933-094-5.

External links

• Paul Koslo at IMDb