Frazer Coulter
actor
- Born:
- 1848-08-20, Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada
- Died:
- 1937-01-26, East Islip, Long Island, New York, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Born under the mid-19th-century skies of Smiths Falls, Ontario—20 August 1848—Frazer Coulter grew into a performer whose quiet magnetism lit up early North-American cinema. Audiences first noticed him as the steadfast ally in 1913’s The Prisoner of Zenda; a decade later he slipped into the polished shoes of The Governor’s Lady and the roguish charm of The Heart Raider, both released in 1923. Off-screen he shared his life with actress Grace Thorne, their marriage a durable counterpoint to the flicker of klieg lights. Coulter’s final curtain fell on 26 January 1937 in East Islip, Long Island, sealing a career that spanned the birth of a new art form.
