Frazer Coulter

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.