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Paul Koslo

 
Actor: Paul Koslo
  • Born: in Canada
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Action, Drama
  • Career Highlights: The Omega Man, Mr. Majestyk, Roots: The Next Generations
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Omega Man (1971)

Biography

Canadian actor Paul Koslo has made a comfortable living playing indigents and low-lifes. There was always something slightly seedy about Koslo's characters, as indicated by their names: Dutch in Omega Man (1971), Candy in The Drowning Pool (1975), Roy Boy in The Annihilators (1985) and Grimm in Loose Cannons (1990). He was also seen as a frontier mayor in Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1990), and as slovenly doctors and researchers in a handful of horror films. On TV, Paul Koslo played Earl Crowther in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generation. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Paul Koslo
Born Manfred Koslowski
June 27, 1944 (1944-06-27) (age 65)
Germany
Occupation Film, television actor
Spouse(s) Allaire Paterson-Koslo (1997-present) 1 child

Paul Koslo (born June 27, 1944) is a German-Canadian actor.

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Career

Koslo started his career in such 1970's cult films as Nam's Angels a.k.a. The Losers, (referenced in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction), Mr. Majestyk, Vanishing Point, Joe Kidd and The Stone Killer. He also appeared opposite Charlton Heston in the SF cult-classic, The Omega Man in an unusually sympathetic co-starring role. After a solid supporting part as a Jewish concentration camp survivor in the critically acclaimed Voyage of the Damned, as well as the mayor in Heaven's Gate, he began a long run of portraying villainous types in productions such as Roots, The Ransom[1] and Love and Bullets.

In rare, in-depth interviews with both Psychotronic Video and Shock Cinema (issue #14) magazines, Koslo spoke (mostly unfavorably) 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, Quincy, M.E., Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, T. J. Hooker, The A-Team, The Fall Guy, Dallas and Hunter. More recently, along with television appearances, he has been in several independent action films (most of them straight-to-video). He was also in Loose Cannons (1990) with Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd and appeared as the Russian battle-robot pilot Alexander in the cult sci-fi film Robot Jox (1990).

Personal life

Koslo met his wife, Allaire Paterson-Koslo, 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 have one child together.

References

Further reading

  • Names You Never Remember, With Faces You Never Forget, by Justin Humphreys. BearManor Media, Albany, 2006. ISBN # 1-59393-041-0.

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