Frazer Coulter

Frazer Coulter was born on August 20, 1848 in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada.^[3] He started performing full time as an actor in 1876, having appeared previously in a few amateur and professional productions.^[4] He began his career performing as Harry Coulter, and changed his stage name to Frazer Coulter in 1879.^[5] From 1881-1885 he was a member of the Boston Theatre Stock Company.^[6] He had a prolific career on Broadway; staring in production from the 1870s until his retirement more than 50 years later.^[1]

Coulter was active as a silent film actor during the 1910s and 1920s. His first film was The Prisoner of Zenda (1913) in which he played the role of as Colonel Sapt.^[7] This was followed by appearances in Body and Soul (1915, as Dr. McDonald),^[8] The Face at Your Window (1920, as Nicholas Harding),^[9] His Brother's Keeper (1921, as William Harding),^[10] Love's Redemption (1921, as Club Steward),^[11] The Heart Raider (1923, as Reginald Gray),^[12] The Governor's Lady (1923, as George Strickland),^[13] and A Society Scandal (1924, as Schuyler Burr);^[14] the latter of which starred Gloria Swanson.^[2] His final film appearance was as the lawyer in the Ben Lyon and Lois Moran picture Prince of Tempters (1926).^[15]

After retiring from the stage in 1931 he lived at the Percy Williams Home for Actors in East Islip, New York.^[1] He died in East Islip on January 26, 1937 at the age of 88.^[3]

• William Ranney Wilson's The Inspector (1890, title role, Park Theatre)^[16][17][18]
• Sutton Vane's Humanity (1895, as Major Fordyce Dangerfield at Haverly's 14th Street Theatre)
• Augustus Thomas's The Capitol (1895, as Mr. Carroll at the Standard Theatre)
• Sydney Rosenfeld's A House of Cards (1896, as Peter Burlap at the Fifth Avenue Theatre)
• Joseph I. C. Clarke's Her Majesty, the Girl Queen of Nordenmark (1900, as Baron Hausman at the Manhattan Theatre)
• Richard Harding Davis's Ranson's Folly (1904, as Captain Chase at the Hudson Theatre)^[19]
• Henri Dumay's Mademoiselle Marni (1905, as General Stanislaus Newville at Wallack's Theatre)^[20]
• Charles Klein's The Lion and the Mouse (1905, Ex-Judge Stott at the Lyceum Theatre)^[21]
• Louis Evan Shipman's The Grain of Dust (1912, as Isaac Burroughs at the Criterion Theatre)^[22]
• Silvio Hein and Philip Bartholomae's When Dreams Come True (1913, as Jerome K. Hedges at the Lyric Theatre)^[23]
• Thompson Buchanan's Life (1914-1915, as William Van Rensselaer Stuyvasant at the Manhattan Opera House)^[24]
• George V. Hobart's Experience (1918, Wealth at the Manhattan Opera House)^[25]
• James W. Elliott's The Man in the Making (1921, Theodore Barco, Hudson Theatre)
• Samuel Shipman's Lawful Larceny (1922, Mr. Davis at the Theatre Republic)^[26]
• Rudolf Besier and May Edginton's Secrets (1922-1923, Dr. Arbuthnot at the Fulton Theatre)^[27]
• Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1924, Sir Charles Marlow at the Empire Theatre)^[28]
• Walter Archer Frost's Cape Smoke (1925, Doctor Hammerstone at the Martin Beck Theatre)^[29]
• Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 (1926, Earl of Northumberland at the Knickerbocker Theatre)^[30]
• William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1927, Popilius Lena at the New Amsterdam Theatre)^[31]
• Margaret Ayer Barnes's The Age of Innocence (1928-1929, Mr. Henry van der Luyden at Empire Theatre)^[32]
• Langdon Elwyn Mitchell's Becky Sharp (1929, as Lord Southdown at the Knickerbocker Theatre)^[33][34]
• Austin Strong and Lloyd Osbourne's The Little Father of the Wilderness (1930, as Lieutenant General Dulong at Empire Theatre)^[35]
• Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson's Oh, Promise Me (1930-1931, as Judge Hawley at Morosco Theatre)^[36][37]