Paul Koslo(1944-2019)
- Actor
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lean-faced, intense-looking, German-born, Canada-raised Paul Koslo was
at his busiest during the 1970s, usually playing shifty, untrustworthy
and often downright nasty characters. He first broke into films at age
22 in the low-budget Little White Crimes (1966), and then appeared in a rush of movies
taking advantage of his youthful looks, including cult favorites
Vanishing Point (1971) and The Omega Man (1971), and the western Joe Kidd (1972), martial arts
blaxploitation flick Cleopatra Jones (1973) and crime thriller The Stone Killer (1973). After working
alongside such stars as John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Walter Matthau and Charles Bronson, Koslo's
career drifted towards television, and in the 1980s he regularly
guest-starred on such TV series as The Incredible Hulk (1977), The A-Team (1983), Matlock (1986), MacGyver (1985)
and The Fall Guy (1981). Unfortunately, most of his film work in the 1990s and
beyond was "straight-to-video" fare, such as Chained Heat 2 (1993) and Inferno (1999). Koslo
is well remembered by many as smart-mouthed small-time hood Bobby
Kopas, trying to shake down melon grower Charles Bronson in
Mr. Majestyk (1974).