Bob Kortman


Robert F. Kortman was an American film actor mostly associated with westerns, though he also appeared in a number of Laurel and Hardy comedies. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1914 and 1952.
1936- appeared in Trail of the lonesome pine.

Biography

The son of a rancher, Kortman was born in Brackettville, Texas, in 1887. He spent six years in the U.S. cavalry.
Director Tom Ince cast Kortman as a villain when he began working in films in 1911, and he went on to become the "favored on-screen opponent" for William S. Hart with regard to their film fights.
After he left acting, Kortman was president of a cooperative water company in Arrowhead Springs, California, where he lived.
Kortman was married to Gonda Durand, a Mack Sennett bathing beauty. He died in Long Beach, California from cancer.

Selected filmography

  • Cactus Nell
  • The Narrow Trail
  • Through the Wrong Door
  • The Great Radium Mystery
  • Godless Men
  • Winners of the West
  • Travelin' On
  • The Lone Hand
  • Another Man's Boots
  • The Shock
  • All the Brothers Were Valiant
  • His Last Race
  • The White Sheep
  • The Temptress
  • The Eagle of the Sea
  • Unseen Enemies
  • The Devil Horse
  • Duck Soup
  • Hills of Peril
  • The Noose
  • Four Sons
  • Fleetwing
  • The Black Watch
  • Devil-May-Care
  • Bear Shooters
  • The Lone Defender
  • Women Everywhere
  • Trader Horn
  • The Vanishing Legion
  • The Lightning Warrior
  • Pardon Us
  • The Last Parade
  • Beau Hunks
  • The Fighting Fool
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • Come On, Tarzan
  • The Forty-Niners
  • The Pride of the Legion
  • The Whispering Shadow
  • Before Midnight
  • The Midnight Patrol
  • The Fugitive
  • Rainbow Ranch
  • Mystery Mountain
  • The Miracle Rider
  • Lawless Range
  • Wild Mustang
  • The Lonely Trail
  • Winds of the Wasteland
  • The Vigilantes Are Coming
  • Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
  • Romance Rides the Range
  • Wild West Days
  • Luck of Roaring Camp
  • Anything for a Thrill
  • Sandflow
  • Texas Trail
  • The Oklahoma Kid as Juryman
  • Adventures of Red Ryder
  • Lady from Louisiana
  • The Lone Rider Rides On
  • Fugitive Valley
  • Thundering Hoofs
  • Days of Old Cheyenne
  • Black Hills Express
  • Lucky Cowboy
  • ''Stagecoach Outlaws''