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DIED
September 27, 1970

RECENT CREDITS
Horizons West (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1999
Experiment in Terror (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1962
No Time for Sergeants (FILM)  Jul. 1, 1958
My Man Godfrey (FILM)  Dec. 1, 1957
Jailhouse Rock (FILM)  Oct. 1, 1957

BIOGRAPHY
Lithe, dark-haired Fred Coby (born Frederick G. Beckner Jr. turned into freakish Rondo Hatton in the 1946 horror melodrama The Brute Man, a chiller so tasteless and badly made that Universal sold it outright to Poverty....
Lithe, dark-haired Fred Coby (born Frederick G. Beckner Jr. turned into freakish Rondo Hatton in the 1946 horror melodrama The Brute Man, a chiller so tasteless and badly made that Universal sold it outright to Poverty Row company PRC. Coby stayed with PRC for Don Ricardo Returns (1946), a Zorro rip-off written by actor Duncan Renaldo and based on Johnston McCulley, the creator of the original. Although handsome -- Coby's slight resemblance to Tyrone Power may have won him the role in the first place -- Don Ricardo was too cheaply made to have any impact on the moviegoing audience. He spent the remainder of his career as a stunt performer and bit player.

~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide



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Horizons West
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