Paul Koslo(1944-2019)

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 Point limite zéro (1971) and Le survivant (1971), and the western Joe Kidd (1972), martial arts blaxploitation flick Dynamite Jones (1973) and crime thriller Le cercle noir (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 L'incroyable Hulk (1977), L'agence tous risques (1983), Matlock (1986), MacGyver (1985) and L'homme qui tombe à pic (1981). Unfortunately, most of his film work in the 1990s and beyond was "straight-to-video" fare, such as Chained Heat - Enchainées (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 Monsieur Majestyk (1974).