The photos in these galleries are grouped by project, when applicable, but they're not arranged chronologically. Pictures from theatre projects are first, followed by film & television, and then a few from my personal life and miscellaneous events.
Moonlight and Magnolias
Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach, Florida 2008
Graham Smith as Ben Hecht, Warren Kelley as David O. Selznick, Douglas Coler as Victor Fleming
Moonlight and Magnolias
Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach, Florida 2008
Warren Kelley as David O. Selznick, Douglas Coler as Victor Fleming act out the "birthin' babies" sequence in Gone With The Wind, with Fleming playing Prissy
Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach, Florida
Douglas Coler as Victor Fleming
Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach, Florida 2008
Fleming hauls off on Selznick
Moonlight and Magnolias
Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach, Florida
Douglas Coler as Victor Fleming
Florida Studio Theatre 2008
David Sitler as Jack Henry Abbott, Douglas Coler as The Prosecutor
Directed by Debra Whitfield
Florida Studio Theatre 2008
As Actor #2, I played a variety of characters in the show, including Abbott himself, here in the moments just before the audience is plunged into darkness to experience what it was like in a "blackout cell".
Florida Studio Theatre 2008
Douglas Coler, David Sitler, Patrick Jones as three versions of Jack Henry Abbott
Florida Studio Theatre 2008
Douglas Coler as The Prosecutor, Patrick Jones as The Defense Counsel, David Sitler as Abbott. The set was designed by Lauren Feldman.
Actors Art Theatre, Los Angeles 1998
Douglas Coler as Eddy Kammegian, Adelaide Vaughn as Judy Dunn
The
Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The
Crowd
Sun Dog Theatre
Company, New York, New York, August, 2004
Douglas
Coler as Sir, Nicole Juliet Libby as The Kid, and
Andy Meyers as Cocky
Frankenstein Virtuoso
Stonehill College, North Easton, MA 2007
Directed by Douglas Coler, Written by Louis Phillips, Set by Kevin Brown, Costumes by Joan Halpert.
Madelyn Dullea as Godwin, Paige MacLean as Parrish, Peter Charpentier as Capt. Sayville, and Adam Dello Buono as Victor Gottfried.
Frankenstein Virtuoso
Stonehill College, North Easton, MA 2007
Paul Desmond as Victor Frankenstein, Peter Charpentier as a disguised Capt. Sayville attempt to settle a disagreement like gentlemen.
You Can't Take It with You
The Bank Playhouse, Pasadena CA 1980
Marysue Bushner as Alice Sycamore, Douglas Coler as Tony Kirby.
Directed by Jeff Nichols
The
Trip Back Down
American Academy
of Dramatic Arts/West, Pasadena, CA
1979
Foreground: Douglas Coler, Keith Haarsager, and Jim
Dyrhaug
Play by John Bishop, Directed by Antony Carbone
The
Trip Back Down
American Academy
of Dramatic Arts/West, Pasadena, CA 1979
Kevin
Blackton, Douglas Coler, Jim Dyrhaug, Keith
Haarsager
Sour Grapes
Grasshopper Street Theatre, Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA 1984
Douglas Coler as director Carl Lofton.
Musical by Muro & Davis. Sour Grapes was presented as part of The Olympic Arts Festival.
Sour
Grapes
Grasshopper Street
Theatre, Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA 1984
Richard
Merson, Bobbi Stamm, and Douglas Coler
The
Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
Chamber Theatre
Productions National Tour, 2001
Douglas Coler as Ichabod Crane.
Actors Art Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 1997
Dan Klass and Douglas Coler
While Dan's wife, Melissa, was taking a few classes at Actors Art, he was kind enough to play a role in this workshop production. Dan, in case you didn't know, is the creator and star of the blog and podcast, The Bitterest Pill.
Roof Garden, Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles 1982
Douglas Coler as Master of Ceremonies Rocky LaRok
Variety
Arts Center
Roof Garden
Restaurant, Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA,
Easter, 1982
With Jim Blair and Victoria Jackson.
Victoria played my sidekick in The Variety Vanities of
1938, a
character named ....Victoria Jackson. She was
delightful then, and I'm sure she remains so.
Jim was on staff at the Variety Arts, and he
directed "It's Top Secret".
Fleeing
Down To Rio
Roof Garden,
Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
1982
Written and directed by Vincent Hauser. This was a
'Special Presentation' show that was supposed to
run for 2 weeks and ended playing several months.
Among the cast, top row second from left, was a
very young Eva LaRue.
Fleeing
Down To Rio
Roof Garden,
Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
1982
Douglas Coler as Col. Reginald
Rickenbacher, with Melinda Moreno as Carmen
Miranda.
A
Chain of Summer Voices
Seraphim
Productions, New York, NY 2001
As Harry Grimm, with Carol Mennie and Brett
Hemmerling.
The production was honored with several
Off-Off Broadway
Review awards.
Play by Allan
Rieser, Directed by Don Price
A
Chain of Summer Voices
Seraphim
Productions, New York, NY 2001
As alcoholic newspaperman Harry
Grimm, with Brett Hemmerling as my son
David.
A Christmas Carol
Sun Dog Theatre
Company, New York 2005
As Ebenezer Scrooge
Directed by Barbara Brandt
A
Christmas Carol
Sundog Theatre
Company, New York, NY 2005
Scrooge awaiting the Spirit Of Christmas
Future
Moonlight
and Magnolias
American Theatre
Festival, Dorset, Vermont, June
2006
Douglas Coler as Victor Fleming. Erik Gratton as
David O. Selznick, Sara Petersen as Miss
Poppenghul, and Jim Shankman as Ben Hecht.
Play by Ron Hutchinson, directed by John Morrison.
The most fun I'd had working on stage in a long,
long time.
Horrid Massacre In Boston
Stonehill College,
North Easton, MA 2006
Kevin Brown's amazing set for Don Nigro's
Horrid
Massacre in Boston, directed by Douglas Coler
Most of the following gallery
are screen captures, and the quality is less
than optimal. Sorry about that....
Cold
Fire
Directed by Wings Hauser,
PM Entertainment. 1990
Anthony Lucero as Johnny Dove, Douglas Coler as
Sidney Lang.
Cold
Fire
It wasn't loaded, but it was real, and it's disconcerting, to say the least, to have a 9mm Semi-Automatic shoved into your cheek.
Cold
Fire
As Sidney Lang, incompetent drug dealer. Made first
sale of the new Cold Fire drug to two undercover
LAPD officers.
Days
Of Our Lives
Douglas Coler, Renee Jones, and Eileen Davidson.
Days
Of Our Lives
Douglas Coler as Doctor Picard,
the Gallic Gynecologist
Days
Of Our Lives
Douglas Coler, Eileen
Davidson
Days
Of Our Lives
Eileen Davidson,
Douglas Coler, Deidre Hall
Days
Of Our Lives
Eileen Davidson, Drake Hogestyn,
Douglas Coler
I was the voice of
Baskerville, the titular Dalmatian, so technically,
that's me in the picture...
I cannot warn you away strongly enough. I liked the
director a great deal, but I wasn't on set at all,
of course. My stuff was recorded after the
crime had been committed film had been shot.
Foreign
Correspondents
written and Directed by Mark Tapio
Kines, Greenstem Films, 1999
Blaire Baron as Rachel, Douglas Coler as
Nils
Foreign
Correspondents
Nils and Rachel,
again
Foreign
Correspondents
Foreign
Correspondents
at the premiere, from l: Dennis
Tracy (Transportation Captain), Bill Millsap
(Associate Producer), Douglas Coler, and Sean
Astin, who was in the audience and sought me out
afterwards to offer congratulations. A classy move,
and I very much appreciated it.
Foreign
Correspondents
Rachel and Nils,
suspicious.
Foreign
Correspondents
Nils and his f*#!ing
accordion.
Longshot
G.G. Productions, 1981. Directed
by E.W. Swackhamer
On set in the Ventura County jail, with assistant
Director Barbara Bass.
Mars
And Beyond
Cyber Sci-Fi Network, 2000.
Produced and Directed by Herbert Wright.
as Commander Hank Wyatt
Mars
And Beyond
Mars
And Beyond
with Jack McGee as Dr. Zed
Dangerworth, Douglas Coler as Cmdr Wyatt
Mars
And Beyond
Cmdr Wyatt about to face a huge
wind storm on Mars
Mars
And Beyond
cast and creators as guests of The
Mars Society at Cal Tech, awaiting President
Clinton's arrival
The
Perfect Shadow
Fast Boojum Films, 1998. Directed
by Justin McGilvery
as Julian, the Eclipse Chaser
The
Perfect Shadow
Sunshine
Columbia graduate student project,
1998
I played a child molester.....
Sunshine
...and met a fitting end at the
hands of a transvestite prostitute. (This was shot
in an alley in Hollywood at about 3:45a.m. There
were plenty of transvestite prostitutes to choose
from...)
NewsPOP
Pilot for the Dan Klass show
NewsPOP, a daily animated news show. Part of
POP.com, which went down in flames when the first
internet bubble burst (as did Cyber Sci-Fi.net,
producers of Mars and Beyond)
New
York, New York
Director Mark Steven
Robinson, Playwright Rich Orloff,
and Douglas Coler
at Mark's birthday bash. It should be noted that
I look like a stalker.
My
Dad
in his Arizona painter's studio.
Douglas
Coler, the kid
Atop Rainy Day, one of
my grandfather's horses.
The
Fourth Birthday
Thus began my
life-long ambivalence toward photographers.I still
remember that gumdrop cake.
Naked
I'm about 2 years old
here.
West
Hollywood, CA
Exiting the stage door after a
performance of "A Woman's Body"
at the Celebration
Theatre.
The
Kid, again
My siblings and I regularly took
part in the Fourth Of July Parade, generally
marching behind my grandfather and his buddies, who
were on horseback. Obviously, this is pre-parade,
because my shoes are clean.
Not
Naked
Ready to snorkle on Paradise
Island, off the Domincan coast.
The working title of
this game was The Fall and Rise
of Randolph Steere. I remember that we had a terrific
time recording the dialog, and a great party
after.
The 'cast' of
Murder Makes
Strange Deadfellows. I was the voice of Calvin Adler,
but I can't say for certain which one that is in
this screen capture...he may be that timid looking
gent with the glasses in the back on the left. I do
have a vague recollection of somebody from Tiger
Media showing us the character sketches on the
morning of the day we recorded, but I'll be damned
if I can remember what ol' Calvin looked
like.
My small claim to fame
in the Star Trek
universe is 3
characters in this game: Lt. Walker in
'Voids', Sundergard in
'No Man's
Land', and
Gormagon in 'Though This Be
Madness'.
For some reason, I don't get invited to the
conventions...
Spock, Kirk, McCoy
(and the guy about whom McCoy has just said 'He's
dead, Jim"), and me in the red shirt behind the
menu. And we all know what happens to the red shirt
guy...but Sundergard may live a long life: We
recorded around 40 different endings. Presumably, a
player could use his mad skillz to get me through
the mission alive.
Long before Peter
Jackson's epic LOTR Trilogy, Interplay released
this game. I voiced a Hobbit and some other
creatures. The game also featured some sequences
from Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated
Lord
of the Rings.
Apparently, this game
was very well received. Never played it,
either.
In what wasn't such an
unusual move in 1993, the voice actors are credited
on the back cover.
Fierce fighter Anne Bonny and her dandy Captain
Calico Jack Rackham
The gladiator Lucullus
