Bob Kortman

Robert F. Kortman (December 24, 1887 – March 13, 1967) 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.

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

 * The Narrow Trail (1917)
 * Through the Wrong Door (1919)
 * The Great Radium Mystery (1919)
 * Godless Men (1920)
 * Winners of the West (1921)
 * Travelin' On (1922)
 * The Lone Hand (1922)
 * Another Man's Boots (1922)
 * The Shock (1923)
 * All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923)
 * His Last Race (1923)
 * The White Sheep (1924)
 * The Temptress (1926)
 * The Eagle of the Sea (1926)
 * Unseen Enemies (1926)
 * The Devil Horse (1926)
 * Duck Soup (1927)
 * Hills of Peril (1927)
 * The Noose (1928)
 * Four Sons (1928)
 * Fleetwing (1928)
 * The Black Watch (1929)
 * Devil-May-Care (1929)
 * Bear Shooters (1930)
 * The Lone Defender (1930)
 * Women Everywhere (1930)
 * Trader Horn (1931) (scenes deleted)
 * The Vanishing Legion (1931)
 * The Lightning Warrior (1931)
 * Pardon Us (1931)
 * The Last Parade (1931)
 * Beau Hunks (1931)
 * The Fighting Fool (1932)
 * The Last of the Mohicans (1932)
 * Come On, Tarzan (1932)
 * The Forty-Niners (1932)
 * The Pride of the Legion (1932)
 * The Whispering Shadow (1933)
 * Before Midnight (1933)
 * The Midnight Patrol (1933)
 * The Fugitive (1933)
 * Rainbow Ranch (1933)
 * Mystery Mountain (1934)
 * The Miracle Rider (1935)
 * Lawless Range (1935)
 * Wild Mustang (1935)
 * The Lonely Trail (1936)
 * Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
 * The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936)
 * Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936)
 * Romance Rides the Range (1936)
 * Wild West Days (1937)
 * Luck of Roaring Camp (1937)
 * Anything for a Thrill (1937)
 * Sandflow (1937)
 * Texas Trail (1937)
 * The Oklahoma Kid (1939) as Juryman (uncredited)
 * Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)
 * Lady from Louisiana (1941)
 * The Lone Rider Rides On (1941)
 * Fugitive Valley (1941)
 * Thundering Hoofs (1942)
 * Days of Old Cheyenne (1943)
 * Black Hills Express (1943)
 * Lucky Cowboy (1944)
 * Stagecoach Outlaws (1945)