Fred Behrle

born: 08 July 1891
San Diego, California,
United States of America
died: 20 May 1941
Burbank, California,
United States of America
(heart attack, age 49)

American actor, also known as Fred Burley. He entered films in the 1910s with the Vitagraph company. For a reported 20 years, he frequently worked in tandem with fellow actor/extra Earl "Hap" Hogan; they were known as "the twins," and if one of them were cast in a certain picture, the other would invariably be as well.
Behrle died from a heart attack suffered at the Columbia Ranch in Burbank (now the Warner Bros. Ranch), where he was filming the motion picture "Texas"; he succumbed en route to the Burbank Emergency Hospital. Hogan served as the informant on Behrle's death certificate; eerily, Hogan suffered a similar fate over three years later -- succumbing to a heart attack while filming a picture on a studio ranch (in his case, even more eerily, the original Warner Bros. Ranch in Calabasas).

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

3


1931
Pardon Us
Prisoner

1935
Southern Exposure
Juryman #1

1936
On The Wrong Trek
Hobo

Acknowledgements:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZVJ-VLR (WWI draft reg. card)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLBR-8Z5D (death certificate)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/683811651/ (Citizen-News [Hollywood, CA], 20 May 1941)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/689255584/ (Daily News [Los Angeles, CA], 21 May 1941)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/623309954/ (Progress-Bulletin [Pomona, CA], 21 May 1941)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/683811747/ (Citizen-News [Hollywood, CA], 21 May 1941)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/683811826/ (Citizen-News [Hollywood, CA], 22 May 1941)
https://archive.org/details/variety142-1941-05/page/n245/mode/1up?q=%22fred+behrle%22&view=theater (Variety, 28 May 1941)
1936 L.A. City Dir.: Behrle Fred actor h1307½ Bates av
1937 L.A. City Dir.: Behrle Fredk (Marian) actor r1307½ Bates av
1938 L.A. City Dir.: Burley Fred F (Marian) actor h1307½ Bates av
1939 L.A. City Dir.: Behrle Fred F (Marion) actor h1208 Bates av
Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research; identification in Pardon Us, Southern Exposure, On The Wrong Trek)

This page was last updated on: 10 April 2023