Frederick Koehler: Chip from "Kate and Ally" grows up, shows his d*ck, plays some psychos, and vanishes. With bonus Beau Mirchoff

Link to the n*de Chip and Mirchoff

Viewers who saw this guy's d*ck in a 2004 episode of the prison drama Oz were shocked.  Not by the d*ck -- there were lots of them on Oz.

Not because he was Andrew Schillinger, 20-year old son of the white supremacist prisoner Vern Schillinger.

 

Not even because he was a heroin addict who would be given a batch by an unscrupulous guard and die of an overdose.

Because we were looking at a grown-up Chip.

Although he had appeared in Judging Amy, Ally McBeal, Profiler, Gideon's Crossing, Charmed, and A Kiss Before Dying,  Fred Koehler was famous for Kate and Allie (1984-89), a sitcom starring two recognizable 1970s tv stars, Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James, a free spirit-stick in the mud couple living together. Fred Koehler played their 10-15 year old son, Chip

No, they weren't lesbians, although they pretended to be in an early example of a "let's pretend to be gay to get some of their incredible privileges" episode. 

After Kate and Ally -- I have to keep checking, but I'm pretty sure it's "ally," not "allie" -- Fred attended Carnegie-Mellon University, got a degree in theater, changed his stage name to Frederick, and returned to Hollywood.

To quote Sally in Peanuts, isn't the grown-up Frederick "the cutest thing"?   Short, rather husky, with a round, handsome face and a befuddled expression that makes him perfect for roles as oddball outsiders with no heterosexual interests.  Instead, they are gay-vague, yearning for love, acceptance, and family.

Like Ben Sharpless, teenage son of the obsessive sheriff Nolan in Birdseye (2002).

Or the mentally handicapped Pemon in Little Chenier (2006).

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Other than Kate and Allie and his Oz d*ck, Frederick may be best known as  obsessive-compulsive Lists in the Death Race franchise (2008, 2010, 2012).  A member of Frankenstein's death-racing crew, he goes to prison for killing his mother.

And Dennis in The Evil Within (2017), a disabled man who is possessed by a demon and goes around killing people to gain access to their insides.  He's straight.

Sean Patrick Flanery plays his brother, who takes care of him, sort of.

Frederick appears in two episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2017, 2021) as Becca Boyle, a cattle rancher with a girl's name.  I don't know if the character is gay or not.

And five episodes of Kombucha Cure (2023), about a doctor in a quirky small town. Is there any other kind?  He plays Cooper, but I can't find an episode synopsis, or any episodes.

He has three plays listed on wikipedia: 

The Cripple of Inishmaan, about a disabled man who is dying. 

Who the heck would want to see anything like that?

When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout, about female heterosexuals.  He plays Ewan, "young, dumb, and full of...."

The Normal Heart, about a man dying of AIDS.  Why the heck would anyone want to see that? F*ck the sadness.

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Frederick does not have an online presence. No Instagram, no Facebook, no nothing.  He doesn't even appear in "Where are they now?" articles. All I can find are photos of him hugging random guys. 

No indication if he's gay in real life or not.

No n*de shots other than that scene on Oz.

Nothing about him.  

Maybe I'll try the Frederick Koehler the artist, the psychiatric nurse, or the professor of statistics at the University of Chicago instead.

Nope.  Straight, straight, and absent from social media.   I'll just put another Beau Mirchoff d*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends, and we can go home.

See also: Ride Share: Skyler Gisondo's Bar Mitzvah, Beau Mirchoff's d*ck, and Andy Favreau just because

Sage Ftacek: "Sweethearts" short guy from Anoka with a BFA and a d*ck

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