Western Gear pictures, 1, 1852 - 1899.

1. Carl Sepulveda

Actor | The Chinatown Mystery

Carl Sepulveda was born on February 5, 1896 in Ely, Nevada, USA. He was an actor, known for The Chinatown Mystery (1928), Rustlers of the Badlands (1945) and The Four-Footed Ranger (1928). He was married to Grace Barnett and Kathleen. He died on August 24, 1974 in North Highlands, California, USA.

2. Blackjack Ward

Actor | Texas Stampede

Blackjack Ward was born on May 3, 1891 in Franklin, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Texas Stampede (1939), Rainbow Riders (1934) and Lighting Bill (1934). He was married to Madeline J.. He died on April 29, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

3. Mark Hamilton

Actor | The Light of Western Stars

Mark Hamilton was born on December 9, 1889 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as Mark Lafayette Hamilton. He was a character actor known for Barbara Frietchie (1924), Riders of the Purple Sage (1925), The Rainbow Trail (1925), Sparrows (1926), and City Girl (1930). He died on April 12, 1963 ...

4. Bud Osborne

Actor | Without Orders

One of the finest teamsters in Hollywood screen history, Osborne handled the reins for horse-drawn coaches and wagons in countless westerns and historical photoplays from the early 20's through late 50's. And with his weathered, rumpled look, his Texas drawl and his nasal twang, he was often called...

5. Charles K. French

Actor | The Abysmal Brute

Charles K. French was born on January 17, 1860 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Abysmal Brute (1923), Hands Up! (1926) and Gentle Julia (1923). He was married to Doris Herbert, Isabelle Gurton and Helen French. He died on August 2, 1952 in Hollywood, California, ...

6. Horace Murphy

Actor | Rollin' Plains

The son of a physician, Horace Murphy started his career as a child actor on showboats on the Mississippi. He later played the cornet in the band and eventually became half-owner of the showboat "Cottonblossom Floating Palace". After two seasons he sold his interest and organized a string of ...

7. Erville Alderson

Actor | The Scarlet Empress

A character actor whose film career spanned from Hollywood's Silent Era until the 1950s. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 11, 1882, Erville would start his film career in 1918 at the age of 36 in Her Man (1918). Film pioneer D.W. Griffith utilized Erville in many of his films, including ...

8. Si Jenks

Actor | Zorro's Black Whip

American character actor of rustic types, Si Jenks was born Howard Hansell Jenkins in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on 23 September 1876, to John (a shopkeeper) and Catherine Jenkins. He was the sixth of seven children. Little is known of his boyhood. At 21, on 21 April 1898, the first day of the ...

9. George 'Gabby' Hayes

Actor | Randy Rides Alone

American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He was born May 7, 1885, the third of seven children, in the Hayes Hotel (owned by his father) in the tiny hamlet of Stannards, New York, on the outskirts of Wellsville, New York. Hayes was the son of ...

10. Jack Kenny

Actor | The Northern Code

Jack Kenny was born on November 16, 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Northern Code (1925), Not Quite Decent (1929) and Beauty and Bullets (1928). He was married to Bryna Davis. He died on May 26, 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.

11. Will Wright

Actor | The Blue Dahlia

One of those familiar character actors who seems to have been born old, Will Wright specialized in playing crusty old codgers, rich skinflints,crooked small-town politicians and the like. A former newspaper reporter in San Francisco, he switched careers and entered vaudeville, then took to the ...

12. Mathew McCue

Actor | The Fugitive

Mathew McCue was born on October 4, 1895 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fugitive (1963) and Gunsmoke (1955). He died on April 10, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

13. Charley Grapewin

Actor | The Wizard of Oz

This old codger film favorite, born in 1869 (some reports say 1875), got into the entertainment field at an early age, first as a circus performer (aerialist and trapeze artist). When acting sparked his interest, he worked in a series of stock companies while writing stage plays that he himself ...

14. Emmett Lynn

Soundtrack | The Fighting Frontiersman

Lynn was one of the old grubby prospector sidekicks who supplied the comic relief in a number of Republic Westerns through the forties and early fifties. He also appeared with the Three Stooges in 'The Yokes on Me (1944)'. His last two films were of a religious nature with 'A Man Called Peter (1955...

15. Julian Rivero

Actor | Burn 'Em Up Barnes

Julian Rivero was born on July 25, 1890 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934), The Mad Empress (1939) and Heroes of the Alamo (1937). He was married to Isobel Thomas. He died on February 24, 1976 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

16. Charles Stevens

Actor | The Three Musketeers

Charles Stevens was born on May 26, 1893 in Solomonsville, Arizona, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Three Musketeers (1921), The Americano (1916) and Ebb Tide (1937). He was married to Lila Ethel Berry. He died on August 22, 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.

17. Eddy Waller

Actor | The Grapes of Wrath

Eddy Waller worked in vaudeville and the theater before he entered movies in 1936. Within a few years he was being cast in character parts. In the 1940s he would be a mainstay in the westerns of Republic Pictures and would work with just about every cowboy actor from Tim Holt to Rocky Lane. With ...

18. Roger Williams

Actor | Adventurous Knights

Roger Williams was a man of many careers, one of which was portraying heavies in a hundred plus B westerns, serials and a other features during the years 1933 - 1939. At Republic Pictures, he did westerns with the Three Mesquiteers, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry. But his usual employers were Poverty ...

19. Christian Rub

Actor | You Can't Take It with You

Christian Rub was born on April 13, 1886 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He was an actor, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), Peter Ibbetson (1935) and Girls' Dormitory (1936). He was married to Amy. He died on April 14, 1956 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

20. Slim Whitaker

Actor | A Streak of Luck

American cowboy and actor Slim Whitaker was working the rodeo circuit at age 17, eventually becoming a cowhand on the Chowchilla Ranch in central California. In 1912 he was hired as a riding extra and stunt man by Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson for westerns being filmed in Niles Canyon, CA. ...

21. Earl Dwire

Actor | Randy Rides Alone

Earl Dwire was born on October 3, 1883 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Randy Rides Alone (1934), Radio Patrol (1937) and The Lawless Frontier (1934). He was married to Elizabeth Alice Maddeaux and Ruth Lechler, nee Castle. He died on January 16, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

22. Tex Driscoll

Actor | In the Days of Buffalo Bill

Tex Driscoll was born on September 7, 1889 in Center, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922), The Squaw Man (1914) and The Country Boy (1915). He died on June 1, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

23. George Sowards

Actor | Outlawed

George Sowards was born on November 27, 1888 in Denver, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Outlawed (1921), Back Fire (1922) and Borrowed Trouble (1948). He was married to Edna E. Zilke. He died on December 20, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

24. Dennis Hoey

Actor | Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Dennis Hoey was born on March 30, 1893 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943), Terror by Night (1946) and The Spider Woman (1943). He was married to Josephine Marta Ricca and Sarah Pearl Lyons (known as Cissie). He died on July 25, 1960 in Palm Beach, ...

25. Ethan Laidlaw

Actor | Is That Nice?

Born in Butte Montana just before the turn of the century, Ethan Laidlaw worked as a steam fitter, bus driver, mechanic, salesman, and policeman, before moving to the Los Angeles in the early 1920's. Laidlaw's tall, lean frame and chiseled features made him a natural for gangster pictures, Westerns...

26. Jay Wilsey

Actor | Trails of Adventure

Wilbert Jay Wilsey was born in Clark County, Missouri, in 1896. He learned to ride a horse at a very young age, and when he got older he began appearing on the rodeo circuit. In 1924 he found himself in Hollywood and, hearing that producers were looking for good horsemen for western movies, went ...

27. Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Actor | Virginia City

The son of a rancher-turned-politician, Guinn Williams was given the nickname "Big Boy" (and he was, too - 6' 2" of mostly solid muscle from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and pro baseball) by Will Rogers, with whom he made one of his first films, in 1919. Although his father ...

28. Bob Card

Actor | Ridin' the Cherokee Trail

Bob Card was born on May 4, 1887 in Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Ridin' the Cherokee Trail (1941), Terror of the Plains (1934) and Across the Plains (1939). He was married to Hazel. He died on April 7, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

29. William S. Hart

Actor | The Money Corral

A storybook hero, the original screen cowboy, ever forthright and honest, even when (as was often the case) he played a villain, William S. Hart lived for a while in the Dakota Territory, then worked as a postal clerk in New York City. In 1888 he began to study acting. In 1899 he created the role ...

30. Frank Campeau

Actor | 3 Bad Men

Frank Campeau was born on December 14, 1864 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for 3 Bad Men (1926), Battling Bunyan (1924) and The Life of the Party (1920). He was married to Sarah Estelle Lewis and Lillian Stratton Corbin. He died on November 5, 1943 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles,...

31. Harry Carey

Actor | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Born in New York City to a Judge of Special Sessions who was also president of a sewing machine company. Grew up on City Island, New York. Attended Hamilton Military Academy and turned down an appointment to West Point to attend New York Law School, where his law school classmates included future ...

32. George Chesebro

Actor | Wolfblood

George Chesebro was an American character actor who, after a few leading roles in silent films, became an omnipresent bit player in "B" westerns. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Chesebro became involved in traveling stock theater productions before the age of 20, and by 1911 was a seasoned ...

33. Jim Farley

Actor | The General

Jim Farley was born on January 8, 1882 in Waldron, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for The General (1926), Captain January (1936) and The Devil Within (1921). He died on October 12, 1947 in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, USA.

34. Al Bridge

Actor | Sullivan's Travels

American character actor, a fixture both in Westerns and in the comedies of Preston Sturges. Although frequently billed as "Alan" Bridge, he was born Alfred Morton Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1891 (not as "Alford" Bridge in 1890, as his tombstone erroneously states), he and his sister, ...

35. Charles Anthony Hughes

Actor | The Crimson Flash

Charles Anthony Hughes was born on March 21, 1890 in Augusta, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for The Crimson Flash (1927), Call of the Yukon (1938) and The Last Alarm (1940). He died on November 7, 1967 in Augusta, Georgia, USA.

36. Frank Ellis

Actor | Roll Wagons Roll

Frank Ellis was born on February 26, 1897 in Newkirk, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Roll Wagons Roll (1940), Treason (1933) and Elmo the Fearless (1920). He was married to Madonna L. Shelburg, Jessie and Nellie. He died on February 23, 1969 in Saugus, California, USA.

37. Blackie Whiteford

Actor | The Man from New Mexico

Blackie Whiteford was born on April 27, 1889 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Man from New Mexico (1932), The Fighting Coward (1935) and The Black Coin (1936). He was married to Alma Bennett. He died on March 21, 1962 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

38. Archie Ricks

Assistant_director | A Daughter of the Sioux

Archie Ricks was born on February 29, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for A Daughter of the Sioux (1925), In Broncho Land (1926) and Where Romance Rides (1925). He was married to Ethel Marion Jones. He died on January 10, 1962 in Los Angeles, ...

39. Lane Chandler

Actor | Samson and Delilah

American actor who had a brief flirtation with stardom before settling into character roles and bit parts. Born in rural South Dakota (according to government records, though some sources say Walsh County, North Dakota) as Robert C. Oakes, the son of a horse rancher, he moved with his family to ...

40. Jack Rockwell

Actor | The Lawless Frontier

John Rockwell was the brother of film character actor Charles Trowbridge. He was a film actor for Columbia Studios and acted in film "westerns", predominately, but also worked for 'Republic Pictures Studios' for many years.

He died at Glendale Sanitarium Hospital from 'hyperstatic shock' and '...

41. Art Mix

Actor | The Bandit Chaser

Art Mix was born on June 18, 1896 in Atlas, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bandit Chaser (1928), Treason (1933) and Maisie (1939). He was married to Inez Gomez. He died on December 7, 1972 in Riverside, California, USA.

42. Andy Clyde

Actor | Three Men from Texas

Andy Clyde's more than 40-year film career started on the vaudeville stages and music halls in his native Scotland in the 1920s. He made his way to Hollywood and began as an extra in Mack Sennett comedies, but he was soon moved up to featured player, usually the sidekick or second banana to the ...

43. Lem Sowards

Actor | Red Blood

Lem Sowards was born on October 17, 1892 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Red Blood (1925). He died on August 20, 1962 in Sawtelle, California, USA.

44. Hoot Gibson

Actor | The Horse Soldiers

A pioneering cowboy star of silent and early talking Westerns, Hoot Gibson was one of the 1920s' most popular children's matinée heroes. In his real life, however, he had a rather painful rags-to-riches-and-back-to-rags career, a problem that seemed to plague a number of big stars who fell victim ...

45. Buck Jones

Actor | The Range Feud

Buck Jones was one of the greatest of the "B" western stars. Although born in Indiana, Jones reportedly (but disputedly) grew up on a ranch near Red Rock in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), and there learned the riding and shooting skills that would stand him in good stead as a hero of Westerns. He...

46. Ted Adams

Actor | The Lion Man

The son of vaudeville performers, Richard Theodore "Ted" Adams was part of his parents' troupe before attending Cornell University at the age of 18. After college he did stock work for three years before going on to New York City and stage work there. For more than half his life he performed on the...

47. Wallace MacDonald

Producer | A Man's World

Wallace MacDonald was born on May 5, 1891 in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor and producer, known for A Man's World (1942), Flame of Stamboul (1951) and Are All Men Alike? (1920). He was married to Doris May. He died on October 30, 1978 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

48. Bill Borzage

Actor | Way Down East

Bill Borzage was born on March 4, 1892 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for Way Down East (1935). He died on June 7, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

49. William Fawcett

Actor | Batman and Robin

"Doc T". as he was known, was a Ph.D., and Professor of Theatre at Michigan State University in the early 1940s, just before World War II. He often spoke about leaving academia and actually trying his hand at the craft he taught. After the war, he got his chance and never looked back.

50. William Boyd

Actor | Flaming Gold

The son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker. He went to Hollywood in 1919, already gray-haired. ...

51. Tom Chatterton

Actor | Drums of Fu Manchu

Tom Chatterton was born on February 12, 1881 in Geneva, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Drums of Fu Manchu (1940), A Soul Enslaved (1916) and Captain America (1944). He died on August 17, 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.

52. Max Terhune

Actor | Three Texas Steers

Four years after appearing with Gene Autry on a national radio show in 1932 he went to Hollywood. By that time he Max was a skilled vaudevillian (magician, juggler, whistler, impressionist, card tricks). His specialty was ventriloquism. On the Orpheum Circuit his dummy was named Skully Null; he ...

53. Helen Gibson

Actress | Fighting Mad

Helen Gibson was one of the earliest serial stars. In 1915 she took over the title role in The Hazards of Helen (1914) from Helen Holmes. Known for her athletic abilities and willingness to do dangerous but exciting stunts, she made the transition from serials to features easily. She was the second...

54. Leo D. Maloney

Actor | The Loser's End

Actor/producer/director Leo Maloney was owner of the Leo Maloney Studio located in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California. Several early westerns were filmed at the studio, which overlooked orange groves and included a small city that housed 35 people who lived there year-round. The ...

55. Harry A. Pollard

Director | The Quest

Harry A. Pollard was born on January 23, 1879 in Republic City, Kansas, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Quest (1915), Tonight at Twelve (1929) and Sporting Youth (1924). He was married to Margarita Fischer. He died on July 6, 1934 in Pasadena, California, USA.

56. Bud McClure

Actor | Flyin' Buckaroo

Bud McClure was born on February 21, 1883 in Hopland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Flyin' Buckaroo (1928), The Mystery Rider (1928) and Heroes of the Range (1936). He was married to Grace. He died on November 2, 1942 in North Hollywood, California, USA.

57. Jack Hoxie

Actor | Looking for Trouble

American cowboy star of silent films, Jack Hoxie was raised in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) and in Idaho, learning riding and roping at an early age. He became a popular and successful rodeo star, winning national championships. In 1914, after touring the U.S. in a Wild West show, he came to...

58. Emory Parnell

Actor | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Emory Parnell was born on December 29, 1892 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948). He was married to Effie Laird. He died on June 22, 1979 in Woodland Hills, Los ...

59. Leon Beaumon

Actor | Clancy of the Mounted

Leon Beaumon - also credited as Leon Beauman, Beaumont, and Leon Duval

• was a minor stage and film actor during the 1920s and 1930s. He was

60. Frank Brownlee

Actor | The Return of Mary

Frank Brownlee was born on October 11, 1874 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Return of Mary (1918), The Vanishing Legion (1931) and His Own Law (1920). He was married to Louise Massie. He died on February 10, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

61. Clarence Muse

Actor | Shadow of a Doubt

Clarence Muse was born on October 14, 1889 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA as Clarence Edouard Muse. He was an actor, known for Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and The Black Stallion (1979). He was married to Irene Ena Kellman, Willabelle Burch West and Ophelia Belle Labertier. He died on October 13, 1979 in ...

62. Bert Rumsey

Actor | Gunsmoke

Burtis Harwood Rumsey was born in Butte, Montana on 15 Oct 1892 to Burtis Harwood Rumsey and Hannah Cummins who both died between 1904 and 1910. Burtis married Dona Grace (Douglas) Benneche. He preceded her in death on 6 July 1968 at the Motion Picture Home, Woodland Hills, California and was ...

63. José Luis Tortosa

Actor | De la sartén al fuego

José Luis Tortosa was born in 1896 in Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for De la sartén al fuego (1935), El capitán Tormenta (1936) and El día que me quieras (1935). He died in 1963 in the USA.

64. Morgan Farley

Actor | High Noon

Morgan Farley was born on October 3, 1898 in Mamaroneck, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for High Noon (1952), Soylent Green (1973) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He died on October 11, 1988 in San Pedro, California, USA.

65. Cyril Ring

Actor | The Cocoanuts

Cyril Ring was born on December 5, 1892 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Cocoanuts (1929), I Wake Up Screaming (1941) and The Social Lion (1930). He was married to Molly Green and Charlotte Greenwood. He died on July 17, 1967 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

66. Ralph Sanford

Actor | Copacabana

Born on May 21, 1899 in Springfield, Massachusetts, veteran character actor Ralph Sanford came from a theatrical family. His parents were in the business, although not as actors.

An actor and stage manager on the Broadway stage in the early years of his career, Sanford appeared in such productions ...

67. Ralph Moody

Actor | Get Smart

Ralph Moody was born on November 5, 1886 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Ralph Roy Moody, the oldest son of Franklin Jerome Moody and Ida M. Hicklin. His introduction to show business was first as an actor on the stage in pre-radio days and then as a radio personality. His first acting role was in ...

68. Dustin Farnum

Actor | The Squaw Man

American leading man of silent pictures who specialized in Westerns. His mother and father were, respectively, a singer and an actor, and he and his younger brother William Farnum were introduced to the theatre at an early age. Raised in Maine, Dustin attended the East Maine Conference Seminary, ...

69. Michael Vallon

Actor | Adventures of Superman

Michael Vallon was born on July 21, 1897 in Dover, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Adventures of Superman (1952), Tarnished (1950) and The Dawn Express (1942). He died on November 13, 1973 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

70. Burt Mustin

Actor | The Twilight Zone

Burt Mustin was a salesman most of his life, but got his first taste of show business as the host of a weekly radio variety show on KDKA Pittsburgh in 1921. He appeared onstage in "Detective Story" at Sombrero Playhouse in Phoenix Arizona, and played the janitor in the movie version, (Detective ...

71. David Leonard

Actor | Lust for Life

David Leonard was born on September 5, 1891 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Lust for Life (1956), Song of My Heart (1948) and The Bishop's Wife (1947). He died on April 2, 1967 in San Fernando, California, USA.

72. Harold Lockwood

Actor | The Promise

A former salesman and vaudeville and stage actor, Harold Lockwood was one of the earliest romantic stars of American films. He was paired with Mary Pickford, Kathlyn Williams and Dorothy Davenport, among others, but his most popular films had him as the lover of May Allison, and they became one of ...

73. Bill Cody

Actor | Border Justice

"B"-picture cowboy star Bill Cody was born William Joseph Cody, Jr., on January 5, 1891, in St. Paul, Minnesota (some sources list his place of birth as Manitoba, Canada). He was no relation to William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody. He was educated at Saint Thomas Military Academy in Minneapolis ...