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1. 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.

2. Art Davis

Actor | The Texas Marshal

Art Davis was born on May 31, 1913 in Paradise, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Texas Marshal (1941), Rolling Down the Great Divide (1942) and Along the Sundown Trail (1942). He died on January 16, 1987 in Bloomburg, Texas, USA.

3. Robert Livingston

Actor | Daredevils of the Clouds

Bob Livingston's father was a newspaper editor in Quincy, Illinois. As a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News Bob did a story on the Pasadena Playhouse, and that got him interested in acting. In his mid-20s, he was doing bit parts for Universal and Fox and went from there to romantic roles with ...

4. Tom Seidel

Actor | 20, 000 Men a Year

Tom Seidel was born on March 11, 1917 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for 20, 000 Men a Year (1939), Moonlight and Cactus (1944) and Man with Two Lives (1942). He was married to Jean Hagen. He died on December 7, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

5. Monte Rawlins

Actor | The Adventures of the Masked Phantom

Monte Rawlins was born Dean Spencer in Yakima, Washington. His job as an aerial "barnstormer" in the 1930s landed him some aerial stuntwork in a few films. His big break came when he got the starring role in The Adventures of the Masked Phantom (1939), but the film, an independent effort, didn't ...

6. Fred Parker

Actor | Hell's Headquarters

Fred Parker was born on August 31, 1876 in Sigourney, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Hell's Headquarters (1932), Range Riders (1934) and Timber Terrors (1935). He died on February 29, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

7. Ben Corbett

Actor | Code of the Cactus

Ben Corbett was born on February 6, 1892 in Hudson, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Code of the Cactus (1939), 45 Calibre Echo (1932) and Six-Gun Trail (1938). He was married to Edna May Haynes and Helen. He died on May 19, 1961 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

8. Tom Mix

Actor | Dick Turpin

The son of a lumberman, Tom Mix joined the army as a young man and was an artillery sergeant during the Philippine campaign from 1898 to 1901, though he never saw action. In fact, Mix deserted from the army and carefully kept the facts about his military service a closely guarded secret. About 1903...

9. Tex Palmer

Actor | The Adventures of Champion

Tex Palmer was born on July 31, 1904 in Xenia, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Champion (1955), Romance of the Rockies (1937) and The Phantom Stage (1939). He died on March 22, 1982 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

10. Tex Williams

Soundtrack | Thank You for Smoking

Tex Williams, along with Spade Cooley and Bob Wills, was among the most popular bandleaders in the musical genre known as "western swing" in the 1940s and 1950s (although he used the nickname "Tex", he was actually from Illinois). His popularity led to Universal Pictures bringing him to Hollywood ...

11. 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.

12. Jack Evans

Actor | The Hidden Woman

Jack Evans was born on March 5, 1893 in Neills Creek, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for The Hidden Woman (1922), Lightning Range (1933) and The Fighting Deputy (1937). He was married to Fannie. He died on March 14, 1950 in Hollywood, California, USA.

13. Harry Woods

Actor | The Viking

Harry Woods was born on May 5, 1889 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Viking (1928), Monkey Business (1931) and Colorado Territory (1949). He was married to Helen P. Hookenberry. He died on December 28, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

14. Kermit Maynard

Actor | The Fighting Texan

Kermit Maynard was born on September 20, 1897 in Vevay, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fighting Texan (1937), Valley of Terror (1937) and Phantom Patrol (1936). He was married to Edith Jessen. He died on January 16, 1971 in North Hollywood, California, USA.

15. Gene Autry

Soundtrack | The Gene Autry Show

After high school Gene Autry worked as a laborer for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad in Oklahoma. Next he was a telegrapher. In 1928 he began singing on a local radio station, and three years later he had his own show and was making his first recordings. Three years after that he made his ...

16. Jack Trent

Actor | The Devil Plays

Jack Trent was born on August 24, 1896 in Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Devil Plays (1931), The Woman Who Was Forgotten (1929) and Discarded Lovers (1932). He died on August 1, 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

17. Oscar Gahan

Actor | Ambush Valley

Canada's child prodigy violinist. Played a command performance for the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII, at age 5.) First cousin of Walter Huston, father of child actress Baby Rose, Grandfather of Sharmagne Leland-St. John-Sylbert, Great-grandfather of 'Daisy Alexandra Sylbert'.

18. Bob Steele

Actor | The Big Sleep

American Western star and character actor whose career spanned six decades. The son of director Robert N. Bradbury, he appeared in vaudeville with his parents and with his twin brother Bill Bradbury appeared as a child in a series of 16 semi- documentary short films directed by their father, The ...

19. 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 ...

20. Ted Wells

Actor | Beauty and Bullets

Ted Wells was a second-echelon western hero at Universal in 1920s silents and also made several low-budget westerns for "Poverty Row" producers William M. Pizor and Robert J. Horner. During those silents Wells used his own name as well as "Pawnee Bill, Jr.". When sound arrived, he found himself ...

21. Cliff Nazarro

Actor | Forged Passport

Cliff Nazarro was born on January 31, 1904 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Forged Passport (1939), Ding Dong Williams (1946) and Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942). He died on February 18, 1961 in Ventura County, California, USA.

22. Bob Curwood

Director | Águila roja

Silent western actor Bob Curwood was born in Romania in 1899 as John Balas Belasco. His parents were non-professionals Maria and Russen Balas Belasco. His movie-name was changed to Bub Curwood when he was given the lead role in a series of silent western and Royal-Canadian-Mounted shorts at ...

23. 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...

24. Buddy Roosevelt

Actor | Rough Ridin'

Cowboy actor Buddy Roosevelt was born Kenneth Stanhope Sanderson in Meeker, Colorado, in 1898. His parents were emigrants from England, and at age 16 Kenneth got a job with the C.B. Irwin WIld West Show. When the show traveled to Southern California in 1914, the young Sanderson learned that stunt ...

25. Smith Ballew

Soundtrack | Magic in the Moonlight

Began in show business as a radio singer. In the early 1930s he became one of the first singing screen cowboys. He starred in a series of musical westerns for Paramount, and another series for 20th Century Fox. In later years he was featured in supporting roles well into the 1950s.

26. Kenneth MacDonald

Actor | The Ten Commandments

Kenneth MacDonald was born Kenneth Dollins on September 8, 1901, in Portland, IN. He began his career as a stage actor in the 1920s and came to Hollywood in the early 1930s. He broke into motion pictures, but after several small roles, he found employment difficult to come by. He hit upon the idea ...

27. 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...

28. Roy Rogers

Soundtrack | Cowboy and the Senorita

Roy Rogers (born Leonard Slye) moved to California in 1930, aged 18. He played in such musical groups as The Hollywood Hillbillies, Rocky Mountaineers, Texas Outlaws, and his own group, the International Cowboys. In 1934 he formed a group with Bob Nolan called Sons of the Pioneers. While in that ...

29. Richard Bailey

Actor | Manhunt of Mystery Island

Richard Bailey was born on September 26, 1919 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945), The Train (1964) and City of Silent Men (1942). He died on February 6, 2000 in Mission Viejo, California, USA.

30. Frank McCarroll

Actor | The Devil Diamond

Frank McCarroll was born on September 5, 1892 in Morris, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Devil Diamond (1937), Gunman's Code (1946) and Valley of Terror (1937). He was married to Mary Ellen Treadwell and Lorrie. He died on March 8, 1954 in Burbank, California, USA.

31. Al St. John

Actor | Billy the Kid in Texas

Al St. John was born on September 10, 1893 in Santa Ana, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Billy the Kid in Texas (1940), Prairie Badmen (1946) and Billy the Kid Trapped (1942). He was married to Yvonne June Villon Price Pearce (actress), Lillian Marion Ball and Flo-Bell ...

32. Tom Santschi

Actor | King of the Wild

American leading man and character actor of the silent period. Born in Crystal City, Missouri(though a number of popular reference works list Switzerland and Kokomo, Indiana). He is listed in the 1880 census as living in Kokomo at the age of two years. This means his date of birth must have been ...

33. Ted French

Actor | The Quick and the Dead

Ted French was born on April 21, 1899 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Quick and the Dead (1963), Range Beyond the Blue (1947) and Ridin' Down the Trail (1947). He was married to Nellie Louise Cowles and Gladys Genevieve Worden. He died on July 3, 1978 in Los Angeles,...

34. 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

35. Bee Ho Gray

Actor | Hey! Hey! Westerner

Emberry Cannon Gray was born on April 7, 1885 in Leon, Chickasaw Nation in present day Oklahoma. His family moved to Cache, Indian Territory within two years. The small town of Cache was near Fort Sill. Emberry's mother was 1/4 Chickasaw. His father had been a Texas Ranger in the Trinity Division ...

36. Clyde Howdy

Actor | PT 109

Clyde Howdy was born on May 31, 1921 in Arlington, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for PT 109 (1963), Mod Squad (1968) and Temple Houston (1963). He died on October 3, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

37. Henry Wills

Stunts | Pump Up the Volume

Veteran stuntman and stunt coordinator Henry Wills was born on a cattle ranch in Arizona in 1921. After graduating high school he headed to Hollywood, and was soon working as an extra, mainly in westerns. He picked up some extra money doing stunt work, and soon began to concentrate on that field. ...

38. Jack Montgomery

Actor | The New Frontier

Jack Montgomery was born on November 14, 1891 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for The New Frontier (1935), Pursued (1947) and The Outlaw Deputy (1935). He was married to Marian Baxter. He died on January 21, 1962 in Hollywood, California, USA.

39. J.P. McGowan

Director | The Lost Express

J.P. McGowan was born on February 24, 1880 in Terowie, South Australia, Australia. He was a director and actor, known for The Lost Express (1917), Hills of Missing Men (1922) and Do or Die (1921). He was married to Mrs. Kaye Swart Northrop, Leona (Lorna) Haviland and Helen Holmes. He died on March ...

40. Marshall Reed

Actor | The Madmen of Mandoras

Marshall Reed was born on May 28, 1917 in Englewood, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Madmen of Mandoras (1963), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) and They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968). He was married to Carlyn Miller. He died on April 15, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, ...

41. Terry Frost

Actor | Mysterious Island

Terry Frost was born on October 26, 1906 in Bemidji, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Mysterious Island (1951), Dead Man's Gold (1948) and Apache Rose (1947). He was married to Marion Carney and Marguerite Beday. He died on March 1, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

42. William Wilkerson

Actor | Juarez

William Wilkerson was born on September 18, 1902 in Cobb, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Juarez (1939), Singin' Spurs (1948) and California Conquest (1952). He died on March 3, 1966 in Hollywood, California, USA.

43. 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 ...

44. Charles King

Actor | The Adventures of Sir Galahad

Although Charles King played a variety of roles in silent films, and even made a series of comedy shorts for Universal in the 1920s, it was as a villain in sound westerns that King achieved his greatest fame. In the 1930s and 1940s his jowly face, beady eyes, Texas accent, droopy walrus mustache ...

45. Bill Cody Jr.

Actor | Scouts to the Rescue

Bill Cody Jr. was born on April 18, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Scouts to the Rescue (1939), Frontier Days (1934) and The Girl of the Golden West (1938). He was married to Elizabeth Sidford MacGregor. He died on August 11, 1989 in Studio City, California, USA.

46. Morgan Woodward

Actor | Cool Hand Luke

Craggy-faced, athletic veteran character actor who played hard-bitten or menacing types in numerous westerns and crime dramas. One of five brothers, Woodward grew up in Arlington, Texas. He had a keen interest in aviation early on and took flying lessons from 1941, getting his pilot's license and ...

47. 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. ...

48. George DeNormand

Actor | The Money Jungle

George DeNormand's life is an example of somebody whose life is almost too eventful to be true. Once he got out of the military, he became a professional boxer. Like most boxers, his career only lasted a handful of professional bouts however it opened up the door to a move to appearing as a ...

49. Jim Davis

Actor | Big Jake

Tall, rangy Jim Davis spent much of his early career in westerns mainly at Republic Pictures. The Missouri-born and -raised Davis' relaxed, easygoing manner and Southern drawl easily fit most moviegoers' image of the cowboy and Republic put him in a ton of them over the years (the fact that, unlike...

50. Roy Bucko

Actor | Young Blood

Roy Bucko was born on August 22, 1893 in Colusa, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Young Blood (1932). He was married to Rheba. He died on August 6, 1954 in North Hollywood, California, USA.

51. John Beach

Actor | Blue Montana Skies

John Beach was born on November 9, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Blue Montana Skies (1939), Hopalong Rides Again (1937) and Heroes of the Hills (1938). He was married to Constantine Johnston. He died on October 23, 1997 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

52. Buck Bucko

Actor | Code of the West

Rudolph Bucko (real name Rudolph Bouckou) was a working cowhand from Yakima, Washington, who, with his brother Roy Bucko, drifted south and found themselves riding Hollywood's western ranges. Neither brother was often billed but Rudolph was billed by his nickname, "Buck' Bucko, and he actually had ...

53. Neal Hart

Actor | Butterfly Range

Neal Hart was born on April 7, 1879 in Staten Island, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Butterfly Range (1922), Lure of Gold (1922) and South of Northern Lights (1922). He was married to Lula Gertrude Pielstick. He died on April 2, 1949 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...

54. William Steele

Actor | The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

American actor of small roles in Westerns, particularly those of John Ford. Although his screen credits and many records indicate a wide variety of names and spellings, Steele's own signatures on his military documents indicate that he was born William Anton Gittinger on March 28, 1888 (not 1889) ...

55. John Wayne

Actor | True Grit

John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.

Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...

56. Hal Taliaferro

Actor | Flying Lariats

American actor who starred in silent Westerns under one name, then moved into character roles and bit parts under another. Born Floyd Taliaferro Alderson in Sheridan, Wyoming, and raised on a ranch in Rosebud County, Montana, he became an expert horseman. He served in World War I, then traveled to ...