Cowboys and gear.
by road-traveled | created - 20 Apr 2017 | updated - 26 Apr 2018 | PublicCowboys and cowgirls.
2nd list, since the first one disappeared.
1. 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.
2. Nina Varela
Actress | Tales of Tomorrow
Born near St. Louis in 1902, and trained in Europe in opera as a mezzo-soprano, square-faced, lantern-jawed, full-figured Nina Varela came to the United States in the late 1930s and ended up in Hollywood. During the 40s, 50's, and 60's, she worked frequently at the Shubert Theater, accompanying ...
Major Delilah Courtney, Woman They Almost Lynched (1953). 1953.
3. David Sharpe
Actor | Social Error
He made his first appearance before the camera at the age of 14 in Douglas Fairbanks's Robin Hood (1922) Young Dave became the National A.A.U. tumbling champion in 1925 and 1926. Still in his teens, he began taking bit parts in films. His big break came in Masked Emotions (1929). It led him to a ...
4. 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 ...
5. Dickie Jones
Soundtrack | Avengers: Age of Ultron
American actor who achieved some success as a child and as a young adult, especially in B-Westerns and in television. The son of a Texas newspaper editor. Jones was a accomplished horseman from infancy. At the age of four he was billed as the World's Youngest Trick Rider and Roper. At the age of ...
6. 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.
7. Monte Blue
Actor | Key Largo
Stalwart, durable Monte Blue, a romantic leading man of the silent days, was born January 11, 1887, as Gerard Monte Blue (some sources indicate 1890, but his mother's application for his admission to the Soldier's and Sailor's Orphan's Home lists his birth date as January 11, 1887). Various sources...
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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'.
11. 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.
12. 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...
13. 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.
14. 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 ...
15. 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,...
16. 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, ...
17. 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. ...
18. 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 ...
19. 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 ...
20. J. Farrell MacDonald
Actor | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
J. Farrell MacDonald was born on April 14, 1875 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Sunrise (1927), My Darling Clementine (1946) and The Great Lie (1941). He was married to Edith Bostwick. He died on August 2, 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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. 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), Across the Plains (1939) and Terror of the Plains (1934). He was married to Hazel. He died on April 7, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
23. 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 ...
24. 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 ...
25. Sunset Carson
Actor | Santa Fe Saddlemates
An American cowboy star of "B" westerns who had a brief career in the 1940s, Sunset Carson was born with the decidedly unheroic name of Winifred Maurice Harrison (although he was generally known to his family as Michael or Mick) in Gracemore, Oklahoma. He moved to Plainview, Texas, as a boy and ...
26. Thomas Hunter
Writer | The Final Countdown
Thomas Hunter was born on December 19, 1932 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Final Countdown (1980), Il sorriso del ragno (1971) and X312 - Flight to Hell (1971). He was married to Isabelle Courts. He died on December 27, 2017 in Rowayton, Connecticut, USA.
Pedro, Carlos (1971). 1971.
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27. Andy Devine
Actor | Stagecoach
Rotund comic character actor of American films. Born Andrew Vabre Devine in Flagstaff, Arizona, he was raised in nearby Kingman, Arizona, the son of an Irish-American hotel operator Thomas Devine and his wife Amy. Devine was an able athlete as a student and actually played semi-pro football under a...
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