What American actor know for his striking resemblance to silent film hero Rudolph Valentino played American Old WEst gunfighter Billy the Kid?
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Anthony Dexter Anthony John "Tony" Dexter (January 19, 1913 – March 27, 2001) was an American actor known for his striking resemblance to silent film hero Rudolph Valentino, whom he portrayed in the 1951 biographic "Valentino". Dexter sometimes used the pseudonym Walter Craig. He was known for portraying many real-life characters such as Captain John Smith, Captain William Kidd, Billy the Kid and Christopher Columbus.
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Billy the Kid Billy the Kid (born Henry McCarty, and also known as WilliamH.Bonney; 1859July 14, 1881) was an American Old West gunfighter who participated in the New Mexico Territory's Lincoln County War of 1878. He is known to have killed eight men.
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Alias Billy the Kid Alias Billy the Kid is a 1946 American Western film directed by Thomas Carr and written by Earle Snell and Betty Burbridge. The film stars Sunset Carson, Peggy Stewart, Tom London, Roy Barcroft, Russ Whiteman and Tom Chatterton. The film was released on April 17, 1946, by Republic Pictures.
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Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge is a 1937 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Betty Bronson. Based on a story by Jack Natteford, the film is about the son of a Southeastern cattleman who becomes entangled in a war between the cattlemen and "turpentiners" who make their living harvesting pine tree sap.
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Eddie Parker (actor) Eddie Parker (December 12, 1900 – January 20, 1960) was an American stuntman and actor who appeared in many classic films, mostly westerns and horror films. Some of his more famous films and serials include the 1943 ""Batman"" (as Lewis Wilson's stunt double), "The Crimson Ghost", "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" (as the Mummy), and "Rear Window" for Alfred Hitchcock as well as many classic Universal horror films. He appeared three times in the early television series, "Tales of the Texas Rangers", and also performed stunts for that program.
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Fred Graham (actor) Fred Graham (October 26, 1908 – October 10, 1979) was an American actor and stuntman, who performed in scores of films from the 1930s. A semi-professional baseball player, Graham appeared mainly in Westerns, performing stunts and playing opposite John Wayne, among others. He also featured alongside Wayne in several films with director John Ford. He played small roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, notably "Vertigo", as the Police Officer who falls to his death in its famous opening scene while trying to help James Stewart. He continued working in films until the 1970s.
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Billy Naylor Billy Naylor (September 22, 1916 - October 5, 2011), was an American child actor who appeared in several "Our Gang" films during the silent era. Beginning his screen career in 1925, some of his movies included "Uncle Tom's Uncle", "The Fourth Alarm", and "Telling Whoppers". At the age of 18, he joined the Screen Actors Guild, making him the youngest member to enter the labor union. He left Hollywood in 1935. Naylor was the oldest living member of the "Our Gang" series at the time of his death on October 5, 2011.
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Christian Rub Christian Rub (April 13, 1886 – April 14, 1956) was known as a character actor from the late 1910s to the early 1950s, and was featured in more than 100 movies.
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Bob Steele filmography Born Robert North Bradbury Jr. (January 23, 1907December 21, 1988), American actor Bob Steele and his twin brother Bill were the sons of film director Robert N. Bradbury. The twins began their acting career in the silent film "The Adventures of Bob and Bill", directed by their father, and continued in a series of Bradbury Sr.'s film shorts. Bill later pursued a career in medicine. Bob continued to act under his real name, until "The Mojave Kid" when he was billed as Bob Steele. During his career of more than 200 films and television shows between 1920 and 1974, he was known primarily for his work in Westerns. Steele appeared as the recurring character of Tucson Smith in several of the Three Mesquiteers serials produced by Republic Pictures. He became familiar to America's television audiences for his recurring role as Trooper Duffy in the comedy series "F Troop".
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Brushy Bill Roberts Brushy Bill Roberts (? – December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) a.k.a. William Henry Roberts , Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie P. Roberts or Ollie L. Roberts, attracted attention by claiming to be the western outlaw William H. Bonney, also known as BillytheKid. Roberts' claim was rejected by Governor Thomas Mabry in 1950 and has been widely debated since that time. Brushy Bill's story is promoted by the "Billy the Kid Museum" in his hometown of Hico in Hamilton County, Texas. His claim was further promoted by the 1990 film "Young Guns II", as well as a 2011 episode of "Brad Meltzer's Decoded" on the History Channel. Robert Stack did a segment on Brushy Bill in early 1990 on the NBC television series "Unsolved Mysteries" and more recently it was promoted by former television personality Bill O'Reilly.
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The Lariat Kid The Lariat Kid is a lost 1929 American silent film western directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
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Arizona Days (1928 film) Arizona Days is a 1928 American silent western film directed by J.P. McGowan, who also portrayed the protagonist.
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Tom Wilson (actor) Tom Wilson (August 27, 1880 – February 19, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in 254 films between 1915 and 1963. He was born in Helena, Montana, and died in Los Angeles, California. Wilson had notable supporting roles in the Silent era, like "The Kindly Officer" in D. W. Griffith's epic "Intolerance" (1916), the angry policeman in Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" (1921) and a boxing coach in Buster Keaton's comedy "Battling Butler" (1926). After the rise of sound film, he was reduced to small roles for the rest of his long film career.
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Billy West (silent film actor) Billy West (September 22, 1892 – July 21, 1975) was a film actor, producer, and director of the silent film era. He is best known as a Charlie Chaplin impersonator.
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Charles Sullivan (actor) Charles Sullivan (April 24, 1899 – June 25, 1972), also known as Charlie Sullivan, was an American character actor who was born just before the turn of the 20th century on April 24, 1899. He would begin his acting career at the age of 25, in the 1924 silent film, "His People". Over his highly prolific 30-plus-year career some sources have him appearing in over 500 films, while the American Film Institute credits him with appearing in over 250 films.
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Rough and Ready (film) Rough and Ready is a 1918 American silent western film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. It stars stage actor and western hero William Farnum. The picture was filmed in the Adirondack Mountains in western New York state. It is a lost film.
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The San Antonio Kid The San Antonio Kid is a 1944 American Western film directed by Howard Bretherton starring Wild Bill Elliott in the role of Red Ryder. It was the fourth of twenty-three Red Ryder feature films that would be produced by Republic Pictures and the first shot without George "Gabby" Hayes who had starred with Elliott since he relocated to Republic Pictures. The picture was shot on the studio’s back lot along with outdoor locations at Iverson Ranch, 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Billy Two Hats Billy Two Hats is a 1974 Western film directed by Ted Kotcheff. It stars Gregory Peck, Jack Warden and Desi Arnaz, Jr.
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Scarlet Days Scarlet Days is a 1919 American silent western film produced and directed by D. W. Griffith and released through Paramount/Artcraft Pictures, Artcraft being an affiliate of Paramount. Richard Barthelmess stars in a role for which Griffith had screentested Rudolph Valentino. It is considered by many to be one of Griffith's worst films.
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Fred Church (actor) Fred Rosewell Church (17 October 1889 – 7 January 1983) was an American actor of the silent era. After touring the U.S. in vaudeville, he joined Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson in Western films for the latter's Essanay Studios. He appeared in over 200 films between 1908 and 1935. He was born in Ontario/Boone, Iowa and died in Blythe, California, near his home in Quartzsite, Arizona, from a congestive heart failure
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Bobby Connelly Robert Joseph "Bobby" Connelly (April 4, 1909 – July 5, 1922) was an American child actor of silent films. He is one of the first male child stars of American motion pictures beginning his career in 1913 at the age of four.
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Walter Noble Burns Walter Noble Burns (1866–1932) was a writer of Western history and a Western fiction author, notable for his book, "The Saga of Billy the Kid" (1926).