
Birthday:
06-29-1918
Deathday:
07-07-1961 (43 years)
Birthplace:
Texas, USA
Biography
John L. Cason was born on July 30, 1918 in Valley View, Texas, USA as John Lacy Cason. He is known for his work on The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951), Snowfire (1958) andJungle Drums of Africa (1953). He died on July 7, 1961 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Cason and a friend, Charlie Lentz, were driving in Lentz's car on a raccoon-hunting trip when the car went off the road near Buellton, California. Cason was killed instantly and his friend died two days later.
Cason and a friend, Charlie Lentz, were driving in Lentz's car on a raccoon-hunting trip when the car went off the road near Buellton, California. Cason was killed instantly and his friend died two days later.
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Belle Starr's Daughter
Act like Kiowa Posseman
event1948 star_border 4.4
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The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
Cimarron
Act like Suggs (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 6
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The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
Crooked River
Act like Kent
event1950 star_border 5
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Ellison is the star searching for the killer of his parents while Hayden's a not-too-bad bandit leader.
Westward the Women
Act like Margaret's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 7
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There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
Marshal of Heldorado
Act like Jake Tulliver
event1950 star_border 4
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Shamrock and Lucky team up to drive the Tulliver Brothers out of Heldorado.
Hostile Country
Act like Ed Brady
event1950 star_border 3
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In this remake of No Man's Range (1935), Shamrock travels to the ranch of his stepfather who he has never met and finds himself caught in the middle of a range war.
West of the Brazos
Act like The Cyclone Kid
event1950 star_border 6
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An outlaw impersonates Shamrock in order to lease his land to an oil company for $75,000.
Stagecoach Outlaws
Act like Joe
event1945 star_border 5
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Kirby sends his henchmen to break killer Matt Brawley out of jail. But Brawley has already broken out and they return with Fuzzy instead. Realizing they think he's Brawley, Fuzzy plays the part. He and Bill plan to round up the gang but Fuzzy is in trouble when the real Brawley shows up to expose the hoax.
Sunset Carson Rides Again
Act like Sam Webster
event1948 star_border 4.1
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Sunset Carson is trying to raise money for a new school and his partner Sam Webster is out to stop him. When Carson plans a benefit prize-fight, Webster plans to make off with the proceeds.
Cattle Queen of Montana
Act like Henchman (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 5.6
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Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Thunder Over the Plains
Act like Kehoe (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 5.4
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Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.
Tough Assignment
Act like Joe
event1949 star_border 6
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A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers.
Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
The Hard Man
Act like Henchman with Eye Patch (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 4.8
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A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
The Texas Rangers
event1951 star_border 5.7
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It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
Streets of Ghost Town
event1950
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The Durango Kid and his sidekick look for stolen gold with a history.
The Lost Planet
Act like Hopper
event1953
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Dr. Ernst Grood , having already dominated the planet Ergro, now intends to take over the control of the Earth. Unfortunately for him, reporters oppose his sinister designs.
Larceny in Her Heart
Act like Club Bouncer
event1946 star_border 6
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In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.
Wild Horse Phantom
Act like Lucas
event1944 star_border 5
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A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.
Gunmen from Laredo
event1959 star_border 4.7
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A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.
From Here to Eternity
Act like Cpl. Paluso (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 7.3
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In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Snowfire
Act like Buff Stoner
event1958
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A little girl living on an isolated ranch claims to have formed a bond of friendship with a pure white, "wild" stallion. The horse is well known in the area, almost legendary, and supposedly vicious. Is she just making it up, or is she telling the truth? If it's real, isn't it dangerous for her with a "killer" horse? Or is the horse as vicious as he's been portrayed?
Hellgate
Act like Guard (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.7
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A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.
Gun Smoke
Act like Henchman Red
event1945 star_border 3.8
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U. S. Marshals Nevada Jack McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins come upon an overturned stagecoach with the driver and the passenger dead. They learn that the passenger, Hinkley, an archaeologist, has discovered an old Indian site that contains gold relics, and a gang has robbed him of the relics he was carrying. Jane Condon, daughter of Hinkley's partner who was also murdered, tells Nevada that an old Indian guide, Shag, is the only one who knows where the site is. The outlaws find Shag first, and kill him after forcing the information from him. Hinkley's son, Joel, arrives and knows where the site is and leads Nevada and Sandy there ahead of the outlaws.
Rimfire
Act like Blazer
event1949 star_border 5.7
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An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.
Ambush Trail
Act like Henchman Ed Blaine
event1946
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One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cowpoke Curley Thompson. The villain of the piece intends to bankrupt all the local ranchers and grab up the surrounding property for himself. But with Curley involved, the bad guy and his minions don't have a chance. The screenplay, by D. W. Griffith alumnus Elmer Clifton, is a medley of western cliches, pausing every so often for a first-rate action sequence. Perennial sagebrush sidekick Sid Saylor provides negligible comedy relief.
The Last Frontier
Act like First Sentry (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6.1
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Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.
Red Desert
Act like Bob Horn
event1949
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A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a desolate desert region where the agent is forced to utilize his survival skills.
3:10 to Yuma
Act like Wade Henchman (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 7.2
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Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
The Lone Hand Texan
Act like Henchman (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5
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Steve Driscoll arrives to help a friend who is trying to bring in an oil well. He finds that the well has been blown up and the workers have quit. He gets the workers back on the job and orders a new drill bit . When the drill bit is stolen he organizes the townspeople to invest in the well. But when the money is collected, a fake Durango Kid shows up to take it and flee
Red River Shore
Act like Henchman Joe (as John Cason)
event1953 star_border 5
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When an oil discovery is reported at Paxton, Oklahoma, Marshal Rex Allen immediately suspects that where there is oil, there is trouble. Rex arrives just as a band of desperadoes stage a bank hold-up and escape with $25,000 which ranchers have invested in prospective oil drillings.
The Gallant Legion
Act like Sprauge
event1948 star_border 7
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When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
Rustlers on Horseback
Act like Henchman Murray (as John Cason)
event1950 star_border 5
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When he catches wind that bookish George Parradine (John Eldredge) is actually a ruthless outlaw who's had one man killed and is now trying to steal a fortune from another, U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) poses as a bandit and infiltrates Parradine's gang. But Rocky's quest for justice is jeopardized when the dead man's son (George Nader) also goes undercover to get revenge on his father's killer. Fred C. Brannon directs this 1950 Western.
Colorado Ranger
Act like Loco Joe
event1950 star_border 5
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The Shamrock Kid, Lucky, and The Colonel get caught in a feud between outlaws and homesteaders.
Don Daredevil Rides Again
Act like Henchman Hagen (as John Cason)
event1951 star_border 6
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Stock-footage from Republic Pictures' earlier Zorro serials was served up once again in this 12 chapter cliffhanger, this time without the financially strapped studio having to credit Zorro creator Johnston McCulley or pay any royalties. Zorro simply became "Don Daredevil" (Ken Curtis), a foppish Easterner by day turned masked avenger by night. Like his not too distant relative, Don wore his disguise in order to battle nasty Roy Barcroft who, under a forged Spanish land grant, attempts to take over the surrounding ranch land.
Fast on the Draw
Act like Tex
event1950
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As a boy, Shamrock's parents were killed. He took possession of a pistol belonging to his father, a famous marshal. Now that he is grown, he takes the job of marshal and uses the same gun, but he still has to solve the mystery of what happened to his parents.
Range Land
Act like Henchman Rocky Rand (as John Cason)
event1949
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Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal Andy Clyde try to get the goods on a gang of stagecoach bandits.
The Thundering Trail
Act like Henchman Conway
event1951 star_border 4
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Lash and Fuzzy have been sent to escort the new Governor to the Capitol City. West and his outlaw gang are out to stop them. When Lash's first attempt is foiled, he realizes the Governor's supposedly deaf and dumb servant is the informant and sets a trap for the gang.
Redwood Forest Trail
Act like Curley
event1950
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Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys with the help of "Alfalfa " Switzer who plays one of the boys.
The Black Lash
Act like Henchman Cord (as John Cason)
event1952
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Having sent Deuce Rago to prison in Frontier Revenge (1948), Lash finds he's out and his outlaw gang are at it again. This time he has the Lawyer Leonard and Joan to help him out and Lash and Fuzzy must bring him in once more.
Black Hills Ambush
Act like Henchman Jake (as John Cason)
event1952
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U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to help his friend Nugget whose shipments are being robbed. Learning the gang only goes for incoming shipments, he figures they are repacking the loot and having Nugget ship it out. So he hijacks the next outgoing shipment finding a box labeled tools contains gold bars. Then posing as an outlaw he makes a deal with the gang hoping to round them up. But the boss learns he is a Marshal and he is made a prisoner.
The Lone Star Vigilantes
Act like Henchman Soldier (uncredited)
event1942
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It's Wild Bill Elliot as Wild Bill Hickok in the Columbia B-western Lone Star Vigilantes. Returning from Civil War duty, Hickok, Tex Martin and Cannonball find that their Texas home town is under the rule of Colonel Monroe, a bush-league dictator with his own police force. In true Hitlerian fashion, Monroe extorts huge sums of money from the populace, terrorizing them into silence. Our three heroes set about to put an end to Monroe's regime, with time out for Tex Ritter's musical interludes.
Son of Geronimo
Act like Smoky (ch's 10-12) (uncredited)
event1952
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The self-styled son of Indian chief Geronimo gets himself involved with a gang of nasty whites in this typical low-budget 15 chapter serial, which benefitted from a great deal of footage from the the stock piles at Columbia Pictures. Jim Scott and wagon train boss Tulsa are on to the nefarious schemes of Rance Rankin and Ace Devlin, getting words of warning through to Portico, the Son of Geronimo. With Portico's help, the white renegades are finally destroyed in the serial's concluding chapter, "Peace Treaty." Moore, the future star of the television series The Lone Ranger, was here billed "Clay Moore."
Wagon Team
Act like Henchman Slim (as John Cason)
event1952 star_border 6
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Gene Autry is back in the saddle again as an undercover detective in this action-packed Western complete with a showdown. Gene poses as a jailbird to wangle the truth from a boy (Dick Jones) suspected of stealing an Army payroll. When the youngster escapes from lockup and rejoins his family's medicine show, intrigue is in the wind as Gene tries to solve the mystery of the missing money and to save the lad from a vicious mob. Pat Buttram co-stars.
Fugitive Valley
Act like Whip Rider (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.7
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The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw's hideout in Fugitive Valley.
Fighting Bill Carson
Act like Joe
event1945 star_border 4
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Fuzzy and Billy discover a woman they rescued during a stagecoach holdup is actually a member of the holdup gang.
His Brother's Ghost
Act like Henchman Jarrett
event1945 star_border 5.2
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When a group of gunmen are running sharecroppers off their land, rancher Andy Jones sends for his friend Billy Carson to organise the sharecroppers to fight. Andy is soon mortally wounded by the gunmen, but before his death schemes for his no good twin brother Fuzzy to be sent for to impersonate him. The gunmen, witnessing Andy's funeral fear that Fuzzy is Andy's avenging ghost.
Ghost Guns
Act like Henchman Bart
event1944 star_border 5.8
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Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western.
Shadows of Death
Act like Butch
event1945 star_border 5.6
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With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent to help his friend Fuzzy who is the town's sheriff, judge, and barber. When the man that sent Billy is murdered and the railroad location map stolen, broken match sticks point to Vic Landreau. While Billy tries to find the missing map, Landreau suspects Billy is on to him and plans to have him killed.
Prairie Badmen
Act like Steve
event1946 star_border 4.5
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Medicine show proprietor Doc Lattimer has in his possession a map showing the location of a cache of stolen gold. His son Don favors keeping the gold rather than returning it to the express company to which it rightfully belongs, and steals the map, only to find himself menaced by outlaw leader Cal and his gang.
Overland Riders
Act like Henchman
event1946 star_border 3.5
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A honest stranger arrives in Devil's Gap and helps the local sheriff expose the murderer of a rancher.
Flaming Bullets
Act like Henchman Jim (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5
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Bullets fly as the Texas rangers fight an outlaw gang.
Ghost Of Hidden Valley
Act like Buck
event1946
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Dawson is running rustled cattle across the abandoned Trenton ranch and has given it the reputation of a ghost ranch to keep people away. When Henty Tenton arrives from England to take over the ranch, Dawson tries to get rid of him. But Billy and Fuzzy are on hand to help Henry and it's not long before they have to go into action.
Mark of the Lash
Act like Colt Jackson
event1948
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There's a dispute over water rights, and every lawman that arrives to settle the score is killed. It's up to Lash to settle the score and find out who is behind all the killings.
Lost Canyon
Act like Henchman
event1942 star_border 5
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Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
Down Rio Grande Way
Act like Red
event1942
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Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
Badlands of Dakota
Act like Townsman
event1941 star_border 5.9
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In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane.
A Snitch in Time
Act like Louie (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 4.8
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The Stooges are painters who are re-staining some furniture at a boarding house, unaware that a gang of bank robbers has its hideout there.
Comanche Territory
Act like Newcomer at Shindig (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 4.8
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Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue.
Savage Frontier
Act like Buck Matson - Henchman (as John Cason)
event1953
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Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take care of his hot headed brother and devoted sister, he becomes set upon by both the law, represented by Federal Marshall Rocky Lane, and by his former outlaw buddies led by the notorious William Oakes.
Border Patrol
Act like Miner
event1943 star_border 6
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When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
Go West, Young Lady
Act like Barfly
event1941 star_border 6.9
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A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Wyoming Renegades
Act like O.C. Hanks
event1954 star_border 5.8
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Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the Butch Cassidy gang, he is still suspected of being cahoots with them. When Cassidy and his men rob the bank, he is blamed. Escaping from the townspeople, he once again joins up with Cassidy to wait for a chance to help bring him in.
Ringside
Act like Tiger Johnson
event1949 star_border 4.3
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Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He needs the money badly, so he doesn't delay the fight. The opponent discovers Joe's weakness and pounds on his eyes, causing him to go blind.
Buck Privates
Act like Fighter (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.6
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Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
Rio Rita
Act like Ranger (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Jungle Drums of Africa
Act like Regas
event1953 star_border 6
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In Africa, a deceased medical missionary's daughter in Africa carries on her father's work. Before long, she finds herself in danger from crooks and a local witch doctor.
A Lawless Street
Act like Dean Ranch Hand (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 5.4
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A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
Desperadoes of the West
Act like Casey [Chs. 1, 8, 11, 12]
event1950 star_border 3.8
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A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting fierce opposition from an unknown gang of outlaws. Eastern promoter J.B."Dude" Dawson, is behind the gang as he is out to prevent the co-op members from striking oil before their lease expires, so he can secure the property for his company. When Ward, with the help of Arnold and his daughter Sally, arranges for a new driller to be brought in, the replacement man is killed and one of Dawson's men takes his place.
Laramie
Act like Henchman (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.5
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A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meeting with Chief Eagle and his son Running Wolf when Chief Eagle is mysteriously shot. Steve Holden, an agent for the government peace commission, with the aid of a wandering shoemaker, Smiley, discover the troubles and the Chief's murder have been instigated by Cronin, the regimental scout, for personal gain for he and his gang of outlaws.
Challenge of the Range
Act like Henchman Henley (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 5
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Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range. Wandering cowboy Steve Roper (Starrett) is hired by the Farmers Association to stem the activities of a group of gunmen who are driving ranchers off their land. The most likely suspect turns out to be innocent: the real culprits are within the Association itself. With the help of the chief suspect's son, Roper brings the crooks to justice.
Cowboy
Act like Trail Hand (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 6.4
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Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
The Lone Ranger
Act like Shorty (1 ep.)
event1949 star_border 6.6
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The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
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