Rex Lease
cumpleaños: 1903-02-11 | lugar de nacimiento: Central City [now part of Huntington], West Virginia, USAFrom Wikipedia Rex Lloyd Lease (February 11, 1903 – January 3, 1966) was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in westerns. Lease arrived in Hollywood in 1924. He found bit and supporting parts at Film Booking Office (FBO), Rayart, more, and was given the opportunity to play a few leads. His first film was A Woman Who Sinned (1924). Rex's earliest westerns were a pair of Tim McCoy silents at MGM, one of which was The Law of the Range (1928) which had a very young Joan Crawford as the heroine and Rex as the "Solitaire Kid". Tim and Lease became friends, and over the next dozen or so years he appeared in seven more McCoy westerns. He had a featured role in director Frank Capra's The Younger Generation (1929), a tale of a Jewish family that move to a more upscale neighborhood. He successfully made the transition to talkies, and starred in melodramas, action flicks, old dark house mysteries, and comedies as well as a couple of western serials and about a dozen low-budget sagebrush yarns and outdoor adventures. In between lead roles, Lease did featured parts in some B westerns. He was Hoot Gibson's brother in Cavalcade of the West (1936); Rex played the "Pecos Kid" in McCoy's Lightnin' Bill Carson (1936); and he worked in a couple of Tom Tylers, Ridin' On (1936) and Fast Bullets (1936). Rex's finale as a star had him teaming up with Rin-Tin-Tin Jr. in The Silver Trail (1937). Though no longer afforded star billing, he continued in smaller roles into the 1950s in films and on TV.
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as Old-Timer
as Captain Matthews
as Stage Driver
as Henchman Whitey
as Deputy Mike
as Henchman
as Rex Lease
as Zeke Larkin
as Henchman Briggs
as Rance Harris
as Shorty
as Fake Marshall
as Jeff
as Marshal Jim Collins
as Evans
as Dan Drury
as Bob Crandall
as RCAF Sergeant 'Kansas' Eby
as Jerry
as Jose Hernandez
as Kit Cardigan
as Larry Evans
as Corporal Daniels aka Tombstone Kid
as Lloyd Wilson
as Dr. Ted Clayton
as Jim Bonner
as Cal Reynolds
as Dave Kent
as Eddie Lesser
