Acting

Silver Tip Baker

Born April 18, 1886 · Ellis County, Texas, USA

Died March 15, 1943 · aged 56

Floyd 'Silver Tip' Baker born Floyd Michael Baker in Texas in 1886. Well-known trick rider in rodeos and wild west shows from the late 1900's. He was among the talented few that could handle a team of horses and stagecoach at full speed, became a white-haired old codger character in many westerns, first playing the role, General Grenville M. Dodge in 'In the Days of Buffalo Bill' directed by Edwar…

Known For

Destry Rides AgainDestry Rides Again · 1939
Destry Rides Again
★ 7.21939
MovieWesternComedy
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Of Mice and MenOf Mice and Men · 1939
Of Mice and Men
★ 7.31939
MovieDrama
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Along Came JonesAlong Came Jones · 1945
Along Came Jones
★ 5.81945
MovieWesternComedy
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
The Cowboy and the LadyThe Cowboy and the Lady · 1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
★ 6.31938
MovieComedyRomance
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
Winners of the WestWinners of the West · 1940
Winners of the West
★ 7.01940
MovieWesternAction
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
Blue SteelBlue Steel · 1934
Blue Steel
★ 4.81934
MovieWesternAction
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
ArizonaArizona · 1940
Arizona
★ 6.51940
MovieWestern
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
North of the Rio GrandeNorth of the Rio Grande · 1937
North of the Rio Grande
★ 6.81937
MovieWestern
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.

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