Acting

Rex Lease

Born February 11, 1903 · Central City [now part of Huntington], West Virginia, USA

Died January 3, 1966 · aged 62

From 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 …

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath · 1940

The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

Saboteur

Saboteur · 1942

MovieThrillerMystery

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair · 1948

A Foreign Affair

MovieRomanceComedy

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.

Canyon Passage

Canyon Passage · 1946

In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees · 1942

The Pride of the Yankees

MovieDramaFamily

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

The Naughty Nineties

The Naughty Nineties · 1945

The Naughty Nineties

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

A Chump at Oxford

A Chump at Oxford · 1940

A Chump at Oxford

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.

The Gazebo

The Gazebo · 1959

MovieComedyCrime

TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath · 1940

The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

Cop (uncredited)

Saboteur

Saboteur · 1942

MovieThrillerMystery

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

Plant Cafeteria Worker (uncredited)

A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair · 1948

A Foreign Affair

MovieRomanceComedy

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.

M.P. Lieutenant (uncredited)

Canyon Passage

Canyon Passage · 1946

In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

Card Player (uncredited)

The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees · 1942

The Pride of the Yankees

MovieDramaFamily

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

Spectator (uncredited)

The Naughty Nineties

The Naughty Nineties · 1945

The Naughty Nineties

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Sheriff Wright (uncredited)

A Chump at Oxford

A Chump at Oxford · 1940

A Chump at Oxford

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.

Bank Robber (uncredited)

The Gazebo

The Gazebo · 1959

MovieComedyCrime

TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.

Stage Manager (uncredited)

Backlash

Backlash · 1956

Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.

Sergeant Blane (uncredited)

Buck Privates Come Home

Buck Privates Come Home · 1947

Buck Privates Come Home

MovieComedyRomance

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Appleby's Chauffeur (uncredited)

Frisco Tornado

Frisco Tornado · 1950

U.S. marshal sets out to end an insurance scam: salesmen provide cow town folk with insurance against outlaw activity, outlaws who work for the insurance salesmen.

Henchman

Roarin' Guns

Roarin' Guns · 1936

Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.

Jerry

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast · 1945

Flame of Barbary Coast

MovieRomanceWestern

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

Collingswood

The Wild North

The Wild North · 1952

MovieAdventureRomance

In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.

Townsman (uncredited)

Ride, Vaquero!

Ride, Vaquero! · 1953

MovieWesternDrama

Two Mexican outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their Texas border territory.

Deputy

The Prodigal

The Prodigal · 1955

MovieDramaAdventure

A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.

Purveyor (uncredited)

The Time of Their Lives

The Time of Their Lives · 1946

The Time of Their Lives

MovieComedyFantasy

Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.

Sgt. Makepeace

In Old California

In Old California · 1942

In Old California

MovieActionRomance

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.

Gold Strike Rider

Fury Below

Fury Below · 1936

MovieActionCrime

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn't increase and the sabotage continues. Mary Norsen, office-secretary, accidentally learns of a plot by Fred Johnson to wreck the mine and force Cole to sell his coal-mine. She and her brother, Joe, join Cole in his fight to stop Johnson.

Joe Norsen

The Crimson Ghost

The Crimson Ghost · 1946

The Crimson Ghost

MovieAdventureAction

A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the planet.

Bain

The Unholy Wife

The Unholy Wife · 1957

The Unholy Wife

MovieThrillerCrime

A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accidentally kill the wrong person.

Mr. White (uncredited)

Corvette K-225

Corvette K-225 · 1943

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

Coxswain

California

California · 1947

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.

Stranger (uncredited)

The Mummy's Tomb

The Mummy's Tomb · 1942

The Mummy's Tomb

MovieHorrorFantasy

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.

Townsman (uncredited)

Maverick

Maverick · 1957

SeriesComedyWestern

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

Poker Player #2

The Abbott and Costello Show

The Abbott and Costello Show · 1952

The Abbott and Costello Show

Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.

Bartender

The Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid · 1950

The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.

Man Buying Book (uncredited)

The Adventures of Champion

The Adventures of Champion · 1955

The Adventures of Champion

SeriesFamilyWestern

The Adventures of Champion follow a wild stallion named Champion, who remarkably becomes friends with a young boy named Ricky North.The show followed the boy and the horse as they went on crazy adventures in the Southern West during the late 1800s.

Assayer