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Rex Lease
Central City [now part of Huntington], West Virginia, USA
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…
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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 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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1959
The Gazebo
Movie Stage Manager (uncredited)
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1957
Maverick
TV show Poker Player #2
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1957
A Hatful of Rain
Movie Man at Mailbox (uncredited)
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1957
The Unholy Wife
Movie Mr. White (uncredited)
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1956
Backlash
Movie Sergeant Blane (uncredited)
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1956
Perils of the Wilderness
Movie Sergeant Jim Rodney
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1955
The Adventures of Champion
TV show Assayer
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1955
The Prodigal
Movie Purveyor (uncredited)
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1953
Shadows of Tombstone
Movie Fake Drunk
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1953
Gun Belt
Movie Lynch Mob Member (uncredited)
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1953
Ride, Vaquero!
Movie Deputy
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1952
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV show Bartender
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1952
Toughest Man in Arizona
Movie
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1952
Lost in Alaska
Movie Old-Timer
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1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Movie Sheriff
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1952
Colorado Sundown
Movie Rancher who finds dog
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1952
The Wild North
Movie Townsman (uncredited)
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1951
Pals of the Golden West
Movie Cattleman at Meeting (uncredited)
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1950
Frisco Tornado
Movie Henchman
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1950
The Cisco Kid
TV show Man Buying Book (uncredited)
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1950
Covered Wagon Raid
Movie Bob Davis
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1950
Hills of Oklahoma
Movie Joe Brant
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1950
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
Movie Yellowstone
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1950
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Movie Clallan County Sheriff (uncredited)
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1950
Code of the Silver Sage
Movie Captain Matthews
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1950
Singing Guns
Movie Stage Driver
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1949
Gun Cargo
Movie Capt. Jim Parker
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1948
Out of the Storm
Movie Gus Clute
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1948
Night Time in Nevada
Movie Officer (uncredited)
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1948
A Foreign Affair
Movie M.P. Lieutenant (uncredited)
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1948
The Gallant Legion
Movie Conductor
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1947
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Movie Hank
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1947
Buck Privates Come Home
Movie Appleby's Chauffeur (uncredited)
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1947
California
Movie Stranger (uncredited)
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1946
The People's Choice
Movie
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1946
The Crimson Ghost
Movie Bain
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1946
White Tie and Tails
Movie Briggs (uncredited)
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1946
The Time of Their Lives
Movie Sgt. Makepeace
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1946
Canyon Passage
Movie Card Player (uncredited)
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1946
Sun Valley Cyclone
Movie Army Sergeant
