Rex Lease
Biography
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.
Acting (156 movies)
Gun Belt
1953
Shadows of Tombstone
1953
Gun Cargo
1949
You Came Along
1945
The Wild North
1952
Tomorrow We Live
1942
Two Sisters
1929
Land of Fighting Men
1938
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
The Outlaw Dog
1927
Cavalcade of the West
1936
The Sign of the Wolf
1931
The Monster Walks
1932
Chalk Marks
1924
The Unholy Wife
1957
Pals of the Golden West
1951
Aces and Eights
1936
Queen of the Chorus
1928
Colorado Sundown
1952
Fast Bullets
1936
Roarin' Guns
1936
Chinatown After Dark
1931
Billy the Kid's Range War
1941
Singing Guns
1950
Calling Dr. Death
1943
Borrowed Wives
1930
Rough Riding Ranger
1935
The Younger Generation
1929
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
Lightnin' Bill Carson
1936
Hot Curves
1930
Fury Below
1936
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
1950
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
1936
The Man from Guntown
1935
Sunny Skies
1930
A Foreign Affair
1948
Ten Laps to Go
1936
The Silver Bullet
1942
Custer's Last Stand
1936
The Silver Trail
1937
Heroes of the Alamo
1937
Fighting Caballero
1935
Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle
1925
The Mysterious Pilot
1937
Troopers Three
1930
Code of the Silver Sage
1950
Swing It, Sailor!
1938
Pals of the Range
1935
Code of the Prairie
1944
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
1941
Phony Express
1943
The Utah Kid
1930
The Law of the Range
1928
Backlash
1956
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939
The Cowboy and the Bandit
1935
In Old Cheyenne
1931
Cyclone of the Saddle
1935
Lost in Alaska
1952
Out of the Storm
1948
Professor Beware
1938
Wings of Adventure
1930
The Last Edition
1925
Code of the Rangers
1938
The Phantom Rider
1946
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
1941
The Ghost Rider
1935
Desert Patrol
1938
South of the Border
1939
Stolen Love
1928
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Springtime in Texas
1945
Night Time in Nevada
1948
Why Girls Leave Home
1945
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945
Sierra Sue
1941
The Shadow
1940
Saboteur
1942
Inside Information
1934
The Crimson Ghost
1946
Riders of Black Mountain
1940
Under Texas Skies
1940
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
1940
Eyes of the Underworld
1942
Bordertown Trail
1944
Call of the Rockies
1944
A Chump at Oxford
1940
Eagle Squadron
1942
Midnight Morals
1932
The College Hero
1927
In Old Monterey
1939
The Phantom Cowboy
1941
The Gallant Legion
1948
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945
Covered Wagon Raid
1950
Frisco Tornado
1950
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