
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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