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Code of the Silver Sage

as Captain Matthews

1950
Lone Texas Ranger

as Henchman Whitey

1945
Firebrands of Arizona

as Deputy Mike

1944
Haunted Ranch

as Rex Lease

1943
Dead Man's Gulch

as Henchman

1943
Tomorrow We Live

as Shorty

1942
The Silver Bullet

as Rance Harris

1942
Arizona Terrors

as First Toll Collector Henchman

1942
Death Valley Outlaws

as Marshal Jim Collins

1941
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail

as Fake Marshall

1941
Desert Patrol

as Dan Drury

1938
The Silver Trail

as Bob Crandall

1937
The Mysterious Pilot

as "Kansas" Eby

1937
Aces and Eights

as Jose Hernandez

1936
Roarin' Guns

as Jerry

1936
Ten Laps to Go

as Larry Evans

1936
Custer's Last Stand

as Kit Cardigan

1936
Rough Riding Ranger

as Corporal Daniels aka Tombstone Kid

1935
Inside Information

as Lloyd Wilson

1934
The Monster Walks

as Ted Clayton

1932
Chinatown After Dark

as Jim Bonner

1931
Wings of Adventure

as Dave Kent

1930
The Utah Kid

as Cal Reynolds

1930
The Younger Generation

as Eddie Lesser

1929
The Law of the Range

as Solitaire Kid

1928
Stolen Love

as Bill

1928
Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle

as The Spirit of the Bottle

1925
Rex Lease Rex Lease

Birthday

1903-02-11

Place of Birth

Central City [now part of Huntington], West Virginia, USA

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.
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