Horace B. Carpenter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Horace B. Carpenter (January 31, 1875 – May 21, 1945) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in 334 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934.
Gone with the Wind
as Atlanta Citizen (uncredited)The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...
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Dodsworth
as Motor Company Employee (Uncredited)A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that...
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Foreign Correspondent
as Man (uncredited)American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover...
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Dodge City
as Train Passenger (uncredited)In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of...
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All That Money Can Buy
as Jabez Stone's Party Guest (uncredited)Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr....
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Allegheny Uprising
as One of Jim's Black BoysSouth western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of...
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Dark Command
as TownsmanWhen transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the...
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Blue Steel
as TownsmanWhen Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as...
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Maniac
as Dr. MeirschultzAn ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations....
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Along Came Jones
as Old Barfly (uncredited)An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it...
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The Oregon Trail
as Pioneer at Wagon Train CampJeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to...
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Riders of Destiny
as RancherJames Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers....
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Bad Man of Deadwood
as Medicine Show SpectatorRoy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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In Old California
as TownsmanBoston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss...
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The President's Mystery
as Townsman (uncredited)The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President...
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West of the Divide
as HornsbyTed Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was...
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Three Faces West
as White-Haired Farmer in OregonViennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as...
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Belle of the Yukon
as Townsman (uncredited)Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an...
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Code of the Prairie
as uncreditedJust after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned...
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The Great Man's Lady
as Man in SaloonIn Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt...
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North of the Rio Grande
as Juror #3Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes...
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Frontier Pony Express
as St. Jo TownsmanIn the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of...
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Hidden Valley Outlaws
as Train Passenger (uncredited)Lawyer Leland is using land rights to kick the ranchers off their land. When Wild Bill and Gabby...
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Red River Valley
as Construction Worker (uncredited)Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
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Billy the Kid Trapped
as BarflyStanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three...
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King of the Arena
as Town MerchantMysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has...
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Carmen
as PastiaHot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal...
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Hitchhike to Happiness
as Stage Doorman (uncredited)An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes...
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Haunted House
as Judge MeadeTeenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
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Rollin' Westward
as BarflyA cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are...
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Young Buffalo Bill
as BarflyIt's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas'...
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Sons of the Pioneers
as RancherA singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes)...
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Heart of the Golden West
as TownsmanLambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides...
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Santa Fe Marshal
as SamU.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a...
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Go West, Young Lady
as BarflyA young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of...
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Whispering Footsteps
as Loan CustomerAn Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
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Call of the Rockies
as MinerCowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City....
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The Apache Kid's Escape
as Larry WilsonA former outlaw eludes the authorities by masquerading as a cowboy.
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The Man from Hell
as TownsmanA cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough...
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Dawn on the Great Divide
as TownsmanBuck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder...
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Thunder Over the Prairie
as BailiffAn evil land baron uses the local Indians as laborers and then finds legal methods to cheat them...
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Smoking Guns
as Host at DanceAccused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him...
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Joan the Woman
as Jacques d'ArcA WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of...
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Days of Jesse James
as Townsman (uncredited)Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers....
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Stone of Silver Creek
as Church MemberIn perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the...
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Gunsmoke Ranch
as Joe LarkinA crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries...
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The Bridge of Sighs
as Juror (uncredited)Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the...
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The Country Doctor
as Townsman (uncredited)A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he...
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The Unknown Ranger
as Elder Rancher (uncredited)Bob Allen in his starring debut gets a job on Wright's ranch where he hopes to find the rustlers...
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Billy The Kid's Round-Up
as TownsmanWhen Sheriff Hanley sends for Billy and his pals, they arrive to find him murdered and Ed Slade...
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Trailing Trouble
as Elderly Ranch HandWhen mild mannered Friendly Fields is sent to the Blair ranch to work, he is mistaken for the...
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Silver on the Sage
as Card PlayerHoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown...
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Return of the Ape Man
as Theater Watchman (uncredited)The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain...
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Undercover Man
as Party GuestA bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the...
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The Shadow
as Hijacked Car DriverThe Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself...
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Partners of the Trail
as Skeets BriggsA playboy travels west after having killed his wife's lover. By chance, he happens to run into...
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Sunset Trail
as TownsmanDisguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude...
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The Virginian
as Mexican HenchmanA good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that...
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The Son of Davy Crockett
as RancherDave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want...
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Between Men
as DoctorWhen his young son is shot, John Wellington kills the culprit and flees. But his son Johnny...
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Phantom Ranger
as TownsmanA Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to...
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The Feud Maker
as Townsman / SettlerWhen Tex is brought in to fight in a range war between the cowmen and the nesters, he meets his...
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Calling Wild Bill Elliott
as RancherWhen territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence...
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Overland Mail
as Post DefenderTwo investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages...
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Saga of Death Valley
as Man at PartyWhen Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son...
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The Dude Bandit
as Doc Pettit (as Horace Carpenter)After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to...
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Man from Music Mountain
as Audience Member (uncredited)Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is...
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Romance of the Limberlost
as uncreditedAn orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's...
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Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
as Minister (uncredited)Lawyer Bowdre has started a war between the ranchers and the homesteaders planning to take over...
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Pride of the West
as TownsmanCaldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching...
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Timber War
as Logger (uncredited)The owners of a lumber mill hire an investigator to find out who is sabotaging their mill.
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A Colonel in Chains
as RamabaiWith Kathlyn's revelations of herself as a slave, Prince Umballah, her purchaser, has her...
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The Golden Chance
as Steve DenbyDespite her well-bred upbringing, Mary had disobeyed her family’s wishes and married Steve...
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Outlaw Express
as Land CommissionerBradley and sidekick Sharpe are sent west to investigate the murders of pony express riders who...
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The Unknown
as Hotel ProprietorRichard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good...
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Rollin' Plains
as Hank TomlinIt's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing...
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Paroled - To Die
as BartenderMeline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's...
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Arizona Round-Up
as Holmes - RancherTom Kenyon and his sidekick Pierre La Farge are hired by rancher Mike O'Day who, with his...
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The Ghost Breaker
as Duke D'Alva - CarlosCarmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to...
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Nan of Music Mountain
as McAlpinHenry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an...
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Mutiny in the Big House
as White-Haired PedestrianA young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years...
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Riders of the Desert
as Ranger Capt. Jim Reynolds (as H.B. Carpenter)The Rangers in New Mexico are being disbanded but Bob Houston gets them to make one more ride....
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The Texas Kid
as RancherMarshals Nevada and Sandy are after Scully and his gang who have been robbing stage-coaches. The...
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The Fugitive Sheriff
as Parade Leader (uncredited)Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken...
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Lonesome Trail
as Rancher (uncredited)Jimmy and partner Dusty have bought a ghost town in the Cherokee strip. When they arrive they...
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Assignment in Brittany
as Yves (uncredited)A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
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Desert Mesa
as Ed CalderA jobless cowpuncher rides into Cottonwood, Arizona in search of the man who swindled his father.
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The Cost of Hatred
as RamonJustus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when...
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Mountain Justice
as Man at Jeff's TrialStalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid...
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The Arizona Kid
as Jake GrantThe Arizona Kid (Warner Baxter) carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing...
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
as Lynch-Mob TownsmanHomesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants...
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State Police
as MotoristThe state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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Three Bags of Silver
as RamabaiThe chance-shot fired by the villainous but keen-sighted Umballah, makes a bone-bruise upon the...
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The Goose Girl
as Torpete the GypsyCount Von Herbeck, the chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps the fact...
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Doomed at Sundown
as Lew SpragueYoung Dave Austin hunts down the varmint who murdered his father in this B Western. Austin...
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The Selfish Woman
as MikeA young engineer, Tom Morley, is building a railroad through Imperial Valley. Tom's father also...
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Out of Singapore
as Capt. SmithWhile a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
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Smokey Smith
as Dad SmithThe parents (Horace B. Carpenter)(Vane Calvert) of Smokey Smith (Bob Steele) are murdered while...
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Western Frontier
as TownsmanKen and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now...
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Paradise Express
as Townsman on Street (uncredited)A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by...
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
as RamabaiThe serial detailed the experiences of Kathlyn Hare, the pretty daughter of an explorer. Kathlyn...
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Black Gold
as Tom (uncredited)Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when...
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Lucky Terror
as ProsecutorA sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner.
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Winners of the West
as BarflyBeyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses...
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The Old Homestead
as Townsman (uncredited)A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
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The Forged Parchment
as RamabaiThe captain of the guards, who was deposed by Umballah, observes Kathlyn in a perilous plight in...
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Michael O'Halloran
as Skipper (uncredited)A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out...
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Rolling Down the Great Divide
as Barfly (uncredited)A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range...
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Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
as (archive footage)This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its...
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Where Trails End
as Rancher George Kent (as Horace Carpenter)Prince the wonder horse and his gallant rider gallop off to protect hapless ranchers from the...
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The Ghost Rider
as Talkative Old-TimerThe first of a long-running series of Monogram-produced westerns starring Johnny Mack Brown and...
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Deadwood Dick
as Older TownsmanColumbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Starlight Over Texas
as BartenderTex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is...
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Range Defenders
as PeteStony's brother George has been accused of murder and the Mesquiteers have returned to prove his...
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
as RamabaiFeature version of the thirteen episode serial, Adventures of Kathlyn, released three years earlier.
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The Devil Stone
as uncreditedFishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed....
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One More American
as Mike ReganGeorge Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New...
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South of Sonora
as Mr. CarterBill Tracy is a Cattleman's Protective Association agent. Working undercover on his way to...
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Stolen Goods
as French surgeonThe lives of a poor orphan and a rich kleptomaniac intertwine after the former is framed for a...
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Wrangler's Roost
as Church MemberThe notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate....
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Border Raiders
as John HardyRanch owner John Hardy becomes the dupe of Cleo Dade when he marries her and brings her home to...
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Castles for Two
as NeoughAn American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid...
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Smoking Trails
as Doctor (uncredited)Mysterious cowboy Bill Patton (as Bob Norton) arrives, "in the land of the West - on the banks...
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The Law Commands
as Jason the lead farmerNight riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from...
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Range Riders
as Dad SuttonAn elderly rancher writes to his son to come home and help him fight against a bandit gang that...
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Maria Rosa
as PedroRamon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill...
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The Cruel Crown
as RamabaiPandemonium follows the escape of the leopards, placed to guard the treasure-room in Umballah's...
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Breed of the Border
as Dr. BatesJoe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots...
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Grand Ole Opry
as Townsman (uncredited)Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of...
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Young Blood
as Townsman EzraA reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
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Rustlers of Red Dog
as Bill Medford [Chs. 1-3, 12]A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band...
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The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
as BarflyA honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.
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The Call of the North
as RandGraehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to...
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Wanted - A Master
as The Boy's Father (uncredited)A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that...
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Common Ground
as BurkeCrusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged...
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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
as TownsmanA 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time...
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The Man from Guntown
as GillespieWhen Tim Hanlon arrives to tell Ruth McArthur her long lost brother has been killed, she...
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Joaquin Murrieta
as The Auctioneer (uncredited)This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin...
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The King's Will
as RamabaiFast following the death of the King of Allaha, Prince Umballah, dethroned by the revolution,...
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The Two Ordeals
as RamabaiKathlyn quickly recovers from the curious sensation of being forced to occupy an unwelcome...
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Shootin' Square
as Dad MasonDan Dawson hires on at the Mason ranch where he wins the affection of Ruth and alienates Frank...
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Vultures of the Sea
as (unconfirmed)When his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship,...
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The Warrior Maid
as RamabaiKathlyn and her sister, Winnie, have hardly disappeared through the trap leading from the big...
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The Spellbound Multitude
as RamabaiKathlyn's sister, Winnie, has been cowed and terrorized, is forcibly crowned Queen of Allaha, to...
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The Puppet Crown
as Count MallendorfA beautiful Russian Princess gives up the throne to wed an American.
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