John Cason

Born: 1918-06-29

John L. Cason was born on July 30, 1918 in Valley View, Texas, USA as John Lacy Cason. He is known for his work on The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951), Snowfire (1958) andJungle Drums of Africa (1953). He died on July 7, 1961 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. Cason and a friend, Charlie Lentz, were driving in Lentz's car on a raccoon-hunting trip when the car went off the road near Buellton, California. Cason was killed instantly and his friend died two days later.


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3:10 to Yuma

as Wade Henchman (uncredited)
Released: 1957-08-07

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As...

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From Here to Eternity

as Cpl. Paluso (uncredited)
Released: 1953-08-28

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his...

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Cowboy

as Trail Hand (uncredited)
Released: 1958-01-23

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted...

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Westward the Women

as Margaret's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
Released: 1951-12-16

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His...

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Rimfire

as Blazer
Released: 1949-03-25

An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.

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Cattle Queen of Montana

as Henchman (uncredited)
Released: 1954-11-18

Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.

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A Lawless Street

as Dean Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Released: 1955-11-15

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out...

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Cimarron

as Suggs (uncredited)
Released: 1960-12-01

The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.

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Buck Privates

as Fighter (uncredited)
Released: 1941-01-31

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The...

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Comanche Territory

as Newcomer at Shindig (uncredited)
Released: 1950-05-01

Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement...

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The Gallant Legion

as Sprauge
Released: 1948-05-24

When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of...

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The Texas Rangers

as uncredited
Released: 1951-06-03

It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of...

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Wyoming Renegades

as O.C. Hanks
Released: 1954-03-27

Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the...

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Hellgate

as Guard (uncredited)
Released: 1952-09-04

A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.

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The Last Frontier

as First Sentry (uncredited)
Released: 1955-12-07

Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.

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The Lone Hand Texan

as Henchman (uncredited)
Released: 1947-03-06

Steve Driscoll arrives to help a friend who is trying to bring in an oil well. He finds that the...

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Gunmen from Laredo

as uncredited
Released: 1959-03-01

A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.

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Fugitive Valley

as Whip Rider (uncredited)
Released: 1941-07-30

The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw's hideout in Fugitive Valley.

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Shadows of Death

as Butch
Released: 1945-04-19

With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent to help his...

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The Hard Man

as Henchman with Eye Patch (uncredited)
Released: 1957-12-01

A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.

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Lost Canyon

as Henchman
Released: 1942-12-18

Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends...

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Range Land

as Henchman Rocky Rand (as John Cason)
Released: 1949-12-24

Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In...

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Fast on the Draw

as Tex
Released: 1950-06-30

As a boy, Shamrock's parents were killed. He took possession of a pistol belonging to his...

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Fighting Bill Carson

as Joe
Released: 1945-10-31

Fuzzy and Billy discover a woman they rescued during a stagecoach holdup is actually a member of...

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Challenge of the Range

as Henchman Henley (uncredited)
Released: 1949-04-02

Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's...

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Ambush Trail

as Henchman Ed Blaine
Released: 1946-02-17

One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as...

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A Snitch in Time

as Louie (uncredited)
Released: 1950-12-07

The Stooges are painters who are re-staining some furniture at a boarding house, unaware that a...

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The Lone Star Vigilantes

as Henchman Soldier (uncredited)
Released: 1942-01-01

It's Wild Bill Elliot as Wild Bill Hickok in the Columbia B-western Lone Star Vigilantes....

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Rio Rita

as Ranger (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-11

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican...

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Overland Riders

as Henchman
Released: 1946-08-21

A honest stranger arrives in Devil's Gap and helps the local sheriff expose the murderer of a...

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Thunder Over the Plains

as Kehoe (uncredited)
Released: 1953-10-27

Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and...

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Mark of the Lash

as Colt Jackson
Released: 1948-08-15

There's a dispute over water rights, and every lawman that arrives to settle the score is...

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Red River Shore

as Henchman Joe (as John Cason)
Released: 1953-12-15

When an oil discovery is reported at Paxton, Oklahoma, Marshal Rex Allen immediately suspects...

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Larceny in Her Heart

as Club Bouncer
Released: 1946-05-20

In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private...

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Belle Starr's Daughter

as Kiowa Posseman
Released: 1948-11-13

The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to...

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Ghost Guns

as Henchman Bart
Released: 1944-11-17

Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western.

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Streets of Ghost Town

as uncredited
Released: 1950-08-03

The Durango Kid and his sidekick look for stolen gold with a history.

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His Brother's Ghost

as Henchman Jarrett
Released: 1945-02-03

When a group of gunmen are running sharecroppers off their land, rancher Andy Jones sends for...

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The Lost Planet

as Hopper
Released: 1953-06-04

Dr. Ernst Grood , having already dominated the planet Ergro, now intends to take over the...

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Son of Geronimo

as Smoky (ch's 10-12) (uncredited)
Released: 1952-11-06

The self-styled son of Indian chief Geronimo gets himself involved with a gang of nasty whites...

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Redwood Forest Trail

as Curley
Released: 1950-09-18

Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys...

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Badlands Of Dakota

as Townsman
Released: 1941-09-15

Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of...

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Wild Horse Phantom

as Lucas
Released: 1944-10-28

A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.

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Dead Man's Gold

as Matt Conway
Released: 1948-09-09

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The Black Lash

as Henchman Cord (as John Cason)
Released: 1952-01-02

Having sent Deuce Rago to prison in Frontier Revenge (1948), Lash finds he's out and his outlaw...

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The Thundering Trail

as Henchman Conway
Released: 1951-07-02

Lash and Fuzzy have been sent to escort the new Governor to the Capitol City. West and his...

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Desperadoes of the West

as Casey [Chs. 1, 8, 11, 12]
Released: 1950-08-02

A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting...

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Colorado Ranger

as Loco Joe
Released: 1950-05-12

The Shamrock Kid, Lucky, and The Colonel get caught in a feud between outlaws and homesteaders.

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Stagecoach Outlaws

as Joe
Released: 1945-08-17

Kirby sends his henchmen to break killer Matt Brawley out of jail. But Brawley has already...

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Crooked River

as Kent
Released: 1950-06-09

Ellison is the star searching for the killer of his parents while Hayden's a not-too-bad bandit...

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Laramie

as Henchman (uncredited)
Released: 1949-05-19

A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is...

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West of the Brazos

as The Cyclone Kid
Released: 1950-06-02

An outlaw impersonates Shamrock in order to lease his land to an oil company for $75,000.

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Go West, Young Lady

as Barfly
Released: 1941-11-27

A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of...

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Marshal of Heldorado

as Jake Tulliver
Released: 1950-04-21

Shamrock and Lucky team up to drive the Tulliver Brothers out of Heldorado.

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Ghost Of Hidden Valley

as Buck
Released: 1946-06-04

Dawson is running rustled cattle across the abandoned Trenton ranch and has given it the...

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Jungle Drums of Africa

as Regas
Released: 1953-01-21

In Africa, a deceased medical missionary's daughter in Africa carries on her father's work....

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Rustlers on Horseback

as Henchman Murray (as John Cason)
Released: 1950-10-23

When he catches wind that bookish George Parradine (John Eldredge) is actually a ruthless outlaw...

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Down Rio Grande Way

as Red
Released: 1942-04-23

Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the...

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Hostile Country

as Ed Brady
Released: 1950-03-24

In this remake of No Man's Range (1935), Shamrock travels to the ranch of his stepfather who he...

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Border Patrol

as Miner
Released: 1943-04-02

When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the...

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Snowfire

as Buff Stoner
Released: 1958-05-18

A little girl living on an isolated ranch claims to have formed a bond of friendship with a pure...

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Black Hills Ambush

as Henchman Jake (as John Cason)
Released: 1952-05-20

U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to help his friend Nugget whose shipments are being robbed....

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Ringside

as Tiger Johnson
Released: 1949-07-14

Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He...

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Red Desert

as Bob Horn
Released: 1949-12-17

A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into...

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Tough Assignment

as Joe
Released: 1949-11-15

A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. ...

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Gun Smoke

as Henchman Red
Released: 1945-02-16

U. S. Marshals Nevada Jack McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins come upon an overturned stagecoach with...

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Prairie Badmen

as Steve
Released: 1946-07-16

Medicine show proprietor Doc Lattimer has in his possession a map showing the location of a...

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Savage Frontier

as Buck Matson - Henchman (as John Cason)
Released: 1953-05-15

Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take...

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Flaming Bullets

as Henchman Jim (uncredited)
Released: 1945-10-14

Bullets fly as the Texas rangers fight an outlaw gang.

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Sunset Carson Rides Again

as Sam Webster
Released: 1948-09-10

Sunset Carson is trying to raise money for a new school and his partner Sam Webster is out to...

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Don Daredevil Rides Again

as Henchman Hagen (as John Cason)
Released: 1951-04-10

Stock-footage from Republic Pictures' earlier Zorro serials was served up once again in this 12...

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Wagon Team

as Henchman Slim (as John Cason)
Released: 1952-09-29

Gene Autry is back in the saddle again as an undercover detective in this action-packed Western...

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The Lone Ranger

as Shorty
First aired: 1949-09-15

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...

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