Rex Lease
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
Movie
The Grapes of Wrath
as Cop (uncredited)
1940
Movie
Saboteur
as Plant Cafeteria Worker (uncredited)
1942
Movie
A Foreign Affair
as M.P. Lieutenant (uncredited)
1948
Movie
The Pride of the Yankees
as Spectator (uncredited)
1942
Movie
A Chump at Oxford
as Bank Robber (uncredited)
1940
Movie
The Mummy's Tomb
as Townsman (uncredited)
1942
Movie
Canyon Passage
as Card Player (uncredited)
1946
Movie
Backlash
as Sergeant Blane (uncredited)
1956
Movie
The Time of Their Lives
as Sgt. Makepeace
1946
TV
Maverick
as Poker Player #2
1957
Movie
The Gazebo
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
1959
Movie
Calling Dr. Death
1943
Movie
In Old California
as Gold Strike Rider
1942
Movie
A Hatful of Rain
as Man at Mailbox (uncredited)
1957
Movie
Buck Privates Come Home
as Appleby's Chauffeur (uncredited)
1947
Movie
The Naughty Nineties
as Sheriff Wright (uncredited)
1945
Movie
The Monster Walks
as Ted Clayton
1932
Movie
Dead Man's Eyes
1944
Movie
California
as Stranger (uncredited)
1947
Movie
Flame of Barbary Coast
as Collingswood
1945
Movie
Ride, Vaquero!
as Deputy
1953
TV
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Bartender
1952
Movie
The Unholy Wife
as Mr. White (uncredited)
1957
Movie
Lost in Alaska
as Old-Timer
1952