Casey Tibbs aboard War Paint in the chute.
"The man in purple, back when I was a youngster and when we would go to the Red Bluff Rodeo in California, rode the horse named "War Paint" and he was know as Casey Tibbs."
When Casey was awarded the Champion Saddle Bronc buckle on the last day at Cheyenne Frontier Days, I got his purple Lincoln Continental and picked him up in the arena, and we took a victory lap around the race track.
The cops took a really dim view of that. They was waitin' for us as I drove out of the arena, but the Frontier Committee intervened. They din't want the Champeen Saddle Bronc rider bein' toted off to the Iron Tipi from right out of the arena.
Casey and I got into mischief in a few other places too. We was broke and hungry and we got throwed out of the restaurant at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver.
We din't get no dessert, but we each managed to smuggle our steaks out with us as they escorted us out the door.
I thought the exact same thing that he looked like Audie Murphy even before I read your post saying that Ringo.
Here's one for you. The very first movie "Lone Ranger" was made in 1938...way before Clayton Moore (and John Hart as his temporary t.v. replacement) made their Lone Ranger movies and T.V. Shows. What is interesting about the 1938 Lone Ranger, is that it is a truly lost movie. No totally complete prints of it are known to exist today. There are a few prints of part of the movie that has been edited down and issued on DVD, but no COMPLETE prints. There are some in foreign languages too, but none totally complete. What also attracts me about that 1938 Lone Ranger movie, is the very unusual mask the Lone Ranger wore. The basic black mask covers much lower on the face than other Lone Ranger masks, plus the mask has what looks like a wire screen attached to its bottom that partially obscures the entire bottom half of the Lone Ranger's face. Also, there were five different but dressed exactly alike Lone Rangers in that movie and each one of them got killed off until there was only one left at the very end, and only then did the Lone Ranger take off his mask and reveal his face. The studio also would not release the name of the actor who played him on their posters or promo, because they wanted the mystery of who he was to draw in customers.
Google it up. "The Lone Ranger movie 1938". Here's some pics that show his unusual Lone Ranger mask. If it had been solid instead of partially screen, it would remind me of the Green Hornet's mask. I think it was better than all the other Lone Ranger masks and really hid his secret identity much better.
You've go it backwards. Roy Rogers' success started in the early 1930s, as a member of the nationally known singing group "The Sons Of The Pioneers". The first Howdy Doody show was not broadcast until December 27, 1947.
From 1942:
Yes that's correct, Tonto was played by Victor Daniels a.k.a. "Chief Thundercloud" in the 1938 movie The Lone Ranger. I think he looks tougher and more rough and ready than Jay Silverheels did, (who played Tonto in the two Lone Ranger movies with Clayton Moore and on the t.v. series).
The lost 1938 Lone Ranger movie is the only Lone Ranger movie that had a total of five masked Lone Rangers....four of which got killed off until there was only one masked Ranger left (Lee Powell). Here's two pics of the five Lone Rangers together.
And here they are unmasked. (from left to right: Lee Powell (last ranger left at movie end), George Letz, Hal Taliaferro, Lane Chandler, and Herman Brix.)
Bye the way. I have the almost complete movie serial book entitled "To Be Continued...", which lists and gives a synopsis and pictures of the movie serials from 1929 to 1956. If anyone has a cowboy (or other) serial they would like dates and info on, just let me know.
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Now im going to be looking for acopy of that book.Also,been a long time since I heard of or seen Herman Brix and Lane Chandlers names. That made my day better.
As much as im used to Jay Silverheels--I think I would have preferred Chief Thundercloud as Tonto.
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I recognized more than I thought I would!
Thanks for putting the list together. I was talking to a co worker and they didn't know who Roy Rogers was!I brought them a DVD with some of his movies. (of the many I own) as it was inconceivable that they could live the rest of their life not knowing who Roy Rogers was.
You've go it backwards. Roy Rogers' success started in the early 1930s, as a member of the nationally known singing group "The Sons Of The Pioneers". The first Howdy Doody show was not broadcast until December 27, 1947.
From 1942:
