Rex Lease
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-02-11
Place of birth
Central City [now part of Huntington], West Virginia, USA
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Cast
Gun Belt
1953
6.30
Shadows of Tombstone
1953
6.00
Gun Cargo
1949
0.00
You Came Along
1945
7.00
The Wild North
1952
6.90
Tomorrow We Live
1942
4.30
Two Sisters
1929
6.00
Land of Fighting Men
1938
0.00
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
5.65
Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
0.00
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
6.10
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
4.40
The Outlaw Dog
1927
0.00
Cavalcade of the West
1936
4.40
The Sign of the Wolf
1931
0.00
The Monster Walks
1932
4.20
Chalk Marks
1924
0.00
The Unholy Wife
1957
4.60
The Last Alarm
1926
0.00
Pals of the Golden West
1951
0.00
Aces and Eights
1936
6.00
Queen of the Chorus
1928
0.00
Colorado Sundown
1952
3.30
Fast Bullets
1936
4.50
Roarin' Guns
1936
6.50
Chinatown After Dark
1931
3.70
Billy the Kid's Range War
1941
6.50
Singing Guns
1950
5.80
Calling Dr. Death
1943
6.50
Borrowed Wives
1930
4.60
Rough Riding Ranger
1935
0.00
The Younger Generation
1929
6.60
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
7.40
Lightnin' Bill Carson
1936
5.00
Hot Curves
1930
5.70
Fury Below
1936
1.00
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
1950
6.30
The Man from Guntown
1935
0.00
Sunny Skies
1930
4.20
A Foreign Affair
1948
7.10
Ten Laps to Go
1936
4.00
The Silver Bullet
1942
4.00
Custer's Last Stand
1936
4.50
The Silver Trail
1937
5.00
Heroes of the Alamo
1937
6.00
Fighting Caballero
1935
5.00
Girls Who Dare
1929
0.00
The Mysterious Pilot
1937
0.00
Troopers Three
1930
7.00
Code of the Silver Sage
1950
6.00
Swing It, Sailor!
1938
5.00
Pals of the Range
1935
0.00
Code of the Prairie
1944
0.00
Frisco Lil
1942
8.00
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
1941
4.00
Phony Express
1943
5.40
The Utah Kid
1930
0.00
The Law of the Range
1928
2.50
Backlash
1956
6.40
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939
6.00
The Cowboy and the Bandit
1935
6.00
In Old Cheyenne
1931
0.00
Cyclone of the Saddle
1935
5.20
Lost in Alaska
1952
6.00
Out of the Storm
1948
6.50
Professor Beware
1938
6.10
The Last Edition
1925
5.00
Wings of Adventure
1930
5.30
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
1941
0.00
The Phantom Rider
1946
6.00
Code of the Rangers
1938
0.00
The Ghost Rider
1935
5.00
Desert Patrol
1938
0.00
South of the Border
1939
5.00
Stolen Love
1928
0.00
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
7.83
Springtime in Texas
1945
0.00
Why Girls Leave Home
1945
5.00
Night Time in Nevada
1948
6.20
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945
5.60
Sierra Sue
1941
0.00
The Shadow
1940
6.50
Saboteur
1942
6.90
Inside Information
1934
5.50
The Crimson Ghost
1946
4.80
Riders of Black Mountain
1940
0.00
Under Texas Skies
1940
5.00
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
1940
4.00
Eyes of the Underworld
1942
4.75
Bordertown Trail
1944
0.00
Call of the Rockies
1944
6.00
A Chump at Oxford
1940
6.90
Eagle Squadron
1942
0.00
Midnight Morals
1932
0.00
The College Hero
1927
4.30
In Old Monterey
1939
5.30
The Phantom Cowboy
1941
6.00
The Gallant Legion
1948
7.00
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945
5.00
Covered Wagon Raid
1950
5.80
Frisco Tornado
1950
6.00
Hills of Oklahoma
1950
0.00
Lone Texas Ranger
1945
6.00
The Cyclone Kid
1942
0.00
Sun Valley Cyclone
1946
5.00
Dead Man's Gulch
1943
0.00
Rancho Grande
1940
4.00
The Trail Blazers
1940
0.00
Death Valley Outlaws
1941
0.00
One Man's Law
1940
0.00
Outlaws of the Rio Grande
1941
0.00
Boss of Hangtown Mesa
1942
0.00
Keep 'Em Slugging
1943
5.50
Tonto Basin Outlaws
1941
0.00
Raiders of the West
1942
0.00
Daredevils of the West
1943
0.00
Custer's Last Stand
1936
0.00
Arizona Terrors
1942
0.00
Haunted Ranch
1943
6.00
Firebrands of Arizona
1944
6.00
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945
5.00
Days of Buffalo Bill
1946
0.00
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947
6.20
Nevada City
1941
5.00
Jesse James at Bay
1941
5.00
Sunset Serenade
1942
5.50
In Old California
1942
5.10
King of the Cowboys
1943
5.50
Idaho
1943
5.70
Riders of the Rio Grande
1943
0.00
Perils of the Wilderness
1956
6.00
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
5.70
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
5.90
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
5.90
Corvette K-225
1943
6.20
So's Your Uncle
1943
5.00
Broadway Daddies
1928
1.00
Moulders of Men
1927
0.00
The Naughty Nineties
1945
6.80
The Time of Their Lives
1946
7.00
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
6.30
Midnight Intruder
1938
5.20
Ridin' On
1936
0.00
On Stage Everybody
1945
0.00
White Tie and Tails
1946
7.00
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945
0.00
A Hatful of Rain
1957
6.74
California
1947
6.50
Canyon Passage
1946
6.60
Dead Man's Eyes
1944
6.50
Red Riders of Canada
1928
0.00
The Mystery Pilot
1926
0.00
Lady in a Jam
1942
5.50