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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.
As actor
The Gazebo
The Unholy Wife
A Hatful of Rain
Backlash
Perils of the Wilderness
The Prodigal
Gun Belt
Shadows of Tombstone
Ride, Vaquero!
The Wild North
Toughest Man in Arizona
Colorado Sundown
Lost in Alaska
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Pals of the Golden West
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Singing Guns
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
Code of the Silver Sage
Covered Wagon Raid
Frisco Tornado
Hills of Oklahoma
Gun Cargo
A Foreign Affair
Out of the Storm
Night Time in Nevada
The Gallant Legion
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
California
The Phantom Rider