Rex Lease
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: February 11, 1903
Day of Death: January 3, 1966 (63 years old)
Place of Birth: Central City [now part of Huntington], West Virginia, USA
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.
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Actor Airport Attendant (uncredited)
You Came Along
Actor Pete Grant
Springtime in Texas
Actor Tony - Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Why Girls Leave Home
Actor Collingswood
Flame of Barbary Coast
Actor Policeman
Earl Carroll Vanities
Actor Henchman Whitey
Lone Texas Ranger
Actor Smiley
Santa Fe Saddlemates
Actor Sheriff Wright (uncredited)
The Naughty Nineties
Actor Onlooker (uncredited)
On Stage Everybody
Actor Cab Driver (uncredited)
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1944
1943
Actor
Calling Dr. Death
Actor Red's Henchman
Phony Express
Actor Henchman
Dead Man's Gulch
Actor Personnel Manager
Keep 'Em Slugging
Actor Jack
Daredevils of the West
Actor Zeke Larkin
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
Actor Rex Lease
Haunted Ranch
Actor Bridge Henchman
King of the Cowboys
Actor Henchman
Idaho
Actor Father of Twins
Riders of the Rio Grande
Actor Coxswain
Corvette K-225
Actor Hotel Clerk
So's Your Uncle
1942
Actor Shorty
Tomorrow We Live
Actor Townsman (uncredited)
The Mummy's Tomb
Actor Spectator (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees
Actor Rance Harris
The Silver Bullet
Actor
Frisco Lil
Actor Plant Cafeteria Worker (uncredited)
Saboteur
Actor (uncredited)
Eyes of the Underworld
Actor German soldier
Eagle Squadron
Actor Henchman Ben Rankin
The Cyclone Kid
Actor Bert Lawler
Boss of Hangtown Mesa
Actor Henchman Joe - Pete in Credits
Raiders of the West
Actor First Toll Collector Henchman
Arizona Terrors
Actor Martin Rider
Sunset Serenade
Actor Gold Strike Rider
In Old California
1941
Actor Townsman
Bad Man of Deadwood
Actor Henchman Buck posing as Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid's Range War
Actor Jeff
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Actor Fake Marshall
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Actor Rancher Rex
Sierra Sue
Actor Sheriff Ben Jeffers
The Phantom Cowboy
Actor Marshal Jim Collins
Death Valley Outlaws
Actor Henchman Luke
Outlaws of the Rio Grande
Actor Stanley, Jane's Editor
Tonto Basin Outlaws
Actor Masked Henchman
Nevada City
Actor Henchman Gregg
Jesse James at Bay
1940
Actor Cop (uncredited)
The Grapes of Wrath
Actor Garage Henchman
The Shadow
Actor Sheriff Clay Mathews
Riders of Black Mountain
Actor Jim Marsden
Under Texas Skies
Actor Henchman Buck
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Actor Bank Robber (uncredited)
A Chump at Oxford
Actor Henchman Joe
Rancho Grande
Actor Engineer Reynolds
The Trail Blazers
Actor Spike Hudkins
One Man's Law
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1938
1937
1936
Actor Asa Knox aka Ace Carter
Cavalcade of the West
Actor Jose Hernandez
Aces and Eights
Actor Jimmy
Fast Bullets
Actor Jerry
Roarin' Guns
Actor Fred Rand aka The Pecos Kid
Lightnin' Bill Carson
Actor Joe Norsen
Fury Below
Actor Walter Jameson
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Actor Larry Evans
Ten Laps to Go
Actor Kit Cardigan
Custer's Last Stand
Actor Kit Cardigan / John C. Cardigan
Custer's Last Stand
Actor Danny O'Neil
Ridin' On
