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 Rexs 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 Capras 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 lowbudget sagebrush yarns and outdoor adventures In between lead roles Lease did featured parts in some B westerns He was Hoot Gibsons brother in Cavalcade of the West 1936 Rex played the Pecos Kid in McCoys Lightnin Bill Carson 1936 and he worked in a couple of Tom Tylers Ridin On 1936 and Fast Bullets 1936 Rexs finale as a star had him teaming up with RinTinTin 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