Rex Lease

Known for ActingBorn 1903-02-11Died 1966-01-03Central 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.Read more

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Riders of the Rio Grande

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

Tonto Basin Outlaws

One Man's Law

Code of the Rangers

The Mysterious Pilot

Ridin' On

The Man from Guntown

Cannonball Express

The Sign of the Wolf

The Cancelled Debt

The People's Choice

Springtime in Texas

Bordertown Trail

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground

Outlaws of Cherokee Trail

Death Valley Outlaws

Outlaws of the Rio Grande

Riders of Black Mountain

Desert Patrol

Rough Riding Ranger

Girls Who Dare

When Dreams Come True

Riders of the Dark

The Phantom of the Turf

Clancy's Kosher Wedding

A Woman Who Sinned

Frisco Lil

Code of the Silver Sage

Gun Cargo

On Stage Everybody

Blonde Ransom

Firebrands of Arizona

Haunted Ranch

Raiders of the West

The Phantom Cowboy

Custer's Last Stand

Queen of the Chorus

The Outlaw Dog

Not for Publication

The Last Alarm

Somebody's Mother

The Grapes of Wrath

Roarin' Guns

Pals of the Golden West

Frisco Tornado

Swing It, Sailor!

The Pride of the Yankees