Rex Lease

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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,...

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MaverickSeries • 1957The Abbott and Costello ShowSeries • 1952The Cisco KidSeries • 1950The Grapes of WrathMovie • 1940SaboteurMovie • 1942The Unholy WifeMovie • 1957The GazeboMovie • 1959A Foreign AffairMovie • 1948Ride, Vaquero!Movie • 1953The Mummy's TombMovie • 1942Buck Privates Come HomeMovie • 1947The Pride of the YankeesMovie • 1942A Chump at OxfordMovie • 1940Canyon PassageMovie • 1946The Time of Their LivesMovie • 1946Flame of Barbary CoastMovie • 1945The Naughty NinetiesMovie • 1945BacklashMovie • 1956In Old CaliforniaMovie • 1942The Wistful Widow of Wagon GapMovie • 1947Lost in AlaskaMovie • 1952CaliforniaMovie • 1947A Hatful of RainMovie • 1957Dead Man's EyesMovie • 1944