Rex Lease
Acting
Born 1903-02-11
Died 1966-01-03
Central City [now part of Huntington], West Virginia, USA
174 credits
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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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Acting
59 credits
Maverick
The Abbott and Costello Show
The Cisco Kid
The Grapes of Wrath
Saboteur
The Adventures of Champion
Canyon Passage
A Foreign Affair
The Gazebo
In Old California
The Unholy Wife
Backlash
Ride, Vaquero!
California
The Pride of the Yankees
The Prodigal
Frisco Tornado
The Naughty Nineties
The Wild North
Lost in Alaska
The Time of Their Lives
Under Texas Skies
Buck Privates Come Home
Fury Below
Singing Guns
A Chump at Oxford
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
So's Your Uncle
Corvette K-225
Gun Belt
Roarin' Guns
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
The Crimson Ghost
Flame of Barbary Coast
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Raiders of the West
Phony Express
The Mummy's Tomb
Desert Patrol
King of the Cowboys
Lady in a Jam
A Hatful of Rain
Keep 'Em Slugging
Earl Carroll Vanities
The Last Alarm
Jesse James at Bay
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Call of the Rockies
Idaho
Sun Valley Cyclone
The Phantom Rider
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Cannonball Express
Aces and Eights
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Eagle Squadron
The College Hero
Lightnin' Bill Carson
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