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Orvon Grover Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.
From 1934 to 1959, Autry appeared in 94 films and 91 episodes of The Gene Autry Show television series. During the 1930s and 1940s, he personified the straight-shooting hero—honest, brave, and true—and profoundly touched the lives of millions of Americans. Autry was also one of the most important figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre's development after Jimmy Rogers. His singing cowboy movies were the first vehicle to carry country music to a national audience. In addition to his signature song, "Back in the Saddle Again", Autry is still remembered for his Christmas holiday songs, "Here Comes Santa Claus", which he wrote, "Frosty the Snowman", and his biggest hit, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
Actors: James Arness (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Wally Brown (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Wendell Corey (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Scatman Crothers (actor), Jim Davis (actor), James Burke (actor), James Garner (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor),
Plot: Inept insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a $100,000 policy. When his boss learns the man was Jesse James he sends Milford after him with money to buy back the policy. After a masked Jesse robs Milford of the money, Milford's boss heads out with more money. Jesse learns about it and plans to rob him, have Milford dressed as him get killed in the robbery, and then collect the $100,000.
Keywords: annie-oakley, bar, bar-fight, bartender, blue-dress, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cameo, card-game, challenge, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathew McCue (actor), Eddie Parker (actor), Pat Buttram (actor), Gregg Barton (actor), Francis X. Bushman (actor), Kermit Maynard (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Harry Lauter (actor), Tom London (actor), Champion (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Mickey Simpson (actor),
Plot: Cavalry scouts Gene Autry ('Gene Autry (I)' (qv)) and Pat Buttram ('Pat Buttram (I)' (qv)) are ordered by the President (of the whole U.S. of A.) to break up an Arizona frontier ring which uses Indian raids to cover up its bandit activities. Carolina Cotton ('Carolina Cotton' (qv)) works with Gene and Pat, seeking revenge against the gang's leader, Dave Kilgrain ('Harry Lauter' (qv)) , who murdered her father. Lots of talk and Indian tribal dancing and stuff before Carolina gets around to shooting Kilgrain and Gene and Pat round up the rest of the gang.
Keywords: 1870s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-full-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, alcoholism, ambush, apache, assassination-attempt, award-ceremonyActors: Cactus Mack (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Emile Avery (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Pat Buttram (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Victor Cox (actor), Bob Burns (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Terry Frost (actor), Art Gilmore (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Champion (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor),
Plot: When the Texas cattle trails to Kansas are blocked, cattle buyer Gene Autry ('Gene Autry (I)' (qv)) goes to Texas to investigate. There, he finds his friend, land-agent "Buckeye" Buttram ('Pat Buttram (I)' (qv))and pretty Gay Kendall ('Anne James (I)' (qv), a newspaper reporter, siding with the homesteaders in a rancher-settlers dispute instigated by speculator Steve Ruttledge ('Leonard Penn' (qv)), in a land-grab scheme in which he will benefit when the railroad is built across the land he hopes to control.
Keywords: 1870s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, barbed-wire-fence, barricade, cattleActors: James Sweeney (editor), Don Beddoe (actor), Pat Buttram (actor), King Mojave (actor), Gene Roth (actor), Cosmo Sardo (actor), Billy Wilkerson (actor), Bob Woodward (actor), Armand Schaefer (producer), Gerald Geraghty (writer), George Archainbaud (director), Gene Autry (actor), Champion (actor), Gordon B. Clarke (actor), Chick Hannan (actor),
Plot: Montana ranch owner Cyrus Bigbee sends his foreman, Gene Autry, and Rawhide Buttram to his Canadian timber land to stop the marriage of his daughter Sandy to Todd Markey, whom he dislikes. Sandy wants to turn the property into a dude ranch, with Carolina Cotton and the Cass County Boys (Fred S. Martin, Jerry Scoggins and Bert Dodson) among the entertainers, and runs up against local timbermen who want it for cutting timber. When a Mountie is murdered, with suspicion pointing to Todd, Gene finds the real culprit and brings peace to the area.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, canada, horseActors: Champion (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Pat Buttram (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Gregg Barton (actor), John Cliff (actor), Victor Cox (actor), Bert Dillard (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Merrill McCormick (actor),
Plot: In a typical western (movie) town (possibly described as 'hick' by someone who possibly hasn't seen the film) Gene Autry and his friend Jack Beaumont are present when the bank is robbed and Sheriff Whiteside is killed. Judge Beaumont, Jack's father, appoints Gene the new sheriff. When Jack learns that his father is making a new will in his disfavor, they quarrel and Jack leaves under suspicious circumstances. Rocky Morgan who has been swindling the judge murders him and Gene has to jail his friend, who thinks Gene is double crossing him. But Gene has a plan to clear Jack.
Keywords: 1800s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, alibi, attempted-escape, b-western, bad-temper, bank, bank-robbery, bank-vault, bankerActors: Eddie Acuff (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Jack Byron (actor), Charles Cane (actor), Bob Card (actor), Champion (actor), Ken Christy (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Fred Burns (actor), William Forrest (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor),
Plot: Shag Johnson, owner of the Johnson Brothers Rodeo, has been trying for years to gain control of the World-Wide Wild West Show managed by Jennifer Benton, by fair means or foul. Gene Autry and Frog Millhouse arrive on the scene during a battle between the two rival shows and rescue Pa and Ma McCracken from an attack by Johnson's hired henchmen. All hands are carted off to jail, and great crowds are attracted there by Gene's singing, and Pa McCracken decides to add the singing cowboy to his World-Wide show. He does and Gene skyrockets the box-office receipts, which enrages Johnson since it appears certain that World Wide will be able to secure the contract for the annual Capistrano festival and the following Madison Square Garden rodeo. Gene refuses Johnson's offer of $10,000 per week to change shows, and Shag hires Jenkins to burn the Capistrano set-up to the ground. Pa McCracken is seriously injured and Gene learns that only a specialist from the east can save him, and his fee is $5,000. He accepts Johnson's offer in order to pay the doctor, and Jennifer is heartbroken over his apparent disloyalty. At Johnson's show, however, Gene learns of Johnson's duplicity, forces confessions from Shag and Jenkins, makes the former pay Pa's doctor bill and release Gene from his contract.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, american-flag, arson, b-movie, b-western, california, carnival-wagonActors: Gene Autry (actor), Earle Hodgins (actor), Ray Bennett (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Pat Brady (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Johnny Duncan (actor), Hugh Farr (actor), Karl Farr (actor), Charles Flynn (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), John Harmon (actor), Champion (actor), John Holland (actor),
Plot: Cattle buyer McCoy has run up gambling debts. When Gene and the other ranchers are ready to sell their cattle, he undercuts his bosses price planning to pocket the profit. The ranchers then try to drive their cattle to another market but McCoy's men set off an explosion and a rancher is killed. Knowing McCoy listens to the horse race results, Gene sets up a phony radio broadcast hoping to trap him.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, cowboy, horse, singer, singing-cowboyActors: Chuck Baldra (actor), Robert Barron (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Bob Card (actor), Jess Cavin (actor), Tommy Coats (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Ben Corbett (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Gene Autry (actor),
Plot: Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a men is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-full-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, ambush, b-movie, b-western, barfly, bartenderActors: Gene Autry (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Champion (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Augie Gomez (actor), Jack Hendricks (actor), Jack Ingram (actor), Jack Kenney (actor), Elmo Lincoln (actor), Ted Mapes (actor), Tully Marshall (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor),
Plot: Hendricks is smuggling furs across the border. Gene's partner sees them and is murdered. But before he died he wrote the initials HH. So Gene and Frog head to the HH dude ranch to investigate. They eventually get wise to Hendricks game but as soon as they find the furs they are made prisoners.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, avalanche, burglar-alarm, canada, cattle, cattle-drive, comic-sidekick, cowboy, customs, customs-officerActors: Walter Compton (miscellaneous crew), Stanley Blystone (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Champion (actor), Bill Elliott (actor), Jerry Frank (actor), John Harron (actor), Chris-Pin Martin (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Merrill McCormick (actor), Nelson McDowell (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Bob Reeves (actor),
Plot: When new owner Spud arrives from England, Autry convinces him not to sell the ranch but to raise horses for the Army. When both Autry's and Neale's bids are the same, the Colonel calls for a race to decide the winner. But that night Neale has Autry's stable burned.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, arson, b-movie, b-western, bicycle, bugle, business-competition, cowboy