Cliff Lyons was an American actor, stuntman and second-unit director, primarily of Westerns, particularly the films of John Ford and John Wayne. Lyons, the son of Garrett Thomas Lyons and Wilhamena Johnson Lyons, was raised on a South Dakota farm, though his family lived for a time in Memphis, TN, where he attended business school. An expert horseman, he gave up the notion of a business career and opted for the rodeo arena instead, touring the country;y and eventually reaching Los Angeles at the age of 21. With accomplished cowboys in great demand, Lyons quickly became involved in movies, working both as a stuntman and an actor. After only a couple of bit parts, he was signed by producer Bud Barsky to do seven inexpensive Westerns directed by Paul Hurst, with Lyons and Al Hoxie alternating as the hero and the heavy. Lyons and Hoxie alternated in another Western series produced by Morris R. Schlank, and, as Cliff ‘Tex’ Lyons, he seemed headed for minor stardom as a B-Western lead. However, Lyons’ voice was not well-suited for sound and the talkie revolution confined him to small roles. As his small shot at stardom faded, however, his career as a stunt double for stars big and small was on the rise. He doubled such cowboy stars as Tom Mix, Ken Maynard, Buck Jones and Johnny Mack Brown. In 1936 he worked with John Wayne for the first and struck up a personal and business relationship that would remain strong for three decades. Wayne was influential in getting Lyons his first work as a second-unit director and in introducing Lyons to John Ford, for whom Lyons would do some of his finest work. Lyons’ reputation as a stunt coordinator is comparable to that of acknowledged master Yakima Canutt, with whom Lyons partnered on numerous occasions. Perhaps Lyons’ most impressive work was the massive and dynamic battle sequences of Wayne’s The Alamo (1960). He was married from 1938 to 1955 to actress Beth Marion, with whom he had two sons. Cliff Lyons died in 1974 at 72, not long after coordinating stunts for Wayne’s The Train Robbers (1973).
Date of Birth 4 July 1901, near Clarno Township, Lake County, South Dakota
Date of Death 6 January 1974, Los Angeles, California
Cliff Lyons Biography / Wiki
| Name | Cliff Lyons |
| Also Know | Clifford William Lyons, Tex, Cliff “Tex” Lyons |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Clarno Township, Lake County, South Dakota, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1901-07-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 1974-01-06 |
Cliff Lyons Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Arizona Kid | Red Hank | 1929-03-31 | With help from his talented horse and dog, a marshal captures bandits…. |
| Blue Streak O’Neil | 1926-12-15 | On a mission to discover the identity of the rustlers of the cattle on Britton ranch, Blue Streak O’Neil exposes the villains mingling with the sherif… | |
| The Fighting Ranger | 1926-09-15 | After inheriting his uncle’s ranch, a cowpoke manages to capture a ghost of the range, break up some cattle rustlers, and win the girl…. | |
| Outlaw’s Paradise | Sheriff | 1927-03-01 | Our hero is mistaken for a bandit. Al’s girl Nancy at first believes him to be guilty, but he manage to convince her that the real bandit is McDonald…. |
| The Oklahoma Sheriff | 1930-07-10 | Sheriff has a crooked deputy, also objects to his daughter’s boyfriend. Crooked deputy kills the sheriff in a robbery. Boyfriend saves the dough, capt… | |
| Red Fork Range | ‘Skeeter’ Beldon | 1931-01-12 | It’s time for the stagecoach race to win the mail contract and the only entries are Reden and Farrell. Reden’s men kidnap Farrell’s daughter and then … |
| Code of the West | Leary Henchman | 1929-11-01 | Leary is using the Express Agent’s liking for alcohol to enable his men to steal insured packages. Then he claims the insurance. Railroad Agent Hartle… |
| The Cowboy and the Outlaw | Slim Saxon | 1929-10-01 | Story of a cowboy tracking down his father’s killer… |
| Bullets and Justice | Red Barton | 1929-02-18 | A mining expert helps a girl and her kid brother defeat an evil claim jumper…. |
| Wild Horse Canyon | Ranch Hand | 1925-05-30 | The foreman of a ranch owned by a pretty young girl captures a herd of wild horses, but the herd’s lead horse manages to break them free. The foreman … |
| Across the Plains | Chuck Lang | 1928-06-26 | Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds herself… |
| Headin’ Westward | Pat Carle | 1929-02-15 | Concern for her father, who is being slowly ruined by cattle rustling, prompts Mary Benson to do some investigating in a distant cattle town, where sh… |
| The Oklahoma Cyclone | Henchman | 1930-08-08 | A cowboy looking for his missing father, poses as an outlaw and joins the gang he thinks is responsible…. |
| O’Malley Rides Alone | Henchman | 1930-01-01 | Mounties O’Malley and Calhoun are sent to see why miners are not returning with their gold. Arriving, they recover the gold from a robbery attempt…. |
| Desert Greed | Gillis – Henchman (uncredited) | 1926-12-11 | A deputy comes upon a young girl who has been fired and cheated out of her wages by her former employer. The deputy helps her get what’s due her, and … |
| The Road Agent | 1925-07-30 | A rancher has left his spread to his long lost son, but only if he shows up to claim it. A mean-fisted fugitive from justice looks just like the missi… | |
| Canyon Hawks | Tom Hardy | 1930-08-25 | Cattleman Benson finds Mildred and her brother George living in one of his cabins and their sheep are on his land. Attracted to Mildred, he not only l… |
| The Last Roundup | Jimmy Blyth | 1929-06-30 | There is trouble on the Bar D ranch as cowhand Mile Ahead plans to rustle the herd. He starts a fire on the opposite side of the ranch to keep the han… |
| The Fighting Terror | 1929-08-01 | Bill attempts to apprehend the villain who killed his brother. Unfortunately, a crooked border-town sheriff is in his way…. | |
| Western Honor | 1930-03-15 | Bob Steele is a young rancher who refuses to give in to a gang that is seeking to deprive he and his partner of the contract for supplying cattle to a… | |
| Law of the Plains | Henchman | 1929-08-19 | a cowboy seeks revenge for the murder of his father…. |
| The Hunted Men | Henchman Red (uncredited) | 1930-04-01 | Spitzer wants the Gordon ranch, so he has his men waylay and rob him as he returns with money. Dick finding the body also finds a blood soaked money w… |
| Breezy Bill | Bandit | 1930-01-24 | A young rancher falsely accused of kidnapping his own stepfather, the aptly named Henry Pennypincher…. |
| The Man from Nowhere | 1930-04-04 | A tramp cowboy butts in on a western family fray where a step-brother is trying to wrestle an estate away from a sick man and falls for the blonde nie… | |
| The Night Rider | Bert Logan | 1932-08-22 | Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch. He finds the secret passage f… |
| The Young Land | Jury Foreman | 1959-05-01 | An American gunslinger kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war. The killer is arrested and put on trial for murde… |
| The Lawless Nineties | Henchman Davis | 1936-02-15 | Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent. Plummer and his gang are out to make sure the vot… |
| Wagon Tracks West | Henchman Matt | 1943-08-18 | Cowboys side with an Indian doctor against crooks and bad water…. |
| Near the Rainbow’s End | Lefty – Henchman | 1930-06-10 | Despite past friendliness, cattle ranchers Tom and Jim Bledsoe, father and son, fence off their range to prevent its use by neighboring sheep ranchers… |
| Under Texas Skies | Mustang – Henchman (uncredited) | 1930-11-15 | Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money…. |
| The Crimson Trail | Barroom Cowhand | 1935-03-11 | A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves…. |
| Riders of the Purple Sage | Jed | 1931-10-28 | Lassiter’s sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years later Lassiter arrives at the Withersteen ranch looking for the… |
| 7 Men from Now | Henchman | 1956-08-04 | Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife’s murderers…. |
| Renegade Trail | Henchman | 1939-07-25 | Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King’s Men … |
| Wagon Master | Marshal of Crystal City | 1950-04-22 | Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey… |
| The Last of the Duanes | Henchman | 1930-08-31 | Buck Duane avenges his father’s murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of t… |
| Black Aces | Rider | 1937-09-04 | When Len Stoddard wins Ted Ames ranch in a poker game he sends his brother Jake along with Ted to take over the ranch. When Jake is found murdered he … |
| The Abductors | Secret Service Agent | 1957-07-01 | Two men (Victor McLaglen, George Macready) botch the kidnapping of a warden’s daughter (Fay Spain), then plot to ransom Abraham Lincoln’s corpse…. |
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Trooper Cliff (uncredited) | 1949-10-22 | After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he’s also re… |
| Hollywood Round-Up | Saloon Set Brawler | 1937-11-06 | While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a “fake” bank robbery turn… |
| The Eagle’s Brood | Cowhand | 1935-10-25 | When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy’s life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson…. |
| Stormy | Cowhand (uncredited) | 1935-10-21 | A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck…. |
| The Painted Desert | Rider | 1931-03-07 | Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants’ camp, and clash over which is to be “father.” They are still bitter… |
| The Rainbow Trail | Horseman | 1932-01-03 | The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter’s life and Fay Larkin’s marriage to a Mormon…. |
| North of the Rio Grande | Barfly | 1937-06-28 | Hoppy’s brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man…. |
| The War Wagon | Outrider (uncredited) | 1967-05-26 | An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter’s stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the … |
| The Devil Horse | Cowhand (uncredited) | 1932-11-01 | Bob Norton, seeking his brother’s killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a “wild” boy…. |
| The Silver Bullet | Stage Driver | 1942-08-05 | A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible…. |
| Colt Comrades | Rancher | 1943-06-18 | Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam own… |
| Major Dundee | Trooper (uncredited) | 1965-04-07 | During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on a… |
| Trailin’ West | Gambler | 1936-09-04 | A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln’s request…. |
| The Silver Bullet | Barfly | 1942-08-05 | A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible…. |
| Gordon of Ghost City | Rider | 1933-08-13 | A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather’s gold mine and other outlaw… |
| 3 Godfathers | Guard at Mojave Tanks (uncredited) | 1948-12-31 | Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their ow… |
| Ben-Hur | The Lubian (uncredited) | 1959-11-18 | In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of tr… |
| Winners of the West | Indian / Henchman | 1940-07-02 | Beyond Hell’s Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from bein… |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Charioteer (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 | Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy,… |
| Spartacus | Soldier (uncredited) | 1960-10-13 | The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,… |
Cliff Lyons Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Taras Bulba | Second Unit Director | 1962-11-21 | Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for hi… |
| Genghis Khan | Second Unit Director | 1965-04-15 | This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tr… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Fighting Thru | Stunts | 1930-12-25 | Dan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them. During the robbery Fox shoots Tennessee and… |
| The Vanishing Legion | Stunts | 1931-06-01 | A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of … |
| The Miracle Rider | Stunts | 1935-04-11 | In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father’s death and to follow in his path as a pro… |
| The Red Rider | Stunts | 1934-07-16 | “Red” Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, “Silent” Slade from the hangman’s noo… |
| The Purple Monster Strikes | Stunts | 1945-10-06 | A Martian invader crashes his spaceship conveniently close to the workshop of a scientist who is developing an interplanetary craft. If the extraterr… |
| Winners of the West | Stunts | 1940-07-02 | Beyond Hell’s Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from bein… |
| The Phantom Rider | Stunts | 1936-07-06 | The Phantom Rider helps Mary Grayson thwart a plot to steal her land…. |
| The Phantom Rider | Stunts | 1946-01-26 | A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters…. |
| The Man from Tumbleweeds | Stunts | 1940-05-02 | Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang…. |
| The Border Sheriff | Stunts | 1926-04-24 | Carter Brace is out to murder Belden. Collins who was sent to bring in the border gang led by Brace, saves Belden’s life in San Francisco. When they a… |
| Death Valley Manhunt | Stunts | 1943-11-25 | Unknown to oil company president Ross, his man Quinn is pulling a swindle on the independent drillers. Quinn controls both the Judge and the Marshal. … |
| Dodge City | Stunts | 1939-04-08 | In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line…. |
| The Missouri Traveler | Stunts | 1958-01-21 | Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobi… |
| Riders of Death Valley | Stunts | 1941-07-01 | The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Fora… |
| Renegade Trail | Stunts | 1939-07-25 | Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King’s Men … |
| The Devil Horse | Stunts | 1932-11-01 | Bob Norton, seeking his brother’s killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a “wild” boy…. |
| North of the Rio Grande | Stunts | 1937-06-28 | Hoppy’s brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man…. |
| Cassidy of Bar 20 | Stunts | 1938-02-25 | Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an ur… |
| The Singing Vagabond | Stunts | 1935-12-16 | Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie…. |
| Bar 20 Rides Again | Stunts | 1935-12-06 | Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream…. |
| Three on the Trail | Stunts | 1936-04-14 | An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be … |
| Mystery Ranch | Stunts | 1932-06-12 | Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice…. |
| The Old Chisholm Trail | Stand In | 1942-12-11 | Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. Desperate need of water takes them … |
| 3 Godfathers | Stunts | 1948-12-31 | Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their ow… |
| The War Wagon | Stunts | 1967-05-26 | An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter’s stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the … |
| The Light That Failed | Stunts | 1939-12-24 | A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind…. |
| Robbers’ Roost | Stunt Double | 1932-12-30 | Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick  |
| McLintock! | Technical Advisor | 1963-11-12 | Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly … |
| Three Godfathers | Stunts | 1936-03-06 | In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Ar… |
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