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Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical instruments, some simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV’s Petticoat Junction in the 1960s.
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Smiley Burnette Biography / Wiki
| Name | Smiley Burnette |
| Also Know | Lester ‘Smiley’ Burnett, ‘Smiley’ Burnette, George ‘Smiley’ Burnette, Lester ‘Smiley’ Burnette, Lester Alvin Burnette, Ole Frog |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Summum, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1911-03-18 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 55 |
| Deathday | 1967-02-16 |
Smiley Burnette Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Kids in the Shoe | Singing little boy | 1935-05-19 | The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children. They won’t eat their porridge, won’t brush their teeth or comb thei… |
| Call of the Rockies | Frog Millhouse | 1944-07-14 | Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of … |
| Firebrands Of Arizona | Frog / Beefsteak Discoe | 1944-12-01 | The sheriff camps outside of town and tries to arrest Froggy and Sunset, but a gang of outlaws helps them get away…. |
| Ride, Ranger, Ride | Frog Millhouse | 1936-11-30 | It is the story of Gene’s, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising…. |
| Boots and Saddles | Frog | 1937-10-04 | Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene’s gonna turn him into a real westerner instead. When new owner Spud arrives from Engl… |
| Springtime in the Rockies | Frog Millhouse | 1937-11-13 | Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don’t like it, and ranch forem… |
| Red River Valley | Frog Millhouse | 1936-03-02 | Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site…. |
| Billy The Kid Returns | Frog Millhouse | 1938-09-04 | After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy’s look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of th… |
| The Big Show | Frog | 1936-11-16 | At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson get… |
| South of the Border | Frog | 1939-12-15 | A federal agent (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) hang out in Mexico to check a revolution…. |
| The Old Corral | Deputy Frog | 1936-12-21 | As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed … |
| King of the Cowboys | Frog Millhouse | 1943-04-09 | Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from b… |
| Oh, Susanna | Frog Millhouse | 1936-08-19 | Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by O… |
| Git Along Little Dogies | Frog Millhouse | 1937-03-27 | When war breaks out between oilmen and cattle ranchers, Gene sides with the ranchers until he learns that oil will bring a railraod to town…. |
| Heart of the Rio Grande | Frog Millhouse | 1942-03-11 | As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman … |
| Down Mexico Way | Frog | 1941-10-15 | Like 1940’s Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a “special”, to be promoted separately from Autry’s regular B-we… |
| Heart of the Golden West | Frog | 1942-11-16 | Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert an… |
| Rootin’ Tootin’ Rhythm | Frog Milhouse | 1937-05-12 | Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trou… |
| The Old Barn Dance | Frog Millhouse | 1938-01-29 | Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date…. |
| Call of the Canyon | Frog Millhouse | 1942-08-17 | A radio saleswoman (Ruth Terry) helps a singing cattleman (Gene Autry) trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast…. |
| Man from Music Mountain | Frog Millhouse | 1938-08-15 | Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is bringing in a line. As a bonus he throws in shares… |
| Guns and Guitars | Frog Millhouse | 1936-06-22 | A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff…. |
| The Singing Cowboy | Frog Millhouse | 1936-05-11 | A rodeo singer (Gene Autry) funds a little girl’s operation with a show, on television…. |
| Stardust on the Sage | Frog | 1942-05-25 | A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine…. |
| Back in the Saddle | Frog Milhouse | 1941-03-14 | 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 pois… |
| Sunset in Wyoming | Frog Millhouse | 1941-07-15 | By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won’t let that happen…. |
| Idaho | Frog Millhouse | 1943-03-10 | A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner…. |
| Code of the Prairie | Frog | 1944-10-06 | Just after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned newspaper man arrives to town to civilize it. He brings along… |
| Rancho Grande | Frog Millhouse | 1940-03-22 | A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure…. |
| Public Cowboy No. 1 | Helen Morgan | 1937-06-11 | Deputies Gene Autry and Frog go up against modern cattle rustlers. These rustlers use technology such as, airplanes, radios and refrigerated trucks to… |
| The Laramie Trail | Frog | 1944-04-03 | A cowbody acquires a ranch whose previous owner is believed to be dead…. |
| Tumbling Tumbleweeds | Smiley | 1935-09-05 | Traveling with Doc Parker’s medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene als… |
| The Sagebrush Troubadour | Frog Millhouse | 1935-12-02 | Before he was murdered Grandpa Martin found a gold mine. He failed to record it and now everyone is looking for Martin’s old horse that can lead them … |
| Ridin’ on a Rainbow | Frog | 1941-01-24 | When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves … |
| In Old Monterey | Frog | 1939-08-14 | The (pre-WWII) Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there…. |
| Gold Mine in the Sky | Frog | 1938-07-04 | As executor of the owner’s will, singing ranch foreman Gene must see that the daughter/heiress doesn’t marry without his approval…. |
| Yodelin’ Kid from Pine Ridge | Colonel Millhouse | 1937-06-14 | The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero…. |
| Rhythm of the Saddle | Frog Millhouse | 1938-11-06 | Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve…. |
| Western Jamboree | Frog Millhouse | 1938-12-02 | Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay … |
| Raiders of Sunset Pass | Frog Millhouse | 1943-12-30 | World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of military age is off fighting for Uncle Sam. Dad M… |
| Silver Spurs | Frog Millhouse | 1943-08-12 | Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a … |
| Home in Wyomin’ | Frog Millhouse | 1942-04-29 | Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his waywa… |
| Beyond the Last Frontier | Frog Millhouse | 1943-08-18 | Beyond the Last Frontier was the first entry in Republic’s “John Paul Revere” western series. Journeyman actor Eddie Dew stars as Revere, a Texas Rang… |
| Mountain Rhythm | Frog Milhouse | 1939-06-08 | Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money o… |
| Carolina Moon | Frog Millhouse | 1940-07-14 | A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men…. |
| The Singing Hill | Frog | 1941-04-25 | If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land…. |
| Ridin’ the Outlaw Trail | Smiley Burnette | 1951-02-23 | Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin’ the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, of course, Steve is obliged to don the mask of The … |
| Frontier Outpost | Smiley Burnette | 1950-12-29 | Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an outlaw gang that is raiding government gold shipment… |
| Pecos River | Smiley Burnette | 1951-12-15 | Steve is a Government Agent looking for the gang that stole the U.S. Mail. He goes undercover…… |
| Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride | Frog Millhouse | 1940-09-05 | Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in…. |
| Home on the Prairie | Frog Millhouse | 1939-02-03 | When shifty cattlemen Belknap (Walter Miller) and H.R. Shelby (Gordon Hart) are caught shipping infected animals to Mexico, they frame inspector Gene … |
| Mexicali Rose | Frog Millhouse | 1939-03-26 | Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage…. |
| The Rough, Tough West | Smiley Burnette | 1952-06-14 | Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia’s Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, however, Starrett is known as “Steve Holden,” a fo… |
| Quick on the Trigger | Smiley | 1948-12-02 | Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett’s second “Durango Kid” picture for 1949. It all begins when ousted sheriff Steve Warren (Starrett) is put on… |
| Rovin’ Tumbleweeds | Frog Millhouse | 1939-11-16 | Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, h… |
| Sierra Sue | Frog Millhouse | 1941-11-12 | To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until … |
| Blue Montana Skies | Frog Millhouse | 1939-05-03 | Gene Autry follows a clue written on a rock by his murdered partner and discovers a fur smuggling operation near the Canadian border…. |
| Phantom Valley | Smiley Burnette | 1948-02-19 | The Durango Kid, along with assistance from sidekick Smiley Burnett, investigates a pair of murders that threaten to fuel a range war…. |
| Pride of the Plains | Frog Millhouse | 1944-01-05 | Hurley wants to sell wild horses and is trying to get the Wild Game Laws that protect them changed. To get his petition signed, his henchman paints hi… |
| Under Fiesta Stars | Frog | 1941-08-25 | Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employment for the surrounding rancheros. Unfortunately,… |
| Gaucho Serenade | Frog Millhouse | 1940-05-09 | Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene’s hor… |
| Bordertown Trail | Frog Millhouse | 1944-08-11 | The election to determine if Texas will become a state is near and men opposed are running contraband across the border. Sunset and Frog are Border Pa… |
| Across the Badlands | Smiley | 1950-09-14 | Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as “The Durango Kid” in Columbia’s Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine: Starre… |
| The Kid from Amarillo | Smiley Burnette | 1951-10-29 | Charles “Durango” Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incognito across the Mexican border to beard the leader o… |
| Junction City | Smiley | 1952-07-12 | Durango, aka Steve Rollins (Charles Starrett) rides into town with saddle pal Smiley Burnette. The boys go to the rescue of pretty Kathleen Case, who … |
| Texas Dynamo | Smiley Burnette | 1950-06-01 | Charles Starrett plays The Durango Kid in the 1950 Columbia western Texas Dynamo. As a novelty, Starrett not only plays Durango and his “alter ego” S… |
| Renegades of the Sage | Smiley | 1949-11-24 | The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller (Trevor Bardette), who may be the man who’s been going around … |
| Bells of Capistrano | Frog | 1942-09-15 | America’s favorite singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this vintage tale as an up-and-coming rodeo singer caught in the middle of two rival companies, … |
| Outcasts of Black Mesa | Smiley | 1950-04-12 | Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprits. And once again, he dons his Durango Kid disguis… |
| Raiders of Tomahawk Creek | Smiley | 1950-09-30 | Charles Starrett, aka “The Durango Kid”, is back in Raiders of Tomahawk Creek. Starrett plays Steve Blake, a novice Indian agent, sent out to investig… |
| Horsemen of the Sierras | Sheriff Smiley Burnette | 1949-11-22 | When Robin Grant inherits a valuable range, certain evil interests try their best to kill off Robin and claim the land for themselves. US Marshall Ste… |
| Fort Savage Raiders | Smiley | 1951-03-14 | Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett’s “Durango Kid” western series. Starrett once again does double duty as a peacekeeper named S… |
| El Dorado Pass | Smiley | 1948-10-13 | Charles Starrett returns as The Durango Kid in Columbia’s El Dorado Pass. It all begins when Durango, in his everyday guise of Steve Clanton, is false… |
| Cowboy Serenade | Frog | 1942-01-30 | Gene Autry heads a cattlemen’s association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate the sale of five hundred heads of cattle. Jim ends up… |
| Beneath Western Skies | Sheriff Frog Millhouse | 1944-03-03 | To combat the lawlessness in her town, school teacher Carrie Stokes writes to her former students in search of a lawman. Johnny Revere arrives and sta… |
| Colorado Sunset | Frog Millhouse | 1939-07-30 | When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy b… |
| Round-Up Time in Texas | Frog Millhouse | 1937-02-28 | Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene’e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of badguys…. |
| Dick Tracy | Mike McGurk | 1937-02-20 | Dick Tracy’s foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various c… |
| On Top of Old Smoky | Smiley | 1953-03-25 | Poachers are harassing toll road owner Jen Larrabee. They want her land because it holds valuable minerals. Autry and the Cass County Boys, mistaken f… |
| The Singing Vagabond | Frog | 1935-12-16 | Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie…. |
| The Border Patrolman | Chuck Owens | 1936-06-20 | When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico … |
| Melody Trail | Frog Millhouse | 1935-10-21 | Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting…. |
| Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain | Frog | 1936-04-13 | His horse Champion steals the show from Gene when what’s at stake is a horse race and a bull fight…. |
| Men with Steel Faces | Oscar (archive footage) | 1940-05-02 | Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth…. |
| Gunning for Vengeance | Smiley Burnette | 1946-03-21 | Steve Landry arrives as the new Marshal of a town that is having trouble with outlaws. When an outlaw escapes over the State line out of his jurisdict… |
| Landrush | Smiley Burnette | 1946-11-18 | The Durango Kid rides again in Columbia’s Landrush. As ever, the masked do-gooder, alias Steve Harmon, is played by Charles Starrett. Bringing up the … |
| Under Western Stars | Frog | 1938-04-20 | In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the bac… |
| Roaring Rangers | Smiley Burnette | 1946-02-14 | When Sheriff Jeff Connor of Powder River cannot stop the crime wave, his young son, Larry, writes to the Durango Kid for aid. Taggart, the saloon owne… |
| South of the Chisholm Trail | Smiley Burnette | 1947-01-30 | When the ranchers of Bearcat are plagued by rustlers, Big Jim Grady offers to buy their herds from them at low-ball prices. Steve Haley suggests to th… |
| Two-Fisted Stranger | Smiley Burnette | 1946-05-30 | Arriving to become the new Deputy, Steve Gordon takes over as Sheriff instead when he finds the Sheriff has been killed. He doesn’t last long and is f… |
| Galloping Thunder | Smiley Burnette | 1946-04-24 | The cattle herds of some Arizona ranchers are being stampeded and stolen, so the Arizona Stockmen’s Syndicate sends ace investigator Steve Reynolds in… |
| Heading West | Smiley Burnette | 1946-08-14 | Dakota Indian Agent Steve Reynolds receives a copy of the Bonanza City Nuggett from Jim Mallory and reads a story blaming the Durango Kid for recent g… |
| The Desert Horseman | Smiley Burnette | 1946-07-10 | In most of his Columbia westerns, Charles Starrett simply was the Durango Kid, a mysterious masked do-gooder who pretends to be a criminal. Desert Hor… |
| The Lone Hand Texan | Smiley Burnette | 1947-03-06 | Steve Driscoll arrives to help a friend who is trying to bring in an oil well. He finds that the well has been blown up and the workers have quit. He … |
| The Fighting Frontiersman | Smiley Burnette | 1946-12-10 | Cimarron has found a lost treasure and the outlaw gang knows about it. They have made him a prisoner and are trying to get the location from him. Howe… |
| Riders of the Lone Star | Smiley Burnette | 1947-08-14 | An outlaw gang is trying to stop the reopening of a mine as they look for the money left there by the famous outlaw Dusty Morton. After a ten year abs… |
| The Stranger From Ponca City | Smiley Burnette | 1947-07-03 | A saddle-weary Steve Larkin (Charles Starrett), also the Duranko Kid, rides into Red Mound, a town filled with cattle rustlers. Cafe owner Smiley (Smi… |
| Prairie Roundup | Smiley Burnette | 1951-01-15 | In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears’ direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia’s aging “Durango Kid” western series. Once again, Charles S… |
| Larceny on the Air | Jimmy | 1937-01-11 | A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines…. |
| Challenge of the Range | Smiley Burnette | 1949-04-02 | Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder “The Durango Kid” in Columbia’s Challenge of the Range. Wandering cowboy Steve Roper … |
| Terror Trail | Smiley Burnette | 1946-11-21 | The Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) returns to Ret Butte intending to sell his cattle ranch. Saloon owner, Duke Catlett (Lane Chandler) is the secret o… |
| Prairie Raiders | Smiley Burnette | 1947-05-29 | Government Agent Steve leases land to Masters so he can bring in horses for the Army. Henley has obtained a forged lease for the same land and Steve i… |
| Law of the Canyon | Smiley Burnette | 1947-04-23 | Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break up… |
| Last Days of Boot Hill | Smiley Burnette | 1947-11-20 | Treasury Department Steve Waring, and also, unknown to others, the Durango Kid, comes to Sunset Pass in search of $1000,000 in gold coins, stolen from… |
| Buckaroo from Powder River | Smiley Burnette | 1947-10-13 | Steve arrives looking for the person printing counterfeit bonds. He finds his man in Pop Ryland who has two sons and a stepson. The stepson doesn’t wa… |
| West of Dodge City | Smiley Burnette | 1947-03-26 | Charles Starrett once again dons the disguise of the “Durango Kid” to restore law and order in this entry in Columbia’s 1945-1952 Western series. This… |
| West of Sonora | Smiley Burnette | 1948-03-25 | Western star Charles Starrett was amazing; he kept making the same film over and over, but always made it seem as if it was for the first time. In Wes… |
| Laramie | Smiley Burnette | 1949-05-19 | A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison (Fred Sears) is meeting with Chief Eagle (Shooting Star) … |
| Smoky Canyon | Smiley Burnette | 1952-01-31 | Mahoney is a sheep man who’s framed for the murder of a rancher. It’s all part of a scheme by a dishonest cattleman who hopes to extenuate a range war… |
| Snake River Desperadoes | Smiley Burnette | 1951-05-30 | Starrett tries to prevent a range war between settlers and the Native Americans. Blue and his fellow scoundrels think they can profit from the bloodsh… |
| Streets of Ghost Town | Smiley Burnette | 1950-08-03 | The Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) and his sidekick (Smiley Burnette) look for stolen gold with a history…. |
| The Adventures of Rex and Rinty | Jensen | 1935-08-30 | A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a… |
| Blazing Across the Pecos | Marshal Smiley Burnette | 1948-07-01 | This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler…. |
| Whirlwind Raiders | Smiley Burnette | 1948-05-12 | It’s 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get… |
| Trail to Laredo | Smiley Burnette | 1948-08-11 | Filmed at the Providencia Ranch (today’s Forrest Lawn in Burbank, CA), this typical “Durango Kid” Western featured the Cass County Boys performing “Go… |
| Desert Vigilante | Smiley Burnette | 1949-04-08 | Silver is being smuggled across the border and the secret passage goes through Betty Long’s basement. When Steve arrives he gets tangled up with the r… |
| The Hawk of Wild River | Smiley Burnette | 1952-02-28 | Steve Martin (Charles Starrett)is sent to Wild River to recover stolen gold and finds the town is being terrorized by The Hawk (Clayton Moore) and his… |
| Bandits of El Dorado | Smiley Burnette | 1949-10-19 | Wanted outlaws have mysteriously disappeared. Ranger Captain Henley and Steve have a plan to find them. Steve becomes a wanted man by faking the killi… |
| Cyclone Fury | Smiley Burnette | 1951-08-14 | A late entry in Columbia’s seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of stock footage from an earlier… |
| Pack Train | Smiley Burnette | 1953-07-04 | Gene Autry is assigned to safely transport supplies to a band of settlers. The villains, headed by Ross McLain (Kenne Duncan), intend to bushwhack Aut… |
| Six-Gun Law | Smiley | 1948-01-09 | In this western, an entry in the “Durango Kid” series of westerns, a corrupt, prominent citizen owns a small western town. The trouble begins when a c… |
| Goldtown Ghost Riders | Smiley Burnette | 1953-05-20 | A singing frontier judge (Gene Autry) dismisses a case of double jeopardy…. |
| Bonanza Town | Smiley Burnette | 1951-07-26 | Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and … |
| The Kid from Broken Gun | Smiley Burnette | 1952-08-19 | Charles Starrett makes his final appearance as The Durango Kid, this time as Steve Reynolds, a postal inspector who has gone underground to catch the … |
| The Blazing Trail | Smiley Burnette | 1949-06-05 | Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended his life. When the will is read, it leaves the bulk… |
| Laramie Mountains | Smiley Burnette | 1952-04-19 | Markham and his men have found gold on the Indian reservation and are trying to get rid of them by starting an Indian war. Dressed as Indians they are… |
| Trail of the Rustlers | Smiley Burnette | 1950-02-02 | Charles Starrett goes up against an entire family of criminals posing as respectable citizens in this entry in Columbia’s long-running Durango Kid Wes… |
| Lightning Guns | Smiley Burnette | 1950-12-01 | The Durango Kid rides again in Lightning Guns. As ever, the masked Durango (alias Steve Brandon) is played by Charles Starrett, who this time around i… |
| South of Death Valley | Smiley Burnette | 1949-08-08 | When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law’s gold mine, he finds a war between the ranchers and the miners. Ashton has had the water poiso… |
| Hearts in Bondage | Rammer | 1936-05-26 | Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond’s sister. But the eruption of the Civil War… |
| Whirlwind | Smiley Burnette | 1951-04-16 | A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman’s (Gail Davis) estate from fraud…. |
| A Man Betrayed | Hillbilly | 1936-12-27 | A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but… |
| Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) | 1976-05-01 | A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features…. |
| Meet the Boy Friend | Band Leader | 1937-07-12 | A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as “America’s Boyfriend” decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn’t want this because he is afr… |
| Saginaw Trail | Smiley | 1953-09-20 | Hamilton’s Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers…. |
| Undersea Kingdom | Briny Deep | 1936-05-30 | Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of ear… |
| Winning of the West | Smiley | 1953-01-01 | A singing territorial ranger (Gene Autry) spots his younger brother in an outlaw gang…. |
| The Phantom Empire | Oscar (as Lester ‘Smiley’ Burnett) | 1935-02-22 | When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles… |
| In Old Santa Fe | Accordionist-Singer (uncredited) | 1934-11-15 | Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and ha… |
| S.O.S Tidal Wave | Voice of Felix the Dummy | 1939-06-02 | A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate… |
| Manhattan Merry-Go-Round | Frog – Accordian Player | 1937-11-26 | In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the g… |
| Doughnuts and Society | Mover #2 | 1936-03-27 | Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, … |
| Arizona Bad Man | Credits Singer | 1935-02-01 | The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father…. |
| Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs | (archive footage) | 2000-01-01 | This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it’s silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number… |
| Hollywood Stadium Mystery | Smiley Burnette | 1938-02-21 | A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling…. |
| Prairie Moon | Frog Millhouse | 1938-10-07 | Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustle… |
| Mystery Mountain | Lake Teamster (ch’s 6-7) (uncredited) | 1934-12-02 | Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned b… |
| Harmony Lane | Singer (uncredited) | 1935-10-22 | The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism…. |
| Waterfront Lady | Musician | 1935-10-04 | When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers… |
| It’s Showtime | Self (archive footage) | 1976-03-31 | A collection of film clips profiling animal actors…. |
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