Date of birth: 1897-02-26
Place of birth: Newkirk, Oklahoma, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Frank Birney Ellis, Frank Ellie, Frank B. Ellis

Frank Ellis was born on February 26, 1897 in Newkirk, Oklahoma, USA as Frank Birney Ellis. He was an actor, known for The Desert Demon (1925), The Fighting Sheriff (1925) and Trails of Danger (1930). He died on February 23, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1943-03-03
When the night watchman at the bank is gunned down during a robbery, he fingers Barton as the trigge

1930-05-01
Buck Allen, The Cheyenne Kid, has been accused of holding up the payroll car of the Cody Dam Constru

1937-01-04
When Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, his daughter enlist

1938-11-17
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out

1930-09-30
During a rescue of Mary and her father, Bob Bartlett finds a good horse, which later causes him to b
1926-01-02
A cowboy arrives to help a girl who has a note due. He plans to sell her cattle to raise the money b
1928-02-19
Story of revenue agent Tom Mallory, who wagers that he can catch a gang of rum runners operating fro

1921-02-26
Cowboy Snappy Walton (Art Acord) trying to same a damsel in distress, hunting down the bad men that'
1930-05-15
Bob Steele is a young rancher who refuses to give in to a gang that is seeking to deprive he and his

1925-09-04
Jim Dorn, owner of the Bar X Ranch, is accused of crime he actually committed by Bud Deering, his gi

1935-08-01
A dying Marshal gives his identification papers to Tom. After Tom arrives in town, the papers drop a

1945-07-19
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it woul

1933-02-10
It's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the struggle.

1942-09-04
In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan

1935-12-15
A pair of crooked deputies steal a gold shipment, murder a young boy's father and pin the blame on a

1937-12-15
A doctor comes to the aid of local ranchers who are fighting to protect their water rights.

1937-03-28
There is a range war between the ranchers led by Tilden and the outlaw gang of Link Carson. Wanted o
1925-07-01
Girl's father who is in sore financial straits because of a corporation man is aided by stranger who

1954-11-16
A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns

1952-04-10
An Air Force captain is assigned to find some missing top-secret microfilm.

1931-10-14
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an

1936-10-19
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard)

1936-06-06
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.

1942-04-24
A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range detec

1932-12-31
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden.

1941-02-10
The fifth film in the 24-film Range Busters series finds "Crash", "Dusty" and Alibi, on their way to

1927-06-19
Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after resc

1935-01-05
A man comes to town to claim the estate of his father, who was shot by a masked killer. He sets out

1942-02-27
In Old Wyoming, a gang is plundering stagecoaches of shipped currency and a crusading newspaper edi

1945-05-07
Charley Gray is about to be released from the state penitentiary after serving a long term for the r

1945-09-01
Ellen Williams' father has a valuable collection of furs and an outlaw gang is after them. Before he

1920-01-02
Elmo finds himself in 18 different hair raising and dangerous adventures always escaping in the nick

1930-10-16
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted

1951-12-02
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires

1939-01-20
Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X

1937-05-18
Lawyer Bowdre has started a war between the ranchers and the homesteaders planning to take over the

1937-08-02
Rancher Reynolds has fired his men and hired killers and is now using a crooked land deal to put the

1935-02-02
Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs

1937-06-29
Stony's brother George has been accused of murder and the Mesquiteers have returned to prove his inn

1944-10-28
A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.

1943-09-30
One man wants to control all the land in the state to graze all his cattle. His band of outlaws are

1938-05-27
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make

1942-06-12
The Range Busters are together again to try and stop a swindle.
1938-12-16
Molly Taylor owns the town of Stillwell but is unaware the taxes are due as Gomer has stolen her not

1940-04-04
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it

1950-12-24
Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on

1936-12-11
Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction

1935-12-06
Edith overhears Bart's plan to rob the bank so she informs Ken. But she is also overheard and when K

1930-09-09
Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During th

1931-08-02
Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is aw

1930-08-25
Cattleman Benson finds Mildred and her brother George living in one of his cabins and their sheep ar

1930-12-01
After Bob Lansing (Jay Wilsey as Buffalo Bill Jr). is involved in a nightclub scrape, where he meets

1935-08-07
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now gro

1937-09-07
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

1933-05-05
Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village

1932-07-08
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.

1937-11-06
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star

1939-12-15
A wagon train crossing the plains comes across the remains of other wagon trains that have been atta

1939-02-25
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to k

1937-08-20
On a cattle drive Hoppy, camp cook Windy, companion Lucky, and young Artie Peters encounter an eccen

1939-12-16
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the go

1939-04-10
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught

1939-07-04
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Orego

1936-05-02
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from

1937-06-14
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of

1939-02-17
Western - When football player Tex fletcher arives home he finds his father missing. Jim Davis has k

1937-02-26
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) t

1942-04-17
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.

1939-03-19
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the

1939-03-13
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a loc

1939-06-23
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance

1939-08-10
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which

1932-06-19
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12

1940-07-26
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the

1933-08-13
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying t

1939-11-03
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.

1943-01-08
Wells Fargo hires three cowboys to clean up a lawless town.
1936-11-12
A band of renegades attacks and loots a mission, stealing some priceless treasures. Local citizens b

1939-04-09
Lightning Bill Carson and sidekick Magpie are after Burrows, the man that killed a friend of theirs.

1940-03-15
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a

1940-06-28
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the C

1940-12-13
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an ar

1940-07-12
Hoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob.

1940-10-10
When Moreland's henchman attack Bob Horner the Range Busters break it up. Horner dies but they get t

1943-09-06
Texas Ranger O'Brien has an outlaw twin brother. When his sibling is killed, O'Brien assumes his ide

1931-03-01
With his father accused of murder, Tom heads after the real murderer who lives in a town of outlaws

1940-08-16
The Army sends Tex Masters to find out who is supplying Indians with military guns.

1939-02-08
Tex and Ananias are sent by the government to capture some Santa Fe rustlers. Tex recognizes Hendric

1942-07-24
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge o

1941-04-17
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.

1945-02-16
U. S. Marshals Nevada Jack McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins come upon an overturned stagecoach with the dr

1946-02-17
One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cow

1942-11-28
Harkness controls Boulder Pass and his men are overcharging the ranches for its usage. When Tom Came

1943-02-12
Tom Cameron learns that his twin brother is with a group of German spies. They intend to thwart the

1936-07-07
Merwin hires Barton to fight Welsh, but when Barton arrives in town, Welsh mistakes him for the hire

1952-09-29
Doc Lockwood and his gang are trying to take away Autry's contract for supplying horses to the stage

1937-06-12
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent seri

1931-11-24
Jeremy Wales, a crook who stays on the safe side of the law but bends it whenever possible,has trick

1962-12-20
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti

1933-04-30
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.

1934-07-16
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his

1964-02-14
While searching for the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit, Harrison Destry (John Gavin

1940-12-24
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

1952-07-24
Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded tog

1936-10-16
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rif

1932-08-27
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the re

1942-09-28
Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to

1941-10-10
A cowboy turns bad for revenge, but can't stomach his new evil ways.

1953-07-17
The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.

1946-10-17
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of thei

1939-11-29
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title ro

1940-03-01
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.

1940-11-28
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between

1940-09-29
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been

1940-06-01
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murde

1940-10-21
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are tryi

1941-06-04
The notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate. When t

1941-03-21
A young mining engineer sets out to catch the killers of both his brother and a beautiful young girl

1939-02-24
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ran

1940-01-26
U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a mem

1941-05-16
Tom and Fuzzy investigate a ghost town which, in this case, is supposedly haunted by real ghosts. Th

1939-09-30
A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.

1940-11-15
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.

1940-02-09
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked

1937-07-18
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing

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-fist

1940-07-02
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a va

1941-01-04
The Range Busters are investigating a gold robbery from the Denver Mint in a supposedly deserted gho

1937-09-10
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegr

1942-11-13
Mining executive Neal Wallace arrives to investigate the losses at a gold mine and is immediately fr

1940-05-24
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas

1938-11-14
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in it

1939-08-14
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who l

1935-05-31
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.

1941-11-14
Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him

1951-05-31
Columbia Pictures elevated stunt man Jock O'Mahoney to stardom in this 15 chapter western serial abo

1949-12-14
Red Ryder KO's a fight racket with sidekick Little Beaver (Little Brown Jug) and a new friend.

1941-07-15
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their

1943-08-16
Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones are on their way out of Arizona being chased by some riders who hope t

1943-06-04
The Range Busters investigate sabotage at a mining community and uncover a gang of Nazi spies.

1941-02-26
Bob Day has been captured by Marlow's gang. When Tim Barton and sidekick Monte come looking for him,

1952-11-06
The self-styled son of Indian chief Geronimo gets himself involved with a gang of nasty whites in th

1942-05-01
Knowing the Army is arriving to establish a post. Doc Hagan and his gang and the crooked Sheriff are

1943-09-04
A feud develops between the settlers and the railroad detectives in Red Rock Valley. Clem Barstow se

1943-08-27
In this WW II film meant to discourage the purchase of black market beef, the Range Busters are call

1941-09-05
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.

1942-01-02
It's WW II and German Reuther has organized local gangs to sabotage the beef supply at the source. M

1942-10-16
As war looms in the Pacific, even cowboys are called on to fight the enemy. Horses are desperately n

1941-07-11
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets on

1943-07-28
With his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones, Rocky Cameron rides into a small town plagued by cattle rustlers.

1943-04-01
Billy joins an outlaw band led by woman to clear his name of their crimes, which are being blamed on

1941-02-28
Tom Cameron, aka the Lone Rider, and his faithful sidekick, Fuzzy Jones, flee across the Rio Grande

1941-08-08
A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.

1941-01-10
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole

1941-12-17
Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately e

1937-10-29
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed.

1944-02-10
Ranger Tex Wyatt introduces himself as the notorious bandit Spade Norton. Crooked saloon owner Red H

1944-12-09
Steve Kinney and his henchman, Mort, are trying to stir up trouble between the local ranchers and fa

1945-04-19
With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent to help his friend

1944-01-17
Learning that Montana is about to become a state and that property values will rise rapidly, Caldwel

1946-08-21
A honest stranger arrives in Devil's Gap and helps the local sheriff expose the murderer of a ranche

1946-07-16
Medicine show proprietor Doc Lattimer has in his possession a map showing the location of a cache of

1946-03-07
An obscure entry in the musical Western cycle, Swing, Cowboy, Swing was produced by and starred coun

1946-03-26
While Fuzzy is waiting for his mail order bride, McCallister frames him for murder. McCallister then

1948-03-13
Ann and Tom Howard arrive from the east to take up ranching. But Tom wants to return and forges his

1947-09-13
Lash and Fuzzy sent to help John Watson with his stage line arrive to find him murdered. Recognizing

1941-09-29
Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detec

1941-09-17
Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends who

1931-03-06
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he d

1948-03-12
A Pony Express rider discovers some mysterious goings-on during the construction of a telegraph line

1948-12-15
The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western a

1942-10-23
A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other.

1942-03-17
In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find th

1942-06-05
When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder.

1942-09-25
Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart

1941-04-04
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapaho

1941-05-07
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the

1941-02-21
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires

1942-07-02
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solv

1942-11-16
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to

1942-09-14
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward.

1942-01-31
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

1942-05-31
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt D

1942-12-04
In the 18th entry of Monogram's 24 "Range Buster" films, the bank of Gila Springs is robbed by Ace A

1942-09-22
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep be

1942-01-30
Scully has forced Joe Collins who works on the Garcia ranch to give him information so his men can s

1942-05-22
"The Rough Riders", has U. S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming t

1941-04-17
Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff are on the run from the law again. This time they travel to a new town where

1942-11-20
Billy the Kid and his pal Fuzzy escape from the Marshal and find themselves in the ghost town of Lar

1942-09-02
Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff

1941-10-03
Billy the Kid and his pal Jeff help their friend Fuzzy Jones escape from jail, and the trio heads fo

1942-01-16
A singing cowboy and his sidekick rescue miners from a bad deal.

1942-09-04
Two deputies go undercover to save a scientist from his evil kidnappers.

1943-10-30
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is kil

1943-11-05
A crooked lawyer and his gang are trying to steal some government land meant for a stagecoach compan

1943-05-14
Billy the Kid is framed for murder.

1943-12-03
When a fed-up businessman tires of watching gold shipments disappear without a trace, he calls in th

1943-11-20
Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to inv

1932-03-19
For revenge the outlaw Morgan steals the Carruthers young son. Seventeen years later Carruthers arri

1942-10-02
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several

1951-09-13
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end

1949-08-14
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight count

1964-09-01
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan

1937-04-16
A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transporta

1948-02-20
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar

1924-11-15
Plot concerns happy-go-lucky rancher who decides to spruce up in order to win the affection of a gir

1939-01-13
Sheriff Bob Bartlett is called away from the rodeo to apprehend cattle rustlers.

1926-11-28
Two families feud over possession of a valuable waterhole.

1943-10-17
During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused

1950-04-06
Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.

1948-04-01
Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment whic

1946-10-23
David Trent is a nobleman who forms an outlaw group to combat his evil uncle Sir Edgar Bullard. The

1958-02-09
Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in

2024-10-29
Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their

1928-11-02
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viki

1962-02-10
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territor

1931-03-08
In 1877, thieves Ace Beaudry, Bronco Dawson and Bull Stanley head West together after having each be

1925-10-04
After Bill Davis rescues a Native American woman from outlaw Jim Slade, he is lost in the desert, wh

1925-05-17
As a result of a blow on his head, suffered when he was robbed of a shipment of platinum by a gang o