Date of birth: 1903-02-11
Place of birth: Central City [now part of Huntington], West Virginia, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Rex Lloyd Lease, Рекс Лиз

From Wikipedia 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.

1953-07-24
Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother

1953-09-18
Rancher Rex Allen captures a bandit, Delgado, a henchman for crooked Sheriff Webb and saloon owner M

1949-10-05
A Maritime Board of Inquiry investigates the loss of the merchant ship, the Black Rover . Its captai

1945-07-04
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chapero

1952-01-28
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged a

1942-09-23
Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-c

1929-03-23
Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robbe

1938-11-03
A cowboy is framed for the murder of a rancher, which was committed by a landgrabber. The cowboy mus

1942-10-23
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all

1952-10-10
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only s

1950-04-01
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble wi

1941-09-05
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.

1927-05-22
When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law

1936-10-01
Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other t

1931-05-01
John Farnum returns from India with the 'secret of the jewels', two small chains that turn sand into

1932-02-07
Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her bo

1924-09-14
Young Herbert Thompson, wanting to attain wealth and social status, marries Ann Morton, who comes fr

1957-06-24
A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off
1926-06-15
Firemen Tom and Joe each loves the other's sister, although neither is able to support a wife. Tom's

1951-11-15
US Border Patrolman Roy Rogers is assigned to prevent a herd of diseased cattle from crossing over f

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

1928-03-05
A chorus girl falls for a young man pretending to be his boss, a millionaire. WHen his boss returns

1952-02-08
The Hurley's own a lumber mill and want to harvest all the timber in the valley. They kill the Fores

1936-01-01
Two Texas Rangers (Tom Tyler, Rex Lease) nab smugglers and rescue a woman (Margaret Nearing) from a

1936-01-29
Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between s

1931-10-15
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in

1941-01-24
Williams is out to stop Ellen Goreham from completing her road that is under construction and is usi

1950-02-28
Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sherif

1943-12-17
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brut

1930-08-20
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live

1935-05-12
Hanson is using Bobby's carrier pigeons to receive messages. His man Slim shoots them down before th

1929-03-04
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his r

1942-07-14
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

1936-04-14
A lawman captures the notorious "Pecos Kid", who is tried and hanged for his crimes--then starts to

1930-06-14
The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his c

1936-11-22
Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low p

1950-05-25
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.

1936-04-17
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the peop

1935-08-15
When Tim Hanlon arrives to tell Ruth McArthur her long lost brother has been killed, she mistakes hi

1930-05-16
Story of a football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic l

1948-08-20
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman

1936-12-05
Larry Evans, champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva, who has more amb

1942-08-05
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.

1936-01-02
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous hist

1937-02-27
Western, featuring Rin Tin Tin Jr., about a man trying to find an old friend in a town that is tryin

1937-08-07
In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppre

1935-05-05
Desperados menace a mining operation.
1929-01-01
Golden-hearted chorus girl Sally Casey is in love with wealthy Chet Randall and the feeling is mutua

1925-10-17
A gin bottle is personified with a spirit. As the gin bottle changes hands the spirit of the bottle

1937-12-09
Jim Dorn endeavors to protect Jean McNain from a man she knows has committed a murder, Carter Snowde

1930-02-23
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and

1950-03-25
Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Ch

1938-02-04
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.

1935-04-03
A cowboy goes after cattle rustlers he finds changing brands.

1944-10-06
Just after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned newspaper m
1942-03-13
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her fat

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

1943-11-18
Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine pedd

1930-10-27
The Utah Kid eludes a sheriff's posse and takes refuge in Robber's Roost, a hideout for outlaws runn

1928-01-21
Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid".

1956-03-14
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is search

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

1935-04-02
Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes a j

1931-05-24
A remake of 1930's "Phantom of the Desert", in which a crooked foreman and the ranch hands are rustl

1935-04-03
Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon train

1952-08-13
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mis

1948-09-11
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in

1938-07-29
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join

1930-08-01
Dave Kent, a commercial aviator, and his mechanic, Skeets Smith, are forced to make an emergency lan

1925-11-08
A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promoti

1938-04-07
A Texas Ranger is faced with the task of bringing his outlaw brother to justice.

1946-01-26
A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looter

1941-09-10
The Cherokee Strip is off limits to the Rangers, so that is where badman Lemar operates from. When t

1935-04-07
Jim Bullard escapes from prison and returns to settle matters with the Rascob's that framed him. He

1938-06-05
When a fellow ranger (Julian Madison) is brutally murdered, the Captain sends Dave Austin to investi

1939-12-15
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.

1928-12-02
The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her.

1940-03-15
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t

1945-06-01
Pete Grant controls the town of Pecos and it's Mayor and Marshal. When Jimmy, Denny, and Lasses arri

1948-09-05
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get

1945-10-09
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night c

1945-05-28
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

1941-11-12
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he

1940-01-05
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible a

1942-04-22
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of sta

1934-09-24
Lloyd Wilson, trusted employee of an investment firm, is suspected of theft when $20,000 in security

1946-10-26
A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, whi

1940-11-11
Marshal Tim Donovan has been sent to investigate a series of holdups. Posing as a card sharp he soon

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

1940-12-27
Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to f

1942-10-02
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.

1944-08-11
The election to determine if Texas will become a state is near and men opposed are running contraban

1944-07-14
Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before lo

1940-01-25
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disast

1942-06-16
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in lov

1932-08-01
A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the

1927-11-27
A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpecte

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

1941-02-14
Stan Borden with the help of the stooge Sheriff is out to get the Toreno ranch. Kicking the peons of

1948-05-24
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowin

1945-04-05
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring a

1950-06-30
Under the leadership of a cutthroat named Grif, a band of outlaws has systematically been robbing an

1950-09-06
U.S. marshal sets out to end an insurance scam: salesmen provide cow town folk with insurance agains

1950-06-01
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the c

1945-05-20
"Iron Mike" Haines (Tom Chatterton), a crooked sheriff, and "Hands" Weber (Roy Barcroft), the town b

1942-05-31
A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious

1946-05-10
In this western, Red Ryder rounds up a gang of horse thieves who have been stealing cavalry horses.

1943-02-12
When the Pony Express disbands, riders Tennessee and Johnny head for Adobe Wells. Tennessee becomes

1940-03-22
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.

1940-11-11
The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor'

1941-09-26
Ambushed by the Vigilantes, a dying friend gets Johnny who was only passing through to take up the f

1940-06-29
In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job

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

1942-08-21
It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by

1941-10-09
Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi

1943-03-01
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for th

1942-02-20
In this western, a frontier detective disguised as an entertainer performs for the leader of an outl

1943-05-01
A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier t

1936-04-02
The feature length version of the serial by the same name. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a l

1942-01-13
A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court val

1943-02-05
In order to obtain a stage coach mail contract, a new road must be built. A gang of outlaws try to p

1943-02-19
Both the Range Buster and Rance and his outlaw gang are looking for stolen gold bullion. To scare pe

1944-12-01
The sheriff camps outside of town and tries to arrest Froggy and Sunset, but a gang of outlaws helps

1945-06-01
Governor Price sends Sunset Carson to investigate a smuggling ring which is baffling the Border Patr

1946-02-02
In this western, a cowpoke gets in an argument; a scuffle ensues leaving the cowboy to believe that

1947-10-08
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while

1941-06-19
The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sab

1941-10-17
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for t

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

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

1943-03-10
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for

1943-04-09
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russel

1943-05-21
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbe

1956-01-06
In the 56th (and next-to-last serial) made by Columbia Pictures, Montana Deputy Dan Lawson, posing a

1939-06-02
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand a

1953-07-17
Two Mexican outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whet

1952-07-11
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to colleg

1943-09-29
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

1943-09-01
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself p

1928-04-07
Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Rob

1927-02-27
In order to raise money for surgery for his crippled brother, Jim Barry accepts a job with Warner, l

1945-06-20
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act

1946-08-13
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th cen

1947-04-04
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan g

1938-02-06
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son

1936-02-29
Bolton has organized a feud between the Rork's and the O'Neil's. He has rustled cattle and killed a

1945-07-13
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

1946-08-30
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involv

1945-09-01
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is pa

1957-07-17
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

1947-02-21
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but

1946-07-17
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty

1944-11-10
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father

1928-04-04
Mountie does battle with half-breed trappers.
1926-05-01

1942-06-19
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned
1928-04-21
Lieutenant Crane of the U. S. Cavalry is assigned to clean up and bring law and order to a frontier

1926-03-17
"Matches Mary" has sold matches on the streets of New York for many years and nobody knows her real

1927-09-17
Clancy's Kosher Wedding is a 1927 silent comedy film directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom.

1960-01-15
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the n

1927-08-31

1928-03-01
When a wealthy recluse apparently commits suicide, his trusted friend John Nichols (Rex Lease) is pu

1929-01-15
Ben Shelby, a blacksmith, is in love with Caroline Swayne but her wealthy father rejects the marriag

1955-05-06
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring
1946-12-12
Filmed in 16 mm, primarily intended for school/institutional and home-rental, the plot has Abner Sne