Rex Lease

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

123

Movies

170

Born: February 11, 1903 – January 3, 1966
From: Central City [now part of Huntington], West Virginia, USA

Biography

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.

Works

170 films

The Grapes of Wrath

19407.8

In Old California

19425.3

Saboteur

19426.9

The Pride of the Yankees

19427.4

Canyon Passage

19466.7

A Foreign Affair

19487.1

The Unholy Wife

19574.7

Ride, Vaquero!

19536.1

Frisco Tornado

19507.5

The Naughty Nineties

19456.7

The Gazebo

19596.9

Buck Privates Come Home

19476.4

The Wild North

19526.9

The Crimson Ghost

19465.3

The Prodigal

19554.6

Backlash

19566.5

A Chump at Oxford

19406.9

The Time of Their Lives

19467.2

California

19476.8

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

19476.3

The Silver Bullet

19426.0

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

19526.6

Cavalcade of the West

19365.2

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

19506.6

Flame of Barbary Coast

19455.5

Roarin' Guns

19367.7

Corvette K-225

19436.2

The Mummy's Tomb

19425.5

Fury Below

19365.0

Toughest Man in Arizona

19527.0

A Hatful of Rain

19576.8

S.O.S Tidal Wave

19396.8

Eagle Squadron

19427.0

Moulders of Men

19277.0

The Shadow

19407.3

Pals of the Golden West

19517.5

Lightnin' Bill Carson

19367.0

Gun Belt

19536.4

Lost in Alaska

19526.2

Clancy's Kosher Wedding

19279.0

Desert Patrol

19389.0

So's Your Uncle

19436.0

King of the Cowboys

19436.0

Daredevils of the West

19437.0

Singing Guns

19506.4

Is There Justice?

19317.0

Aces and Eights

19365.6

Under Texas Skies

19405.8

Somebody's Mother

19268.0

Phony Express

19436.0

Dead Man's Eyes

19446.6

Lady in a Jam

19425.6

Death Valley Outlaws

19419.0

The Lone Ranger Rides Again

19397.3

The Phantom of the Turf

19289.0

Covered Wagon Raid

19507.2

Calling Dr. Death

19436.4

Rough Riding Ranger

19359.0

South of the Border

19396.0

The College Hero

19275.3

Raiders of the West

19428.0

Swing It, Sailor!

19387.5

Idaho

19436.3

Cannonball Express

193210.0

Eyes of the Underworld

19425.6

Lone Texas Ranger

19456.7

Billy the Kid's Range War

19416.7

Hot Curves

19306.8

Sunset Serenade

19426.2

Blonde Ransom

19458.0

You Came Along

19457.3

Springtime in Texas

19459.0

In Old Cheyenne

19317.0

Billy the Kid's Gun Justice

19405.2

Jesse James at Bay

19414.8

The Gallant Legion

19487.2

The Law of the Range

19284.7

Arizona Terrors

19427.0

Inside Information

19346.5

Keep 'Em Slugging

19435.8

Dead Man's Gulch

19437.0

The Last Alarm

19268.0

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

19506.4

Call of the Rockies

19446.3

Custer's Last Stand

19365.3

White Tie and Tails

19467.3

The People's Choice

19469.0

Chinatown After Dark

19314.1

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe

19416.0

Outlaws of the Rio Grande

19419.0

Frisco Lil

19428.3

One Man's Law

194010.0

Tonto Basin Outlaws

194110.0

Cyclone of the Saddle

19355.8

Midnight Intruder

19385.9

Santa Fe Saddlemates

19456.7

The Mysterious Pilot

193710.0

Code of the Prairie

19447.0

Sun Valley Cyclone

19467.0

Bordertown Trail

19449.0

Why Girls Leave Home

19455.7

The Monster Walks

19324.2

The Utah Kid

19304.7

Earl Carroll Vanities

19455.4

Nevada City

19417.0

On Stage Everybody

19458.0

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

19365.2

Code of the Silver Sage

19508.0

Professor Beware

19386.0

Bad Man of Deadwood

19415.3

Heroes of the Alamo

19375.3

The Last Edition

19256.2

Swingin' on a Rainbow

19457.0

The Phantom Rider

19466.5

Not for Publication

19278.0

Colorado Sundown

19525.0

A Woman Who Sinned

19245.0

Troopers Three

19307.0

Hills of Oklahoma

19507.0

Out of the Storm

19487.3

Night Time in Nevada

19486.8

Outlaws of Cherokee Trail

19419.0

The Phantom Cowboy

19418.0

The Younger Generation

19296.9

Days of Buffalo Bill

19467.0

When Dreams Come True

19299.0

Custer's Last Stand

19368.0

Rancho Grande

19406.0

Fast Bullets

19365.7

Ten Laps to Go

19365.5

Code of the Rangers

193810.0

The Ghost Rider

19356.3

Land of Fighting Men

19387.0

Haunted Ranch

19438.0

In Old Monterey

19396.3

Fighting Caballero

19356.3

The Silver Trail

19375.6

Riders of Black Mountain

19409.0

Shadows of Tombstone

19536.5

The Cowboy and the Bandit

19357.0

Riders of the Rio Grande

194310.0

Borrowed Wives

19305.3

Ridin' On

193610.0

The Cyclone Kid

19425.0

Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle

19254.5

Perils of the Wilderness

19566.5

The Sign of the Wolf

193110.0

Gun Cargo

19498.0

Firebrands of Arizona

19448.0

Midnight Morals

19327.0

Sierra Sue

19417.0

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

194210.0

The Cancelled Debt

192710.0

Pals of the Range

19357.0

Two Sisters

19296.5

The Man from Guntown

193510.0

The Trail Blazers

19407.0

Riders of the Dark

19289.0

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground

19439.0

Tomorrow We Live

19424.9

Stolen Love

19287.0

Chalk Marks

19247.0

The Outlaw Dog

19278.0

Wings of Adventure

19305.6

Sunny Skies

19304.9

Queen of the Chorus

19288.0

Red Riders of Canada

19287.0

Broadway Daddies

19283.7

Girls Who Dare

19299.0

The Mystery Pilot

19267.0