Rex Allen

Rex Allen

Born: December 31, 1920
Died: December 17, 1999
in Willcox, Arizona, U.S.
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Rex Elvie Allen (December 31, 1920 – December 17, 1999) was an American film actor, singer and songwriter who is particularly known as the narrator in many Disney nature and Western film productions. For contributions to the recording industry, Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Title: Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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 of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.
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Title: Church Street Station
Released: March 10, 1984
Type: TV
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When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Title: When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
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Chickenomics: A Fowl Approach to Economics
Title: Chickenomics: A Fowl Approach to Economics
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Designed as a primer of economic terms and concepts, uses the career of the Chicken, America's first professional sports mascot, as a source of illustrative material. Shows how the chicken could succeed only in market economy, what the characteristics of such an economy are, and how they have influenced the chicken's career.
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Run For Blue
Title: Run For Blue
Character: Narrator
Released: August 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Family film centered around horse racing and going for the Blue Ribbon
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
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Legend of Cougar Canyon
Title: Legend of Cougar Canyon
Character: narrator
Released: April 19, 1976
Type: Movie
There are many wonderful and dangerous legends about Cougar Canyon, a sacred Navajo terrain. Two young boys must face the legends and dangers when they go to rescue a lost goat.
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Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress
Title: Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress
Character: Grandfather
Released: January 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Follow an American family over 4 generations of progress and watch technology transform their lives. During each era, learn how the technological marvels of the day made life more comfortable—and paved the way for unimaginable innovations. Imagine the wonders the next hundred years may bring!
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Starbird and Sweet William
Title: Starbird and Sweet William
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 21, 1973
Type: Movie
A plane crash survivor draws upon the sensibilities of his Native American ancestry in order to stay alive in a rugged outland.
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Charlotte's Web
Title: Charlotte's Web
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
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Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
Title: Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
Character: narrator
Released: October 18, 1967
Type: Movie
A heartwarming Disney classic in which a cougar, who was rescued as a cub and raised by a group of loggers in the Pacific Northwest, reverts back to his natural instincts, leading to hilarious (and dangerous) consequences.
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Born to Buck
Title: Born to Buck
Character: Narrator
Released: September 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Bronco riders travel through South Dakota and round up 400 wild horses in danger of extinction, then bring them to Fort Pierre where they are ridden by broncobusters in rodeo competition.
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Swamp Country
Title: Swamp Country
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 1, 1966
Type: Movie
In a small southern swamp town, a local girl is found murdered. A young California man passing through town is blamed, and in fleeing the local lynch mob he escapes into the Okeefeenokee Swamp, where he runs into even more dangers.
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A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood
Title: A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 28, 1965
Type: Movie
When a coyote named Chico is chased into the back of a moving van he accidentally ends up in the Hollywood hills and learns the ins and outs of being an urban coyote.
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The Incredible Journey
Title: The Incredible Journey
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
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Yellowstone Cubs
Title: Yellowstone Cubs
Character: Narrator
Released: June 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Two bear cubs, Tuffy and Tubby, are separated from their mother and spend an entire summer romping through Yellowstone National Park. In the meantime, the mother bear follows their trail as she searches for them.
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The Legend of Lobo
Title: The Legend of Lobo
Character: Narrator
Released: November 7, 1962
Type: Movie
You'll be captivated as you track the legendary Lobo through an amazing Southwest adventure. Our story begins with Lobo as an adorable wolf cub and follows his growth into a fearless and majestic leader of the pack. At odds with the local cattlemen, the price on Lobo's head grows, attracting an expert wolf hunter. As they go head to head, Lobo's amazing survival instincts and family devotion leave the hunter with nothing but respect. With the rich narration of Rex Allen, and music from the legendary Sherman Brothers and the popular Sons Of The Pioneers, this is family entertainment at its best!
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Tomboy and the Champ
Title: Tomboy and the Champ
Character: Rex Allen
Released: April 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A young Texas cowgirl raises a prize-winning calf, whose presence helps her recover from polio.
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The Saga of Windwagon Smith
Title: The Saga of Windwagon Smith
Character: Windwagon Smith (voice)
Released: March 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Sea Captain Windwagon Smith hits Westport, Kansas, the starting point of the old Oregon and Santa Fe Trails, and is quickly the laughing stock of the town; instead of traveling in the usual oxen-drawn covered wagon, he is at the helm and wheel of a Contestoga-type wagon with a full set of sails. He plans to go to Oregon by taking advantage of the prairie winds. First, he wins over the town mayor, falls in love with the mayor's beautiful daughter, Molly Crum, and then secures financial backing from the townspeople. He sets sail across the plains, with Molly Crum as a covered-wagon stowaway, and a Kansas twister looming on the horizon. And, then, the wind hits the sails. And the fan, too, if he had had one.
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The Saga of Windwagon Smith
Title: The Saga of Windwagon Smith
Character: Narrator
Released: March 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Sea Captain Windwagon Smith hits Westport, Kansas, the starting point of the old Oregon and Santa Fe Trails, and is quickly the laughing stock of the town; instead of traveling in the usual oxen-drawn covered wagon, he is at the helm and wheel of a Contestoga-type wagon with a full set of sails. He plans to go to Oregon by taking advantage of the prairie winds. First, he wins over the town mayor, falls in love with the mayor's beautiful daughter, Molly Crum, and then secures financial backing from the townspeople. He sets sail across the plains, with Molly Crum as a covered-wagon stowaway, and a Kansas twister looming on the horizon. And, then, the wind hits the sails. And the fan, too, if he had had one.
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For the Love of Mike
Title: For the Love of Mike
Character: Rex Allen
Released: August 28, 1960
Type: Movie
An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.
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The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon
Title: The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: August 10, 1960
Type: Movie
One of multiple Walt Disney adaptations from Rutherford Montgomery stories.
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Disneyland '59
Title: Disneyland '59
Character: Self
Released: June 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
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Title: Frontier Doctor
Released: September 26, 1958
Type: TV
Frontier Doctor is an American Western television series starring Rex Allen that aired in syndication from September 26, 1958, until June 20, 1959.
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The Horse of the West
Title: The Horse of the West
Character: Narrator
Released: December 11, 1957
Type: Movie
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The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
Title: The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
Character: Narrator
Released: November 20, 1957
Type: Movie
"The Best Doggoned Dog in the World" is an episode of Disneyland which aired on November 20, 1957. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and Larry Lansburgh. This episode provides a preview of Old Yeller, and also features Arizona Sheepdog.
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Title: The Lux Show
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: TV
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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Title: The Rosemary Clooney Show
Character: Self
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: TV
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Phantom Stallion
Title: Phantom Stallion
Character: Rex Allen
Released: February 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inheritance.
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Red River Shore
Title: Red River Shore
Character: Marshal Rex Allen
Released: December 15, 1953
Type: Movie
When an oil discovery is reported at Paxton, Oklahoma, Marshal Rex Allen immediately suspects that where there is oil, there is trouble. Rex arrives just as a band of desperadoes stage a bank hold-up and escape with $25,000 which ranchers have invested in prospective oil drillings.
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Shadows of Tombstone
Title: Shadows of Tombstone
Character: Rancher Rex Allen
Released: September 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Rancher Rex Allen captures a bandit, Delgado, a henchman for crooked Sheriff Webb and saloon owner Mike, who run the town to suit themselves, but Rex forces the sheriff to jail Delgado. When Marge, who runs the town newspaper tells Rex she is afraid to attack the sheriff in print, Rex decides to run for sheriff. Webb and Mike frame Rex and his partner Slim on a murder charge and they are jailed.
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Down Laredo Way
Title: Down Laredo Way
Character: Rex
Released: August 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way
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Iron Mountain Trail
Title: Iron Mountain Trail
Character: Rex Allen
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time.
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Old Overland Trail
Title: Old Overland Trail
Character: Rex Allen
Released: February 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Anchor is building a railroad and to get cheap labor he gets Black Hawk's Indians to attack and burn the incoming wagon train. This forces the settlers to work for Anchor and he pays them in devalued scrip. When Rex figures out Anchor's swindle, Anchor gets Black Hawk to capture him. When Anchor turns on Black Hawk and shoots him, Black Hawk gets a chance to repay a debt to Rex.
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South Pacific Trail
Title: South Pacific Trail
Character: Rex Allen
Released: October 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Rex, Slim and the boys are fired by a wealthy rancher but decide to help him out when his daughter intends on marrying a shifty, gold-digging actor. Meanwhile, the rancher's foreman executes plans for a train robbery.
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Old Oklahoma Plains
Title: Old Oklahoma Plains
Character: Rex Allen
Released: July 25, 1952
Type: Movie
One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ranchers. The cavalry has commandeered a large parcel of land needed to test their newly-designed tank and prominent rancher Jenson has encited the locals to rebel at this intrusion. It is up to Rex and his sidekick, Slim, to thwart Jenson and convince the residents that these army tests are essential.
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I Dream of Jeanie
Title: I Dream of Jeanie
Character: Mr Tambo / Rex Allen / Narrator
Released: June 15, 1952
Type: Movie
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
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Border Saddlemates
Title: Border Saddlemates
Character: Rex Allen
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Rex Allen ('Rex Allen'), a U. S. government veterinarian, rides into the picturesque town of Pine Rock, near the Canadian border, to take the place of the regular vet who is on vacation. Used to doctoring animals in Texas, Allen finds out that herein the heart of the fox-farming industry, he is to doctor the most finicky and high-priced of fur on four feet. On the farm of Mel Richards (Tom London), Allen learns the habits of the valuable creatures from Richard's niece, Jane (Mary Ellen Kay, and her ten-year-old brother Danny (Jimmy Moss'), and on his own learns that the trusted owner of the trading post, Steve Baxter (Roy Barcroft) heads a gang that is smuggling counterfeit money across the American/Canadian border in the fox cages.
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The Last Musketeer
Title: The Last Musketeer
Character: Rex Allen
Released: March 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Cattle buyer Rex Allen rides into Taskerville and sees two men toss Slim Pickens, a water diviner hired by the local ranchers, into a wagon. Rex chases the wagon to the barn of rancher Lem Shaver, where he learns from Slim that Russ Tasker, a wealthy rancher and owner of the only artesian-fed reservoir in the valley, has charged such high prices for water that the ranchers are bankrupt. Tasker's henchmen kill rancher Matt Becker and have his son Johnny branded as an outlaw. Rex learns that the Beckers had found a meager water supply and Rex suspects that is what led to the killing and the charges against Johnny. With the aid of Slim and Johnny's sweetheart, Sue, Rex finds that the Becker spring is fed from the same underground lake that feeds Tasker's well-guarded reservoir. But Rex is jailed for aiding Johnny.
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Colorado Sundown
Title: Colorado Sundown
Character: Rex Allen
Released: February 8, 1952
Type: Movie
The Hurley's own a lumber mill and want to harvest all the timber in the valley. They kill the Forester and substitute their brother Dusty in his place. Dusty then says all the trees are infected and must be cut down. But Rex Allen is suspicious and writes to the Forestry Department and gets involved with the murders.
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Utah Wagon Train
Title: Utah Wagon Train
Character: Rex Allen
Released: October 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of adventurers on a wagon train retracing the route taken by their ancestors 100 years ago. Before Rex can talk to his uncle, the uncle is murdered, and Rex sets out to find the killer and the motive by taking his uncle's place as the leader of the wagon train.
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Rodeo King and the Senorita
Title: Rodeo King and the Senorita
Character: Rex Allen
Released: July 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Lacey is after the profits of the Foster and Morales rodeo show. He has Morales killed during a stunt and then forces Foster to take him on as a silent partner. When Rex Allen joins the show, Lacey tries to get rid of him also. But Rex survives and now believes Morales' accident may have been murder.
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Thunder in God's Country
Title: Thunder in God's Country
Character: Rex Allen
Released: April 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Hidden Valley has managed to retain its Old Western atmosphere, free of modern-day corruption, until escaped convict Smitty arrives with plans of taking over and opening the town up as a gambling resort. It's up to Rex Allen and his pals to put a stop to it and sing a few songs along the way.
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Silver City Bonanza
Title: Silver City Bonanza
Character: Rex Allen
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Blind Pete Horne knows the location of the Lost Spanish Silver Lode, but is knifed before he can tell anyone. His seeing eye dog, Duke, brings Rex Allen and Gabriel Horne to Pete's lifeless body. They set out to find the killer and run into trouble near Silver City, Arizona, when they rescue Katie McIntosh from a gang that is chasing her buckboard.
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Trail of Robin Hood
Title: Trail of Robin Hood
Character: Rex Allen
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commercial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course.
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Under Mexicali Stars
Title: Under Mexicali Stars
Character: Rex Allen/Mike Jordon
Released: November 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Cowboy T-man, Rex Allen, and his partner, Homer Oglethorpe (Buddy Ebsen), go undercover to track down some gold smugglers.
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Redwood Forest Trail
Title: Redwood Forest Trail
Character: Rex Allen
Released: September 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys with the help of "Alfalfa " Switzer who plays one of the boys.
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Hills of Oklahoma
Title: Hills of Oklahoma
Character: Rex Allen
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the cattleman's association, is driving the combined herds of the ranchers to the nearest railhead when he runs into trouble. Singing cowboy Rex Allen stars as a newly appointed leader of a cattleman's association who finds himself battling a greedy meat-packer (Robert Karnes) and his father (Robert Emmett Keane) for fair passage through the hills of Oklahoma.
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The Arizona Cowboy
Title: The Arizona Cowboy
Character: Rex Allen
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy proves his father is not a thief.