Bill Cody

Bill Cody

Born: January 5, 1891
Died: January 24, 1948

Movies for Bill Cody...

The Fighting Gringo
Title: The Fighting Gringo
Character: Sheriff Fred Warren
Released: August 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Stagecoach
Title: Stagecoach
Character: Rancher (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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Outlaws of the Range
Title: Outlaws of the Range
Character: Steve Harper
Released: April 7, 1936
Type: Movie
When Steve Harper chases down some rustlers, he loses his gun in the ensuing fistfight. After Wilson is killed, Steve's gun is found nearby and he as arrested. Jimmy Wilson breaks him out of jail and he heads after the real killer.
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Blazing Justice
Title: Blazing Justice
Character: Ray Healy
Released: January 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A cowboy captures two rustlers and collects a $5000 reward. Using the money to take a vacation, he winds up getting accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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The Vanishing Riders
Title: The Vanishing Riders
Character: Bill Jones
Released: July 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Sheriff Bill Jones, in the line of duty, kills outlaw Joe Land and adopts his young son, Tim. They come upon a former silver boomtown, reputed to be haunted, whose only inhabitant is Hiram McDuff, a friend of Bill's. Ranch owner Joan Stanley hires Bill and Tim. Her father has been killed by the gang of Wolf Larson. By mistake, McDuff hires the Larson gang on as ranch hands for Joan. They plan to steal the stock while Bill is away. Tim overhears the plot and informs Bill. Bill and Tim use ghost makeup, skeleton sheets (even outfitting their horses with skeleton-looking blankets) and tricks to rout the superstitious gang members...
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The Texas Rambler
Title: The Texas Rambler
Character: Tom 'The Rambler' Manning
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Flash Carson is after the Conroy ranch. Having killed Conroy, he is now after the heir Billie Conroy. But there is another heir and it is Tom Manning who arrives posing as an outlaw. He gets accepted into Flash's gang where he hopes to learn the truth about Conroy's death.
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The Reckless Buckaroo
Title: The Reckless Buckaroo
Character: Bill Carter
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Bill saves a sheriff, left to die in the blazing sun by desert bandits.
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The Cyclone Ranger
Title: The Cyclone Ranger
Character: The Pecos Kid
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A trio of former cattle rustlers try to go straight, but find that they can't shake off their reputations and trouble follows them.
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Frontier Days
Title: Frontier Days
Character: The Pinto Kid
Released: November 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Henry Jethrow is after the Wilson ranch. He has George Wilson unknowningly sign a note for the ranch, has him killed, and then presents the note. The Pinto Kid, investigating cattle rustlers, accidentally drops his glove at the murder scene and now has a price on his head. He has Beth Wilson turn him and use the reward money to reclaim the note. Now he has to escape jail and find the real killers.
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Western Racketeers
Title: Western Racketeers
Character: Bill Bowers
Released: April 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher doesn't have enough money to pay the toll, he winds up dead. A local rancher, Bill Bowers, investigates the killing, but his neighbor and rival Molly Spellman decides to take her cattle around the pass instead of through it to avoid the toll. The gangsters kidnap her, and Bill gathers the other ranchers in the area for a final showdown with the gang.
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The Border Menace
Title: The Border Menace
Character: Bill 'The Shadow' Williams
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Ranger Bill Williams goes to prison to get information on Chuck Adams. Then a fake posse chase gets him invited into Adams' gang. But just as he learns who Adams' boss is and is about to make his move, his cell mate who escaped from prison returns to identify him.
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Border Guns
Title: Border Guns
Character: Bill Harris, AKA Bill Austin
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he becomes friends and rivals with the chief smuggler.
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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Law of the North
Title: Law of the North
Character: Bill Roberts
Released: May 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Hanley shoots a man and then frames Bill Roberts. Being the Judge he then holds court planning to hang Bill but Bill's friends effect his escape. Andy tries to lead Hanley astray by misleading him as to Bill's location. But Bill changes plans and Hanley catches up with him and this leads to the showdown.
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Texas Pioneers
Title: Texas Pioneers
Character: Captain Bill Clyde
Released: May 18, 1932
Type: Movie
In order to find out who is smuggling guns to the Indians, an army officer pretends to have been demoted and hold a grudge against the army, hoping that the smugglers will try to contact him and take him into their gang.
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Mason of the Mounted
Title: Mason of the Mounted
Character: Bill Mason
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when Calhoun hits Andy, Mason and Calhoun fight. In the scuffle Calhoun's watch with the missing chain is dislodged. Mason then sets out to bring in Calhoun and his gang.
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Ghost City
Title: Ghost City
Character: Bill Temple
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor Bill Temple arrives in Boom Town planning to expose Jim Blane as a crook. When Blane's henchman Buck fails to kill Temple, Blane prepares to flee with his money. But a sudden announcement of a gold strike empties the town. Blane heads after his henchmen who have taken his money and Temple heads after Blane.
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Land of Wanted Men
Title: Land of Wanted Men
Character: Silent Saunders
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy takes a job as sheriff in a small town and finds that one of his first jobs is trying to stop trouble between newly arrived sheepmen and local cattle ranchers, who don't want the sheep grazing on "their" range.
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Oklahoma Jim
Title: Oklahoma Jim
Character: Oklahoma Jim Kirby
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
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The Montana Kid
Title: The Montana Kid
Character: Bill Denton
Released: August 9, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy whose friend has been swindled out of his ranch and then murdered must take care of the man's son, then he goes after the killers.
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Dugan of the Badlands
Title: Dugan of the Badlands
Character: Bill Dugan
Released: June 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Bill Dugan befriends an orphaned boy; the pair help a sheriff bring his crooked deputy to justice.
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Under Texas Skies
Title: Under Texas Skies
Character: Army Captain Jack Hartford
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money.
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Eyes of the Underworld
Title: Eyes of the Underworld
Character: Pat Doran
Released: April 28, 1929
Type: Movie
John Hueston, a wealthy newspaper publisher, plans to publish an exposé of a criminal gang but is silenced by a bullet. Pat Doran, rich sportsman, is consoling Hueston's daughter at her home when members of the gang break into the house in an effort to put their hands on the incriminating evidence accumulated by Florence's father. Pat chases the crooks off and follows them to their hideout; they capture him, and he is imprisoned on a deserted island. Pat escapes, rounds up the gang, and wins Florence's love.
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The Arizona Whirlwind
Title: The Arizona Whirlwind
Character: Bill Farley
Released: March 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Bill's father is murdered by Hawley, one of Dykeman's henchmen, who steals a map proving Farley's claim to rich gold claims. Bill, who is engaged to Helen, Dykeman's daughter, routs the gang when they try to dispossess settlers and subsequently eludes a large posse. Later, when Hawley steals a gold shipment, Bill captures him and returns the gold to the Blue Ridge settlers; he is then accused of the robbery, but again he escapes. Disguised as a Spaniard, Bill meets Hawley and discovers him to be his father's murderer; a fight ensues, and Hawley recovers the map and kidnaps Helen in a stagecoach. Bill gives chase, overpowers the villain, and rescues Helen from the burning stagecoach.
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King of the Saddle
Title: King of the Saddle
Character: Billy
Released: September 9, 1926
Type: Movie
A cowboy discovers that his stock is all but worthless due to the bankruptcy of a ranch owner. The supposedly worthless stock certificate bears the name of waitress Joan Meredith's long-lost father, who suddenly reappears to save Cody from ruin.
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The Galloping Cowboy
Title: The Galloping Cowboy
Character: Bill Crane
Released: May 16, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill Crane is a fun-loving cowboy who likes to play pranks with an Australian bull-whip, much to the dismay of his ranch-owning uncle, Pete Perry. Bill and his cousin, Jack Perry, compete for the affections of Mary Pinkleby. Jack, unknown to Bill, is also an outlaw gang-leader, known as Poncho. The latter frames Bill as being the gang leader, and now Bill has to elude the sheriff and also prove his own innocence.
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The Fighting Smile
Title: The Fighting Smile
Character: Bud Brant
Released: August 4, 1925
Type: Movie
A cowboy who has been away from home for a long time returns, only to find that the area he grew up in has been taken over by a vicious gang of cattle rustlers--and that his closest friend from boyhood is one of them.
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Love on the Rio Grande
Title: Love on the Rio Grande
Released: July 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A 1925 silent Western.
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Cold Nerve
Title: Cold Nerve
Released: June 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Not only is Cody cheated out of his valuable property, he also faces trial on a charge of robbery and murder.