Spade Cooley

Spade Cooley

Born: December 17, 1910
Died: November 23, 1969

Movies for Spade Cooley...

The Big Tip Off
Title: The Big Tip Off
Character: Spade
Released: March 20, 1955
Type: Movie
A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
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Border Outlaws
Title: Border Outlaws
Character: Spade Cooley
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Western tale of a special agent (Bill Edwards) unravelling a series of rustlings on and around Cooley's dude ranch
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Everybody's Dancin'
Title: Everybody's Dancin'
Character: Spade
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
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The Silver Bandit
Title: The Silver Bandit
Character: Spade Cooley
Released: February 20, 1950
Type: Movie
The owner of a silver mine, having repeatedly been the victim of the Silver Bandit, sends his clerk Spade Cooley who can neither ride nor fight west to investigate. The Sheriff has been unable to catch the bandit but when Spade finds him he will have to both ride and fight to bring him in.
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The Kid from Gower Gulch
Title: The Kid from Gower Gulch
Character: Spade Cooley
Released: January 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A Hollywood singing-cowboy star with a big heart and an even bigger secret (he uses a double in most scenes because he can't ride, fight or sing) comes to the aid of a rancher about to lose his home on a rodeo bet.
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Square Dance Jubilee
Title: Square Dance Jubilee
Character: Spade Cooley
Released: November 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent out West to get authentic western singing acts. They find what they're looking for, but also get mixed up in cattle rustling and murder.
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Vacation Days
Title: Vacation Days
Character: Spade Cooley
Released: January 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Miss Hinklefink invites the Teen Agers to stay at her new ranch for the summer. Freddie is mistaken for a famed bank-robber and hijinx ensue.
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Texas Panhandle
Title: Texas Panhandle
Character: Band Leader Spade
Released: December 20, 1945
Type: Movie
Steve Holden, a secret service agent, is suspended when his boss becomes suspicious of his activities as The Durango Kid. Can Steve prove his innocence?
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My Chickashay Gal
Title: My Chickashay Gal
Character: Band Leader
Released: October 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Musical short starring Spade Cooley.
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Senorita from the West
Title: Senorita from the West
Character: Bandleader
Released: October 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio crooner, who actually can't sing at all.
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Outlaws of the Rockies
Title: Outlaws of the Rockies
Character: Singer Spade
Released: September 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Outlaws of the Rockies is the fourth of Columbia's revitalized "Durango Kid" series. Charles Starrett is back in the saddle as the masked do-gooder Durango, aka easygoing sheriff Steve Williams. Accused of being a member of an outlaw gang, Williams is forced to don his Durango disguise to bring the actual criminals to justice.
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Rockin' in the Rockies
Title: Rockin' in the Rockies
Character: Spade Cooley
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
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Take Me Back to Tulsa
Title: Take Me Back to Tulsa
Released: August 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".
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Lost Canyon
Title: Lost Canyon
Character: Fiddle Player
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Title: Dawn on the Great Divide
Character: Fiddler
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
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Heart of the Golden West
Title: Heart of the Golden West
Character: Rustler
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
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Thundering Hoofs
Title: Thundering Hoofs
Character: Fiddler (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
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Romance on the Range
Title: Romance on the Range
Character: Townsman
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
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Home in Wyomin'
Title: Home in Wyomin'
Character: 1st Fiddler (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his wayward son, Tex Harrison, whose gambling and drinking threaten to bankrupt the rodeo organization which he heads. News photographer Clementine "Clem" Benson and reporter Hack Hackett are ordered to follow Gene. The group finds quarters at the "Bar Nothing" dude ranch, winter quarters for Tex's rodeo group, and Tex soon tangles with Hackett in a quarrel.
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Sunset on the Desert
Title: Sunset on the Desert
Character: Musician
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: Jim Clancy
Released: February 17, 1942
Type: Movie
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.
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Man from Cheyenne
Title: Man from Cheyenne
Character: Cowhand
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Musician
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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Nevada City
Title: Nevada City
Character: Musician
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Title: Sheriff of Tombstone
Character: Fiddle Player
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
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Red Skins and Red Heads
Title: Red Skins and Red Heads
Character: Fiddle Player (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Whitley and his singing group want to make time with young ladies at a finishing school...and vice-versa. However, the old matron in charge threatens to shoot Ray and his men so they come up with a plan to trick her.
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Cowhand / Musician
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
Title: Robin Hood of the Pecos
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Musician
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
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Young Bill Hickok
Title: Young Bill Hickok
Character: Musician
Released: October 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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Colorado
Title: Colorado
Character: Henchman
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
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Melody Ranch
Title: Melody Ranch
Character: Melody Ranch Band Musician
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
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The Ranger and the Lady
Title: The Ranger and the Lady
Character: Bent's Banjoist
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Fiddle Player
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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Bullet Code
Title: Bullet Code
Character: Fiddler (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Fiddle Player (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Title: The Marshal Of Mesa City
Character: Fiddler (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Union Soldier
Released: September 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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Frontier Pony Express
Title: Frontier Pony Express
Character: Charley Weston
Released: April 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
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Southward Ho!
Title: Southward Ho!
Character: Fiddler
Released: March 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.