Joe Rickson

Joe Rickson

Born: September 5, 1880
Died: January 8, 1958
in Clearcreek, Montana, USA

Movies for Joe Rickson...

Flame of Barbary Coast
Title: Flame of Barbary Coast
Character: Dealer
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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Triple Justice
Title: Triple Justice
Character: Henchman Luke Grimes
Released: September 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Homesteader (uncredited)
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: Ike Plummer (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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Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Title: Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Character: Buck
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Character: Ranger (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
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Three on the Trail
Title: Three on the Trail
Character: Saloon Henchman at Peephole
Released: April 14, 1936
Type: Movie
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.
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Song of the Saddle
Title: Song of the Saddle
Character: Second Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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Bar 20 Rides Again
Title: Bar 20 Rides Again
Character: Herb Layton
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.
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Elinor Norton
Title: Elinor Norton
Character: Ranch Hand
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
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Fargo Express
Title: Fargo Express
Character: Lynn - Gambler
Released: November 20, 1933
Type: Movie
When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.
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Wild Horse
Title: Wild Horse
Character: Deputy Clark
Released: August 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse. The Sheriff then arrests Jim for Skeeter's murder. But unknown to them, an outlaw witnessed the killing
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Trails of Danger
Title: Trails of Danger
Character: U.S. Marshal Bartlett
Released: September 30, 1930
Type: Movie
During a rescue of Mary and her father, Bob Bartlett finds a good horse, which later causes him to be mistaken for Butch Coleson, a wanted outlaw. Wounded by a posse, Bob heads for Poker Flats hoping to capture Coleson for the reward.
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The Lone Star Ranger
Title: The Lone Star Ranger
Character: Henchman
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he joins the Texas Rangers, and also hopes to win the approval and hand of Mary Aldridge, a girl from the East. He is assigned to round up a gang of cattle rustlers who are, unknown by Mary. led by her father.
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The Lariat Kid
Title: The Lariat Kid
Character: Tony
Released: May 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A lawman goes undercover to help his brother, a rancher, fight off horse thieves working for his greedy neighbor, who wants his ranch.
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The Drifter
Title: The Drifter
Character: Hank
Released: March 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Silent cowboy western starring Tom Mix, Bernard Bolden, Dorothy Dwan, Barney Furey, Albert J. Smith, and Ernest Wilson. Also, note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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A Trick of Hearts
Title: A Trick of Hearts
Character: Black Jack
Released: March 18, 1928
Type: Movie
In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook
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Land of the Lawless
Title: Land of the Lawless
Character: 'Brush' Gallagher
Released: December 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger insinuates himself into a murderous gang by showing off his talents. When he is taken prisoner by the ringleader, he makes a getaway and returns with a sheriff.
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Border Blackbirds
Title: Border Blackbirds
Character: Suderman
Released: August 28, 1927
Type: Movie
A couple of drifters seeking shelter from a blizzard. In a mountain cabin, they find the body of an old friend and a note that blames his death on the Border Blackbirds, a notorious gang operating on the border of Canada.
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Whispering Sage
Title: Whispering Sage
Character: (as Joseph Rickson)
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
This silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized by a greedy land baron (Joseph W. Girard). Jones played Buck Kildare, who, after falling for Basque beauty Natalie Joyce, comes to the aid of the settlers. On his sterling horse Silver, Kildare goes after the villain, who, it turns out, is the very same man who murdered his brother Tom (William A. Steele).
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The Flying Horseman
Title: The Flying Horseman
Character: Henchman
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
Mark Winton is a wanderer who takes up the cause of a band of ragamuffin's bullied by nasty loan shark Bert Ridley. In between buying the youngsters Boy Scout uniforms, the irrepressible Winton comes to the aid of lovely rancher June Savary , whose father is in financial trouble because of Ridley.
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With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Title: With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Character: Colonel William B. Travis
Released: August 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Silent film of the events of The Alamo
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The Bad Lands
Title: The Bad Lands
Character: Charlie Squirrel
Released: July 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Patrick Angus O'Toole is a military officer assigned to investigate a gang of gunrunners operating near Fort Sumner in the Dakota Bad Lands. At the fort, O'Toole comes to the aid of Mary Owen, who is being harassed by Captain Blake. The irate Blake gives Mary's cowardly brother, Hal, 24 hours to pay his gambling debt. In desperation, Hal robs the Pony Express, a crime for which O'Toole is arrested.
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Baree, Son of Kazan
Title: Baree, Son of Kazan
Character: Pierre Eustach
Released: April 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Wolfdog pup, Baree, is nursed back to health by a trapper's daughter after being caught in one of the traps.
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Title: Two-Fisted Sheriff
Character: George Rivers
Released: April 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A heroic lawman rescues Midge Blair from a runaway stage. Returning to town, Jerry is assigned to safeguard a valuable shipment of platinum.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Character: Henchman Dave Slack (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
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Pioneer Trails
Title: Pioneer Trails
Character: The Sheriff
Released: May 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two fall in love, much to the displeasure of Blaney. To put him out of the way, Blaney kills Jack's adoptive mother and frames Jack for the crime.
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Brass Commandments
Title: Brass Commandments
Character: Tularosa
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria Hallowell, who has known him by reputation, falls in love with Lanning but believes that he loves Ellen Bosworth, an eastern "lady." Campan, the leader of the rustlers, hoping to lure Lanning into a trap, kidnaps both girls. Lanning rescues the girls, punishes Campan, and indicates to Gloria that she is the girl for him.
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Flower of the North
Title: Flower of the North
Character: Pierre
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the Northwest to gain the right-of-way for their railroad company from D'Arcambal (Emmett King). Whittemore arrives first and D'Arcambal refuses to meet with him until he saves his daughter, Jeanne (Pauline Starke) from going over the rapids. Then Thorpe arrives and tries to use force by kidnapping Jeanne and insisting that he is her father.
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The Little Boss
Title: The Little Boss
Character: Pete Farley
Released: June 2, 1919
Type: Movie
The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios.[2] The story and screenplay were by Rida Johnson Young starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald.
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Go-Get-Em Garringer
Title: Go-Get-Em Garringer
Character: 'Bull' Ross
Released: March 23, 1919
Type: Movie
The Parsons Land Reclamation Company hires "Drive" Garringer to rid the Arizona-Mexican border area of the Triple Arrow gang, who have been attacking their workmen. In Puma City, he discovers that the sheriff and leading citizens protect the outlaws. Meanwhile, Wilma Wharton, the daughter of an aged prospector, hoping to put an end to the advances of the gang leader, agrees to go through a fake marriage ceremony with another gang member, but later discovers that the marriage was performed by a authentic minister.
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Roped and Tied
Title: Roped and Tied
Character: Hank Jensen
Released: August 17, 1918
Type: Movie
The hero, a stranger in a Western town, falls in love with an Innocent girl he discovers in a wine room. He wins her after several clashes with the villain, who also loves her.
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Baree, Son of Kazan
Title: Baree, Son of Kazan
Character: Joe Rickson
Released: May 27, 1918
Type: Movie
From James Oliver Curwood's novel about a wolfdog.
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The Home Trail
Title: The Home Trail
Character: Blackie
Released: March 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Tom Evans, the fearless range boss of the Double X Ranch, falls in love with a romantic schoolteacher from the East named Clara. They marry and for a time are happy, but in Tom's absence, his partner Blackie persuades the restless young wife to run away with him. Blackie soon deserts Clara, and she is forced to earn her keep at a disreputable dance hall. After robbing a stage, Blackie returns, and Tom, who has been waiting for his former friend, goes after him. In a gun battle with Tom and his posse, Blackie kills Clara and escapes, but Tom follows him into the desert and takes his horse, leaving him to die of thirst.
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Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers
Title: Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers
Character: Neil Ballard
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Ed Wetherford becomes an outlaw and, to escape imprisonment, abandons his wife Eliza and daughter Virginia. After attending college in the East, Virginia returns to California, where she meets and falls in love with Ross Cavanaugh, a United States ranger.
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The Devil's Own
Title: The Devil's Own
Character: Snake Matthews
Released: August 24, 1916
Type: Movie
"Snake" Matthews is the leader of a notorious gang of outlaws. "Shifty" is the laughing stock of the bunch and never has he been known to strike back or resent anything. The gang plan a particularly bold hold-up of the stage, as there are rumors that a large shipment of bullion is on the way. "Shifty" is among those who are to protect the hold-up men.
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A Woman's Eyes
Title: A Woman's Eyes
Character: Buzzard
Released: August 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Tom Horn is known throughout the cow country as a hard worker and a hard player. Tom is the leader of a gang. The Buzzard stumbles across oil indications on a homestead occupied by an old man and his daughter. Tom's party agrees it will be a good scheme to jump the claim, and they set out.
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Love's Lariat
Title: Love's Lariat
Character: Cowboy
Released: August 7, 1916
Type: Movie
A rancher begrudgingly goes east in order the fulfill the requirements of his uncle's will and receive his inheritance.
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For the Love of a Girl
Title: For the Love of a Girl
Character: Cliff Buckley
Released: July 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Black La Rue was born on the Mexican border in times of raids and fights. His father was killed in one of the fights. The circumstances of his birth have in some strange way affected his character so that he can never see a fight without having an irresistible desire to join the fray.
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The Committee on Credentials
Title: The Committee on Credentials
Character: Clem
Released: July 8, 1916
Type: Movie
Gambler Ballrat Bob tries to halt Clem, a squatter, from gambling away all his money.
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The Three Godfathers
Title: The Three Godfathers
Character: Rusty Conners
Released: June 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Three outlaws fleeing a posse through the desert come upon a dying woman and her baby in a wagon. Before she passes away, she makes the men promise to take care of her baby and get it safely through the desert.
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The Wedding Guest
Title: The Wedding Guest
Character: Jose Del Barra
Released: May 27, 1916
Type: Movie
The sheriff of the county is elected by men who call him the "squarest sheriff alive." Panchita Garcia, the flower of the town, loved by all, leaves home for a walk, passing through the town, where all the cowboys come out to meet her. "Bad" Pedro, a native, sees her and follows. He overtakes her and tries to kiss her. The sheriff, who has been passing by and has given Pedro's wife money to buy food for the starving children, hears her and runs to her assistance.
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The Night Riders
Title: The Night Riders
Character: The Apache Kid
Released: April 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Jack Marston is the sheriff of a western town and Jennie, his sister, is postmistress and operator at the stage station. Among the inhabitants of the town is an Indian breed. An outcast from his own people, he is looked down upon by the race of his adoption, although his education has included a college course. The express company has posted a reward for the apprehension of one Apache Kid and his band of fellow robbers. The next night the band arrive in the town and hold up one of the main saloons. Peggy, a dance hall girl, takes the fancy of the leader, the Apache Kid, and he abducts her and takes her with them when they make their escape.