Tex Holden

Tex Holden

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Title: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Character: Statehood Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
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Seven Ways from Sundown
Title: Seven Ways from Sundown
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.
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The Slowest Gun in the West
Title: The Slowest Gun in the West
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1960
Type: Movie
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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The FBI Story
Title: The FBI Story
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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Money, Women and Guns
Title: Money, Women and Guns
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.
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Title: Wagon Train
Character: Wagon Train Member
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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3:10 to Yuma
Title: 3:10 to Yuma
Character: One-Legged Man (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
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Drango
Title: Drango
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the obstility.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: One-Legged Sailor (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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The Harder They Fall
Title: The Harder They Fall
Character: Usher (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
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The Tall Men
Title: The Tall Men
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
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Apache Ambush
Title: Apache Ambush
Released: August 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
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East of Eden
Title: East of Eden
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1955
Type: Movie
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
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The Violent Men
Title: The Violent Men
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
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Jesse James vs. the Daltons
Title: Jesse James vs. the Daltons
Released: April 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Joe Branch, reputed to be the son of Jesse James, comes riding into Coffeyville Kansas, looking for proof one way or the other regarding the question of who his father was.
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Conquest of Cochise
Title: Conquest of Cochise
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.
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The War of the Worlds
Title: The War of the Worlds
Character: Man in Church (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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Rancho Notorious
Title: Rancho Notorious
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1952
Type: Movie
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
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Frenchie
Title: Frenchie
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
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Wagon Master
Title: Wagon Master
Character: Settler (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Navajo, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
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The Nevadan
Title: The Nevadan
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1950
Type: Movie
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.