Don Reynolds

Don Reynolds

Born: May 29, 1937
Died: January 9, 2019
in Odell, Texas, USA
Don Reynold, is an American retired child actor and animal trainer. Born on May 29, 1937 in Odell, Texas, he began his film career with a small part in The Yellow Rose of Texas in 1944. He is most known for playing a Native American boy, "Little Beaver", in four pictures between 1948-1951. He was often billed as Little Brown Jug. After appearing in an episode of The Adventures of Kit Carson in 1951, he ended his professional acting career. In later life, Reynolds trained animals in movies such as The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Santa Claus: The Movie

Movies for Don Reynolds...

Snake River Desperadoes
Title: Snake River Desperadoes
Character: Little Hawk (as Don Reynolds 'Brown Jug')
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Starrett tries to prevent a range war between settlers and the Native Americans. Blue and his fellow scoundrels think they can profit from the bloodshed,but the Durango Kid along with a couple of precocious youngsters put an end to Blue's terrorism.
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Beyond the Purple Hills
Title: Beyond the Purple Hills
Character: Chip Beaumont
Released: July 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Gene Autry becomes the new Sheriff after bank robbers kill the former sheriff. When Judge Beaumont is murdered, evidence points to the judge's wild son. Believing the young man, Gene tries to help.
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Cowboy and the Prizefighter
Title: Cowboy and the Prizefighter
Character: Little Beaver (as Little Brown Jug)
Released: December 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Red Ryder KO's a fight racket with sidekick Little Beaver (Little Brown Jug) and a new friend.
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The Fighting Redhead
Title: The Fighting Redhead
Character: Little Beaver (as Don Kay Reynolds)
Released: October 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Red Ryder gets a telegram from his old friend Dan O'Connor asking for help in his fight against Faro Savage and his gang of rustlers. A gun dropped by Faro during a rustling raid makes Red and Sheila O'Connor, Dan's daughter, think they have ample proof against Faro but they are stymied by the law. Buckskin Blodgett and the Duchess, Red's aunt, find the body of O'Connor who was killed when Faro's men sent the sheriff out on a ruse. Sheila, discovered while rifling Faros office for evidence, escapes but not before she is recognized. Faro kills one of his own henchmen and then frames Sheila for the murder. Red and Little Beaver set out to clear Sheila and to try to find evidence against Faro and his gang. Written by Les Adams
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Roll, Thunder, Roll!
Title: Roll, Thunder, Roll!
Character: Little Beaver (as Little Brown Jug)
Released: August 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Jim Bannon is back as enduring cowboy hero Red Ryder in Eagle-Lion's Roll, Thunder, Roll. As ever, Ryder's cohorts are Little Beaver and the Duchess, here played by "Little Brown Jug" and Marin Sais. This time, Ryder tries to prove that a series of cattle raids and ranch fires were not the handiwork of masked Mexican do-gooder El Conejo.
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The Red Pony
Title: The Red Pony
Character: Little Brown Jug
Released: March 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice -- constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for companionship and paternal love.
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Ride, Ryder, Ride!
Title: Ride, Ryder, Ride!
Character: Little Beaver (as Little Brown Jug)
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Riding the plains with Little Beaver and Buckskin Blodgett, Red Ryder encounters bandits trying to hold up the stagecoach carrying Libby Brooks, owner of the Devil's Hole newspaper
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Whirlwind Raiders
Title: Whirlwind Raiders
Character: Tommy Ross
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.
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Romance of the West
Title: Romance of the West
Character: Little Brown Jug
Released: March 19, 1946
Type: Movie
The happy Indians live in Antelope Valley and Eddie is the new Indian Agent. Everything seems fine until the town selectmen want the valley occupied by the Indians because it contains silver. So they hire outlaw Indians and Chico to start trouble hoping that the army will forcibly remove them from the valley and they will claim it. But Father Sullivan and Eddie believe the Indians are being wronged even though they cannot convince anyone else.