stunt performer
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known for his short stature. He appeared in more than 70 Hollywood films between 1920 and 1934, and often co-starred in
Tom Mix
Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent films. He w ...
comedy Westerns.
Biography
Gilbert was born in
Saskatchewan, Canada
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, and raised in
Miles City, Montana
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History
After the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, the U.S. Army created fo ...
. Before he became an actor, he competed in rodeos around the United States. In the early 1920s, he began appearing in Hollywood westerns. During that decade, he and
Ben Corbett
Ben Corbett (February 6, 1892 – May 19, 1961) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1915 and 1956. He was born in Hudson, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California.
Corbett was a trophy-winning rodeo par ...
produced and starred in a series of comedy shorts that ran before Universal's feature-length Westerns. He died on August 17, 1936, in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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.
Partial filmography
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Ruth of the Rockies
''Ruth of the Rockies'' is a 1920 American silent Western film serial directed by George Marshall. Two of the 15 episodes survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, in New York City breezy Bab Murphy ...
The Mask of Lopez
''The Mask of Lopez'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Albert S. Rogell, and starring Fred Thomson, Wilfred Lucas
Wilfred Van Norman Lucas (January 30, 1871 – December 13, 1940) was a Canadian American stage actor who fo ...
The Tenth Woman
''The Tenth Woman'' is a lost 1924 silent film drama directed by James Flood and starring Beverly Bayne. It is based on a novel by Harriet T. Comstock. Warner Brothers produced the feature.
Cast
*Beverly Bayne - Willa Brookes
* John Roche - Ba ...
Chip of the Flying U
''Chip of the Flying U'' is a 1926 American silent Western comedy film based on a novel by Bertha Muzzy Sinclair. It was directed by Lynn Reynolds and starred Hoot Gibson. Universal Pictures produced and released the film.
A print is preserve ...
'' (1926)
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The Phantom Bullet
''The Phantom Bullet'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced by Carl Laemmle and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Cast
* Hoot Gibson as Chick Farlane
* Eileen Percy as Ja ...
The Border Cavalier
''The Border Cavalier'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by William Wyler and written by Basil Dickey and Gardner Bradford. The film stars Fred Humes, Evelyn Peirce, C.E. Anderson, William Barrymore, Joyce Compton, and Dick La Re ...
'' (1927)
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One Glorious Scrap
''One Glorious Scrap'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Edgar Lewis and written by George H. Plympton, George Morgan, and Gardner Bradford. The film stars Fred Humes, Dorothy Gulliver, Robert McKenzie, Francis Ford, George ...
'' (1927)
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Galloping Fury
''Galloping Fury'' is a lost 1927 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Cast
* Hoot Gibson - Billy Halen
* Otis Harlan - Pop Tully
* Sally Ra ...
'' (1927)
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The Fearless Rider
''The Fearless Rider'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Edgar Lewis and written by Basil Dickey and Gardner Bradford. The film stars Fred Humes, Barbara Worth, Ben Corbett, Gilbert Holmes, Buck Connors and William Steele. Th ...
'' (1928)
* ''
Put 'Em Up
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Trail Riders
''Trail Riders'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey. The film is the eighteenth in Monogram Pictures' "Range Busters" series, and it stars John "Dusty" King as Dusty, "Davy" Sharpe and Max "Alibi" Terhune, wit ...
'' (1928)
* ''
The Arizona Cyclone
''The Arizona Cyclone'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Edgar Lewis, and written by William Berke and Gardner Bradford. The film stars Fred Humes, George B. French, Margaret Gray, Cuyler Supplee, Gilbert Holmes, and Ben Cor ...
Beggars of Life
''Beggars of Life'' is an American film directed by William Wellman and starring Wallace Beery and Richard Arlen as hobos, and Louise Brooks as a young woman who dresses as a young man and flees the law. The film is regarded as Brooks's best Ame ...
Burning the Wind
''Burning the Wind'' is a 1928 American romantic drama film, directed by Herbert Blaché and Henry MacRae, starring Hoot Gibson and featuring Boris Karloff. The film is considered to be lost.The Sky Skidder'' (1929)
* '' Sunset Pass'' (1929)
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Sagebrush Politics
''Sagebrush Politics'' is a 1930 American silent Western film with sound sequences, directed by Denver Dixon, starring Art Mix, Wally Merrill, and Lilian Bond.
Cast
* Art Mix as Tom Williams
* Lilian Bond as Sheriff's Daughter
* Gilbert Holme ...
Lightnin' Smith Returns
''Lightnin' Smith Returns'' is a 1931 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Jack Irwin and starring Buddy Roosevelt, Barbara Worth and Tom London.
Cast
* Buddy Roosevelt as John Smith
* Barbara Worth as Helen Parker
* Tom London ...
'' (1931)
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Desert Vengeance
''Desert Vengeance'' is a 1931 American western film directed by Louis King and starring Buck Jones, Barbara Bedford and Douglas Gilmore.Pitts p.86 It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Cast
* Buck Jones as Jim Cardew (as Charles ...
'' (1931)
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The Man from Hell's Edges
''The Man from Hell's Edges'' (also known as ''El Lobo'') is a 1932 American Pre-Code Western film starring Bob Steele, written and direct by Steele's father, Robert N. Bradbury, for Trem Carr Pictures. It was released in the United States on ...
'' (1932)
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Law of the North
''Law of the North'' is a 1932 American Western film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring Bill Cody, Andy Shuford and Nadine Dore.Pitts p.184 It was the penultimate Monogram Pictures eight-film Western film series "the Bill and Andy series" ...
The Fighting Champ
''The Fighting Champ'' is a 1932 American Western film directed by John P. McCarthy and written by Wellyn Totman. The film stars Bob Steele, Arletta Duncan, Kit Guard, George Chesebro, George "Gabby" Hayes and Charles King. The film was rele ...
'' (1932)
* ''
Flaming Guns
''Flaming Guns'' is a 1932 American Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and written by Jack Cunningham. The film stars Tom Mix, William Farnum, Ruth Hall, Clarence Wilson, George Hackathorne and Duke R. Lee. The film was released on Decem ...
The Border Sheriff
''The Border Sheriff'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring Jack Hoxie, Olive Hasbrouck, and S.E. Jennings.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, Cultus Collins, the sheriff of Cayuse Cou ...
Western Racketeers
''Western Racketeers'' is a 1934 American western film directed by Robert J. Horner and starring Bill Cody, Edna Aslin and Hal Taliaferro It was an independent film produced on Poverty Row.Pitts p.175
Plot
In the San Bernardino Mountains, ca ...