''The Maverick'' is a 1952 American
Western
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film directed by
Thomas Carr and starring
Wild Bill Elliott
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Early life
Elliott was born Gor ...
,
Myron Healey
Myron Daniel Healey (June 8, 1923 – December 21, 2005) was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood, California during the early 1940s and eventually made hundreds of appearances in movies and on television during a career spa ...
and
Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell; January 15, 1927) is an American former actress, with a career spanning over fifty years. She is best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film ''Superman and the Mole Men'' and ...
.
[Fitzgerald & Magers p.35]
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Cast
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Wild Bill Elliott
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Early life
Elliott was born Gor ...
as Lieutenant Pete Devlin
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Myron Healey
Myron Daniel Healey (June 8, 1923 – December 21, 2005) was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood, California during the early 1940s and eventually made hundreds of appearances in movies and on television during a career spa ...
as Sergeant Frick
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Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell; January 15, 1927) is an American former actress, with a career spanning over fifty years. She is best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film ''Superman and the Mole Men'' and ...
as Della Watson
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Richard Reeves as Frank Bullitt
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Terry Frost
Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in ...
as Trooper Westman
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Rand Brooks
Arlington Rand Brooks Jr. (September 21, 1918 – September 1, 2003) was an American film and television actor.
Early life
Brooks was born in Wright City, Missouri. He was the son of Arlington Rand Brooks, a farmer. His mother and he moved ...
as Trooper Barnham
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Russell Hicks as Colonel Hook
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Robert Bray
Robert E. Bray (October 23, 1917 – March 7, 1983) was an American film and television actor known for playing the forest ranger Corey Stuart in the CBS series ''Lassie'', He also starred in ''Stagecoach West'' and as Mike Hammer in the mo ...
as Corporal Johnson
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Florence Lake
Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake, November 27, 1904 – April 11, 1980) was an American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.
Early life
Lake was born in Charleston, South Carolina. In t ...
as Grandma Watson
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Gregg Barton
Gregg Barton (Born Harold Wilson Barker, June 5, 1912 – November 28, 2000) was an American actor, who played various roles in feature films and television series.
Career
Born in Oswego, New York, Barton is possibly best remembered for having ...
as George Fane
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Denver Pyle as Bud Karnes
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Robert J. Wilke as Gang leader Massey
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Gene Roth
Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth (January 8, 1903 – July 19, 1976), known profesionally as Gene Roth, was an American film actor and film manager.
Early years
Roth was born in Redfield, South Dakota. He was the son of a German father an ...
as Fred Nixon
* Joel Allen as John Rowe
References
Bibliography
* Michael G. Fitzgerald & Boyd Magers. ''Ladies of the Western: Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s''. McFarland, 2006.
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1952 films
1952 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
Films directed by Thomas Carr
Western (genre) cavalry films
Allied Artists films
Films scored by Raoul Kraushaar
American black-and-white films
1950s English-language films
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