Spade Cooley
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 17, 1910
Deathday: November 23, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Overview: Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-05
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Vacation Days
Overview: Miss Hinklefink invites the Teen Agers to stay at her new ranch for the summer. Freddie is mistaken for a famed bank-robber and hijinx ensue.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-25
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Bullet Code
Overview: Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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The Kid from Gower Gulch
Overview: A Hollywood singing-cowboy star with a big heart and an even bigger secret (he uses a double in most scenes because he can't ride, fight or sing) comes to the aid of a rancher about to lose his home on a rodeo bet.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-15
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My Chickashay Gal
Overview: Musical short starring Spade Cooley.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-29
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Red Skins and Red Heads
Overview: Whitley and his singing group want to make time with young ladies at a finishing school...and vice-versa. However, the old matron in charge threatens to shoot Ray and his men so they come up with a plan to trick her.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-15
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The Big Tip Off
Overview: A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-20
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Southward Ho!
Overview: Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-19
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Frontier Pony Express
Overview: In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-11
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Destry Rides Again
Overview: Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-30
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Overview: A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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The Arizona Kid
Overview: Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-28
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You're Not So Tough
Overview: The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Thundering Hoofs
Overview: Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-24
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Rockin' in the Rockies
Overview: Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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Colorado
Overview: Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-15
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The Border Legion
Overview: Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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The Ranger and the Lady
Overview: While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1940-07-30
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Young Bill Hickok
Overview: Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-21
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Texas Panhandle
Overview: Steve Holden, a secret service agent, is suspended when his boss becomes suspicious of his activities as The Durango Kid. Can Steve prove his innocence?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-20
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Melody Ranch
Overview: His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-15
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Border Outlaws
Overview: Western tale of a special agent (Bill Edwards) unravelling a series of rustlings on and around Cooley's dude ranch
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Outlaws of the Rockies
Overview: Outlaws of the Rockies is the fourth of Columbia's revitalized "Durango Kid" series. Charles Starrett is back in the saddle as the masked do-gooder Durango, aka easygoing sheriff Steve Williams. Accused of being a member of an outlaw gang, Williams is forced to don his Durango disguise to bring the actual criminals to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-18
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Home in Wyomin'
Overview: Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his wayward son, Tex Harrison, whose gambling and drinking threaten to bankrupt the rodeo organization which he heads. News photographer Clementine "Clem" Benson and reporter Hack Hackett are ordered to follow Gene. The group finds quarters at the "Bar Nothing" dude ranch, winter quarters for Tex's rodeo group, and Tex soon tangles with Hackett in a quarrel.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-29
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Senorita from the West
Overview: Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio crooner, who actually can't sing at all.
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-12
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Lost Canyon
Overview: Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
Overview: Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-14
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Overview: The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-07
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In Old Cheyenne
Overview: Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
Genres: Adventure Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-04
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Nevada City
Overview: The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-19
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Man from Cheyenne
Overview: Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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South of Santa Fe
Overview: To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1942-02-17
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Sunset on the Desert
Overview: Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Romance on the Range
Overview: Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-18
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Heart of the Golden West
Overview: Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1942-11-16
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Overview: Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Square Dance Jubilee
Overview: Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent out West to get authentic western singing acts. They find what they're looking for, but also get mixed up in cattle rustling and murder.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-11
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The Silver Bandit
Overview: The owner of a silver mine, having repeatedly been the victim of the Silver Bandit, sends his clerk Spade Cooley who can neither ride nor fight west to investigate. The Sheriff has been unable to catch the bandit but when Spade finds him he will have to both ride and fight to bring him in.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-20
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Everybody's Dancin'
Overview: Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Take Me Back to Tulsa
Overview: Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-08
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I Love to Yodel
Overview: Carolina Cotton Yodeling with the Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-05
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