Jay Kirby
Also Known As: Bill George, William Bennett George
Biography: American actor best known for a short string of Hopalong Cassidy Westerns in the 1940s in which he played Cassidy's youthful sidekick Johnny Travers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 28, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 30, 1964
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Border Patrol
Overview: When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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Leather Burners
Overview: As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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Hoppy Serves a Writ
Overview: Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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Colt Comrades
Overview: Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam owned by a greedy merchant in town, who is intent on driving them out and taking their land for himself.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-18
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Undercover Man
Overview: A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other. Hoppy has to settle matters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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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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Marshal of Reno
Overview: One of two towns will be selected to be the County Seat and Editor Palmer has a gang working to make sure his town is chosen. Investigating the lawlessness, Red Ryder poses as an outlaw to get into the gang hoping to find out who the boss is. But Palmer knows Red and exposes his true identity when he arrives and Red and Gabby then find themselves prisoners of the gang. [Written by Maurice Van Auken]
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-02
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Son of God’s Country
Overview: Bill Sanger has his men out raiding and killing to obtain the ranches along the route that he knows the new railroad will use. He then kills the editor that received a letter that would expose him. But the editor earlier hid the letter in a chamber of his gun. Marshal Monte Hale arrives and eventually suspects Sanger and breaks into his house. After a gungight Sanger catches him and with one shot left shoots Monte. But he is using the editor's gun.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-15
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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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Masked Raiders
Overview: Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier. Infiltrating the gang, Holt and Martin learn that the raiders are operating altruistically, robbing from the rich to give to the poor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-14
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Sheriff of Las Vegas
Overview: In this western, brave Red Ryder and his sidekick save a murdered judge's son from going to jail by proving that someone else killed his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-31
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Conquest of Cheyenne
Overview: Red Ryder and his comical sidekick take on a new batch of bad-guys in this western, the 16th in the Red Ryder series. This time the heroic duo try to save a female rancher from a greedy financier who wants her land so he can exploit the enormous oil fields lying under it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-29
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Wagon Wheels Westward
Overview: In this western, Red Ryder leads a wagon train of homesteaders into a ghost town and discovers that it has become an outlaw's hideout.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-21
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Partners of the Sunset
Overview: Jimmy and Cannonball stumble across a murder scheme, hatched by beautiful but deadly Janice Thompson.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-05
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Zorro's Black Whip
Overview: Pretty Girl Barbara Mededith takes over her murdered brother's crusading newspaper. She also assumes the dead sibling's identity as "The Black Whip," righting the wrongs of Crescent City very much in the manner of her famous ancestor, Zorro.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-16
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Days of Buffalo Bill
Overview: In this western, a cowpoke gets in an argument; a scuffle ensues leaving the cowboy to believe that he killed his opponent. He is so wracked with guilt that he travels to the ranch of the dead man's sister, gives himself a new name and begins helping her. Rustlers come; he stops them. Trouble ensues after she learns his true identity. A scuffle ensues. She wings him with a gun; he disarms her. Later she hears the real murderer bragging about his crime during a fight with the hero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-02
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Sundown Riders
Overview: This film was produced and released in 1944 by Film Enterprises for the 16mm school-and-institutional market, and was picked up and released in 1948 by Astor for theatrical 35mm showings. Both versions finds the citizens of Rockford upset over a series of murders and robberies. The Sundowners, Andy Clyde (Andy Clyde), Jay Kirby (Jay Kirby) and Russ Wade (Russell Wade), ride into Rockford and innocently takes jobs with Tug Wilson (Jack Ingram) and his tough crew of line riders, who are in cahoots with Yeager (Hal Price) in a big land swindle scheme.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Oklahoma Badlands
Overview: Oklahoma Badlands is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Oliver Budge is after the Rawlins ranch. His henchman Sanders kills Ken Rawlins but when he tries to kill Leslie Rawlins, Rocky Lane breaks it up. But Leslie is a woman and knowing the bad guys are looking for a man, Rocky now poses as Leslie, an Eastern dude, and goes after the man that killed his friend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-22
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