Tom Mix
AKA: Thomas Hezekiah Mix
Birthday: 1880-01-06
Died: 1940-10-12
Birthplace: Mix Run, Pennsylvania, USA
The native of Mix Run, Pa., became a star with his first feature, 1910’s “Ranch Life in the Great Southwest.” An expert shot, cattle wrangler and horseman, Mix made some 160 cowboy silent Saturday matinee films in the 1920s always playing the man in the white hat who saved the day. Even his trusty steed Tony “The Wonder Horse” became a superstar receiving countless fan mail from kids.
In 1932, he returned to films, making nine talkies at Universal. His last screen appearance was in the 1935 15-part serial, “The Miracle Rider.” In 1940, he died at age 60 in a car crash in Arizona. A memorial is at the site of his death on California 79 near Florence. “The Wonder Horse” died two years later.
Filmography
Character: Tom Morgan, Texas Ranger
Character: Andrew Lanning
Character: Tom Logan - Posing as Dan Bishop
Character: Rider (archive footage)
Character: Dakota Joe Wilson
Character: Anthony Woodbury
Character: Square Deal Tom
Character: The Pony Express Rider
Character: Black Hawk, a Seminole Indian
Character: Sage Brush Tom
Character: Sergeant Tim Ryerson
Character: (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Claude Bennett aka Chip
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Donald MacTavish
Character: Single Shot Parker
Character: Bruce Thornton
Character: Tom Hartrigger
Character: Jere Lynch / John Smith
Character: Timothy Atkinson
Character: Buck Marston Jr.
Character: Herbert Parker
Character: The Tenderfoot
Character: Tom, a Cowpuncher
Character: Kit Carson Boone / Henry Boone
Character: 'Clean-up' Sudden
Character: Tom, the Stagecoach Driver
Character: Hal Whitcomb / Steve Whitcomb
Character: Bill Higgins, a Miner
Character: Sheriff Martin
Character: Tom Walker, a Cowpuncher
Character: Tommy - the Tenderfoot
Character: Tom - the Ranch Cook
Character: Tom - the Wild Man
Character: Tom - the Stagecoach Guard
Character: Richard Sharpe
Character: 1st Cowboy Suitor
Character: Harding Martin
Character: Tom Jackson, the Scapegoat
Character: Sergeant Brokaw, N.W.M.P.
Character: Peter - an Indian
Character: Second Prospector
Character: The Ranch Foreman
Character: The Half-Breed
Character: Ed Hanley (Sam's partner)
Character: Apache Frank (crooked gambler)
Character: Andrews the Marshal / Morgan the Outlaw
Character: The Stage Driver
Character: Tom Mason - the Scapegoat
Character: Bull Stokes, a Rough Cowboy
Character: Pop Lynd, Owner of Bingo Gulch Ranch
Character: Tom Wilson, a Texas Ranger
Character: Sheriff Strong
Character: Tom Ralston, the Gambler
Character: One of the Paradise Gulch cowboys
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Rider (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: Self - At San Simeon (archive footage) (uncredited)