All Entries Tagged With: "Gene Autry"
Gloria Henry
Date of Birth: 2 April 1923 Birth Name: Gloria McEniry Nickname: Tut Mini Biography: New Orleans-born second-string actress Gloria Henry was born Gloria McEniry on April 2, 1923, and lived on the edge of the Garden District growing up. Educated at the Worcester Art Museum School, she moved to Los Angeles in her very late [...]
Alex Gordon
Date of Birth: 8 September 1922 Mini Biography: Alex Gordon and his equally movie-crazy brother Richard Gordon haunted English movie theaters as boys before emigrating to New York in 1947. Richard remained East Coast-based as he forged a career as a film distributor and producer, while Alex set down roots in Hollywood, where he got [...]
Bert Dodson
Date of Birth: c. 1916 Date of Death 3 October 1994 Mini Biography: Bert Dodson started out in show business as a member of the western band The Light Crust Doughboys. He later ended up working at a radio station with Fred S. Martin and Jerry Scoggins. The three became friends and formed the musical [...]
Robert Allen
Date of Birth: 28 March 1906 Birth Name: Irvine E. Theodore Baehr Nickname: Tex Height: 5′ 11″ (1.80 m) Mini Biography: As a young man Robert Allen, born Irvine E. Theodore Baehr, learned about horses: he played polo, hunted fox, and rode in the cavalry of of New York Military School, graduating there in 1924. [...]
Bob Baker
Date of Birth: 9 November 1910 Birth Name: Stanley Leland Weed Nickname: Tumbleweed Height: 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Biography: He was home on the Hollywood range only a few years but Bob “Tumbleweed” Baker (ne Stanley Leland Weed) still made his mark by the time he rode off into the sunset. Born on November 8, [...]