Portrait of Tom Mix

Tom Mix

Acting

Biography

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.

Born: January 6, 1880

Place of Birth: Mix Run, Pennsylvania, USA

Filmography

1976
It's Showtime

as Self (archive footage)

1961
The 10 from Texas

as (archive footage)

1953
Yesterday and Today

as (archive footage)

1940
Rodeo Dough

as Tom Mix

1939
The Adventures of the Masked Phantom

as Rider (archive footage) (uncredited)

1935
The Miracle Rider

as Tom Morgan, Texas Ranger

1933
Gordon of Ghost City

as Rider (archive footage)

1933
1933
Terror Trail

as Tom Munroe

1933
The Film Parade

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1932
Flaming Guns

as Tom Malone

1932
Hidden Gold

as Tom Marley

1932
The Fourth Horseman

as Tom Martin

1932
The Texas Bad Man

as Tom Logan - Posing as Dan Bishop

1932
Destry Rides Again

as Tom Destry

1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

as Self (uncredited)

1932
My Pal, the King

as Tom Reed

1929
1929
The Drifter

as Tom McCall

1929
Outlawed

as Tom Manning

1928
King Cowboy

as Tex Rogers

1928
Painted Post

as Tom Blake

1928
Hello Cheyenne!

as Tom Remington

1928
1928
Daredevil's Reward

as Tom Hardy

1927
The Arizona Wildcat

as Tom Phelan

1927
Silver Valley

as Tom Tracey

1927
Tumbling River

as Tom Gieer

1927
The Circus Ace

as Tom Terry

1927
1927
1927
The Last Trail

as Tom Dane

1926
1926
No Man's Gold

as Tom Stone

1926
Hard Boiled

as Tom Bouden

1926
Tony Runs Wild

as Tom Trent

1926
My Own Pal

as Tom O'Hara

1926
The Yankee Señor

as Paul Wharton

1925
The Best Bad Man

as Hugh Nichols

1925
1925
The Lucky Horseshoe

as Tom Foster

1925
A Child of the Prairie

as Square Deal Tom

1925
The Rainbow Trail

as John Shefford

1925
1925
Dick Turpin

as Dick Turpin

1924
Teeth

as Dave Deering

1924
Oh, You Tony!

as Tom Masters

1924
1924
The Heart Buster

as Tod Walton

1924
The Trouble Shooter

as Tom Steele

1924
Ladies to Board

as Tom Faxton

1923
Eyes of the Forest

as Bruce Thornton

1923
North of Hudson Bay

as Micheal Dane

1923
Mile-a-Minute Romeo

as Lucky Bill

1923
Soft Boiled

as Tom Steele

1923
Stepping Fast

as Grant Malvern

1923
Three Jumps Ahead

as Steve McLean

1923
Romance Land

as 'Pep' Hawkins

1922
Catch My Smoke

as Bob Stratton

1922
Arabia

as Billy Evans

1922
Do and Dare

as Kit Carson Boone / Henry Boone

1922
Just Tony

as Jim Perris

1922
For Big Stakes

as 'Clean-up' Sudden

1922
The Fighting Streak

as Andrew Lanning

1922
Up and Going

as David Brandon

1922
Chasing the Moon

as Dwight Locke

1922
Sky High

as Grant Newbury

1921
Trailin'

as Anthony Woodbury

1921
The Rough Diamond

as Hank Sherman

1921
The Night Horsemen

as Whistling Dan

1921
After Your Own Heart

as Herbert Parker

1921
Big Town Round-Up

as Larry McBride

1921
A Ridin' Romeo

as Jim Rose

1921
Hands Off!

as Tex Roberts

1921
The Road Demon

as Hap Higgins

1920
Prairie Trails

as Tex Benton

1920
The Texan

as Tex Benton

1920
The Untamed

as Whistling Dan

1920
3 Gold Coins

as Bob Fleming / Bad Pat Duncan

1920
The Terror

as Bat Carson

1920
Desert Love

as Buck Marston Jr.

1920
The Daredevil

as Timothy Atkinson

1920
The Cyclone

as Sergeant Tim Ryerson

1919
The Feud

as Jere Lynch / John Smith

1919
The Speed Maniac

as Billy Porter

1919
Rough-Riding Romance

as Phineas Dobbs

1919
The Wilderness Trail

as Donald MacTavish

1919
The Coming of the Law

as Kent Hollis

1919
Fighting for Gold

as Jack Kilmeny

1919
Treat 'Em Rough

as Ned Ferguson

1918
Fame and Fortune

as Clay Burgess

1918
Mr. Logan, U.S.A.

as Jim Logan

1918
Who's Your Father?

as Tom Hartrigger

1918
Ace High

as Jean Rivard

1918
Western Blood

as Tex Wilson

1918
Six-Shooter Andy

as Andy Crawford

1918
Cupid's Round Up

as Larry Kelly

1917
Tom and Jerry

as The Foreman

1917
1917
The Heart of Texas Ryan

as Single Shot Parker

1916
The Golden Thought

as Tom Daton

1916
Twisted Trails

as Tom Snow

1916
The Sheriff's Blunder

as Hal Whitcomb / Steve Whitcomb

1916
1916
A Bear of a Story

as Tom Wilson

1916
An Angelic Attitude

as Tom Miller

1916
1916
1916
The Man Within

as Tom Melford

1916
Along the Border

as Tom Martin

1915
The Heart of the Sheriff

as Sheriff Martin

1915
1915
An Arizona Wooing

as Tom Warner

1915
1915
Ma's Girls

as The Gambler

1915
Sage Brush Tom

as Sage Brush Tom

1915
The Stagecoach Driver and the Girl

as Tom, the Stagecoach Driver

1915
1915
1915
1915
The Man Hunt!

as Lionel

1914
The Sheriff's Reward

as The Sheriff

1914
The Telltale Knife

as Tom Mason

1914
1914
1914
1914
Chip of the Flying U

as Claude Bennett aka Chip

1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart

as Peter - an Indian

1913
Mother Love vs Gold

as Pete Jackson

1913
1913
The Taming of Texas Pete

as The Half-Breed

1913
1913
Sallie's Sure Shot

as Injun Sam

1913
The Marshal's Capture

as The Halfbreed

1913
Taming a Tenderfoot

as Bud Morris

1913
The Only Chance

as The Engineer

1913
The Law and the Outlaw

as Dakota Joe Wilson

1913
1913
His Father's Deputy

as Ed Hanley (Sam's partner)

1913
The Sheriff of Yavapai County

as Apache Frank (crooked gambler)

1913
Juggling with Fate

as Andrews the Marshal / Morgan the Outlaw

1913
The Range Law

as Cowpuncher

1912
The Scapegoat

as Tom Mason - the Scapegoat

1912
A Cowboy's Best Girl

as Bull Stokes, a Rough Cowboy

1911
The Bully of Bingo Gulch

as Pop Lynd, Owner of Bingo Gulch Ranch

1911
A Romance of the Rio Grande

as Tom Wilson, a Texas Ranger

1911
Western Hearts

as Sheriff Strong

1911
Told in Colorado

as Bill Higgins, a Miner

1911
Dad's Girls

as Tom Ralston, the Gambler

1911
Life on the Border

as Indian Chief

1911
Saved by the Pony Express

as The Pony Express Rider

1911
Captain Kate

as Loyal Native

1911
The Rose of Old St. Augustine

as Black Hawk, a Seminole Indian

1911