Hoot Gibson was a colorful figure, a light-hearted, fun-loving personality on screen and off. Hoot’s cheerful westerns included a significant amount of comedy. His mild, peaceful character rarely carried a gun. As an expert horseman, Hoot was always impressive on a galloping horse. Gibson’s film career began in 1910 with a few films for the Biograph Company interspersed among rodeo competitions. In 1914 he was a stuntman for the serial The Hazards of Helen, doubling the serial’s star Helen Holmes. His stunts included fights on trains and transfers from a train to a horse. He had supporting roles in numerous Western short films, including playing the villain in A Knight of the Range (1916) opposite popular western star Harry Carey. He appeared in three of the Westerns made by Carey and director John Ford in 1917 Straight Shooting, The Secret Man, and A Marked Man. Hoot’s starring career at Universal Studios was launched in two films directed by Ford, Action (1921) and Sure Fire (1921). In these films, Hoot plays a wandering cowboy who rescues the pretty young co-star from outlaws.Hoot became a popular western star for Universal. Film titles such as Ridin’ Wild (1922), Thrill Chaser (1923), Hit and Run (1924), Hurricane Kid (1925), and Galloping Fury (1927) guaranteed Hoot’s fans five reels of action and fun. Hoot’s easygoing approach gave his films a lighthearted tone. A deft comedian, he featured as much comedy as drama.As talkies arrived, Hoot continued as a Western star, but with lower budget producers such as M.H. Hoffman Inc. (distributed on a state rights basis by Allied Pictures Corporation) and Walker Futter Productions (Diversion Pictures). In 1935, Hoot co-starred with Harry Carey in Powdersmoke Range, advertised by RKO as the Barnum and Bailey of Westerns (whatever that means). The cast list of this all star (B western stars) film included Bob Steele, Guinn Big Boy Williams, Tom Tyler, William Farnum, and other Westerners from the silent era. In 1937 at Republic, he made a serial, The Painted Stallion, in support of new cowboy star Ray Corrigan.An aging Hoot retained his fine horsemanship and comic flair, but fan interest had moved to the new singing cowboys, especially Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Hoot’s Westerns had lost their appeal. In the late thirties, out of movies, Hoot toured with circuses and appeared at rodeos and fairs.In 1943, after seven years off the screen, Hoot returned in the Trail Blazer series at Monogram Studios. In these Westerns, Marshall Hoot Gibson, initially co-starred with Ken Maynard and later with Bob Steele and Chief Thundercloud, upholds the law and captures outlaws and crooked businessmen threatening the lives and property of innocent citizens. Hoot made eleven Trail Blazer films; the last was Trigger Law (1944). John Ford brought Hoot back for a cameo role in The Horse Soldiers (1959). His last screen appearance was as a sheriff’s deputy in Ocean’s Eleven (1960), another cameo.
Richard Gordon Jr
Film 1929
Jeff Bransford
Film 1921
Bob Corey
Film 1921
Bob Merril
Film 1930
Rodeo Randall
Film 1927
Luke Hawkins
Film 1924
Bud Watkins
Film 1924
Butler
Film 1914
Film 1914
Cyril Henderson (as Edward 'Hoot' Gibson)
Film 1922
Bob Carson
Film 1925
Jerry Alton
Film 1927
Billy Halen
Film 1927
Self
Film 1927
Film 1912
Clint Knox
Film 1936
Bill Hammond
Film 1928
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Bob Graham
Film 1916
The Cowboy
Film 1916
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Film 1913
Broncho Rider (uncredited)
Film 1912
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Tom Lattier - the Son
Film 1914
Messenger / Etzer
Film 1917
Medicine Show Crowd Member (uncredited)
Film 1915
Jack Harding
Film 1916
Etzer - Doyle's Pal
Film 1915
Train Crew (uncredited)
Film 1915
Stanley's Henchman
Film 1916
Messenger on Motorcycle
Film 1915
Jack
Film 1915
Blanding
Film 1916
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Joe
Film 1917
'Red' Johnson
Film 1917
Chip's Pal
Film 1917
Walter Jamison
Film 1937
Curt 'El Capitan' Fremont
Film 1931
Brent Halston
Film 1936
Jim Wright
Film 1931
William Penn 'Peaceful' Patton
Film 1931
Roarin' Dan
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Skyball Smith
Film 1929
'Swat' Anderson
Film 1924
Billy Reeves - the Foreman of the Ranch
Film 1920
Clarence Elwood Butts
Film 1924
Dan Alton
Film 1932
Film 1920
Steve Larmon
Film 1919
Benjamin Franklin Tully
Film 1928
Pete Watson
Film 1928
Scratch 'Em Hank Scott
Film 1929
Dick Rankin
Film 1918
Clarence Butts
Film 1929
Bucky Simms
Film 1927
Rodeo Bill
Film 1928
Hal 'Tucson Joe' Doyle
Film 1928
Danny Morgan
Film 1918
Sheriff
Film 1918
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Jeffrey Halley
Film 1919
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Texas Ranger Tim Brennan
Film 1930
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The Prairie Dog
Film 1919
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Pete Ainslee aka The Ridin' Kid
Film 1930
Tim McKenzie - the Crow
Film 1919
Bob Watson
Film 1919
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The Broncho Kid
Film 1919
Laramie Lad
Film 1922
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Dale Garland
Film 1922
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Tom Jackson
Film 1920
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'In Wrong' Wright
Film 1920
Bing Davidson
Film 1920
Jim Marvin / Jerry Marvin (Twin Brothers)
Film 1920
Hoot Parkford
Film 1944
Lucky 'The Lucky Terror' Carson
Film 1936
Scot McHale
Film 1920
Vic Collins
Film 1922
Bert Lyons
Film 1922
'Simplex' Cox
Film 1922
Dennis O'Shane
Film 1923
Hector MacKnight
Film 1923
'Katy' Didd
Film 1923
Ben Slowbell
Film 1923
Duke Travis
Film 1923
Sam Pertune
Film 1923
Geoffrey Arbuthnot 'Blinky' Islip
Film 1923
The Ramblin' Kid
Film 1923
Tex Mason
Film 1932
Dave Hollis
Film 1924
Billy Steele
Film 1920
Ace Cooper
Film 1924
Bud Watkins
Film 1924
The Hurricane Kid
Film 1925
Film 1910
'Click' Farlane
Film 1926
Billy Garford
Film 1927
Jimmie Roberts
Film 1927
Jim Bonner
Film 1932
Film 1920
Dave Bodie
Film 1920
The Stranger
Film 1920
Sandy Adams
Film 1920
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The Driftin' Kid
Film 1921
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Dick Harris
Film 1921
The Texas Ranger
Film 1921
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Film 1928
Jack Purvin
Film 1929
Cole Lawson Jr.
Film 1929
Tom Richards
Film 1929
Ed King
Film 1930
Bill Evans -Concentratin' Kid
Film 1930
Jimmy Duncan
Film 1932
Film 1921
Bill Perkins
Film 1922
Film 1921
The Singin' Kid
Film 1922
'Ace' Cooper posing as Tex
Film 1933
Chub -Jode's Helpful Cowboy Friend
Film 1919
Reasonin' Bates
Film 1935
Neil Gibson Jr.
Film 1935
Dan Malloy
Film 1925
Film 1920
Buck 'The Morning Glory Kid' Bonner
Film 1936
Steve Hartley
Film 1933
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Film 1976
Vassily - Ivan's Brother
Film 1918
Sheriff Bradley
Film 1946
Hoot
Film 1944
2nd Nash Henchman (as Ed Gibson)
Film 1916
U.S. Marshal Hoot Gibson
Film 1943
Marshal Hoot Gibson
Film 1943
Hoot Gibson
Film 1943
Hoot Gibson
Film 1944
Hoot Gibson
Film 1944
Danny Morgan
Film 1917
Al Goss
Film 1936
Orturo
Film 1915
Roadblock Deputy (uncredited)
Film 1960
Ed Harley
Film 1926
Ben Johnson
Film 1925
Bob Langdon
Film 1926
John Carleton
Film 1925
Johnny Ringo - Posing as Ben Bailey
Film 1932
Andy Barden
Film 1927
Hoot Gibson
Film 1944
Marshal H.R. Higgins
Film 1944
Chad Pennington
Film 1926
Swifty
Film 1935
Bill Bangs
Film 1925
Deputy (uncredited)
Film 1915
Stony Brooke
Film 1935
Clint Hale
Film 1931
Hoot Gibson
Film 1944
Self (uncredited)
Film 1931
'Whitey' Revel
Film 1936
Cowboy
Film 1917
Chuck Fadden
Film 1917
Undetermined Role
Film 1917
Chuck Rafferty
Film 1917
Sandy Brouke
Film 1921
Lonnie Larkin
Film 1919
Bart 'Smoke Gublen' Stevens
Film 1919
Gang Leader
Film 1919
The Deputy
Film 1919
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The Ramblin' Kid
Film 1929
Coot Cadigan
Film 1926
Jim Dailey
Film 1930
Hoot Gibson
Film 1924
Pinto Peters
Film 1921
Omar K. Jenkins
Film 1923
Chip Jr. - Montana Kid
Film 1929
Dennis O'Hara
Film 1928
Jeff Morgan Jr.
Film 1926
The Cowboy
Tv 1952