Having success on the Broadway stage, he was enticed to Hollywood for some singing work in musicals in the mid 1930s. Hired by Grand National Studios, he appeared in the leading roll for the tuneful seafaring yarn "Captain Calamity," 1936 and as Wild Bill Hickcock in "Frontier Scout," 1938. With the success of singing cowboys in motion pictures, he was signed at MGM staring in "The Great Waltz" and for Warner Brothers in "Blockade," both 1938. From 1939 to 1940, he starred in an eight part short film production "Tales of Billy the Kid" for PRC (Producers Distributing Corporation), but dispite the promotion and previews in theaters the series was never released. He continued acting and his last film was "The Lone Rider," 1942. Cause of death, heart attack.
Movie | Outlaws of Boulder Pass | Tom Cameron | 1942-11-28 |
Movie | The Lone Rider and the Bandit | Tom Cameron | 1942-01-16 |
Movie | The Lone Rider in Cheyenne | Tom Cameron | 1942-03-20 |
Movie | Texas Justice | Tom Cameron | 1942-06-05 |
Movie | Border Roundup | Tom Cameron | 1942-09-18 |
Movie | The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio | Tom Cameron aka The Lone Rider | 1941-02-28 |
Movie | The Lone Rider Rides On | Tom Cameron | 1941-01-10 |
Movie | The Lone Rider in Ghost Town | Tom Cameron | 1941-05-16 |
Movie | The Lone Rider Fights Back | Tom Cameron - The Lone Rider | 1941-12-17 |
Movie | The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury | Tom Cameron | 1941-08-08 |
Movie | The Lone Rider Ambushed | Tom Cameron / Keno Harris | 1941-08-29 |
Movie | Laughing at Danger | Dan Haggerty | 1940-08-12 |
Movie | The Howards of Virginia | George Washington | 1940-09-19 |
Movie | The Great Waltz | Schiller | 1938-11-04 |
Movie | Blockade | The Troubador | 1938-06-17 |
Movie | What Price Safety! | Foreman Cooper | 1938-02-05 |
Movie | Frontier Scout | Wild Bill Hickok | 1938-09-16 |
Movie | Marie Antoinette | Marquis De St. Priest (uncredited) | 1938-08-26 |
Movie | Conquest | Grand Marshal George Duroc | 1937-10-22 |
Movie | Wallaby Jim of the Islands | Wallaby Jim | 1937-12-17 |
Movie | Let's Sing Again | Leon Alba | 1936-05-07 |
Movie | Captain Calamity | (Cap't) Bill Jones | 1936-11-28 |
Movie | Masks and Memories | Uncle Andy | 1934-05-12 |