Smith Ballew
Know for: Acting
Born: 1902-01-21
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Gun Cargo (1949)
A Maritime Board of Inquiry investigates the loss of the merchant ship, the Black Rover . Its captain, Jim Parker, offers the following testimony on...
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000)
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large...
Rawhide (1938)
Saunders with his Cattlemen's Protective Agency is running roughshod over the ranchers. Lawyer Larry Kimball is fighting him but he needs a rancher...
Racing Lady (1937)
A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in...
The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's...
Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains (1948)
Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach that had...
Roll Along, Cowboy (1937)
Singing cowboy Randy shows up at Mrs. Blake's ranch. She is beset by bad guys, and Randy loves her daughter Janet.
Western Gold (1937)
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood...
Palm Springs (1936)
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
Hawaiian Buckaroo (1938)
Cowboys live amidst Hawaiian scenery and song.
Panamint's Bad Man (1938)
A hero goes undercover to uncover outlaws while singing to a heroine and being sneered at by a bad guy.
Gaucho Serenade (1940)
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's...
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he...
I Killed Geronimo (1950)
Going undercover as the notorious "Waco Kid," U.S. Army Captain Jeff Packard manages to infiltrate a gang of gold-shipment thieves lead by nasty Walt...
Drifting Along (1946)
Monogram added several songs and a barn dance to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown hay burner, in which the veteran cowboy star comes to the...
Rambling 'Round Radio Row #5 (1933)
The Happines Boys Billy Jones and Earnie Hare are invited to a party, but separate themselves from the rest of the guests, so they can not be urged...