Ken Maynard. Actor: The Fiddlin' Buckaroo. Studio publicity incorrectly puts his birthplace at Mission, Texas. Ken was a trick rider with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and later with Ringling Brothers and was also a champion rodeo rider. His movie debut, The Man Who Won (1923), was the first of many for this early cowboy movie superstar.
Ken was a trick rider with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and later with Ringling Brothers and was also a champion rodeo rider. His movie debut, The Man Who Won (1923), was the first of many for this early cowboy movie superstar.
Death Rides the Range: Directed by Sam Newfield. With Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Fay McKenzie, Ralph Peters. This film finds Ken Baxter and his two pals, Pancho and Panhandle, finding Professor Wahl, injured and wandering on the range.
In Phantom Rancher we see Ken Maynard on screen almost the entire time. His acting was top notch as it should have been. Unfortunately, Maynard's career in films was coming to an end as he worked himself down from the bigger movie studios to Colony Pictures for this movie.
Arizona Whirlwind: Directed by Robert Emmett Tansey. With Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Ian Keith. Hoot Gibson and the Trailblazers take jobs as telephone linemen to get the goods on a local banker who is the chief of a band of counterfeiters.
Mountain Justice: Directed by Harry Joe Brown. With Ken Maynard, Otis Harlan, Kathryn Crawford, Paul Hurst. A man returns to a small town in Kentucky to find his father's killers.
US government agents Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson, aka "The Trail Blazers", make a deal with captured outlaw Duke Dillon to catch crooked Indian agent John Hampton, who has been using his authority to steal from the local tribe.
Ken was a trick rider with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and later with Ringling Brothers and was also a champion rodeo rider. His movie debut, The Man Who Won (1923), was the first of many for this early cowboy movie superstar.
Range Law: Directed by Phil Rosen. With Ken Maynard, Frances Dade, Frank Mayo, Aileen Manning. Having escaped from prison, a cowboy looks for the man that framed him.
Flaming Lead: Directed by Sam Newfield. With Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Eleanor Stewart, Dave O'Brien. Cowhand Ken Clark is stranded in Chicago, and temporarily takes a job as a sharp-shooter entertainer in a night club, with the intention of getting enough money together to get back to his beloved Arizona.