Ken Maynard
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Kenneth Olin "Ken" Maynard (July 21, 1895 – March 23, 1973) was an American motion picture stuntman and actor.
Maynard served in the United States Army during World War I. After the war, Maynard returned to show business as a circus rider with Ringling Brothers. When the circus was playing in Los Angeles, California, actor Buck Jones encouraged Maynard to try working in the movies. Maynard soon had a contract with Fox Studios.
He first appeared in silent motion pictures in 1923. Maynard's work included stunt performance. His horsemanship and rugged good looks made Maynard a cowboy star. He and his white stallion, "Tarzan," became famous. His two recorded songs with Columbia Records, "The Lone Star Trail" and "The Cowboy's Lament," made him one of the first of the singing cowboys. Maynard moved to Universal Studios, where he made his first films with a musical soundtrack. He sang two songs in Sons of the Saddle in 1930.
In 1931 and 1932, Maynard worked for Tiffany Productions and Sono Art-World Wide Pictures before moving back to Universal in 1933. Maynard played several musical instruments, and was featured that year on the violin in The Fiddlin' Buckaroo, and on the banjo in The Trail Drive. Maynard moved to Mascot Pictures in 1934.
Maynard appeared in more than ninety films in twenty years with his white cowboy hat, fancy shirt, and a pair of six-shooters, but alcoholism so severely affected his life that his acting career ended in 1944. He made appearances at state fairs and rodeos. He owned a small circus operation featuring rodeo riders but eventually lost it to creditors. His substantial wealth had vanished, and he lived a desolate life in a rundown trailer. During these years, Maynard was supported by an unknown benefactor, long thought to be Gene Autry. More than twenty five years after his last starring role, Maynard returned to the screen two small roles, in 1970 and 1972, the more notably in The Marshal of Windy Hollow.
Maynard died of stomach cancer in 1973 at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, California. He was interred at Forest Lawn Cypress Cemetery in Cypress, California.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Ken Maynard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6751 Hollywood Blvd.
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The Land Beyond the Law
Jerry Steele
Haunted Gold
Tim Kelly (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tombstone Canyon
Ken
Las huellas del monstruo
Mr. Bennett
Death Valley Rangers
Ken Maynard
Fargo Express
Ken Benton
The Two Gun Man
'Blackie' Weed
Branded Men
Rod Whitaker
Gun Justice
Ken Lance
Whirlwind Horseman
Ken Morton
Harmony Trail
Marshal Ken Maynard
The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
'Fiddlin'
The Law Rides Again
U.S. Marshal Ken Maynard
Mystery Mountain
Ken Williams
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(archive footage)
Six Shootin' Sheriff
Jim 'Trigger' Morton
Cheyenne
Cal Roberts
Avenging Waters
Ken Morley
The Code of the Scarlet
Bruce Kenton
The Pocatello Kid
The Pocatello Kid / Sheriff Jim Bledsoe
Lucky Larkin
'Lucky' Larkin
Trailing Trouble
John 'Friendly' Fields
The Fugitive Sheriff
Ken Marshall
King of the Arena
Captain Ken Kenton
The Trail Drive
Ken Benton
Cameo Kirby
(uncredited)
Gun Gospel
Granger Hume
Drum Taps
Ken Cartwright
Janice Meredith
Paul Revere
Arizona Whirlwind
Ken Maynard
Detrás de Cámaras
Gun Justice
Productor
The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
Director, Productor
Lucky Larkin
Productor
King of the Arena
Productor
The Trail Drive
Productor
Smoking Guns
Historia
Western Frontier
Historia
Wheels of Destiny
Productor
Parade of the West
Productor
Honor of the Range
Productor
Heir to Trouble
Historia
Strawberry Roan
Productor
The Fighting Legion
Productor
Sons of the Saddle
Productor
Mountain Justice
Productor
Señor Americano
Productor
The Wagon Master
Productor
Song of the Caballero
Productor