Hoot Gibson and Sally Eilers
Born Edmund Richard Gibson August 6, 1892 in Tekamah, Nebraska, "Hoot" Gibson acquired his unique nickname as the result of delivering packages for the Owl Drug Company as a youth. Gibson grew up on a farm and cattle ranch, but cared little for farming or ranching.
Crazy about horses, Gibson was fearless and with little experience he decided to compete in rodeos and Wild West shows from 1912 to 1917.
He
found extra work as a wrangler, a stuntman, and a double for Harry Carey
with Universal Studios.
Gibson interrupted his budding movie career to serve in World War I, but he returned to Universal in 1920 and quickly surpassed Carey to be Universal's top western star.
During the 1920s, Gibson starred in a number of films directed by his friend John Ford. His biggest film during those years was The Flaming Frontier (1926) one of the first to portray Custer's Last Stand. Gibson's career peaked as the silent era came to a close. He became one of Universal's mainstays performing in such hits as "Hit and Run" "Calgary Stampede" "Flaming Frontier" and the "King of the Rodeo."
In 1930, Universal suspended Western production and Hoot signed with a succession of independent producers. His final movie was in a supporting role, "The Horse Soldiers" starring John Wayne in 1959. Another of his popular movies was "Wild Horse" filmed in 1931.
He was married to Sally Eilers from June 27, 1930 to September 24, 1933. A typical short lived Hollywood romance, fizzling out as Sally's fame soared, and Hoot's began to slow.
During his acting years he filmed many movies with Sally Eilers, one being in 1931 "Clearing the Range".
Gibson has a star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City in 1979.
His career would span some 200 silent and 75 sound films.
Movies Filmed in the Conejo Valley
The Last of the Mohicans, (1932)
starring Harry Carey
and Hobart Bosworth
The Lawless Breed, (1953)
starring Rock Hudson
and Mary Castle
Roustabout, (1964) starring
Elvis Presley
and Barbara Stanwyck
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, (1969)
starring
George Kennedy
and Martin Balsam
Wuthering Heights, (1939)
starring Merle Oberon
and Laurence Olivier
Ride a Crooked Trail, (1958)
starring Gia
Scala and
Walter Matthau
My
Pal Trigger (1946) starring Roy Rogers
and Trigger (I)
Firecreek, (1968) starring
James Stewart
and Henry Fonda
Death of a Gunfighter, (1969) starring
Richard Widmark
and Lena Horne
Back to Bataan, (1945) starring John Wayne
and Anthony Quinn
State Fair, (1945) starring Jeanne Crain
and Dana Andrews
Flaming Star, (1960) starring
Elvis Presley
and Steve Forrest
Man Without a Star, (1955) starring Kirk Douglas
and Jeanne Crain
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, (1954)
starring Fess Parker
and Buddy Ebsen
Memoirs of a Geisha, (2005) starring Ziyi Zhang
and Ken Watanabe
Shenandoah, (1965) starring
James Stewart
and Glenn Corbett
Sands of Iwo Jima, (1949) starring John Wayne
and John Agar
Lassie Come Home, (1943) starring Roddy McDowall
and
Donald Crisp
Little Big Man, (1970)
starring Dustin Hoffman
and Faye Dunaway
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, (1962)
starring John
Wayne and
James Stewart
It Happened One Night, (1934)
starring
Clark Gable
and Claudette Colbert
Spartacus, (1960) starring Kirk
Douglas
and Laurence Olivier
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) starring Buster Keaton and Spencer Tracy
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