Tom Mix

Biography

The native of Mix Run, Pa., became a star with his first feature, 1910’s “Ranch Life in the Great Southwest.” An expert shot, cattle wrangler and horseman, Mix made some 160 cowboy silent Saturday matinee films in the 1920s always playing the man in the white hat who saved the day. Even his trusty steed Tony “The Wonder Horse” became a superstar receiving countless fan mail from kids.

In 1932, he returned to films, making nine talkies at Universal. His last screen appearance was in the 1935 15-part serial, “The Miracle Rider.” In 1940, he died at age 60 in a car crash in Arizona. A memorial is at the site of his death on California 79 near Florence. “The Wonder Horse” died two years later.

Known For

Stepping Fast

Grant Malvern

The Rustler's Roundup

Tom Lawson

Dick Turpin

The Texan

Tex Benton

Chip of the Flying U

Claude Bennett aka Chip

The Drifter

Tom McCall

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1990	Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend	himself
1976	It's Showtime	Self (archive footage)
1961	The 10 from Texas	(archive footage)
1953	Yesterday and Today	(archive footage)
1940	Rodeo Dough	Tom Mix
1939	The Adventures of the Masked Phantom	Rider (archive footage) (uncredited)
1935	The Miracle Rider	Tom Morgan, Texas Ranger
1933	The Rustler's Roundup	Tom Lawson
1933	Gordon of Ghost City	Rider (archive footage)
1933	Terror Trail	Tom Munroe
1933	The Film Parade	(archive footage) (uncredited)
1932	Hollywood on Parade No. A-4	Self (uncredited)
1932	Hollywood on Parade No. A-3	Self
1932	Destry Rides Again	Tom Destry
1932	My Pal, the King	Tom Reed
1932	The Rider of Death Valley	Tom Rigby
1932	The Texas Bad Man	Tom Logan - Posing as Dan Bishop
1932	Flaming Guns	Tom Malone
1932	The Fourth Horseman	Tom Martin
1932	Hidden Gold	Tom Marley
1929	The Big Diamond Robbery	Tom Markham
1929	Outlawed	Tom Manning
1929	The Drifter	Tom McCall
1928	Horseman of the Plains	Tom Swift
1928	Daredevil's Reward	Tom Hardy
1928	The Son of the Golden West	Tom Hardy
1928	King Cowboy	Tex Rogers
1928	Painted Post	Tom Blake
1928	Hello Cheyenne!	Tom Remington
1927	The Arizona Wildcat	Tom Phelan
1927	Tumbling River	Tom Gieer
1927	Silver Valley	Tom Tracey
1927	The Broncho Twister	Tom Mason
1927	Life in Hollywood No. 4
1927	The Last Trail	Tom Dane
1927	The Circus Ace	Tom Terry
1927	Outlaws of Red River	Tom Morley
1926	My Own Pal	Tom O'Hara
1926	The Canyon of Light	Tom Mills
1926	Tony Runs Wild	Tom Trent
1926	The Great K&A Train Robbery	Tom Gordon
1926	Hard Boiled	Tom Bouden
1926	No Man's Gold	Tom Stone
1926	The Yankee Señor	Paul Wharton
1925	The Everlasting Whisper	Mark King
1925	Riders of the Purple Sage	Jim Carson
1925	Dick Turpin	Dick Turpin
1925	The Best Bad Man	Hugh Nichols
1925	A Child of the Prairie	Square Deal Tom
1925	The Rainbow Trail	John Shefford
1925	The Lucky Horseshoe	Tom Foster
1924	Oh, You Tony!	Tom Masters
1924	Teeth	Dave Deering
1924	The Trouble Shooter	Tom Steele
1924	The Heart Buster	Tod Walton
1924	Ladies to Board	Tom Faxton
1924	The Deadwood Coach	Tom
1924	The Last of the Duanes	Buck Duane
1923	Eyes of the Forest	Bruce Thornton
1923	Mile-a-Minute Romeo	Lucky Bill
1923	Stepping Fast	Grant Malvern
1923	Romance Land	'Pep' Hawkins
1923	North of Hudson Bay	Micheal Dane
1923	The Lone Star Ranger	Duane
1923	Three Jumps Ahead	Steve McLean
1923	Soft Boiled	Tom Steele
1922	Arabia	Billy Evans
1922	Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12	Self
1922	Do and Dare	Kit Carson Boone / Henry Boone
1922	Up and Going	David Brandon
1922	For Big Stakes	'Clean-up' Sudden
1922	Chasing the Moon	Dwight Locke
1922	Sky High	Grant Newbury
1922	Just Tony	Jim Perris
1922	The Fighting Streak	Andrew Lanning
1922	Catch My Smoke	Bob Stratton
1921	A Ridin' Romeo	Jim Rose
1921	After Your Own Heart	Herbert Parker
1921	The Road Demon	Hap Higgins
1921	Trailin'	Anthony Woodbury
1921	Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)	Himself
1921	Big Town Round-Up	Larry McBride
1921	Hands Off!	Tex Roberts
1921	The Rough Diamond	Hank Sherman
1921	The Night Horsemen	Whistling Dan
1920	The Daredevil	Timothy Atkinson
1920	The Terror	Bat Carson
1920	Desert Love	Buck Marston Jr.
1920	The Untamed	Whistling Dan
1920	The Texan	Tex Benton
1920	Prairie Trails	Tex Benton
1920	The Cyclone	Sergeant Tim Ryerson
1919	Hell-Roarin' Reform	Tim
1919	Fighting for Gold	Jack Kilmeny
1919	The Feud	Jere Lynch / John Smith
1919	The Coming of the Law	Kent Hollis
1919	The Speed Maniac	Billy Porter
1919	Rough-Riding Romance	Phineas Dobbs
1919	Treat 'Em Rough	Ned Ferguson
1919	The Wilderness Trail	Donald MacTavish
1918	Ace High	Jean Rivard
1918	Who's Your Father?	Tom Hartrigger
1918	Fame and Fortune	Clay Burgess
1918	Western Blood	Tex Wilson
1918	Mr. Logan, U.S.A.	Jim Logan
1918	Cupid's Round Up	Larry Kelly
1918	Six-Shooter Andy	Andy Crawford
1917	The Rustler's Vindication
1917	Tom and Jerry	The Foreman
1917	The Law North of 65	Ralph
1917	A Soft Tenderfoot	The Tenderfoot
1917	Six Cylinder Love	Buck Saunders
1917	Knight of the Saddle
1917	Durand of the Bad Lands	Clem Alison
1917	A Roman Cowboy	Bud Ballard
1917	The Saddle Girth	Tom, a Cowpuncher
1917	The Luck That Jealousy Brought	Joe Barr
1917	Delayed in Transit	Dell Hawkins
1917	Starring in Western Stuff	Tom Sage
1917	Hearts and Saddles
1917	The Heart of Texas Ryan	Single Shot Parker
1916	In the Days of Daring
1916	Mistakes Will Happen	Tom Warner
1916	Twisted Trails	Tom Snow
1916	Tom's Sacrifice	Tom Miller
1916	A Close Call	Dick Masters
1916	An Eventful Evening	Jack Winton
1916	The Sheriff's Blunder	Hal Whitcomb / Steve Whitcomb
1916	The Pony Express Rider	Tom Orbig
1916	The Raiders	Tom Gardner
1916	The Taming of Grouchy Bill	Tom Merrill
1916	Tom's Strategy	Tom Miller
1916	A Corner in Water	Tom Smith
1916	Roping a Sweetheart	Tom Walker, a Cowpuncher
1916	The Girl of Gold Gulch	Jack Wallace
1916	Taking a Chance	Tom Manton
1916	Some Duel	Tom
1916	A Western Masquerade	Tom Bruce
1916	Shooting Up the Movies	Tom Travis
1916	The Cowpuncher's Peril	Tom Meyers
1916	Going West to Make Good	Tom Gilmore
1916	Too Many Chefs	Tom Forde
1916	Along the Border	Tom Martin
1916	Crooked Trails	Dick Taylor
1916	$5,000 Reward
1916	The Man Within	Tom Melford
1916	The Canby Hill Outlaws	Tom Gordon
1916	An Angelic Attitude	Tom Miller
1916	Local Color on the A-1 Ranch	Tom
1916	Legal Advice	Tom
1916	A Bear of a Story	Tom Wilson
1916	5,000 Dollar Elopement	Tom
1916	The Golden Thought	Tom Daton
1915	The Stagecoach Driver and the Girl	Tom, the Stagecoach Driver
1915	Pals in Blue	Tom
1915	The Heart of the Sheriff	Sheriff Martin
1915	The Legal Light	Pete
1915	The Man Hunt!	Lionel
1915	Bill Haywood, Producer	Bill Haywood
1915	Forked Trails	Bob Davis
1915	The Grizzly Gulch Chariot Race	1st Cowboy Suitor
1915	Harold's Bad Man
1915	Slim Higgins	Slim Higgins
1915	The Impersonation of Tom	Tom Graves
1915	The Chef at Circle G	Tom - the Ranch Cook
1915	On the Eagle Trail	Tom Merry
1915	The Tenderfoot's Triumph	Tommy - the Tenderfoot
1915	Athletic Ambitions	Tom - the Wild Man
1915	The Foreman's Choice	Tom Hickson
1915	The Race for a Gold Mine	Tom Cummins
1915	The Brave Deserve the Fair	Tom Martin
1915	The Stagecoach Guard	Tom - the Stagecoach Guard
1915	The Girl and the Mail Bag	Tom Chester
1915	Never Again	Tom
1915	Her Slight Mistake	Bill
1915	With the Aid of the Law	Lee Russell
1915	The Range Girl and the Cowboy	Tom
1915	The Conversion of Smiling Tom	Smilin Tom
1915	How Weary Went Wooing	Weary
1915	Ma's Girls	The Gambler
1915	The Outlaw's Bride	Richard Sharpe
1915	Getting a Start in Life	Tom
1915	Mrs. Murphy's Cooks	Buck Martin
1915	Foreman of Bar Z Ranch	Tom Wallace
1915	Saved by Her Horse	Tom Golden
1915	The Man from Texas	Texas
1915	Using HIs Brain	Tom
1915	An Arizona Wooing	Tom Warner
1915	Sage Brush Tom	Sage Brush Tom
1915	Roping a Bride	Tom
1915	Cactus Jim's Shop Girl	Cactus Jim
1915	The Auction Sale of Run-Down Ranch	Tom
1915	A Matrimonial Boomerang	Tom Champion
1914	Cactus Jake, Heart-Breaker	Bill
1914	Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor	The Sheriff
1914	Finish
1914	Saved by a Watch	Tom
1914	The Rival Stage Lines	Harding Martin
1914	The Man from the East	Tom Bates
1914	The Sheriff's Reward	The Sheriff
1914	The Scapegoat	Tom Jackson, the Scapegoat
1914	The Telltale Knife	Tom Mason
1914	The Ranger's Romance	The Ranger
1914	The Way of the Redman	The Redman
1914	Jimmy Hayes and Muriel	Jimmy Hayes
1914	The Real Thing in Cowboys	Wallace Carey
1914	The Moving Picture Cowboy	Luke Barns
1914	The Mexican	The Mexican
1914	When the West Was Young	Indian Chief
1914	The White Mouse	Sergeant Brokaw, N.W.M.P.
1914	Willie	Cowpuncher
1914	Etienne of the Glad Heart	Peter - an Indian
1914	When the Cook Fell Ill	Chip
1914	The Little Sister	Second Prospector
1914	The Wilderness Mail	The Outlaw
1914	In Defiance of the Law	Cpl. Nome
1914	By Unseen Hand	Chief Jackson
1914	A Friend in Need	The Ranch Foreman
1914	Chip of the Flying U	Claude Bennett aka Chip
1914	In the Days of the Thundering Herd	Tom Mingle
1913	The Marshal's Capture	The Halfbreed
1913	Made a Coward	Pete
1913	Sallie's Sure Shot	Injun Sam
1913	Taming a Tenderfoot	Bud Morris
1913	His Father's Deputy	Ed Hanley (Sam's partner)
1913	The Only Chance	The Engineer
1913	Religion and Gun Practice	Kill Kullen
1913	The Taming of Texas Pete	The Half-Breed
1913	That Mail Order Suit	Slim
1913	The Sheriff of Yavapai County	Apache Frank (crooked gambler)
1913	The Life Timer	The Sheriff
1913	The Range Law	Cowpuncher
1913	Juggling with Fate	Andrews the Marshal / Morgan the Outlaw
1913	The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver	The Stage Driver
1913	Mother Love vs Gold	Pete Jackson
1913	The Escape of Jim Dolan	Jim Dolan
1913	The Law and the Outlaw	Dakota Joe Wilson
1912	A Cowboy's Best Girl	Bull Stokes, a Rough Cowboy
1912	The 'Diamond S' Ranch
1912	The Scapegoat	Tom Mason - the Scapegoat
1912	Cyclone Tom	Tom
1912	Western Life	Tom
1912	Up for Ransom	Tom
1912	Celebrating the Fourth	Tom
1912	Tom and the Sheriff	Tom
1911	Told in Colorado	Bill Higgins, a Miner
1911	The Bully of Bingo Gulch	Pop Lynd, Owner of Bingo Gulch Ranch
1911	A Romance of the Rio Grande	Tom Wilson, a Texas Ranger
1911	Western Hearts	Sheriff Strong
1911	Dad's Girls	Tom Ralston, the Gambler
1911	In Old California When the Gringos Came
1911	The Cowboy and the Shrew	The Sheriff
1911	Back to the Primitive
1911	The Rose of Old St. Augustine	Black Hawk, a Seminole Indian
1911	Saved by the Pony Express	The Pony Express Rider
1911	Captain Kate	Loyal Native
1911	Life on the Border	Indian Chief
1911	The Man from the East
1910	Lost in the Soudan
1910	Two Boys in Blue
1910	The Range Riders
1910	Trimming of Paradise Gulch	One of the Paradise Gulch cowboys
1909	Briton and Boer

Year	TV Show	Role