Tom Mix
Born: 1880-01-06 in Mix Run, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1940-10-12
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1990
- Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend as himself
1976
- It's Showtime as Self (archive footage)
1961
- The 10 from Texas as (archive footage)
1953
- Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)
1940
- Rodeo Dough as Tom Mix
1939
- The Adventures of the Masked Phantom as Rider (archive footage) (uncredited)
1935
- The Miracle Rider as Tom Morgan, Texas Ranger
1933
- The Rustler's Roundup as Tom Lawson
- The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Terror Trail as Tom Munroe
- Gordon of Ghost City as Rider (archive footage)
1932
- Flaming Guns as Tom Malone
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 as Self
- The Fourth Horseman as Tom Martin
- My Pal, the King as Tom Reed
- Destry Rides Again as Tom Destry
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 as Self (uncredited)
- Hidden Gold as Tom Marley
- The Texas Bad Man as Tom Logan - Posing as Dan Bishop
- The Rider of Death Valley as Tom Rigby
1929
- The Drifter as Tom McCall
- The Big Diamond Robbery as Tom Markham
- Outlawed as Tom Manning
1928
- The Son of the Golden West as Tom Hardy
- Painted Post as Tom Blake
- Horseman of the Plains as Tom Swift
- Daredevil's Reward as Tom Hardy
- Hello Cheyenne! as Tom Remington
- King Cowboy as Tex Rogers
1927
- Tumbling River as Tom Gieer
- Silver Valley as Tom Tracey
- The Broncho Twister as Tom Mason
- The Last Trail as Tom Dane
- The Arizona Wildcat as Tom Phelan
- The Circus Ace as Tom Terry
- Outlaws of Red River as Tom Morley
- Life in Hollywood No. 4
1926
- My Own Pal as Tom O'Hara
- The Canyon of Light as Tom Mills
- The Great K&A Train Robbery as Tom Gordon
- Tony Runs Wild as Tom Trent
- The Yankee Señor as Paul Wharton
- No Man's Gold as Tom Stone
- Hard Boiled as Tom Bouden
1925
- Dick Turpin as Dick Turpin
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Carson
- The Rainbow Trail as John Shefford
- The Lucky Horseshoe as Tom Foster
- The Best Bad Man as Hugh Nichols
- The Everlasting Whisper as Mark King
- A Child of the Prairie as Square Deal Tom
1924
- The Last of the Duanes as Buck Duane
- The Deadwood Coach as Tom
- The Heart Buster as Tod Walton
- Teeth as Dave Deering
- Ladies to Board as Tom Faxton
- The Trouble Shooter as Tom Steele
- Oh, You Tony! as Tom Masters
1923
- North of Hudson Bay as Micheal Dane
- Mile-a-Minute Romeo as Lucky Bill
- Eyes of the Forest as Bruce Thornton
- Three Jumps Ahead as Steve McLean
- The Lone Star Ranger as Duane
- Stepping Fast as Grant Malvern
- Romance Land as 'Pep' Hawkins
- Soft Boiled as Tom Steele
1922
- Just Tony as Jim Perris
- Arabia as Billy Evans
- For Big Stakes as 'Clean-up' Sudden
- Catch My Smoke as Bob Stratton
- Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 as Self
- Sky High as Grant Newbury
- Chasing the Moon as Dwight Locke
- Do and Dare as Kit Carson Boone / Henry Boone
- Up and Going as David Brandon
- The Fighting Streak as Andrew Lanning
1921
- Hands Off! as Tex Roberts
- Big Town Round-Up as Larry McBride
- The Night Horsemen as Whistling Dan
- After Your Own Heart as Herbert Parker
- The Rough Diamond as Hank Sherman
- A Ridin' Romeo as Jim Rose
- Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) as Himself
- The Road Demon as Hap Higgins
- Trailin' as Anthony Woodbury
1920
- The Cyclone as Sergeant Tim Ryerson
- Desert Love as Buck Marston Jr.
- 3 Gold Coins as Bob Fleming / Bad Pat Duncan
- The Untamed as Whistling Dan
- The Texan as Tex Benton
- The Terror as Bat Carson
- Prairie Trails as Tex Benton
- The Daredevil as Timothy Atkinson
1919
- The Feud as Jere Lynch / John Smith
- Rough-Riding Romance as Phineas Dobbs
- Hell-Roarin' Reform as Tim
- Treat 'Em Rough as Ned Ferguson
- The Speed Maniac as Billy Porter
- The Wilderness Trail as Donald MacTavish
- The Coming of the Law as Kent Hollis
- Fighting for Gold as Jack Kilmeny
1918
- Fame and Fortune as Clay Burgess
- Cupid's Round Up as Larry Kelly
- Who's Your Father? as Tom Hartrigger
- Mr. Logan, U.S.A. as Jim Logan
- Ace High as Jean Rivard
- Western Blood as Tex Wilson
- Six-Shooter Andy as Andy Crawford
1917
- Durand of the Bad Lands as Clem Alison
- Six Cylinder Love as Buck Saunders
- A Roman Cowboy as Bud Ballard
- The Saddle Girth as Tom, a Cowpuncher
- Starring in Western Stuff as Tom Sage
- Tom and Jerry as The Foreman
- A Soft Tenderfoot as The Tenderfoot
- The Luck That Jealousy Brought as Joe Barr
- Hearts and Saddles
- The Rustler's Vindication
- The Heart of Texas Ryan as Single Shot Parker
- The Law North of 65 as Ralph
- Delayed in Transit as Dell Hawkins
- Knight of the Saddle
1916
- Twisted Trails as Tom Snow
- The Raiders as Tom Gardner
- Some Duel as Tom
- Local Color on the A-1 Ranch as Tom
- Along the Border as Tom Martin
- The Golden Thought as Tom Daton
- The Pony Express Rider as Tom Orbig
- The Sheriff's Blunder as Hal Whitcomb / Steve Whitcomb
- Tom's Sacrifice as Tom Miller
- Crooked Trails as Dick Taylor
- A Western Masquerade as Tom Bruce
- Taking a Chance as Tom Manton
- An Angelic Attitude as Tom Miller
- Shooting Up the Movies as Tom Travis
- $5,000 Reward
- A Corner in Water as Tom Smith
- The Cowpuncher's Peril as Tom Meyers
- The Taming of Grouchy Bill as Tom Merrill
- Tom's Strategy as Tom Miller
- Too Many Chefs as Tom Forde
- A Close Call as Dick Masters
- The Canby Hill Outlaws as Tom Gordon
- Going West to Make Good as Tom Gilmore
- 5,000 Dollar Elopement as Tom
- Roping a Sweetheart as Tom Walker, a Cowpuncher
- The Man Within as Tom Melford
- The Girl of Gold Gulch as Jack Wallace
- Mistakes Will Happen as Tom Warner
- A Bear of a Story as Tom Wilson
- In the Days of Daring
- An Eventful Evening as Jack Winton
- Legal Advice as Tom
1915
- Never Again as Tom
- Athletic Ambitions as Tom - the Wild Man
- Bill Haywood, Producer as Bill Haywood
- Pals in Blue as Tom
- Roping a Bride as Tom
- An Arizona Wooing as Tom Warner
- The Brave Deserve the Fair as Tom Martin
- The Range Girl and the Cowboy as Tom
- Saved by Her Horse as Tom Golden
- The Girl and the Mail Bag as Tom Chester
- The Man from Texas as Texas
- The Foreman's Choice as Tom Hickson
- Getting a Start in Life as Tom
- The Conversion of Smiling Tom as Smilin Tom
- The Tenderfoot's Triumph as Tommy - the Tenderfoot
- The Impersonation of Tom as Tom Graves
- Foreman of Bar Z Ranch as Tom Wallace
- Cactus Jim's Shop Girl as Cactus Jim
- Harold's Bad Man
- Sage Brush Tom as Sage Brush Tom
- The Stagecoach Driver and the Girl as Tom, the Stagecoach Driver
- The Grizzly Gulch Chariot Race as 1st Cowboy Suitor
- The Legal Light as Pete
- The Outlaw's Bride as Richard Sharpe
- On the Eagle Trail as Tom Merry
- How Weary Went Wooing as Weary
- The Stagecoach Guard as Tom - the Stagecoach Guard
- With the Aid of the Law as Lee Russell
- The Heart of the Sheriff as Sheriff Martin
- The Race for a Gold Mine as Tom Cummins
- Ma's Girls as The Gambler
- Slim Higgins as Slim Higgins
- A Matrimonial Boomerang as Tom Champion
- The Chef at Circle G as Tom - the Ranch Cook
- The Auction Sale of Run-Down Ranch as Tom
- Forked Trails as Bob Davis
- Her Slight Mistake as Bill
- Using HIs Brain as Tom
- The Man Hunt! as Lionel
- Mrs. Murphy's Cooks as Buck Martin
1914
- The Mexican as The Mexican
- Willie as Cowpuncher
- The Moving Picture Cowboy as Luke Barns
- Chip of the Flying U as Claude Bennett aka Chip
- In Defiance of the Law as Cpl. Nome
- In the Days of the Thundering Herd as Tom Mingle
- By Unseen Hand as Chief Jackson
- The Wilderness Mail as The Outlaw
- The White Mouse as Sergeant Brokaw, N.W.M.P.
- The Telltale Knife as Tom Mason
- Jimmy Hayes and Muriel as Jimmy Hayes
- A Friend in Need as The Ranch Foreman
- When the West Was Young as Indian Chief
- The Way of the Redman as The Redman
- The Little Sister as Second Prospector
- The Ranger's Romance as The Ranger
- Etienne of the Glad Heart as Peter - an Indian
- The Rival Stage Lines as Harding Martin
- Cactus Jake, Heart-Breaker as Bill
- The Sheriff's Reward as The Sheriff
- Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor as The Sheriff
- The Man from the East as Tom Bates
- The Scapegoat as Tom Jackson, the Scapegoat
- When the Cook Fell Ill as Chip
- Finish
- Saved by a Watch as Tom
- The Real Thing in Cowboys as Wallace Carey
1913
- Juggling with Fate as Andrews the Marshal / Morgan the Outlaw
- The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver as The Stage Driver
- The Marshal's Capture as The Halfbreed
- Taming a Tenderfoot as Bud Morris
- Sallie's Sure Shot as Injun Sam
- Made a Coward as Pete
- Mother Love vs Gold as Pete Jackson
- The Life Timer as The Sheriff
- That Mail Order Suit as Slim
- The Range Law as Cowpuncher
- The Law and the Outlaw as Dakota Joe Wilson
- The Sheriff of Yavapai County as Apache Frank (crooked gambler)
- Religion and Gun Practice as Kill Kullen
- His Father's Deputy as Ed Hanley (Sam's partner)
- The Only Chance as The Engineer
- The Escape of Jim Dolan as Jim Dolan
- The Taming of Texas Pete as The Half-Breed
1912
- The Scapegoat as Tom Mason - the Scapegoat
- The 'Diamond S' Ranch
- A Cowboy's Best Girl as Bull Stokes, a Rough Cowboy
- Tom and the Sheriff as Tom
- Western Life as Tom
- Celebrating the Fourth as Tom
- Up for Ransom as Tom
- Cyclone Tom as Tom
1911
- In Old California When the Gringos Came
- Back to the Primitive
- The Man from the East
- Dad's Girls as Tom Ralston, the Gambler
- Told in Colorado as Bill Higgins, a Miner
- The Bully of Bingo Gulch as Pop Lynd, Owner of Bingo Gulch Ranch
- Western Hearts as Sheriff Strong
- A Romance of the Rio Grande as Tom Wilson, a Texas Ranger
- Life on the Border as Indian Chief
- The Rose of Old St. Augustine as Black Hawk, a Seminole Indian
- The Cowboy and the Shrew as The Sheriff
- Captain Kate as Loyal Native
- Saved by the Pony Express as The Pony Express Rider
1910
- Trimming of Paradise Gulch as One of the Paradise Gulch cowboys
- The Range Riders
- Lost in the Soudan
- Go West, Young Woman, Go West
- Two Boys in Blue