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