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