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