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