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