Lafe McKee
Born: 1872-01-22 in Morrison, Illinois, USA
Died: 1959-08-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Born Lafayette Stocking McKee, Lafe McKee began working in Hollywood around 1913. He usually played the likeable father of the heroine, the distressed businessman, or the ranch owner on the verge of losing his homestead or cattle to the villains. The majority of his films were westerns and he supported such actors as Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Tim McCoy, Tom Tyler, and others.
Filmography
1944
- Wells Fargo Days as Pop Lyman
1943
- Mission to Moscow as Radio Listener (uncredited)
- Kid Dynamite as Pedestrian
1942
- Inside the Law as Pop Cobb
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Minister (uncredited)
- Young People as Man in Recital Audience (uncredited)
- When the Daltons Rode as Doctor
- Pioneer Days as Sam - Express Agent
- Music in My Heart as Tom - Stage Doorman (uncredited)
- The Cheyenne Kid as Roberts--Ranch Owner
- Riders of Pasco Basin as Uncle Dan
- Bad Man from Red Butte as Dan Toddhunter
- Son of Roaring Dan as Frank Brooke
- Pioneers of the Frontier as Mort Saunders
- Wild Horse Valley as Elmer Kimball
- Dr. Christian Meets the Women as Grandpa
- Covered Wagon Trails as John Bradford
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Townsman
- The Oregon Trail as Settler (archive footage)
- Convict's Code as Night Watchman
- Heroes in Blue as Watchman
1938
- Gold Is Where You Find It as Farmer in Courtroom (uncredited)
- Stagecoach Days as Tom Larkin
- South of Arizona as Lafe Brown
- Six Shootin' Sheriff as Zeke
- Rolling Caravans as Henry Rankin
- Knight of the Plains as John Lane
- I'm from the City as Colonel Bixby
1937
- Law of the Ranger as Mr. Polk
- Melody of the Plains as Dad Langley
- North of the Rio Grande as Juror Joe
- The Rangers Step In as Jed Warren
- The Feud of the Trail as John Granger
- The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen as Tom Wilson
- Mystery Range as Jed Travis
- Brothers of the West as Sheriff Bains
- Lost Ranch as John Carroll
- The Fighting Deputy as Frank Denton
- Santa Fe Rides as 'Dad' Sheldon
1936
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Unemployed Farmer (uncredited)
- Custer's Last Stand as Captain Benteen
- Dangerous Waters as Old Skipper (uncredited)
- Men of the Plains as Marshal Ed Green
- Lightnin' Bill Carson as Don Costello
- The Fugitive Sheriff as Conductor (uncredited)
- For the Service as Rancher Johnson (uncredited)
- Easy Money as Henchman "Pop"
- Roamin' Wild as 'Dad' Parker
- Santa Fe Bound as Sheriff
- The Idaho Kid as John Endicott
- Silly Billies as Pioneer
- The Phantom Rider as Jeff Grayson
- Last of the Warrens as Sheriff Blake
- The Bridge of Sighs as Lester - Taffy Peddler (uncredited)
- Step on It as Captain Bradshaw
- The Cowboy and the Kid as Sheriff Bailey
- The Kid Ranger as Jim Burton
- The Mysterious Avenger as Maitland
- Frontier Justice as Old card player
1935
- The Desert Trail as Poker City Sheriff
- Rainbow Valley as Storekeeper
- Men of Action as Rancher
- The Cowboy and the Bandit as Sheriff of Pampa
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Bob Lee [Chs. 1-3]
- Northern Frontier as Old Trapper
- What Price Crime as Night Watchman (uncredited)
- The Test as Dad McVey
- Blazing Guns as John Rickard
- The Keeper of the Bees as Dr. Grayson
- The Last of the Clintons as Sam Slater
- The Ivory-Handled Gun as Sheriff Crane
- Rio Rattler as Pop - Hotel Owner
- Coyote Trails as John Baker
- Thunderbolt as Tom
- Circumstantial Evidence as Jury Foreman (uncredited)
- The Girl Who Came Back as Jim, the bank guard (uncredited)
- One in a Million as 2nd License Clerk
- Kid Courageous as William Bannister
- The Marriage Bargain as Squire Davis
- The Drunkard as Bartender
- Big Boy Rides Again as Tap Smiley
- The Hawk as Jim King
- Swifty as Sandy McGregor
- Queen of the Jungle as Kali
- The Ghost Rider as Zeke
- On the Run as Sheriff
- Wolf Riders as John Clark - Indian Agent
- Gun Smoke as Sheriff Rutherford
- The Silver Bullet as Dad Kane
- The Law of 45's as Charlie Hayden (Joan's Father)
- Tracy Rides as Jim Green
1934
- Lighting Bill as Tom Ross
- Fighting Fury as Sheriff Ed Hibbs
- Rawhide Mail as Sheriff
- Blue Steel as Dan Mason
- Ridin' Thru as Elmer 'Dad' Brooks
- Range Warfare as Wade Callahan
- West of the Divide as Fred Winters
- Frontier Days as Hank Wilson
- The Man from Utah as Judge Carter
- Honor of the Range as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Law of the Wild as Charles Ingram [Chs. 1, 3, 12]
- Riding Speed as John Vale (as Lafayette McKee)
- The Curtain Falls as Minor Role
- The Quitter as Zack
- A Demon for Trouble as Sheriff
- The Boss Cowboy as Nolan
- City Park as Matt O'Donnell
- Hell Bent for Love as Dad Daley
- Rawhide Romance as Roger Whitney
- Next Of Kin as Fred Winters
- Western Justice as Sheriff / King
- Port of Lost Dreams as Justice of the Peace
- The Fighting Trooper as Old Trapper
- Bandits of the Badlands as Dan Mason
1933
- Only Yesterday as Father at Train Station (Uncredited)
- Golden Harvest as Wheat Farmer (uncredited)
- Riders of Destiny as Sheriff Bill Baxter
- The Telegraph Trail as Lafe
- Straightaway
- Fighting Texans as Sheriff Jim Carver
- Fighting With Kit Carson as Luke Foster
- The Dude Bandit as Brown - Rancher
- The Mystery Squadron as Stephen Gray
- Cross Fire as Daniel Plummer
- The Man from Monterey as Don Jose Castanares
- King of the Arena as Townsman
- Under Secret Orders as Franklyn Lawrence
- Terror Trail as Shay
- War of the Range as Cattle Buyer Cartwright
- Gun Justice as Postmaster
- Gordon of Ghost City as Bill Simpson
- The Trail Drive as Jameson
- Jaws of Justice as 'Seeker' Dean
- Deadwood Pass as Sheriff Rawlins
- Galloping Romeo as Marshal Gregory
- The Whispering Shadow as Prince Alexander, alias Mr. Jerome
- Lightning Range as Judge Williams
1932
- Hello Trouble as Sheriff Joe Edwards
- Beauty Parlor as Reverend Parker
- The Texan as Jim
- Young Blood as Colonel Bondage
- Ride Him, Cowboy as Rancher Marty Gordon (uncredited)
- The Big Stampede as Cal Brett
- Heroes of the West as Townsman
- Tombstone Canyon as Colonel Lee
- The Secrets of Wu Sin as Justice of the Peace
- End of the Trail as Colonel John Burke
- The Fighting Champ as Sheriff Jim Cosgrove
- Without Honor as Ranger Captain Frank Henderson
- Klondike as Seth
- The Spirit of the West as Bowie Moore - Rancher
- The Boiling Point as Tom Kirk
- Self Defense as Sandy McKenzie
- The Riding Tornado as Hiram Olcott
- Mark of the Spur as 'Hardshell' Beckett
- The Man from New Mexico as Sheriff
- Gold as Jeff Sellers
- Fighting for Justice as Sam Tracy
- Hell-Fire Austin as Uncle Joe Brooks
- Gorilla Ship as Old Man (uncredited)
1931
- The Miracle Woman as Man in Audience (uncredited)
- The Hurricane Horseman as Don Roberto
- Grief Street as Michael, theater watchman
- The Fighting Marshal as Clint Wheeler
- The Galloping Ghost as Narrator / Police Broadcaster
- West of Cheyenne as Lafe Langdon
- Red Fork Range as Charles Farell / Colonel Leading Wagon Train
- The Cyclone Kid as Harvey Comstock
- The Lady from Nowhere as Henchman Snowden
- The Vanishing Legion as T.J. Hornbeck
- The Lightning Warrior as John Hayden
- The Two Gun Man as Joe Kearney
- Lariats and Six-Shooters
- The Gay Buckaroo as Mr. Fields
- Neck and Neck as Col. Rickson
- Partners of the Trail as Sheriff McWade
- Range Law as 'Old' Frisco
- Alias: The Bad Man as Clem Neville
- Hell's Valley as Don Flores
1930
- The Code of Honor as Dad Bradfield
- Under Montana Skies as Sheriff Pinkie
- The Lone Defender as Sheriff Billings
- Near the Rainbow's End as Tom Bledsoe
- The Lonesome Trail as Sheriff
- Breed of the West as Colonel Sterner - aka Bradley
- The Utah Kid as Parson Joe
- The Lone Rider as Corwin
- The Cheyenne Kid as Dad Thorpe
1929
- Evangeline as Townsman
- The King of the Kongo as Trader John
- The California Mail as William Butler
- The Amazing Vagabond as Phil Dunning
1928
- Trail Raiders
- Painted Trail as Dan Winters
- The Code of the Scarlet as Fur Trapper
- Trailin’ Back
- The Ballyhoo Buster
- The Upland Rider as John Graham
- Vultures of the Sea
- The Riding Renegade as Sheriff Jim Taylor
- Riley of the Rainbow Division
- Manhattan Cowboy as John Steel
- Freckles as Duncan
1927
- The Ridin' Rowdy as Doc
- Roarin' Broncs
- The Desert of the Lost as Boat Captain (uncredited)
- Hell Hounds of the Plains as Big John Lawson
- Daring Deeds as John Courtney
- Riding to Fame as Dr. Lorentz
1926
- Dog Scents as Sheriff
- Officer '444' as Capt. Jerry Dugan
- Dog of Dogs as John Harlan
- A Captain's Courage as Obadiah, the recluse
- Fangs of Vengeance as Abner Swaybe
- A String of Diamonds as J. Tiffany Van Den Akar
- The Man from Oklahoma as Rufus King
- The Baited Trap as Bobbie's Father
1925
- Triple Action as Don Pío Méndez
- Kit Carson Over the Great Divide as Sandy McLeod
- The Human Tornado as Peter Daley
- Pursued as District Attorney
- A Desperate Chance as Fred Forman
- Warrior Gap as John Folsom
- On the Go as Mr. Hall
- Sporting Life as Stage Doorman (uncredited)
- The Mystery Box as Judd Hampton
- The Power God as Prof. Daniel Sturgess
1924
- Battling Brewster as Roland Rand
- Circus Lure
- The Eagle's Claw as John Sherwood
- Thundering Romance as The Sheriff
- North of Alaska
- Bringin' Home the Bacon as Judge Simpson
- Hard-Hittin' Hamilton as Jim Downing
- Mile-a-Minute Morgan as Chester Jennings
1923
1922
- Silver Spurs as Jerry Regan
- The Jungle Goddess as Chief Obar Sen
- In the Days of Buffalo Bill as Gen. Robert E. Lee
1920
- The Daredevil as Sheriff, Coyote Flats
1919
- The Hoodlum as Board of Directors (uncredited)
1918
- Little Orphant Annie as The Good Squire
- The City of Purple Dreams as Pat Kelly
1917
- The Lad and the Lion as James Bankington
1916
- The Ancient Blood as Harry Ralston
- The Adventures of Kathlyn as Colonel Hare
- Wives of the Rich as Robert Baker
1915
- The Octopus as Harris Gordon
- Young Love as Professor Hunt
- The Girl and the Reporter
- The Baby and the Leopard as Fred Herman
- The Red Blood of Courage as Lieutenant Tavish
- The Vengeance of Rannah as General Craddock
- The Primitive Way
- The Jungle Stockade as Robert Barker - Missionary
- The Blood Seedling
- The Fork in the Road as The Innkeeper
- A Jungle Revenge as James Thorpe - Mabel's Father
- The Jaguar Trap
- The Man with the Iron Heart as Doyle
- The Guardian's Dilemma as Old Man Cummings
- The Heart of Paro
- The Lion's Mate as The Missionary
- In the King's Service as Antoine
- The Great Experiment
- The Two Natures Within Him as Dr. Bishop
- His Fighting Blood as Old McTrigger - Hope's Father
- Lassoing a Lion as Uncle Paul
- How Callahan Cleaned Up Little Hell as Jim McFarlin
1914
- Meller Drammer
- Jim
- Wade Brent Pays as Lawyer Moreley
- Garrison's Finish
- The Livid Flame as R. Hayes Burkhardt
- The Two Ordeals as Colonel Hare
- The Soul Mate
- Three Bags of Silver as Colonel Hare (as Lafayette McKee)
- If I Were Young Again as Museum Director Henshaw
- A Colonel in Chains as Colonel Hare
- The Leopard's Foundling as Wamba - a Native
- The Spellbound Multitude as Colonel Hare
- The Royal Slave as Colonel Hare
- Four Minutes Late
- The Forged Parchment as Colonel Hare
- The King's Will as Colonel Hare
- The Warrior Maid as Colonel Hare
- The Garden of Brides as Colonel Hare
- The Lure of the Windigo as Hugo Le Clerq - Annette's Father
- The Cruel Crown as Colonel Hare
- Rosemary, That's for Remembrance as Mr. Greerson - Harvey's Father
- To Be Called For as Silas Brown
1913
- Sweeney's Dream as The Mayor
- The Understudy as Ben Rosenthal - the Manager
- Dixieland as The Federal Captain
- Her Way as Burke - Gates' Brother
- A Jolt for the Janitor as Mr. Big Family
- The Gold Brick as Percy Hall
- The Suwanee River as The Overseer of the Plantation
- The Sands of Time as Father Time
- The False Order as Norman Black - the Telegraph Operator - Jack's Rival
- The Finger Print as Dabney - a Crook
- Papa's Dream as Parson Stanley
- Thor, Lord of the Jungles as John Brant - Gene's Father
- Granny's Old Armchair as Simon Willard
- The Post-Impressionists as George Wilton - Dorothy's Father
- Roses of Yesterday as John Ralston
- The Devil and Tom Walker as Old Briggs
- The Adventures of Kathlyn as Col. Hare
- A Loyal Deserter as Col. Colfax
- The Lesson as Murphy
- A Change of Administration as John Marshall - Secretary of War
- When May Weds December as The Banker's Butler
- The Cipher Message as Detective Donald Bryce
- A Husband Won by Election as A Gangster
- The Fifth String as Satan
- The Unwelcome Throne as Colonel Hare
- The Water Rat as Watson
- The Open Door as Mark Boland
- Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy as Gen. John Morgan
- Through Another Man's Eyes as Edward Elder - Wallace's Uncle
1912
- The Awakening as John Johnson
- Bread Upon the Waters as Mr. James Preston
- All on Account of Checkers as Sam - a Fireman
- The Wreck of the Vega as Ed Nobles
- Her Bitter Lesson as Old Jasper Floyd - Aurora's Father
- The Lost Inheritance as Mr. Bawn - Molly's Father
- The Fire Cop as Mr. Wilson
- Betty Fools Dear Old Dad as Betty's Dad
- How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home as 2nd Policeman
- A Detective's Strategy as Edwin Randall - the Detective
- The Three Valises as Pittsburg Sam - the Burglar
- The House of His Master as Gray - Robert's Friend