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