Glenn Strange
Born: 1899-08-16 in Weed, New Mexico, USA
Died: 1973-09-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
At various times in his life a rancher, deputy sheriff and rodeo performer, this huge, towering (6' 5") beast of a man was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but grew up a real-life cowboy in Cross Cut, Texas. Of Irish and Cherokee Indian descent, he taught himself (by ear) the fiddle and guitar at a young age and started performing at local functions as a teen. In the late 1920s, Glenn and his cousin, Taylor McPeters, better known later as the western character actor Cactus Mack, joined a radio singing group known as the "Arizona Wranglers" that toured throughout the country.
Filmography
2000
- The Many Faces of Dracula as The Monster (archive footage)
1999
- Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' as Self (archive footage)
1994
- Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as The Monster (archive footage)
- Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as The Monster (archive footage)
1979
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
1966
- Spaceship to the Unknown as Robot / Ming soldier / Gocko (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Hawley
- The Adventures of the Spirit as Frankenstein Monster
1960
- Thriller as Indian (scenes deleted)
1959
- Rawhide as Bartender
- Last Train from Gun Hill as Gun Hill Bouncer
- Alias Jesse James as James Gang Member
1958
1957
- Sugarfoot as Red Wing
- 26 Men
- The Halliday Brand as Townsman
- Last Stagecoach West as Sheriff
- Gunfire at Indian Gap as Matt
1956
- Backlash as Milliken, Stage Driver (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- The Fastest Gun Alive as Sheriff in Silver Rapids (uncredited)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Sam Noonan
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Marty as Bit Role (uncredited)
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
- The Road to Denver as Big George
- Buffalo Bill Jr.
- The Vanishing American as Beleanth
- Judge Roy Bean
1954
- Cattle Queen of Montana as Indian Chief (uncredited)
1953
- Calamity Jane as Prospector (uncredited)
- Escape from Fort Bravo as Sergeant Compton
- Born to the Saddle as Tom Roper
- The Great Sioux Uprising as Stand Watie
- The Veils of Bagdad as Mik-Kel
- Devil's Canyon as Marshal (uncredited)
- General Electric Theater as Red Herring
1952
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Tessie's Steady Boyfriend
- Wagons West as Marshal Jim
- The Lusty Men as Rig Ferris - Foreman (uncredited)
- Hopalong Cassidy
- The Lawless Breed as Ben Hanley
- The Legend Of The Lone Ranger as Butch Cavendish
1951
- Texas Carnival as Tex Hodgkins
- The Adventures of Kit Carson
- Double Crossbones as Capt. Ben Avery
- The Red Badge of Courage as Colonel (uncredited)
- Callaway Went Thataway as Cowboy Actor on Saloon set (uncredited)
- Comin' Round the Mountain as Devil Dan Winfield
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as The Monster
- Comanche Territory as Big Joe
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Cavendish
- Master Minds as Atlas the Monster
- Rimfire as Curt Calvin
- Roll, Thunder, Roll! as Ace Hanlon
1948
- Red River as Naylor (uncredited)
- Disaster as Foreman Davis (uncredited)
- Four Faces West as Posse Deputy (uncredited)
- The Gallant Legion as Renegade
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as The Monster
1947
- Hollywood Wonderland as Singing Cowboy (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride", 1939) (uncredited)
- Sinbad the Sailor as Chief Galley Overseer (uncredited)
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap as Lefty
- The Sea of Grass as Bill Roach - Brewton Ranch Hand (uncredited)
1946
- Up Goes Maisie as Cop (Uncredited)
1945
- House of Dracula as The Frankenstein Monster
- Bad Men of the Border as Sheriff Peters
- Saratoga Trunk as Cowboy (uncredited)
- Renegades of the Rio Grande as Bart Drummond
1944
- Alaska as Miner
- The Contender as Biff Benham
- House of Frankenstein as Frankenstein Monster
- The Monster Maker as Giant
- San Antonio Kid as Frank 'Ace' Hanlon
- Silver City Kid as Henchman Garvey
- Sonora Stagecoach as Paul Kenton
- Valley Of Vengeance as Barker
- Knickerbocker Holiday as Big Muscle
- Forty Thieves as Ike Simmons
- Harmony Trail as Marshal Taylor
- Trail to Gunsight as Duke Ellis, Gang Leader
1943
- Western Cyclone as Dirk Randall
- Cattle Stampede as Boss Coulter
- The Desperadoes as Lem - Jack's Gang Member
- The Woman of the Town as Walker
- False Colors as Sonora
- The Kansan as 2nd Gate Guard
- Death Valley Rangers as The Marshall
- Action in the North Atlantic as Jake (uncredited)
- The Return of the Rangers as Frank Martin
- Wild Horse Stampede as Henchman Tip
- Black Market Rustlers as Corbin (as Glen Strange)
- Arizona Trail as Henchman Matt
- The Kid Rides Again as Tom Slade
- Mission to Moscow as Southerner in Montage (uncredited)
- The Black Raven as Andy
- Bullets and Saddles as Jack Hammond
- Haunted Ranch as Rance Austin
1942
- Stagecoach Buckaroo as Henchman Bill
- Bandit Ranger as Frank Curtis
- The Spoilers as Deputy (uncredited)
- The Mummy's Tomb as Farmer Holding Horse (uncredited)
- Billy the Kid Trapped as Boss Stanton
- Romance on the Range as Lead Henchman Stokes
- Sunset on the Desert as Deputy Louie Meade
- Beyond the Line of Duty as Cal (uncredited)
- Boot Hill Bandits as The Maverick
- Come on Danger as Henchman Sloan
- The Mad Monster as Petro
- Texas Trouble Shooters as Roger Denby
- Western Mail as Sheriff Big Bill Collins
- Raiders of the West as Hank Reynolds
- The Lone Rider and the Bandit as Luke Miller
- Little Joe, the Wrangler as Banker Jeff Corey
- Down Texas Way as Sheriff Trump
- Rolling Down the Great Divide as Joe Duncan
- Overland Stagecoach as Harlen Kent
1941
- Arizona Cyclone as Roy Jessup
- Saddlemates as Little Bear
- Fugitive Valley as Gray
- Dude Cowboy as Henchman Krinkle
- The Bandit Trail as Idaho
- Wide Open Town as Henchman Ed Stark
- Lone Star Law Men as Marshal Scott (as Glen Strange)
- Badlands of Dakota as Bob Russell
- The Driftin' Kid as Jeff Payson (as Glen Strange)
- Billy the Kid Wanted as Matt Brawley
- The Kid's Last Ride as Bart Gill / Ike Breeden
- Billy The Kid's Round-Up as Vic Landreau
- Westward Ho-Hum
- Go West, Young Lady as Townsman
- Riders of Death Valley as Tex, a Benton Rider
1940
- Wyoming as Bill Smalley - Henchman
- Dark Command as Tough Yankee #1
- Triple Justice as Frank Wiley
- Three Men from Texas as Stokes
- The Fargo Kid as Sheriff Dave
- Pals of the Silver Sage as Vic Insley
- Rhythm of the Rio Grande as Sheriff Hays (as Glen Strange)
- Stage to Chino as Bill Hoagland
- Land of the Six Guns as Manny
- San Francisco Docks as Mike
- Teddy the Rough Rider as Jim Rawlins
- Pioneer Days as Sheriff
- Wagon Train as Stagecoach driver
- The Cowboy from Sundown as Bret Stockton
- Covered Wagon Trails as Fletcher - Henchman
1939
- Overland Mail as Sheriff Dawson
- Oklahoma Terror as Ross Haddon
- Sunset Trail as Bouncer
- Range War as Sheriff
- The Llano Kid as Henderson
- Law of the Pampas as Slim Schultz
- The Fighting Gringo as Rance Potter
- Across the Plains as Jeff Masters
- Days of Jesse James as Cole Younger
- The Phantom Stage as Sheriff
- Honor of the West as Bat Morrison
- Rough Riders' Round-up as Boggs
- The Night Riders as Angry Riverboat Gambler
- Blue Montana Skies as Bob Causer
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Raider Thorne
- Arizona Legion as George Kirby
1938
- Gun Packer as Sheriff
- California Frontier as Blackie
- Border Wolves as Deputy Joe O'Connell
- Black Bandit
- Air Devils as Messenger
- In Old Mexico as Burke
- Pride of the West as Saunders
- The Mexicali Kid as Foreman Jed
- Six Shootin' Sheriff as Kendal Henchman
- The Last Stand
- State Police as Henchman
- The Spy Ring as The 'Champ' (uncredited)
- The Painted Trail as Sheriff Ed
- Guilty Trails as Sheriff
- Whirlwind Horseman as Henchman Bull
- The Mysterious Rider as Henchman Cramer
- Ghost Town Riders as Tex - Henchman
1937
- Empty Holsters as Tex Roberts
- Adventure's End as Barzeck
- The Devil's Saddle Legion as Pewee
- The Cherokee Strip as Harry, Fiddle Player and Band Leader
- Land Beyond the Law as Bandy Malarkey
- Blazing Sixes as Peewee
- Arizona Days as Henchman Pete
1936
- Flash Gordon as Gocko/Robot/Soldier
- California Mail as Henchman Bud
- A Tenderfoot Goes West as Prankster Butch
- Guns of the Pecos as Wedding Groom / Rustler
- The Sunday Round-Up as Master of Ceremonies
- The Fugitive Sheriff as Trial Spectator (uncredited)
- Trailin' West as Henchman Tim / Trooper (uncredited)
- Avenging Waters as Henchman Jake
1935
- Westward Ho as Carter
- Stormy as Arizona Wranglers Band Member 'Peewee' Strange (uncredited)
- The New Frontier as Norton
- Cyclone of the Saddle as Singer / Fiddler / Townsman
- Moonlight on the Prairie as Stew-Bum
- Lawless Range as Burn's Henchman
- The Law of 45's as Monte
1934
- The Man from Hell as Singer
- The Star Packer as Loco Frank
1933
- The Thrill Hunter as Studio Western Cowboy
1932
- Ride Him, Cowboy as Hawk Henchman (uncredited)
- The Hurricane Express as Jim
1931
- Wild Horse as Cowboy Who Refuses to Ride
- The Range Feud
- Cavalier of the West as Trooper