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Tom Mix
Silent Movie Cowboy Star

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"It was a big day when I found out you could get Tom Mix spurs off the back of a cereal box. Tom Mix was a cowboy hero in the movies, and he was huge. Huge! Just the fact that spurs came in a box by mail made them huge. And so we sent away for the spurs.           I must have been about six years old when my great-grandmother died. I don't remember much about the funeral, only bits and pieces, you know, everybody clustered together. We got home – and the Tom Mix spurs arrived in the mail. I get all excited. But then I remember my great-grandmother has just died. I want to be happy, but ...           On that day, I learned conflict." —  actor Al Pacino

Tom Mix entry at Wikipedia

Links

Tom Mix listings [300+ films] at Internet Movie Database
Tom Mix entry at Wikipedia
search for books about Tom Mix at Amazon
Tom Mix posters at AllPosters.com

Tom Mix page at B-Westerns fansite
National Tom Mix Film Festival [held 1980-2000 & 2004]
Tom Mix Museum in Dewey, OK
Tom Mix photo galleries at Silent Ladies & Gents fansite
"Tom Mix & The Straight Shooters Club" radio show
Tom Mix Circus [1936-38] page at Circus History website • color billboard {in new window}
Tom Mix Memorial on State Highway 79 south of Florence, AZ • color photo {in new window}

Movies of Tom Mix
Tom Mix listings at Internet Movie Database

"The Moving Picture Cowboy"
[Selig Polyscope Oct 1914 silent short]

Written & directed by & starring Tom Mix; co-starring W.L. Lewis, Eleanor Blevins, Lester Cuneo, Charles Wheelock & Robert Murdock video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 18"x24" poster from Amazon {out of prodn/used}

"The Man Within" [Selig Polyscope May 1916 silent short]

Directed by & starring Tom Mix; co-starring {future wife} Victoria Forde, Pat Chrisman, Sid Jordan & Joe Ryan video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Golden Thought" [Selig Polyscope Dec 1916 silent short]

Directed by & starring Tom Mix; written by J.A. Lacy; co-starring {future wife} Victoria Forde, Barney Furey, Lillian Clark, Sid Jordan & Pat Chrisman video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Heart of Texas Ryan" [Selig Polyscope Feb 1917 silent]
Humorous cowboy romance, wherein the purty girl saves the hero. Directed by E.A. Martin;
starring Tom Mix, Bessie Eyton, George Fawcett & Frank Campeau; full credits from IMDb
available as part of the Porter/Train Robbery Anniversary compilation V.C.I. b&w DVD [12/2003] for $17.99

"Fame and Fortune" [Fox Oct 1918 silent]
Directed by Lynn Reynolds; starring Tom Mix, Kathleen O'Connor, Charles McHugh, Annette DeFoe,
Val Paul, Jack Dill, Clarence Burton & Edwin Wallock; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"Rough-Riding Romance" [Fox Aug 1919 silent]

No plot summary on IMDb, but keywords include oil, king, princess, and spy. Directed by Arthur Rosson; written by Charles Kenyon; starring Tom Mix, Juanita Hansen, Pat Chrisman, Spottiswoode Aitken & Jack Nelson video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster available at AllPosters.com

"The Feud" [Fox Dec 1919 silent]
Directed by Edward LeSaint; written by Charles Kenyon; starring Tom Mix, Eva Novak, Claire McDowell,
Arthur Mackley, John Cossar, Mollie McConnell, Lloyd Bacon, Frank Thorne, Guy Eakins & Lucretia Harris;
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Daredevil" [Fox March 1920 silent]
Co-written & directed and starring by Tom Mix; co-written by Joseph Anthony Roach; co-starring Eva Novak,
Charles K. French, Lee Shumway, Sid Jordan, Lucille Young, Lafe McKee & Pat Chrisman;
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Road Demon" [Fox Feb 1921 silent]
Directed by Lynn Reynolds; starring Tom Mix, Claire Anderson, Lloyd Bacon, William Elmer, Charles K. French,
George Hernandez & Lee Phelps; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"A Ridin' Romeo" [Fox May 1921]

Co-written & directed by George Marshall; co-written by & starring Tom Mix; co-starring Rhea Mitchell, Pat Chrisman, Sid Jordan, Harry Dunkinson, Eugenie Forde & Minnie Devereaux video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Rough Diamond" [Fox Oct 1921]

Co-written & directed by Edward Sedgwick; co-written by & starring Tom Mix; co-starring Eva Novak, Hector Sarno, Ed Brady & Sid Jordan video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"Sky High" [Fox Jan 1922 silent]

A cowboy investigating the smuggling of Chinese laborers over the border from Mexico falls for the daughter of the man who appears to head the gang. Written & directed by Lynn Reynolds; starring Tom Mix, J. Farrell MacDonald, Eva Novak & Sid Jordan; listed on National Film Registry (1998) Sinister Cinema b&w DVD [undated] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb

"Just Tony" [Fox Aug 1922 silent]

A cowboy seeking revenge discovers a wild stallion that he is determined to tame, and then falls for the daughter of the man who shot him in a barroom brawl. Adapted & directed by Lynn Reynolds, based on Max Brand's 1923 novel "Alcatraz"; starring Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Claire Adams & J.P. Lockney Sinister Cinema b&w DVD [undated] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb

"Do and Dare" [Fox Oct 1922 silent]
Co-written & directed by Edward Sedgwick; starring Tom Mix, Dulcie Cooper, Claire Adams, Claude Payton, Jack
Rollens, Hector Sarno, Wilbur Higby, Robert Klein & Gretchen Hartman; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"Three Jumps Ahead" [Fox March 1923 silent]
Written & directed by John Ford [1894-1973]; starring Tom Mix, Alma Bennett, Edward Peil Sr., Joseph W. Girard,
Virginia True Boardman, Margaret Joslin & Francis Ford; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Lone Star Ranger" [Fox Sept 1923 silent]

Directed by Lambert Hillyer; based on the Zane Grey novel; starring Tom Mix, Billie Dove, Lee Shumway, Stanton Heck, Edward Peil Sr., Frank Clark, Minna Redman, Francis Carpenter, William Conklin & Thomas G. Lingham video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99

"North of Hudson Bay" [Fox Nov 1923 silent]
A cowboy arrives in Canada's Northern Territories to find that his brother has been killed and the partner in a gold mine
falsely convicted for the murder. Directed by John Ford; written by Jules Furthman; starring Tom Mix, Kathleen Key,
Jennie Lee, Frank Campeau, Eugene Pallette, Will Walling, Frank Leigh & Fred Kohler; video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb

"The Deadwood Coach" [Fox Dec 1924 silent]
Adapted & directed by Lynn Reynolds, based on Clarence E. Mulford's 1908 novel "The Orphan"; starring Tom Mix,
George Bancroft, Doris May, Lucien Littlefield, Frank Coffyn, Jane Keckley, Ernest Butterworth, DeWitt Jennings,
Buster Gardner, Norma Wills, Sid Jordan, Nora Cecil & Tony the Horse; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Last of The Duanes" [Fox Aug 1924 silent]

Directed by Lynn Reynolds; based on the Zane Grey novel; starring Tom Mix, Marian Nixon, Brinsley Shaw, Frank Nelson, Lucy Beaumont & Harry Lonsdale video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99

"The Best Bad Man" [Fox Nov 1925 silent]
Directed by John G. Blystone; based on a story by Max Brand; starring Tom Mix, Buster Gardner, Cyril Chadwick, Clara Bow,
Tom Kennedy, Frank Beal, Judy King, Tom Wilson & Paul Panzer; complete film does not exist; full credits from IMDb

"Riders of The Purple Sage" [Fox March 1925 silent]

In 1871 Utah, Mormon elders attempt to take over a cattle ranch owned by a woman; her herd is rustled, a stranger named Lassiter kills a bishop in her defense, and they flee to a hidden valley with a rescued girl. Directed by Lynn Reynolds; based on the Zane Grey novel; starring Tom Mix, Mabel Ballin, Harold Goodwin, Beatrice Burnham, Warner Oland, Anne Shirley, Wilfred Lucas & Charles Le Moyne Sinister Cinema b&w DVD [undated] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb

"The Rainbow Trail" [Fox May 1925 silent]
Adapted & directed by Lynn Reynolds; based on the Zane Grey novel (sequel to "Riders of The Purple
Sage" above); starring Tom Mix, Doc Roberts, Carol Holloway, Anne Cornwall, Thomas Delmar & Tony the Horse;
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Great K & A Train Robbery" [Fox Oct 1926 silent]

A railroad owner hires a cowboy to work undercover to unmask the gang robbing the trains. Produced & directed by Lewis Seiler; based on Paul Leicester Ford's 1897 novel; starring Tom Mix, Dorothy Dwan, Will Walling, Harry Gripp, Carl Miller, Edward Peil Sr., Curtis 'Snowball' McHenry & Tony the Horse video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Last Trail" [Fox Jan 1927 silent]

After stage robberies become frequent, the stageline owner holds a race for the fastest coach & team & driver. Directed by Lewis Seiler; based on the Zane Grey novel; starring Tom Mix, Carmelita Geraghty, William B. Davidson, Jerry Madden, Frank Hagney, Lee Shumway, Robert Brower, Oliver Eckhardt, Frank Beal & Tony the Horse video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99

"Son of The Golden West"
[Film Booking Offices of America Oct 1928 silent]

Directed by Eugene Forde; starring Tom Mix, Sharon Lynn, Thomas G. Lingham, Duke R. Lee, Fritzi Ridgeway & Tony the Horse video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster available at AllPosters.com

"King Cowboy"
[Film Booking Offices of America Nov 1928 silent]

Directed by Robert De Lacey; starring Tom Mix, Sally Blane, Lew Meehan, Barney Furey, Frank Leigh, Wynn Mace, Bob Fleming & Tony the Horse video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster available at AllPosters.com

"The Drifter" [Film Booking Offices of America March 1929 silent]
Co-written & directed by Robert De Lacey; starring Tom Mix, Dorothy Dwan, Barney Furey, Albert J. Smith,
Ernest Wilson, Frank Austin & Tony the Horse; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Big Diamond" [Film Booking Offices of America May 1929 silent]
Directed by Eugene Forde; starring Tom Mix, Kathryn McGuire, Barney Furey, Ernest Hilliard, Ethan Laidlaw,
Martha Mattox & Tony the Horse; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"Destry Rides Again" [Universal April 1932 talkie]

"His first sound feature!" After being framed & imprisoned, Destry returns for revenge. When the sheriff is killed before he can talk, Destry tracks down the killer and then goes after the gang leader. (The 1939 James Stewart version is quite different.) Directed by Benjamin Stoloff; based on the 1939 novel by Max Brand; starring Tom Mix, Claudia Dell, Zasu Pittsm, Stanley Fields, Earle Foxe, Edward Peil Sr., Francis Ford,Edward LeSaint & Tony the Horse video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster available at AllPosters.com

"The Texas Bad Man" [Universal June 1932 talkie]

The Texas Rangers plant wanted posters around so that one of their men can join a gang of robbers. He robs a stagecoach ahead of the gang, and is accepted as a member. The gang leader puts him in charge of a bank robbery, but secretly tells a henchman to kill him during the heist. Directed by Edward Laemmle; starring Tom Mix, Lucille Powers, Willard Robertson, Fred Kohler, Joseph W. Girard, Tetsu Komai, Edward LeSaint & Tony the Horse video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"My Pal, The King" [Universal Aug 1932 talkie]

After a performance of a Wild West show in Europe, the boy-king of a small country becomes friends with the owner. An evil count kidnaps the boy-king and the cowboy performers ride to the rescue. Directed by Kurt Neumann; starring Tom Mix, Mickey Rooney, James Kirkwood, Wallis Clark, Noel Francis, Finis Barton, Paul Hurst, Stuart Holmes, Jim Thorpe, Christian J. Frank, Clarissa Selwynne & Tony the Horse video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 14"x11" poster from Amazon for $9.99

"The Fourth Horseman" [Universal Sept 1932 talkie]

The woman who owns the town of Stillwell does not know that the property taxes have gone unpaid. A greedy townsman tries to take over, but she finds out in the nick of time. When she sends a cowboy friend to pay the back taxes, the bad guy sends a gang of thugs to stop him. Directed by Hamilton MacFadden; starring Tom Mix, Margaret Lindsay, Fred Kohler, Donald Kirke, Raymond Hatton & Tony the Horse video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 14"x11" poster from Amazon for $9.99

"Hidden Gold" [Universal Nov 1932 talkie]
A cowboy agrees to go to prison under cover, to befriend a trio of bank robbers who hid their loot safely away
before capture. Directed by Arthur Rosson; starring Tom Mix, Judith Barrie, Raymond Hatton, Eddie Gribbon, Donald Kirke,
Wallis Clark, Roy Moore & Tony the Horse; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"Flaming Guns" [Universal Dec 1932 talkie]

A cowboy brings in some rustlers, and a banker hires him to work at his ranch; but when the banker's daughter falls for the cowboy, the banker has him arrested. Directed by Arthur Rosson; based on the Peter B. Kyne novel "Oh, Promise Me"; starring Tom Mix, William Farnum, Ruth Hall, Clarence Wilson & Tony Jr. the Horse Sinister Cinema b&w DVD [undated] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb

"Terror Trail" [Universal Feb 1933 talkie]

The governor assigns a cowboy to route out the Paint Horse gang. Directed by Armand Schaefer; starring Tom Mix, Naomi Judge, Arthur Rankin, John St. Polis, Frank Brownlee, Raymond Hatton, Francis McDonald, Bob Kortman, Lafe McKee & Tony Jr. the Horse video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster available at AllPosters.com

"Rustlers' Roundup" [Universal March 1933 talkie]

A cowboy thwarts the foreman who is rustling from his employers. Directed by Henry MacRae; starring Tom Mix, Diane Sinclair, Noah Beery Jr., Douglass Dumbrille, Roy Stewart, Nelson McDowell & William Desmond; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

"The Miracle Rider" 15-episode sound serial
[Mascot Pictures April 1935]

A cowboy joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to help the Indians fight the evil Zaroff gang. Directed by B. Reeves Eason & Armand Schaefer; starring Tom Mix, Joan Gale, Charles Middleton, Jason Robards Sr. & Tony Jr. the Horse Alpha Home Ent. b&w DVD [5/2007] for $7.98 V.C.I. Ent. b&w DVD [2/2004] 2 disks for $17.99 Video Treasures b&w VHS [12/91] out of prodn/used V.C.I. Ent. b&w VHS [6/2002] 2 tapes out of print/used full credits from IMDb

Works About Tom Mix

"The Fabulous Tom Mix" [1957] by {first wife} Olive Stokes Mix, with Eric Heath Prentice Hall hardcover [1/1957] out of print/used

"Tom Mix: Riding Up To Glory" [1969]
by John H. Nicholas
Persimmon Hill hardcover [1/80] out of print/used

"The Life and Legend of Tom Mix" [1972] by Paul E. Mix A.S. Barnes hardcoverm [1/72] out of print/many used

"Tom Mix Died For Your Sins: A Novel Based On His Life" [1975]
by Darryl Ponicsan
Dell mass pb [1/79] out of print/many used
Delacorte Press hardcover [1/75] out of print/used
Delacorte Press hardcover [1/75] out of print/used

	"Tom Mix and Pancho Villa" [1982] by Clifford Irving St. Martin's Pressmass mass pb [8/84] out of print/used St. Martin's Pressmass hardcover [5/82] out of print/used
	"Sunset" [TriStar April 1988] While working on a movie as technical advisor, real-life Western lawman Wyatt Earp teams with cowboy star Tom Mix to solve a murder at the Academy Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills. Co-written & directed by Blake Edwards, from a story by Rod Amateau; starring Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards, Patricia Hodge, Richard Bradford, M. Emmet Walsh, Joe Dallesandro, Andreas Katsulas, Dann Florek, Bill Marcus, Michael C. Gwynne & Dermot Mulroney Sony widescreen color DVD [8/98] for $12.49 Sony color VHS [6/97] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb
	"My Dear Tom Mix" aka "Mi querido Tom Mix" [Mexico 1991] An aging woman in 1920s rural Mexico phantasizes meeting cowboy movie star Tom Mix. Directed by Carlos García Agraz; written by Consuelo Garrido; starring Ana Ofelia Murguía, Federico Luppi, Eduardo Palomo {as Tom Mix}, Mercedes Olea & Manuel Ojeda; nominated for Silver Ariel Zafra Video / Facets Spanish-language color DVD with English subtitles [6/2007] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb

"King Cowboy: Tom Mix and The Movies" [1993]
by Robert S. Birchard
White Cloud / Riverwood Press 10¾x8½ pb [7/93] out of print/used

	"Ride The Wild Trail" [2002 novel] by Richard Jensen Obsolete silent film cowboys Tom Mix & Hoot Gibson set out with aging lawman Wyatt Earp on one last wild ride through the rapidly disappearing Old West. Writers Club Press 8¾x6 pb [8/2002] for $12.95
	"The Amazing Tom Mix: The Most Famous Cowboy of The Movies" [2005] by Richard D. Jensen iUniverse 8¾x5¾ pb [6/2005] for $21.95 authors official website

daughter Ruth Mix

Ruth Mix listings (1926-36) at Internet Movie Database

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