Lee 'Lasses' White
Birthday: 1888-08-28
Place of Birth: Wills Point, Texas, USA
Biography: Leroy Robert White (August 28, 1888 – December 16, 1949), better known as Lee "Lasses" White or Leroy (sometimes Le Roy or Lee Roy) "Lasses" White, was an American vaudeville pianist, songwriter and entertainer who became an actor of the stage, screen and radio. He became famous doing minstrel shows during the early part of the 1900s, and wrote one of the first copyrighted twelve-bar blues, "Nigger Blues". After spending some time on radio, White entered the film industry in the late 1930s. During his eleven-year career he appeared in over 70 films.
Movies
The Talk of the Town
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood fri...
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Scattergood Baines
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd bus...
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Cinderella Swings It
Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices ...
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after...
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Panhandle
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler....
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Without Reservations
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train...
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The Iroquois Trail
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French...
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The Golden Eye
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable mon...
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Dude Cowboy
A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeite...
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Road Show
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning i...
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Alaska
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who...
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Riders of the Dawn
Jimmy Wakely and Dusty, traveling with the medicine show owned by "Lasses" White, stop at the Fergus...
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Saddle Serenade
Doris Rogers, half owner of a dude ranch, as Jimmy Wakely, "Lasses" White and Dusty Smith to help ru...
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The Texan Meets Calamity Jane
A western in which Calamity Jane's rightful ownership of a gambling hall is challenged. She nearly l...
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Louisiana
The music-loving son of a Louisiana sharecropper uses his songs to graduate from college....
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Oklahoma Renegades
Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, known as The Three Mesquiteers, return to Oklahoma at the close...
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The Unknown Guest
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the t...
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Song of the Sierras
Jimmy Wakely wishes to sell to the government a group of wild mustangs which he has captured and tra...
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Land of the Open Range
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison....
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Mississippi Rhythm
On board a riverboat bound for Creek City, singer Jimmie Davis, who is going to become half-owner of...
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West of the Alamo
Despite his unprepossessing screen personality, singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely was starred in a series ...
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Song of the Wasteland
In Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy tries to uphold law and order in a tough frontier town....
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Riding the Wind
It's the ranchers whose cattle are dying of thirst versus Henry Dodge whose dam holds all the water....
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Trail to Mexico
All-American singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely went below the border in this musical Western from the asse...
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Six-Gun Serenade
In this western, two cowboys are framed as cattle rustlers and tossed in the pokey. Later, honest ra...
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Belle of the Yukon
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest c...
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Thundering Hoofs
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge o...
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Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroye...
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Springtime in Texas
Pete Grant controls the town of Pecos and it's Mayor and Marshal. When Jimmy, Denny, and Lasses arri...
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When Strangers Marry
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a m...
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Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash man...
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El Paso
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan...
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Mug Town
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and tr...
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The Roundup
A woman's believed-dead cowhand beau shows up on her wedding day to cause trouble....
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Cyclone on Horseback
Whopper, Stan Bradford, and Smokey are delivering a herd of pack horses to telegraph lineman Jeff Co...
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In Old New Mexico
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her inno...
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The Valiant Hombre
The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western a...
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Indian Agent
Honest government agent Dave Taylor sets out to find the men responsible for stealing food supplies ...
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Red Rock Outlaw
Produced, written, and directed by the veteran Elmer Clifton (here for obscure reasons billed Elmer ...
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Rainbow Over the Rockies
Driving a herd of cattle to market, Jimmy finds the trail has been fenced off by an old friend of hi...
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Something to Shout About
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway...
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Song of the Range
Finding Dale's wallet, Denny returns it just as two men shoot each other with one dying and one esca...
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Moon Over Montana
Jimmy Wakely and his sidekick "Lasses" White run into trouble as they attempt to hire some cattle ca...
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while...
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Albuquerque
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar ...
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Lonesome Trail
Jimmy and partner Dusty have bought a ghost town in the Cherokee strip. When they arrive they find t...
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Cheyenne
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence ...
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