Frank Rice
Birthday: 1892-05-12
Place of Birth: Muskegon, Michigan, USA
Biography: Frank Rice was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1892 and passed away January 9, 1936 in Los Angeles of nephritis and hepatitis (both of which affect the kidneys). Rice began film work in silents, doing bit and supporting roles in various films, including oaters starring Jack Hoxie, Bill Cody, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Pete Morrison and Buck Jones. In the late 1920s, he settled in as the mature helper/sidekick to youngster Buzz Barton in Buzz's series at Film Booking Office (FBO). During the 1930s, Rice continued his saddle pal duties, appearing most frequently with Buck Jones and Ken Maynard. But he also assisted or had support roles in westerns with Tom Keene at RKO, Reliable's Jack Perrin and Tom Tyler, Tim McCoy at Columbia, at Fox with George O'Brien, and with John Wayne in his Warners series.
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Love Your Neighbor
After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she fe...
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The Hound of Silver Creek
Molly White, the new schoolmistress at Silver Creek, makes the acquaintance of Jack Brooks, a wealth...
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Down with Husbands
When their wives go on strike, two husbands form an organization they call the "Husbands Protective ...
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Red Signals
Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Gra...
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans....
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Headin' for Danger
Jimmy Marshall, an adventurous youth, wanders in disguise into a small Mexican town seeking adventur...
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The Fighting Buckaroo
There's gold in them thar hills and Larry Crawford must fight the unscrupulous Bradley and his men t...
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Won in the Clouds
A Swahili village is affected by disease. The nearby diamond mine is using this as an excuse not to ...
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The Overland Telegraph
At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, In...
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Hello Trouble
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon...
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The Royal Rider
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the coun...
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Just Plain Folks
Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, ...
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With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go....
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With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Focuses on Davy Crockett before & during his time at the Alamo as one of the defenders, and ultimate...
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Corsair
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas....
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Pals of the Prairie
Old timer Hank Robbins and his young pal,"Red" Hepner ride into the town of Cajon, Mexico and find i...
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Young Whirlwind
Red foils a plan to steal the airmail and in one especially exciting scene takes to the air armed on...
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The Bantam Cowboy
The railroad wants to extend a line across the Briggs' ranch, and hires a gang to get rid of John Br...
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The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
After 15 years of searching, Bud Watkins finally has his revenge on the cattlemen's gunman who kille...
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Three Miles Up
Dick Morgan, formerly a professional crook, returns from the war as the "Ace" of his squadron....
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The Cloud Rider
Bruce Torrence is an aviator and member of the secret service. His rival for the hand of Zella Winga...
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Loser's End
Jack rides into trouble when he meets up with Bill Meeker and his outlaw gang. Rescued from the gang...
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Valley of Wanted Men
Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them....
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The Squaw Man
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezz...
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Dynamite Dan
Dan (Kenneth MacDonald) knocks out the foreman (Boris Karloff) at his workplace so the foreman accus...
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Phantom Thunderbolt
A cowboy called The Thunderbolt Kid comes to the aid of a town that is being threatened by outlaws w...
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King of the Arena
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent...
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The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' object...
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The Trail Drive
Honest John is pulling off a swindle by buying cattle in Texas with worthless scrip and selling them...
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Wheels of Destiny
Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky...
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The Lawless Legion
Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the ...
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The Wagon Master
Bill Hollister (Jack Hanlon) organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake Lynch...
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Parade of the West
Bud Rand, a cowboy who is charged with the care of Little Billy Rand, accepts an offer to appear wit...
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The Fighting Legion
After being shot, a dying Marshal Dawson gives Dave Hayes his badge and asks him to finish his job. ...
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Song of the Caballero
After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita ...
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The Sunset Trail
Jim and Buddy decide to follow their pal Tater-bug who left them for another job. No sooner do they ...
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Freighters of Destiny
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father....
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The Forbidden Trail
When Red Hawk Dugan and his men attack a small wagon train, Colonel Merriwell is killed and the youn...
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Dangerous Females
Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood....
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The False Madonna
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man....
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Faro Nell
Sweet Nell is the jewel of Dry Gulch and all of the eligible bachelors seek her hand. The townsfolk ...
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The Red Warning
Phillip Haver, who, along with his friend Toby Jones, finds David Ainslee dying in the desert. After...
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The Border Sheriff
Carter Brace is out to murder Belden. Collins who was sent to bring in the border gang led by Brace,...
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Terror of the Plains
A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cow...
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The Menace
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence....
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Forbidden Trail
Karger is behind all the cattle rustling. After Tom Devlin catches his man Burke in the act, Burke h...
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Border Law
When Shag Smith kills Jim's brother Bob, Jim and Thunder quit the rangers so they can cross the bord...
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Shadow Ranch
Summoned to Shadow Ranch by his friend Ranny Williams, Sim Baldwin arrives to find Ranny has been am...
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Cheers of the Crowd
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowi...
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The Oregon Trail
Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father........
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Spook Ranch
Bill Bangs and his Negro valet, George Washington Black, stray into a mining town and are arrested w...
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The Fighting Ranger
The Buck Jones western The Fighting Ranger utilizes its familiar plotline with excellent results. Wh...
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Stone of Silver Creek
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough ...
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The Red Rider
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his ...
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Too Tough to Kill
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has be...
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The Gold Rush
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...
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Horse Feathers
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his...
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Hard Rock Harrigan
The plot revolves around a rivalry between sand-hog "Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien) and his foreman B...
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Desert Rider
Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who tells ...
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Chickens Come Home
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo....
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Trails of the Wild
An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers disco...
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Riders of the Law
Jack Meadows and sidekick Toby are looking for whiskey smugglers along the Canadian border. They fin...
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Richelieu
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due...
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Robbers' Roost
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to r...
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The Conquering Horde
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific r...
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Wolves of the North
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements ...
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Somewhere in Sonora
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to ...
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Ridin' Pretty
A red-blooded romance of a millionaire cowboy and a city girl with stirring chase after a racing exp...
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She Couldn't Take It
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustra...
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Flying High
While taking a joyride with his sweetie Patricia, daredevil pilot Roy Cummins witnesses the aerial h...
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Public Hero Number 1
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which ...
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The Wet Parade
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich ...
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Love Affair
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses....
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Tom's Gang
Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner'...
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Sky High Saunders
Sky High Saunders is a 1927 American silent action film directed by Bruce M. Mitchell. The film star...
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Penthouse
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been u...
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The Ivory-Handled Gun
Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud start...
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Stairs of Sand
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in lov...
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Riders of the North
In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of ...
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Charlie Chan's Courage
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes h...
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Shotgun Pass
A rancher's plan to herd his horses is complicated by an uncooperative landowner....
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The Notorious Sophie Lang
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--...
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David Harum
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom ...
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A Thief in the Dark
Ernest, a young drifter, joins a troupe of mystics led by a Professor Xeno in a carnival. Ernest lea...
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The Galloping Ace
War hero Jim Jordon is unable to get back his old ranch job. He takes work at a ranch owned by Anne ...
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Two-Fisted Jones
While hunting for a missing man out west, Jack Wilbur falls in love with Mary Mortimer, a beautiful ...
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