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One of the most popular, and recognizable, character actors in B-Western history, pudgy, mustachioed Bud Osborne (real name Leonard Miles Osborne) was one of the many Wild West show performers who parlayed their experiences into lengthy screen careers. Especially noted for his handling of runaway stagecoaches and buckboards, Osborne began as a stunt performer with Thomas Ince's King-Bee company around 1912, and by the 1920s he had become one of the busiest supporting players in the business. Rather rakish-looking in his earlier years, the still slender Osborne even attempted to become a Western star in his own right. Produced by the Bud Osborne Feature Film Company and released by low-budget Truart Pictures, The Prairie Mystery (1922) presented Osborne as a romantic leading man opposite B-movie regular Pauline Curley. Few saw this little clunker, however, and Osborne quickly returned to the ranks of supporting cowboys, often portraying despicable villains with names like Satan Saunders, Piute Sam, or Bull McKee. Playing an escaped convict masquerading as a circuit rider in both the 1923 Leo Maloney short Double Cinched and Shootin' Square, a 1924 Jack Perrin feature Western, Osborne even demonstrated an affinity for comedy. The now veteran Bud Osborne continued his screen career into the sound era and became even busier in the 1930s and 1940s. As he grew older and his waistline expanded, Osborne's roles became somewhat smaller and instead of calling the shots himself, as he often had in the silent era, he now answered to the likes of Roy Barcroft and Charles King. But he seems to pop up in every other B-Western and serial released in those years, appearing in more than 65 productions for Republic Pictures alone. By the 1950s, the now elderly Osborne became one of the many veteran performers courted by maverick filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr., for whom he did Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid (1954), an unsold television pilot, Jailbait (1954), Bride of the Monster (1955), and Night of the Ghouls (1958). When all is said and done, it was a rather dismal finish to a colorful career. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide less

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Pioneers of the West (1927)
Cast: Bud Osborne
Length: 61min
As a foreword to this low-budget silent western intones, "Perhaps the most important step in the early stages of the settlement of the Far West was the establishment of the historic Pony Express in 1859." One of the bravest of the riders, "Pony Bob"...
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The Fighting Stallion (1926)
Cast: Yakima Canutt Al Ferguson
Tags: Western
Length: 76min
Produced and directed by poverty row maven Benjamin F. Wilson (the "F" stood for Franklin!), this minor silent Western featured stunt-rider Yakima Canutt as a cowpoke hired by an obsessed rancher (Leonard Trainor) to catch and tame a wild mustang....
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Across the Deadline (1925)
Tags: Romantic Drama Western
Length: 5rlmin
A minor Hatfield and McCoy melodrama set in the wild and woolly West, Across the Deadline features Leo Maloney as an unlikely prairie Romeo and Josephine Hill as his sweet Juliet. Their families are engaged in a long-standing feud about water rights,...
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Flash O'lighting (1925)
Tags: Western
Length: min
Poverty row producer-director Leo Maloney and his usual screenwriter Ford Beebe fashioned a fanciful tale of a cowboy masquerading as the heir to a valuable ranch in this obscure silent Western released by William Steiner. Nasty foreman Bud Osborne...
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The Secluded Roadhouse (1926)
Length: 45min
This exploitationer isn't quite as lurid as its title, but it's not from lack of trying. Heroine Carol Wines is in love with handsome highway patrolman William Barrymore, but she's also partial to slick roadhouse proprietor Carl Silvers. Certain that...
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Range Rider: Smoke Out (1924)
Tags: Western
Length: 2rlmin
A well-made entry in Leo Maloney's Range Rider series, Smoke Out stars the veteran cowboy hero as a drifter who rescues a wounded man in the wilderness, the victim of a robbery. Although he is badly hurt, Bob Graham (W. Ray Meyers) is determined to be...
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Shootin' Square (1924)
Cast: Milburn Morante
Tags: Western
Length: min
This otherwise fairly average silent western contains a sequence as racist in its own seemingly innocuous way as anything D.W. Griffith ever committed. But unlike the treatment of African-Americans in Birth of a Nation, which at least had the excuse...
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Range Rider: Double Cinched (1923)
Cast: Ford I. Beebe
Tags: Western
Length: 2rlmin
In Double Cinched, an entry in the two-reel Range Rider series, cowpoke Leo Maloney turns himself into a countrified dandy -- complete with clip-on tie and a starched collar that has a mind of its own. The reason for this grand overhaul is an upcoming...
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Range Rider: 100% Nerve (1923)
Cast: Fred Burns
Tags: Western
Length: 2rlmin
Real-life siblings Bob Burns and Fred Burns play brothers in this rare surviving two-reel Western, part of Pathé's Range Rider series. The former is a ranger captain who assigns a new recruit, Gene Miller (Leo Maloney), to investigate a series of...
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Not Built for Runnin' (1924)
Cast: Leo Maloney
Tags: Western
Length: min
Minor (in status if not physique) western hero Leo Maloney produced, directed and starred in this slipshod silent western melodrama about a drifter who helps a pretty ranch owner Josephine Hill defeat a nasty land speculator (Milton Fahrney). But, in...
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