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Monte Hale(1919-2009)

  • Actor
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Monte Hale
American B-Western star and singing cowboy Monte Hale was born Samuel Buren Ely in 1919 in Ada, Oklahoma, to Herod and Helen Ely. He learned to sing and play guitar at an early age. In Houston and later Galveston, Texas, he played for vaudeville shows and local rodeos. During World War II a job as a replacement guitar player with the Stars Over Texas War Bond Drive led to a friendship with several Republic Pictures stars and staff. At the completion of the tour, the Republic contingent recommended young Hale to studio president Herbert J. Yates. Hale went to California and met Yates, who saw promise in the tall, good-looking musician, and signed him to a seven-year contract, and promptly discarded his birth name for the more appealing name of Monte Hale. After a quick apprenticeship in a couple of bit parts, Hale was given the lead in Home on the Range (1946), which led to a five-year run as one of Republic's popular singing-cowboy stars.

Following the demise of the "B" western in the early 1950s, Hale toured the country as part of a musical cowboy act in rodeos and circuses. He made a few television guest appearances and taught James Dean his rope tricks during their work together on Jättiläinen (1956). Hale thereafter retired from films. In his later years, he wrote songs and continued making appearances at Western film fan conventions.
BornJune 8, 1919
DiedMarch 29, 2009(89)
BornJune 8, 1919
DiedMarch 29, 2009(89)
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  • Awards
    • 1 win

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Rock Hudson, Monte Hale, Charles Watts, and Sheb Wooley in Jättiläinen (1956)
Tom London, Monte Hale, Earle Hodgins, Jack Kirk, Allan Lane, and Linda Stirling in The Topeka Terror (1945)
Monte Hale, Earle Hodgins, Jack Kirk, Allan Lane, Linda Stirling, Sid Troy, and Twinkle Watts in The Topeka Terror (1945)
Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Monte Hale, Gordon Jones, Allan Lane, and Carol Nugent in Trail of Robin Hood (1950)
Roy Rogers, Monte Hale, Gordon Jones, Allan Lane, James Magill, and Bullet in Trail of Robin Hood (1950)
Roy Rogers, Rex Allen, George Chesebro, Ray Corrigan, William Farnum, Monte Hale, Jack Holt, Tom Keene, Allan Lane, Kermit Maynard, and Tom Tyler in Trail of Robin Hood (1950)
Lorna Gray, Monte Hale, and LeRoy Mason in Home on the Range (1946)
Lorna Gray and Monte Hale in Man from Rainbow Valley (1946)
Roy Barcroft and Monte Hale in Law of the Golden West (1949)
Monte Hale in Rough Riders of Cheyenne (1945)
Sunset Carson and Monte Hale in Rough Riders of Cheyenne (1945)
Monte Hale in Pioneer Marshal (1949)

Known for:

James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson in Jättiläinen (1956)
Jättiläinen
7.6
  • Bale Clinch
  • 1956
Monte Hale in The Missourians (1950)
The Missourians
6.1
  • Marshal Bill Blades
  • 1950
Lorna Gray and Monte Hale in Home on the Range (1946)
Home on the Range
5.4
  • Monte Hale
  • 1946
Monte Hale and Lynne Roberts in The Timber Trail (1948)
The Timber Trail
3.1
  • Monte Hale
  • 1948

Credits

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Actor

  • James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, and Dennis Weaver in Gunsmoke (1955)
    Gunsmoke
    8.1
    TV Series
    • Bank Teller
    • Sgt.
    • 1959–1968
  • Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Angie Dickinson, James Fox, and E.G. Marshall in The Chase (1966)
    The Chase
    7.1
    • Dental Delegate (uncredited)
    • 1966
  • Anne Francis in Hunajapupu (1965)
    Hunajapupu
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Sheriff Johnson
    • 1966
  • Rory Calhoun in The Texan (1958)
    The Texan
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Loomis
    • 1959
  • Tales of Wells Fargo (1957)
    Tales of Wells Fargo
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Sergeant Bergman
    • 1958
  • Andy Devine and Guy Madison in Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951)
    Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
    7.8
    TV Series
    • Doyle Fetcher
    • 1958
  • James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson in Jättiläinen (1956)
    Jättiläinen
    7.6
    • Bale Clinch
    • 1956
  • Kirby Grant, Mary Ellen Kay, and Chinook in Yukon Vengeance (1954)
    Yukon Vengeance
    5.8
    • Jim Barclay
    • 1954
  • Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, and Trigger in Trail of Robin Hood (1950)
    Trail of Robin Hood
    6.0
    • Monte Hale
    • 1950
  • Monte Hale in The Missourians (1950)
    The Missourians
    6.1
    • Marshal Bill Blades
    • 1950
  • Monte Hale in The Old Frontier (1950)
    The Old Frontier
    7.4
    • Marshal Barney Regan
    • 1950
  • Monte Hale in The Vanishing Westerner (1950)
    The Vanishing Westerner
    5.6
    • Chris Adams
    • 1950
  • Monte Hale in Pioneer Marshal (1949)
    Pioneer Marshal
    6.3
    • Marshal Ed Sherwood Posing as Ted Post
    • 1949
  • Monte Hale in Ranger of Cherokee Strip (1949)
    Ranger of Cherokee Strip
    6.1
    • Ranger Steve Howard
    • 1949
  • Bette Daniels and Monte Hale in San Antone Ambush (1949)
    San Antone Ambush
    3.6
    • Lieutenant Ross Kincaid
    • 1949

Soundtrack

  • Monte Hale in The Missourians (1950)
    The Missourians
    6.1
    • performer: "Roll Along, Wagon Wheels"
    • 1950
  • Monte Hale in The Vanishing Westerner (1950)
    The Vanishing Westerner
    5.6
    • performer: "There's No Use of Worryin'", "When You Sing Out With a Song"
    • 1950
  • Monte Hale in Law of the Golden West (1949)
    Law of the Golden West
    6.1
    • performer: "That's the Place Where I Want To Stay"
    • 1949
  • Monte Hale and Lynne Roberts in The Timber Trail (1948)
    The Timber Trail
    3.1
    • performer: "The Timber Trail", "When Your Heart's on Easy Street" (uncredited)
    • 1948
  • Lorna Gray, Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Riders of the Purple Sage, and Alice Tyrrell in California Firebrand (1948)
    California Firebrand
    6.1
    • performer: "Streets of Laredo (The Cowboy's Lament)", "When the Work is all Done This Fall"
    • 1948
  • Lorna Gray and Monte Hale in Last Frontier Uprising (1947)
    Last Frontier Uprising
    5.0
    • performer: "The Song of the Trail", "Press Along Cowboy (To the Big Corral)", "You're the Sweetest Rose in Texas"
    • 1947
  • Robert Blake, Lorna Gray, and Monte Hale in Out California Way (1946)
    Out California Way
    6.0
    • performer: "Detour"
    • 1946
  • Lorna Gray and Monte Hale in Man from Rainbow Valley (1946)
    Man from Rainbow Valley
    4.2
    • performer: "The Man in the Moon Is A Cowhand"
    • 1946
  • Lorna Gray and Monte Hale in Home on the Range (1946)
    Home on the Range
    5.4
    • performer: "Happy-Go-Lucky Cowboy", "Down at the Old Hoe-Down", "Home on the Range"
    • 1946
  • Sunset Carson, Monte Hale, Mira McKinney, and Peggy Stewart in Rough Riders of Cheyenne (1945)
    Rough Riders of Cheyenne
    7.6
    • performer: "The Old Chisholm Trail"
    • 1945

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 1.96 m
  • Born
    • June 8, 1919
    • Ada, Oklahoma, USA
  • Died
    • March 29, 2009
    • Studio City, California, USA(age-related causes)
  • Spouses
      Joanne Dorothy LevitovNovember 20, 1977 - March 29, 2009 (his death)
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Print Biography
    • 1 Portrayal
    • 1 Pictorial

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Featured in "Monte Hale Western" comic books from 1948-1956, as well as various other Western comic books including "Real Western Hero," "Western Hero," "Six-Gun Heroes," "Movie Comics," and "Cowboy Western Comics."
  • Quotes
    [on why he never watched himself on film] Cowboy stars are supposed to be brave, but I just don't have that kind of courage.
  • Salary
    • The Big Bonanza
      (1944)
      $150 /week

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