1. John Hartford Hoxie was an American rodeo performer and motion-picture actor whose career was most prominent in the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1930s.
13 Facts About Jack Hoxie
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Jack Hoxie is best recalled for his roles in Westerns and rarely strayed from the genre.
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The family then relocated to Boise, where Jack Hoxie worked as a packer for a US Army fort in the area, continuing to hone his skill as a horseback rider while competing in rodeos.
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Jack Hoxie continued to tour with circuit rodeos until 1913, when he was approached to perform in the Western drama film short The Tragedy of Big Eagle Mine.
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Now billing himself as Hart Jack Hoxie, he continued working through the 1910s in popular Western shorts, often in small but well-received roles.
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Hoxie began billing himself as Jack Hoxie and used this name thereafter.
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In 1927 Jack Hoxie became dissatisfied with his contract at Universal and refused to renegotiate for another stint at the studio.
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Jack Hoxie continued throughout the late 1920s making films with lower-rank film studios.
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Jack Hoxie made his last silent film, Forbidden Trail, in 1929, before pursuing further work in circuit rodeos, carnivals, and the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show.
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Jack Hoxie eventually divorced and married his fourth wife, Dixie Starr.
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Jack Hoxie performed throughout the 1940s and well into the 1950s before finally making his last public appearance as a performer in 1959 for the Bill Tatum Circus at age 74.
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Jack Hoxie divorced Starr and married his fifth wife, Bonnie Avis Showalter, and the couple retired to a small ranch in Arkansas, then later moved to his mother Matilda's old homestead in Oklahoma.
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Jack Hoxie was interred at the Willowbar Cemetery in Keyes, Oklahoma with the epitaph "A Star in Life - A Star in Heaven".