1. Rex Lease appeared in over 300 films, mainly in Poverty Row Westerns.
10 Facts About Rex Lease
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Rex Lease found bit and supporting parts at Film Booking Office, Rayart, and more, and was given the opportunity to play a few leads.
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McCoy and Rex Lease became friends, and over the next dozen or so years, he appeared in seven more McCoy Westerns.
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Rex Lease had a featured role in director Frank Capra's The Younger Generation, a tale of a Jewish family that moves to a more up-scale neighborhood.
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Rex Lease successfully made the transition to talkies, and starred in melodramas, action flicks, old dark house mysteries, and comedies, as well as a couple of Western serials and about a dozen low-budget sagebrush yarns and outdoor adventures.
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In between lead roles, Rex Lease featured parts in some B Westerns.
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Rex Lease had the lead in the 1936 film serial Custer's Last Stand.
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In 1930, Rex Lease pleaded guilty in a Malibu court to a charge of battery on actress and dancer Vivian Duncan.
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Rex Lease paid a $50 fine, insisting that she initiated the altercation.
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On January 3,1966, Rex Lease was found dead by his son Richard on the kitchen floor at his Van Nuys, California, home.