Noble Johnson 1882-1978 By Jim Coughlin

An extremely versatile actor, Noble Johnson was able to avoid the stereotyped roles forced on most other black performers of his time due to his light features, as well as his athletic physique and prowess. As opposed to just playing servants and native chiefs (which he did at times), Johnson portrayed a whole spectrum of nationalities and parts, including American Indians, Mexican bandits, Asian royalty, Cossack henchman, Cuban zombies, and so on. A fellow actor once said of him, "He was like his name - noble", in that his offscreen personality was highlighted by his sincerity and gentleness. It certainly isn't these character traits that have endeared his image to horror film fans, though. Rather, it was Johnson's memorable, hulking performances in such motion pictures as Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Most Dangerous Game, The Mummy, King Kong and The Ghost Breakers that have established him as perhaps the most unsung hero of the horrors.

Noble M. Johnson was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado on April 18, 1881. He was the third of four children, including brothers Virgil and George and a sister, of Perry J. and Georgia Johnson. Perry Johnson, a nationally known race horse owner and trainer, won many important stakes between 1875-1915, including the $10,000 Kentucky Stakes at Lexington in 1902. On his Colorado Springs ranch, Perry constructed his own racetrack, paddock, and stables in order to train his horses, as well as those of some of his affluent neighbors.

Educated in the Colorado Springs public school system, one of Noble's schoolmates was a youngster destined to become one of the greatest horror stars of all - Lon Chaney, Sr.! Noble quit school at the age of 15 and travelled around the racing circuit with his father for two years. This experience enabled young Johnson to obtain expertise and knowledge in both riding and handling horses. In 1898, the 17 year old Noble Johnson left home with the ambition of becoming a cowboy, obtaining work with the Sanborn and Kaiser Cattle Company in Jefferson, Colorado. He also served as a horse trainer for the Charles Walker Saddle Stables in Denver and as a cook for the Uranium Mining Company. Noble secured jobs as diverse as rancher and lumberjack in his travels to San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and Canada, before his return home to Colorado Springs in 1909. Such hearty work in rugged outdoor endeavours led to the development of both his impressive 6'1, 210 lb. muscular frame and skills that he would later put to use in films handling animals and performing daring stunts.

Whe a player was injured during a Lubin production that was shooting on location in Colorado Springs, Johnson was enlisted to enact the part of an Indian chief. Pleased with Noble's efforts in The Eagle's Nest (1915), the Lubin people invited him to come to Philadelphia and join their company. He stayed with Lubin for about a year, appearing in Mr. Carlson of Arizona (1915), Valley of Lost Hope (1915), A Species of Mexican Man (1915), and From Champion to Tramp (1915), among other films. Finding his services in demand because of his stature and abilities, Johnson decided to settle in the Los Angeles area and was signed to a contract with Universal Pictures. Some of his early assignments for this company were The Caravan (1916) and Kinkaid, Gambler (1916).

Johnson, being bright and ambitious, envisioned many possibilities for his race in motion pictures. With a group of blacks in Los Angeles, including actor Clarence Brooks, Noble helped form the Lincoln Motion Picture Company and was named the firm's first president. Lincoln's first production was The Realisation of a Negro's Ambition (1916), in which Johnson starred as James Burton, a Tuskegee Institute engineering graduate, who goes west to the oil fields of California, only to be denied a job because he is black. Burton, however, saves the life of the daughter of a rich white oil man and is rewarded with a position, as well as the opportunity to prospect "black gold". After bringing in a gusher, Burton returns to his home in the south well-off and marries the girl he left behind. Although only two reels and sub-par, technically, the film was well received by black audiences.

The Trooper of Company K (1917), with Noble again starring, was Lincoln's second venture. This concerned the black Tenth Cavalry's exploits against the Mexican Carranzista army at the bloody battle of Carrizal, June 1916. Johnson played a shiftless type who redeems himself with the heroic rescue of a white captain. Noble's brother, George P. Johnson, a mailman in Omaha, Nebraska, joined Lincoln prior to the production of this film and handled the booking for the company. While in essence moonlighting for Lincoln, Noble was becoming firmly established as a heavy in Universal serials, like The Red Ace (1917), starring Marie Walcamp involved in intrigue centering on a Canadian platinum mine, and as renegade cowpuncher Sweenie Bodin in Bull's Eye (1918), a Secret Service tale with Eddie Polo. Johnson soon found Universal exerting pressure on him to stop making "race movies".

George Johnson was growing in influence at Lincoln and favored a merger with black novelist Oscar Micheaux. Noble blocked the move, believing Micheaux's thinking too advanced for the time, and illustrated his argument with a case in point concerning the filming of a specific Micheaux property, "Unless we would change it so decidedly that it would hardly be recognisable, we would not expect much support from white houses". Noble Johnson could not betray his own integrity or his business sense, so Micheaux went on to produce his own pictures.

The Law of Nature (1918) was to be Johnson's last effort as Lincoln's leading player. He portrayed a western ranch foreman who is persuaded by his wife to go East, where she deserts him. Noble returns West with their child and his wife, abandoned by her new love, soon follows, a broken woman, and dies with the baby in her arms. This three-reeler was fairly successful and Universal finally issued an ultimatum to Johnson: Lincoln or us! Noble was forced to resign as Lincoln's president, and he labored exclusively for Universal in The Human Tiger (1918) and the serials The Lure of the Circus (1918), again starring Eddie Polo, and The Midnight Man (1919), featuring former world's heavyweight champion, James J. Corbett.

1920 saw Johnson in Under Crimson Skies, directed by the talented Rex Ingram, The Adorable Savage, and The Leopard Woman, among other pictures. He played Chatterji in Ince's The Bronze Bell (1921), set in India. An interesting part in terms of visual impact was that of Conquest, one of the titled characters in MGM's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), starring Rudolph Valentino. Johnson then essayed a number of Hispanic roles, including El Capitan Ramirez, whose band of brigands takes over the town of Magdalena, in Serenade (1921); Espinol in The Wallop; Blackie Lopez, who eyes Hoot Gibson's sweetheart, in The Loaded Door (1922); and Leon Serrano, masquerading as a deputy sheriff to cover up his cattle rustling activities, in Tracks (1922).

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1922), a Universal serial starring Harry C. Myers, had Noble as Friday. Johnson played Bad Pierre in Burning Words (1923); the friendly native king who saves Maurice B. Flynn in Drums of Fate (1923); the "Bronze Man" in DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923); and an Indian in The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923). Already, Johnson was taking on quite a variety of parts.

In more typical Hollywood style, Noble was cast as Marimba, the cannibal chief, in Little Robinson Crusoe (1924), with Jackie Coogan, and again as a man-eater in Buster Keaton's The Navigator (1924). He played a deputy sheriff in The Midnight Express (1924) and Lion, a Parisian gangster, in A Man's Mate (1924).

As for his first significant role in a fantasy film in Douglas Fairbanks' lustrous The Thief of Bagdad (1924), "The N. Y. Times" commented, "Noble Johnson figures as the Indian Price. He is effective and true to type, with a splendid imitation of an Indian beard." Johnson had some wonderful monickers for his 1925 appearances: Googomy, the Solomon Island native leader, in Adventure; Ponfilo in The Dancers; and Wabigoon in The Gold Hunters.

Johnson portrayed the noted Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull in both The Flaming Frontier (1926) and Hands Up! (1926). He was a tax collector in The Lady of the Harem (1926) and played Martell in Law of the Snow Country (1926). C. B. DeMille utilized Noble's stunting skills as a charioteer in The King of Kings (1927). Red Clay (1927) had him as Chief Bear Paw, while Soft Cushions (1927), which featured Boris Karloff as the chief conspirator, offered Johnson the role of captain of the guard.

In Thomas Cripps' insightful book Slow Fade to Black, he notes that the Duncan sisters' production of Topsy and Eva (1927) was "relieved only by Noble Johnson's staunch effort to preserve Tom's dignity". His Uncle Tom took the lashes from Gibson Gowland (of Greed fame) as Simon Legree. Noble was particularly impressive as Bimbo, the hulking Lascar ship's cook who is shot by Leatrice Joy, in Donald Crisp's Vanity (1927). When a Man Loves (1927), starring John Barrymore, had Johnson as an apache in the France of Louis XV.

Warners' ambitious production of Noah's Ark (1928) had Noble in the small role of a broker. Other parts around this time were Soriano in The Gateway of the Moon (1928); the villainous Cherokee Kaul in The Black Ace (1928); card sharp Doc Mellis in Manhattan Knights (1928); a native in Why Sailors Go Wrong (1928); the "thing" in Something Always Happens (1928), a haunted house tale with Sojin as a Chinese outlaw; and Li Wong Foo, involved in drug traffic, in Yellow Contraband (1928). A Pathe serial, The Yellow Cameo (1928), about buried treasure near an old Spanish mission, had Johnson harassing heroine Allene Ray.

Johnson gave a fine rendition of the role of Ahmed in The Four Feathers (1929), with Richard Arlen as the man attempting to prove his courage and re-establish himself in the eyes of his fiancé (Fay Wray) and friends. More significant was the fact that this film was Noble's first association with producer Merian C. Cooper and director Ernest B. Schoedsack, the men who would eventually call on him to play the native chief in King Kong, Johnson's most famous role.

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929) featured Noble as star Warner Oland's henchman, Li Po. He was the troublesome Pueblo Jim opposite Richard Dix in Redskin (1929) and skipper Alan Hale's first mate in Sal of Singapore (1929). Other early talkies in which Johnson played were Black Waters (1929) and Kismet (1930), with David Manners as the caliph. Mamba (1930) had him as Hassim, a South African native who fingers Jean Hersholt for responsibility in the death of his daughter.

Another of Johnson's powerful portrayals was that of Queequeg, the exotic tattooed harpooner, in Moby Dick (1930), which had John Barrymore in fine form as Capt. Ahab. Friedrich Ledebur would later play Queequeg in the 1956 Gregory Peck version. Noble was Osman in East of Borneo (1931), starring Charles Bickford; Bobo, the black sergeant, in Safe in Hell (1931); and also had a bit in MGM's Son of India (1931).

Universal gave director Robert Florey and star Bela Lugosi Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) as a compensatory project after neither panned out and were removed from the production of Frankenstein (1931). Johnson enacted the part of Janos, the "Black One", servant to Dr. Mirakle (Lugosi), who runs a carnival act as a ruse to cover some interesting experiments with apes. After an exhibit, Janos is dispatched by Mirakle to follow Camille (Sidney Fox) in that Erik, the ape, has been attracted to her. Later, when a prostitute dies while her blood is mixed with the gorilla, Janos is called to dispose of the body. Taking an axe, he severs the ropes holding her hands and feet to X-shaped beams and the body plunges through a trapdoor into the river. At the climax, Janis spots the police through a window and is told by Mirakle to hold them off. He descends the same stairs that Dwight Frye did in Frankenstein and is shot to death by an officer for his efforts. Johnson did not have much to do but look imposing and he was successful, at least, in this.

In Mystery Ranch (1932), a George O'Brien western, Johnson played Mudo, whose tongue had been cut out, one of the henchmen of the evil Charles Middleton. This was followed by another mute henchman role as Ivan, the blackhearted Cossack, in The Most Dangerous Game (1932). Ivan delights in torturing those who refuse to be hunted by the malefic Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks). As Ivan follows a pack of vicious dogs through a swamp in quest of Zaroff's prey (Joel McCrea and Fay Wray), he is impaled on a hastily made spear cleverly placed by Rainsford (McCrea).

Johnson was billed as the Nubian in Universal's The Mummy (1932), starring Boris Karloff. He is Arthur Bryon's servant, who is placed under a hypnotic trance by Ardath Bey (Karloff), actually Im-Ho-Tep incognito. As Byron attempts to burn the Scroll of Thoth, he suffers a heart attack under Im-Ho-Tep's influence, and the Nubian enters, stealing the scroll and burning papers in its stead to fool Edward Van Sloan. The Nubian is seen stirring a cauldron as Im-Ho-Tep enters with Helen (Zita Johann) and the faithful servant stops her as she tries to escape from joining the mummy in immortality. Again, Johnson's part was not very substantial, but was performed effectively.

After appearing as the head boatman in Nagana (1933), with Melvyn Douglas seeking a cure for sleeping sickness in the tropics, Johnson was signed by RKO for King Kong (1933). For the part of the native chief, Johnson wore a wig, had his skin darkened, and was covered with ceremonial markings, not to mention an elaborate headdress and grass skirt. As Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), Capt. Englehorn (Frank Reicher), Jack Driscoll (Bruce Cabot), and Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) look on with the rest of the landing party from the "Venture," the natives of Skull Island are apparently involved in a sacrificial ritual. The chief and witch doctor (Steve Clemente) stand beside a young maiden, while the tribespeople chant and dance. The interlopers are spotted, the ceremony abruptly halts, and the chief approaches, signalling two warriors to accompany him. Every step he makes toward the intruders is accentuated by Max Steiner's musical score. Englehorn attempts to speak to the ruler, assuring him that the whites are friends, but the chief wants them to leave immediately. The tone changes when the witch doctor spots Ann, and the chief demands the "golden woman" for the bride of Kong, offering six of his women in return. The party exits quickly, but the natives kidnap Ann from the "Venture" during the night. Ann is tied to an "altar" as the chief stands before a huge gong above the high wooden gates, invoking Kong to accept their offering and sounding the gong. He cries, "Kara Ta ni, Kong. O Taro Vey, Rama Kong," and other expressionistic dialogue before Kong's arrival takes away the focus of the proceedings. Perhaps not a difficult role on paper, but the part of the chief would have been far less impressive and distinguishable in lesser hands than those of Noble Johnson.

Following his performance in Paramount's White Woman (1933), Johnson was asked to recreate his portrayal in the native rule for Son of Kong (1933). In this sequel, Noble appears only briefly as planned footage involving the natives was discarded. Four castaways, including the aforementioned Denham and Englehorn land on Skull Island near the Great Wall. The chief leads his subjects in giving them a hostile reception, in that they blame the whites for causing the destruction of their village. Denham and the rest retreat to the sea, keeping the savages at gunpoint all the while.

In Murder in Trinidad (1934), Johnson was the villainous Queochie, who guides sleuth Nigel Bruce through the dangerous Caroni swamps. He played Ram Singh in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), starring Gary Cooper; the Amahagger chief in Merian C. Cooper's production of She (1935); and was a convict named Bisco in Escape from Devil's Island (1935). The roles for Johnson were diminishing in size, like that of an Indian in The Plainsman (1936), Rustan in Conquest (1937), the leader of the porters in Lost Horizon (1937), and a Sikh policeman in Wee Willie Winkie (1937), with Shirley Temple.

The Republic serial, Hawk of the Wilderness (1938), did, however, afford Noble the rather substantial part of Mokuyi, the sole survivor of a shipwreck except for a baby who grows up to be Herman Brix. An expedition comes to the unchartered island where they reside 22 years later, and Mokuyi is captured by a treacherous member (William Royle) of the group. Brix rescues him and Mokuyi eventually beseeches the natives that the white man's magic will overcome the volcano that seems to be activating. Nonetheless, the volcano erupts, but all the good people escape from the island in a plane, in true serial fashion. Mokuyi then reveals a pouch of valuable gems, indicating a favorable future for Brix and himself.

Johnson was back to evildoing in Tropic Fury (1939) as Hannibal, a brutal guard on an Amazon rubber plantation who causes some bad times for Richard Arlen and Andy Devine. Warner's inspiring production of Juarez (1939), starring Paul Muni, had Noble as Regules. Johnson was playing practically nothing but American Indians at this time, in films like Frontier Pony Express (1939), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), and DeMille's Union Pacific (1939) and North West Mounted Police (1940).

The horror genre called again for The Ghost Breakers (1940), played mostly for laughs by Bob Hope, but strictly for chills by Johnson as a zombie. Nightclub entertainer Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard) inherits a supposedly haunted castle on an island near Cuba and ventures there with radio announcer (Hope) fleeing gangland vengeance for an expose. Johnson, completely bald and clad in native garb, is kept in a small hut near the boat landing by an old custodian. The zombie lies motionless on his back, his blank eyes staring upward, but at the command of his keeper is up and about. There is a very good sequence wherein he chases Mary to the castle and up a sweeping staircase. Hope, of course, refers to the creature as "only the colored caretaker," but Johnson enhances the terror amidst the laughter with his menacing strolls.

Aloma of the South Seas (1941), another volcanic island tale, with Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall, featured Johnson as Moukali. In Hurry, Charlie, Hurry! (1941), he was Poison Arrow, one of three Indians humorously involved with Leon Errol. Other films in which he had small roles were Shut My Big Mouth (1942), Night in New Orleans (1942), and Sabu's The Jungle Book (1942), as a Sikh.

Johnson was Elon, the ruler of a South Sea island, in The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942). He proclaims Lionel Atwill a god after the latter apparently brings back the Princess Tanao from the dead, but later consigns the physician to doom when Elon realises the error of his ways. Noble was excellent as the great Shawnee warrior Tecumseh in Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942), particularly in a scene where he humbles the captive Laird Cregar. He was Charlie the Indian in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), which featured almost the entire Warner Brothers stock company, and, on the same lot, appeared in The Desert Song (1943), with Dennis Morgan and Bruce Cabot.

From hereon, Johnson's screen appearances were rare and minimal. Noble played Carib in A Game of Death (1945), RKO's remake of The Most Dangerous Game. As a henchman to Kreiger (Edgar Barrier), the role was quite reminiscent of that of Ivan in the original. John Loder and Audrey Long were seen in the McCrea and Wray parts. This was Johnson's last fantasy-related portrayal.

He even managed to find his way into a Bowery Boys film as Hassan in Hard Boiled Maloney (1947). Johnson's last great performance was that of Red Shirt in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). Red Shirt stands firm that shifty Harry Wood's demand of $50 is too much for a wagonful of rifles and, during the ensuing tirade, slays the gundealer with his bow. Much later, as John Wayne bravely comes into the Indians' encampment, Red Shirt fires an arrow into the ground at his feet, as a warning to venture no further. Wayne snaps the arrow in half and gains audience with the various chiefs. The last credited role for Noble Johnson was that of Nogura, an Oseka Indian, in the Roy Rogers' Republic effort, North of the Great Divide (1950).

Perhaps a greater mystery than any he was in onscreen, is what happened to Nobel Johnson after he retired from films. Supposedly, Johnson had invested in Nevada real estate, but as to his whereabouts if he is still living, who knows?

Thomas Cripps writes, "For blacks of the 1920's Johnson's career was a kind of victory within a context of despair, a black presence that went beyond menials to substantive roles." It turns out that filmdom in the long run, was not that kind to one of its real veterans, but Noble still lasted in the industry for almost four decades.

As for horror films in particular, Noble Johnson's ominous ubiquity fit in with the proper mood for films like The Most Dangerous Game, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Mummy. And the great classic King Kong would not be the same if Noble wasn't there on Skull Island to set the scene. Indeed an unheralded performer, Noble Johnson is certainly worthy of long overdue notice, not just because of his contributions to the horror genre, but for his contributions to the motion picture industry in general.

The Films of Noble Johnson

1915
The Eagle's Nest (Lubin)
Mr. Carlson of Arizona (Lubin)
Valley of Lost Hope (Lubin)
A Species of Mexican (Lubin)
From Champion to Tramp (Lubin)
A Desert Honeymoon (Lubin)
A Western Governor's Humanity (Lubin)
The Heart of a Tigress (Universal-Bison)
The Lion's Ward (Universal-Bison)
1916
Across the Rio Grande (Universal-Bison)
Who Pulled the Trigger? (Universal-Gold Seal)
Behind the Lines (Bluebird Photoplays, Inc.)
The Caravan (Universal)
The Realization of a Negro's Ambition (Lincoln)
Liberty (Universal) - serial
Intolerance (D. W. Griffith)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Universal)
The Eagle's Wings (Bluebird Photoplays, Inc.)
Kinkaid, Gambler (Universal-Red Feather)
The Bad Man of Cheyenne (Universal-Bison)
Fighting for Love (Universal-Red Feather)
1917
Love Aflame (Universal-Red Feather)
The Indian's Lament (Universal-Gold Seal) - also wrote
The Terror (Universal-Red Feather)
The Trooper of Company K (Lincoln)
The Red Ace (Universal) - serial
Mr. Dolan of New York (Universal-Red Feather)
The Hero of the Hour (Universal-Red Feather)
The Voice on the Wire (Universal) - serial
A Soldier of the Legion (Universal-Gold Seal)
The Gray Ghost (Universal) - serial
The Charmer (Bluebird Photoplays, Inc.)
The Last of the Night Riders (Universal-Bison)
1918
Bull's Eye (Universal) - serial
The Law of Nature (Lincoln)
The Human Tiger (Universal)
The Lure of the Circus (Universal) - serial
1919
The Midnight Man (Universal) - serial
1920
Under Crimson Skies (Universal-Jewel)
The Adorable Savage (Universal)
The Leopard Woman (Associated Producers)
A Manhattan Knight (Fox)
1921
The Bronze Bell (Ince-Paramount)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Metro)
Serenade (FN)
The Walloo (Universal)
The Conquering Power (Metro)
1922
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Universal) - serial
The Loaded Door (Universal)
Tracks (Playgoers)
The Cowboy and the Lady (Famous Players-Lasky)
1923
Burning Words (Universal)
Drums of Fate (Famous Players-Lasky)
The Ten Commandments (Famous Players-Lasky)
The Courtship of Miles Standish (Associated Exhibitors)
Cameo Kirby (Fox)
The Homeward Trail (Universal)
In the Palace of the King (Goldwyn)
1924
Little Robinson Crusoe (MGM)
A Man's Mate (Fox)
The Midnight Express (Columbia)
The Navigator (MGM)
The Thief of Bagdad (UA)
1925
Adventure (Famous Players-Lasky)
The Dancers (Fox)
The Gold Hunters (Guaranteed Pictures)
The Everlasting Whisper (Fox)
1926
The Flaming Frontier (Universal)
Hands Up! (Famous Players-Lasky)
The Lady of the Harem (Famous Players-Lasky)
Law of the Snow Country (Bud Barsky Corp.)
The Skyrocket (Celebrity Pictures, Inc.)
Aloma of the South Seas (Paramount-FPL)
The Last Frontier (PDC)
1927
The King of Kings (DeMille-Pathe)
Red Clay (Universal)
Soft Cushions (Paramount-FPL)
Topsy and Eva (UA)
Vanity (DeMille-PDC)
When a Man Loves (Warners)
Upstream (Fox)
Ben-Hur (MGM)
1928
The Black Ace (Leo Maloney Prod.-Pathe)
The Gateway of the Moon (Fox)
Manhattan Knights (Excellent Pictures)
The Yellow Cameo (Pathe) - serial
Noah's Ark (Warners)
Something Always Happens (Paramount-FPL)
Why Sailors Go Wrong (Fox)
Yellow Contraband (Pathe)
Diamond Handcuffs (MGM)
West of Zanzibar (MGM)
1929
The Four Feathers (Paramount)
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (Paramount)
Redskin (Paramount-FPL)
Sal of Singapore (Pathe)
Black Waters (World-Wide)
The Apache (Columbia)
1930
Kismet (FN)
Mamba (Tiffany)
Moby Dick (Warners)
Isle of Escape (Warners)
1931
East of Borneo (Universal)
Safe in Hell (FN)
Son of India (MGM)
1932
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Universal)
Mystery Ranch (Fox)
The Most Dangerous Game (RKO)
The Mummy (Universal)
1933
Nagana (Universal)
King Kong (RKO)
White Woman (Paramount)
Son of Kong (RKO)
1934
Murder in Trinidad (Fox)
Kid Millions (UA)
1935
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Paramount)
She (RKO)
Escape from Devil's Island (Columbia)
Dante's Inferno (Fox)
1936
The Plainsman (Paramount)
1937
Conquest (MGM)
Lost Horizon (Columbia)
Wee Willie Winkie (Fox)
1938
Hawk of the Wilderness (Republic) - serial
The Cowboy and the Lady (UA)
Four Men and a Prayer (TCF)
1939
Tropic Fury (Universal)
Frontier Pony Express (Republic)
Juarez (WB)
Drums Along the Mohawk (Fox)
Union Pacific (Paramount)
1940
The Ghost Breakers (Paramount)
The Ranger and the Lady (Republic)
North West Mounted Police (Paramount)
Green Hell (Universal)
1941
Aloma of the South Seas (Paramount)
Hurry, Charlie, Hurry! (RKO)
The Road to Zanzibar (Paramount)
1942
The Mad Doctor of Market Street (Universal)