Cliff Lyons


Biography

Cliff Lyons was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Lyons's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "Firebrand Jordan" (1930), "Canyon Hawks" (1930) and "Night Rider" (1932) with Harry Carey. He also appeared in "Outlawed Guns" (1935), the western "The Lawless Nineties" (1936) with John Wayne and the Billy Elliott western "Wagon Tracks West" (19...

Biography

Cliff Lyons was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Lyons's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "Firebrand Jordan" (1930), "Canyon Hawks" (1930) and "Night Rider" (1932) with Harry Carey. He also appeared in "Outlawed Guns" (1935), the western "The Lawless Nineties" (1936) with John Wayne and the Billy Elliott western "Wagon Tracks West" (1943). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the forties and the fifties, appearing in the western "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) with John Wayne, "Wagonmaster" (1950) and the western "Bend of the River" (1952) with James Stewart. He also appeared in the John Wayne western adventure "The Searchers" (1956). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in "The Horse Soldiers" (1959), the Jeffrey Hunter mystery "Sergeant Rutledge" (1960) and "Two Rode Together" (1961). Lyons more recently worked on the action flick "The Green Berets" (1968) with John Wayne. Lyons passed away in January 1974 at the age of 73.

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Big Jake (1971)
2nd Unit Director
The Green Berets (1968)
2nd unit Director
The War Wagon (1967)
2nd unit Director
Marco the Magnificent (1966)
Battle scenes
Major Dundee (1965)
2nd unit Director
Genghis Khan (1965)
2nd unit Director
The Long Ships (1964)
2nd unit Director
Taras Bulba (1962)
2nd unit Director
The Comancheros (1961)
Action seq Director
The Alamo (1960)
2nd Unit Director
The Conqueror (1956)
2nd Unit Director
Rio Grande (1950)
2nd Unit Director

Cast (Feature Film)

Donovan's Reef (1963)
Officer
Two Rode Together (1961)
William McCandless
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Sam Beecher
Spartacus (1960)
Soldier
The Young Land (1959)
Jury foreman
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Lubian
The Abductors (1957)
The Searchers (1956)
Col. Greenhill
Seven Men from Now (1956)
The Prodigal (1955)
Harun
Drums Across the River (1954)
Hank
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Deputy
Take Me to Town (1953)
Stagecoach driver
The World in His Arms (1952)
Sweeney
Bend of the River (1952)
Wullie
Wagon Master (1950)
Marshal
Rio Grande (1950)
The Milkman (1950)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Trooper Cliff
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
Kentuckian
Oklahoma Badlands (1948)
Henchman
Dakota (1945)
Bouncer
Song of Russia (1944)
Wagon driver
I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
Wagon Tracks West (1943)
Matt
The Lawless Nineties (1936)
Davis
Outlawed Guns (1935)
Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)
Henchman
The Night Rider (1932)
Burt Logan
The Rainbow Trail (1932)
Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931)
Deputy
Red Fork Range (1931)
Skeeter Beldon
Firebrand Jordan (1930)
Pete
Breezy Bill (1930)
Bandits
The Canyon of Missing Men (1930)
Brill Lonergan
Canyon Hawks (1930)
Tom Hardy
O'Malley Rides Alone (1930)
Call of the Desert (1930)
Nate Thomas
The Oklahoma Sheriff (1930)
Red Gold (1930)
Crusaders of the West (1930)
Captain Cowboy (1929)
Fighters of the Saddle (1929)
Henchman
The Fighting Terror (1929)
Code of the West (1929)
The Cowboy and the Outlaw (1929)
Slim Saxon
The Arizona Kid (1929)
Ned Hank
The Last Roundup (1929)
West of the Rockies (1929)
Snakey Rogers
The Sheriff's Lash (1929)
The Galloping Lover (1929)
The Saddle King (1929)
Rance Baine
Manhattan Cowboy (1928)
Headin' Westward (1928)
Pat Carle
Across the Plains (1928)
Chuck Lang
Law of the Mounted (1928)
The Old Code (1928)
Jacques de Long
The Riddle Trail (1928)
Flashing Hoofs (1928)
Master of the Range (1928)
West of the Law (1926)
Sheriff

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Chisum (1970)
Stunt coordinator
McLintock! (1963)
Technical Advisor
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Technical Advisor

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Big Jake (1971)
Stunt Coordinator
From Hell to Texas (1958)
Stunts
Westward Ho the Wagons! (1956)
Stunts
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Stunts
Slaughter Trail (1951)
Stunts
Fort Apache (1948)
Stunt Supervisor
They Died with Their Boots On (1942)
Double
Cyclone on Horseback (1941)
Stunt double
Jesse James (1939)
Stunts
Valley of the Giants (1938)
Stunts
Stingaree (1934)
Double for Richard Dix
Love Time (1934)
Stunts
Call It Luck (1934)
Double and stunts
Against the Law (1934)
Stand-in and double for John Mack Brown
Robbers' Roost (1933)
Double for George O'Brien
The Rainbow Trail (1932)
Stunt double for George O'Brien
The Golden West (1932)
Double for George O'Brien and stunts
The Gay Caballero (1932)
Double for George O'Brien and stunts
Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931)
Riding double and stunts
A Holy Terror (1931)
Stunts

Cast (Short)

Coffins on Wheels (1941)

Stunts (Short)

Trial by Trigger (1944)
Stunt Double

Life Events

Bibliography