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Russell Simpson was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Early on in his acting career, Simpson landed roles in various films, including "Blue Jeans" (1918), "Circus Days" (1923) and "Ship of Souls" (1926). He also appeared in "Now We're in the Air" (1927), "The First Auto" (1927) and "Annie Laurie" (1927) with Lillian Gish. He kept working in film throughout the thirtie...

Filmography

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The Horse Soldiers (1959)

Sheriff Goodbody

The Lonely Man (1957)

The Tin Star (1957)

The Lone Ranger (1956)

Kimberly's father

These Wilder Years (1956)

The Brass Legend (1956)

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Horse Soldiers, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Sense of Justice

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Yessiree Bob

Biography

Russell Simpson was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Early on in his acting career, Simpson landed roles in various films, including "Blue Jeans" (1918), "Circus Days" (1923) and "Ship of Souls" (1926). He also appeared in "Now We're in the Air" (1927), "The First Auto" (1927) and "Annie Laurie" (1927) with Lillian Gish. He kept working in film throughout the thirties, starring in the George O'Brien western "Frontier Marshal" (1934), the Richard Dix western "West of the Pecos" (1934) and the drama "The World Moves On" (1934) with Madeleine Carroll. He also appeared in the Norman Foster drama "The Hoosier Schoolmaster" (1935). Toward the end of his career, he continued to act in "Tennessee Johnson" (1942), "The Spoilers" (1942) with Marlene Dietrich and the Joe E Brown comedy "Shut My Big Mouth" (1942). He also appeared in "The Woman of the Town" (1943) and the western "Border Patrol" (1943) with Andy Clyde. Simpson last acted in "The Horse Soldiers" (1959). Simpson passed away in December 1959 at the age of 82.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

Sheriff Goodbody

The Lonely Man (1957)

The Tin Star (1957)

The Lone Ranger (1956)

Kimberly's father

These Wilder Years (1956)

The Brass Legend (1956)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

The Last Command (1955)

The Tall Men (1955)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Mr. [Fred] Bixby

Broken Lance (1954)

Gypsy Colt (1954)

The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)

Meet Me at the Fair (1952)

Feudin' Fools (1952)

Lone Star (1952)

[Senator] Maynard Cole

Across the Wide Missouri (1951)

Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)

The Outriders (1950)

Wagon Master (1950)

Call of the Klondike (1950)

Saddle Tramp (1950)

Free for All (1949)

The Gal Who Took the West (1949)

Bartender as old timer

Tuna Clipper (1949)

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

Tap Roots (1948)

["Big"] Sam Dabney

Albuquerque (1948)

Coroner Creek (1948)

Sundown in Santa Fe (1948)

Sheriff Jim Wyatt

The Untamed Breed (1948)

Joan of Arc (1948)

Old man with pipe

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

Bowery Buckaroos (1947)

The Fabulous Texan (1947)

The Millerson Case (1947)

Bad Bascomb (1946)

Death Valley (1946)

My Darling Clementine (1946)

My Dog Shep (1946)

California Gold Rush (1946)

Lady Luck (1946)

Roughly Speaking (1945)

Along Came Jones (1945)

They Were Expendable (1945)

Incendiary Blonde (1945)

Man from Frisco (1944)

The Big Bonanza (1944)

Texas Masquerade (1944)

Tall in the Saddle (1944)

Moonlight in Vermont (1943)

Uncle Rufus [Harding]

Border Patrol (1943)

The Woman of the Town (1943)

The Kansan (1943)

Riding High (1943)

Frenchy McGuire

Nazi Agent (1942)

Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)

The Spoilers (1942)

Flapjack [Sims]

Shut My Big Mouth (1942)

The Lone Star Ranger (1942)

Tennessee Johnson (1942)

This Time for Keeps (1942)

Tobacco Road (1941)

Chief of police

Swamp Water (1941)

Last of the Duanes (1941)

Bad Men of Missouri (1941)

Wild Geese Calling (1941)

Citadel of Crime (1941)

Three Faces West (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Virginia City (1940)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Geronimo (1940)

Brigham Young--Frontiersman (1940)

Desperate Trails (1939)

Big Bill Tanner

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Texas Stampede (1939)

Western Caravans (1939)

Winchester Thompson

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Dodge City (1939)

The Arizona Wildcat (1939)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

The Sisters (1938)

Heart of the North (1938)

Valley of the Giants (1938)

Outside the Law (1938)

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)

The Girl of the Golden West (1938)

Pioneer, in Prologue

Maid of Salem (1937)

Village marshal

Green Light (1937)

Mountain Justice (1937)

Paradise Isle (1937)

That I May Live (1937)

Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937)

Man Hunt (1936)

Jeff Parkington

The Harvester (1936)

The Crime of Dr. Forbes (1936)

Paddy O'Day (1936)

Girl of the Ozarks (1936)

San Francisco (1936)

Back to Nature (1936)

West of the Pecos (1935)

The County Chairman (1935)

The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)

Way Down East (1935)

Squire [Amasa] Bartlett

Motive for Revenge (1935)

The World Moves On (1934)

Frontier Marshal (1934)

Carolina (1934)

3 on a Honeymoon (1934)

Ever Since Eve (1934)

Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934)

Face in the Sky (1933)

Pa [Nathan] Brown

The Power and the Glory (1933)

Hello, Everybody! (1933)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Lena Rivers (1932)

Grandfather Nichols

Hello Trouble (1932)

Jonathan Kenyon

Call Her Savage (1932)

Old man in wagon train

Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

Law and Order (1932)

[Circuit] Judge [R. W.] Williams

Silver Dollar (1932)

The Riding Tornado (1932)

Born to Fight (1932)

Honor of the Press (1932)

Riding for Justice (1932)

Marshal Joseph Slyde

The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)

The Great Meadow (1931)

Call of the Rockies (1931)

Alexander Hamilton (1931)

First ex-soldier

Abraham Lincoln (1930)

Lincoln's employer

Man to Man (1930)

The Lone Star Ranger (1930)

Colonel Aldridge

Billy the Kid (1930)

The Trail of '98 (1929)

Noisy Neighbors (1929)

After the Fog (1929)

The Kid's Clever (1929)

Innocents of Paris (1929)

My Lady's Past (1929)

Tropical Nights (1928)

The Bushranger (1928)

Life's Mockery (1928)

Annie Laurie (1927)

Old Shoes (1927)

The Heart of the Yukon (1927)

Wild Geese (1927)

God's Great Wilderness (1927)

Now We're in the Air (1927)

Lord Abercrombie McTavish

The First Auto (1927)

The Frontiersman (1927)

Lovey Mary (1926)

Rustling for Cupid (1926)

Hank Blatchford

The Earth Woman (1926)

Ezra Tilden, shiftless "head of the family"

The Social Highwayman (1926)

The Mayor's partner

Thunder Mountain (1925)

The Re-creation of Brian Kent (1925)

Paint and Powder (1925)

The Splendid Road (1925)

Captain Lightfoot

Faint Perfume (1925)

Why Women Love (1925)

Silas Martin, lighthouse keeper

Ship of Souls (1925)

Beauty and the Bad Man (1925)

Chuckwalla Bill

Painted People (1924)

The Narrow Street (1924)

Defying Destiny (1923)

Hearts Aflame (1923)

The Rip-Tide (1923)

The Huntress (1923)

Big Jack Skinner

Circus Days (1923)

The Girl of the Golden West (1923)

The Virginian (1923)

Human Hearts (1922)

Across the Dead-Line (1922)

Fools of Fortune (1922)

Magpie Simpkins

When Love Is Young (1922)

The Kingdom Within (1922)

Peg o' My Heart (1922)

Rags to Riches (1922)

Snowblind (1921)

Shadows of Conscience (1921)

Bunty Pulls the Strings (1921)

Under the Lash (1921)

"Brick" Willock

The Deadlier Sex (1920)

Out of the Dust (1920)

Captain John Evans, U.S. A.

Godless Men (1920)

Fighting Cressy (1920)

Hiram McKinstry

The Branding Iron (1920)

Desert Gold (1919)

The Blue Bandanna (1919)

Bill Apperson's Boy (1919)

The Brand (1919)

The Fighting Roosevelts (1919)

Oh, Johnny! (1918)

The Uphill Path (1918)

The Border Legion (1918)

Overland Bradley

The Challenge Accepted (1918)

Uncle Zeke Sawyer

A Weaver of Dreams (1918)

Martin Chandler

Riders of the Night (1918)

Sally's grandfather

Breakers Ahead (1918)

Captain Scudder

Blue Jeans (1917)

The Barrier (1917)

John Gaylord/John Gale

Salt of the Earth (1917)

The Food Gamblers (1917)

The Feud Girl (1916)

Lovely Mary (1916)

The Old Homestead (1915)

Cast (Short)

A Boy and His Dog (1946)

Roaring Guns (1944)

The Bill of Rights (1939)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Wagon Master - Scene Stills

Here are a few scene stills from John Ford's Wagon Master (1950), starring Ward Bond.

Videos

Horse Soldiers, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Sense of Justice Showcase for Confederate deserters (Denver Pyle and Strother Martin) whom Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne) uses and abuses, impressing Miss Hannah (Constance Towers) and Kendall (William Holden) in John Ford's The Horse Soldiers, 1959.

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Yessiree Bob In his first piece of lawyering, Abe (Henry Fonda) settles a dispute between clients Hawthorne (Charles Halton) and Woolridge (Russell Simpson), in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939.

Spoilers, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Disappointed Corpse, You! Nome, Alaska, 1900, with escort Bronco (Richard Barthelmess), saloon owner Cherry (Marlene Dietrich) meets boyfriend Roy (John Wayne) at the boat, not expecting pretty Helen (Margaret Lindsay) with her uncle the judge (Harry Carey), as clowny miners Flapjack and Banty (Russell Simpson, George Cleveland) get into trouble, in The Spoilers, 1942, from a Rex Beach novel.

Gypsy Colt (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Gypsy's Been Sold Meg (Donna Corcoran) is alarmed when the title-horse Gypsy doesn’t show up to meet her after school, returning home to find out what her struggling rancher parents (Ward Bond, Frances Dee) couldn’t bring themselves to tell her, in MGM’s Gypsy Colt, 1954.

Gypsy Colt (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Like Selling A Member Of The Family Opening MGM’s very family drama, local denizens are impressed that the horse from the title is so devoted to top-billed Donna Corcoran as Meg, her parents back home (Ward Bond, Frances Dee) considering how to break some bad news, in Gypsy Colt, 1954, from a story by Lassie author Eric Knight.

Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Two For A Penny Reaching a filling station in New Mexico, Tom (Henry Fonda) getting gas while Pa (Russell Simpson) negotiates with a waitress (Kitty McHugh) for a loaf of bread, young Winfield and Ruth (Darryl Hickman, Shirley Mills) benefiting, in John Ford's The Grapes Of Wrath, 1940.

Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Keep A Joad In Jail Paroled Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) finally finds his family, Grandma and Grandpa (Zeffie Tilbury, Charley Grapewin) tangling, Pa (Russell Simpson) suggesting California, Ma (Jane Darwell) the first to notice, camera by Gregg Toland, in John Ford's The Grapes Of Wrath, 1940, from the Steinbeck novel.

Swamp Water (1941) -- (Movie Clip) You Little Fightin' Cat Dana Andrews is backwoods Georgia teen Ben, planning to enter the Okefenokee to find his dog, at the general store with locals including Eugene Pallette, Russell Simpson, Ward Bond, Guinn Williams and Anne Baxter, as the rather wild young ward of the owner, Jean Renoir directing, in Swamp Water, 1941.

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) -- (Movie Clip) These Men Won't Wait Long Gentleman California farmer Col. Ferris (Claude Rains) chairs the meeting, trying to calm furious farmers who want to take direct action against gold mining operations that have ruined their lands, Russell Simpson as weary Mac, in 1870’s California, in MGM’s Gold Is Where You Find It, 1938.

Tall In The Saddle (1944) -- (Movie Clip) That Queen Is Dead One of the finer Western poker scenes, Edwin L. Marin directing, stranger Rocklin (John Wayne) playing with local hotshot Clint (Russell Wade) who seems unclear on the customs regarding a flipped card, Ward Bond, Cy Kendall, Russell Simpson et all observing, in Tall In The Saddle, 1944.

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