Born in the plains of Tioga, Texas, on Sept. 29, 1907, Orvon Gene Autry was working as a railroad telegrapher in Oklahoma when Will Rogers reportedly heard him sing and urged him to pursue a career in music.After carving out a successful career in radio with his soothing tenor voice, Autry eventually debuted as Hollywood's first real "singing cowboy," playing himself in Ken Maynard's In Old Santa Fe (1934) and starring in a string of B Westerns with his trusty horse, Champion, and his sidekick, Smiley Burnette, throughout the 1930s and '40s.
After serving in World War II, he starred in The Last Round-Up (1947) and The Strawberry Roan (1948) before moving to television with "The Gene Autry Show" (1950-56) and retiring in 1956. A lifelong collector of Western memorabilia, Autry died on Oct. 2, 1998, 10 years after establishing the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles.
The Old WestBronco buster Gene Autry trains wild horses and then sells them to the Saddle Rock stagecoach line, but when vile crook Doc Lockwood (Lyle Talbot) and his henchmen try to put Autry out of business, he joins forces with a preacher to tame the town the law forgot. Autry is at his gunslinging best as... Read More
Gene Autry: Texans Never CryWhen Texas Ranger Gene Autry -- America's favorite singing cowboy -- saves a family on the brink of being evicted from their homestead, he discovers the existence of a scheme to counterfeit Mexican lottery tickets. There's only one thing for Gene to do now: track down the despicable ring of... Read More
Gene Autry Collection: Cow TownGet along, little doggie. Everybody's favorite crooning cowpoke, Gene Autry, once again metes out frontier justice in his own inimitable way. This time, Autry is called into action when some nasty barbed wire threatens the livestock of ranchers in the village. Naturally, a few musical ditties help... Read More
Gene Autry: Blue Canadian RockiesDispatched from Montana to Canada to stop his boss's daughter, Sandra (Gail Davis), from marrying a gold digger (Ross Ford), ranch foreman Gene Autry discovers the would-be bride running a dude ranch and game preserve. But that's the least of his worries when a Mountie gets bumped off, putting the... Read More
Gene Autry Collection: Wagon TeamGene Autry is back in the saddle again as an undercover detective in this action-packed Western complete with a showdown. Gene poses as a jailbird to wangle the truth from a boy (Dick Jones) suspected of stealing an Army payroll. When the youngster escapes from lockup and rejoins his family's... Read More
