APACHE WAR SMOKE MOVIE CAST - INSCRIBED PRINTED PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED IN INK CO-SIGNED BY: HANK WORDEN, ROBERT HORTON, GILBERT ROLAND - HFSID 277468

APACHE WAR SMOKE MOVIE CAST: HANK WORDEN, ROBERT HORTON, GILBERT ROLAND
This photo includes three actors well-known for their Western roles - Gilbert Roland (The Cisco Kid), Robert Horton (Wagon Train) and Western and John Ford veteran Warden. An extremely rare signed cast photo from a classic Western movie.
Inscribed Printed Photograph Signed in Ink: "Robert Horton/'97", "Gilbert Roland" and "Best Wishes,/Dan,/Hank Worden". B/w, 8x10. Publicity photo for Apache War Smoke (1952). Captioned at bottom: "Apache War Smoke". Roland and Horton had, respectively, first and third billing. This remarkable photo shows three longtime Western actors together; it was one of Horton's first movies. In a movie career of more than half a century (1925-1982), ROLAND (1905-1994), born Luis Antonio Damaso de Alonso in Mexico, played dashing leading men in both silent and talking films. Originally trained as a bullfighter, he was the only genuine Mexican to portray the Cisco Kid on screen (in eleven films). Roland received two Golden Globe nominations as Best Supporting Actor for The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Character actor WORDEN (1901-1992), born Norton Earl Worden, made his film debut in 1935 in an unaccredited role in Barbary Coast, and he would go on to make dozens of films until 1990 (Almost an Angel). An expert horseman and wrangler, Worden appeared in a number of Tex Ritter Westerns and in 14 films with John Wayne. His credits include The Plainsman (1936), Stagecoach (1939), Northwest Passage (1940), Brigham Young (1940), So Proudly We Hail! (1943), National Barn Dance (1944), Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945), The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), Fort Apache (1948), The Searchers (1956), The Alamo (1960), The Music Man (1962), True Grit (1969), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and The Ice Pirates (1984). Worden also made guest appearances on a number of TV series, including several episodes of The Lone Ranger (1949-1957) and two episodes of such Western series as Rawhide (1960), Bonanza (1960-1961) and Wagon Train (1960-1961), and he had a recurring role as "The Elderly and Senile Room Service Waiter" on the TV cult favorite, Twin Peaks (1990-1991). ROBERT HORTON (1924-2016) made almost 50 movies and TV shows between 1945 and 1989. He began his movie career with an uncredited role in the World War II movie A Walk in the Sun (1945). Sci-fi fans might also know him as Commander Jack Horton from 1969's The Green Slime. But he's best known as Flint McCullough in the TV Western Wagon Train (1957-1965). He also toured nightclubs in America and Australia as a singer and, in 1963, played the lead in the Broadway musical 110 in the Shade, an adaptation of N. Richard Walsh's play The Rainmaker which ran for 330 performances. Minor surface crease (not evident head on) at right background. Fine condition. Lightly toned, stained and creased. Small discoloration at top edge. Paperclip impression at top edge. Otherwise, fine condition.