Tom Mix was a legendary cowboy star of the early screen era. He made both silent and voiced movies. Mix claimed to be the son of a cavalry officer and boasted of having been educated at the Virginia Military Institute. However, evidence later indicated that his father was a poor lumberman and that Mix had dropped out of school after the fourth grade. There was evidence that he had been a deserter from the U.S. Artillery in 1902 after serving as a sergeant.

However, Mix later served as a Texas Ranger for a very brief period. His unglorious past was a not a detriment to Tom Mix as a Texas Ranger and later as an actor.

Movies/Films/Career:

1909: On the Little Big Horn or Custer's Last Stand.

1910 : The Long Trail, The Range Riders.

1911: Back to the Primitive, An Arizona Wooing.

1913: The Law and the Outlaw, An Apache's Gratitude, The Escape of Jim Dolan.

1914: Chip of the Flying "U", Cactus Jake-Heartbreaker (Mix also directed), In the Days of the Thundering Herd, The Moving Picture Cowboy, The Ranger's Romance.

1915:The Range Girl and the Cowboy(Mix also directed), A Child of the Prariie(Mix also directed), Cactus Jim's Shop Girl, Pals in Blue, On the Eagle Trail.

1916: The Taming of Grouchy Bill, Local Color, Twisted Trails.

1917: The Heart of Texas Ryan.

1918: Western Blood, Six-Shooter Andy, Ace High.

1919: The Wilderness Trail, Fighting for Gold, Fame and Fortune.

1920: The Feud, The Daredevil, The Cyclone, The Terror, The Untamed, Rough Riding Romance.

1921: The Road Demon, The Queen of Sheba, A Ridin' Romeo, Trailin.

1922: Chasing the Moon, Do and Dare, Just Tony, Catch My Smoke, Arabia/Tom Mix in Arabia.

1923: Lone Star Ranger, Eyes of the Forest, Romance Land, North of Hudson Bay.

1924: The Heart Buster, The Trouble Shooter, Teeth.

1925: Dick Turpin, Riders of the Purple Sage, The Rainbow Trail, The Lucky Horseshoe, The Everlasting Whisper, The Best Bad Man.

1926: The Yankee Senor, My Own Pal, Tony Runs Wild, Hard Boiled.

1927: The Last Trail, The Circus Ace, The Arizona Wildcat, Silver Valley, The Bronco Twister.

1928: Hello Cheyenne, Painted Post, Sea of the Golden West, King Cowboy, A Horseman of the Plains.

1929: The Big Diamond Robbery, The Drifter, Outlawed.

1932: Destry Rides Again, My Pal the King, Rider of Death Valley.

1933: Terror Trail, Rustler's Roundup.

1935: The Miracle Rider.