
Glenn Strange
At various times in his life a rancher, deputy sheriff and rodeo performer, this huge, towering (6' 5") beast of a man was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but grew up a real-life cowboy in Cross Cut, Texas. Of Irish and Cherokee Indian descent, he taught himself (by ear) the fiddle and guitar at a young age and started performing at local functions as a teen. In the late 1920s, Glenn and his cousin, Taylor McPeters, better known later as the western character actor Cactus Mack, joined a radio singing group known as the "Arizona Wranglers" that toured throughout the country. Gunsmoke Strange first appeared on Gunsmoke in 1960 after James Arness asked him, "When are you going to do a Gunsmoke? I like to work with big guys." During Gunsmoke's sixth season, Strange played a Long Branch customer in "Old Faces" and a cowboy in "Melinda Miles". Strange began playing Sam Noonan during the seventh season and continued in the role for 222 episodes. In 1972 Strange was diagnosed with lung cancer but worked as long as he was able. Five of his episodes were broadcast after his death. His last appearance was on the November 26, 1973, episode "The Hanging of Newly O'Brien". Death On September 20, 1973, at age 74, Strange died of lung cancer in Los Angeles, California. Singer Eddie Dean, with whom Strange had collaborated on various songs and opening themes for films, sang at Strange's funeral service as a final tribute. Strange is interred at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. CLR
217 acting credits
Acting · 217

The Rifleman
1958

Petticoat Junction
1963

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955

Rawhide
1959

Thriller
1960

The Lone Ranger
1949

Gunsmoke
1955

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950

Sugarfoot
1957

The Abbott and Costello Show
1952

The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956

The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951

Hopalong Cassidy
1952

26 Men
1957

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
1955

Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957

General Electric Theater
1953

Marty
1955

Red River
1948

Frontier Doctor
1958

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948

Last Train from Gun Hill
1959

Judge Roy Bean
1955

The Desperadoes
1943

The Red Badge of Courage
1951

Action in the North Atlantic
1943

Calamity Jane
1953

Flash Gordon
1936

House of Dracula
1945

The Fastest Gun Alive
1956

House of Frankenstein
1944

The Spoilers
1942

Alias Jesse James
1959

Escape from Fort Bravo
1953

Sinbad the Sailor
1947

The Lusty Men
1952
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991

The Sea of Grass
1947

The Mummy's Tomb
1942

Mission to Moscow
1943

The Horror Show
1979

Backlash
1956

Saratoga Trunk
1945

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994

The Lawless Breed
1952

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
1952

Texas Carnival
1951

The Many Faces of Dracula
2000

The Fargo Kid
1940

Westward Ho
1935

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999

The Star Packer
1934

The Night Riders
1939

State Police
1938

The Range Feud
1931

False Colors
1943

Callaway Went Thataway
1951

Wide Open Town
1941

Whirlwind Horseman
1938

Dark Command
1940

Badlands of Dakota
1941

Four Faces West
1948

Wagons West
1952

The Road to Denver
1955

Last Stagecoach West
1957

Romance on the Range
1942

Knickerbocker Holiday
1944

Sunset Trail
1939

The Black Raven
1943

Comanche Territory
1950

Bandit Ranger
1942

The Mad Monster
1942

The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939

Comin' Round the Mountain
1951

The Veils of Bagdad
1953

The Vanishing American
1955

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947

Bad Men of the Border
1945

The Gallant Legion
1948

Blue Montana Skies
1939

Forty Thieves
1944

Ride Him, Cowboy
1932

Bullets and Saddles
1943

Up Goes Maisie
1946

The Hurricane Express
1932

Days of Jesse James
1939

Blazing Sixes
1937

Master Minds
1949

Saddlemates
1941

Moonlight on the Prairie
1935

Air Devils
1938

Triple Justice
1940

Pride of the West
1938

Stage to Chino
1940

The Great Sioux Uprising
1953

The Kansan
1943

Cattle Stampede
1943

Range War
1939

Cattle Queen of Montana
1954

The Fugitive Sheriff
1936

Haunted Ranch
1943

The Halliday Brand
1957

Spaceship to the Unknown
1966

Arizona Legion
1939

Disaster
1948

Overland Stagecoach
1942

Adventure's End
1937

The Cherokee Strip
1937

Teddy the Rough Rider
1940
Ghost Town Riders
1938

Dude Cowboy
1941

Arizona Cyclone
1941

Land Beyond the Law
1937

The Lone Rider and the Bandit
1942

Rough Riders' Round-up
1939

Cavalier of the West
1931

The Mysterious Rider
1938

Fugitive Valley
1941

Hollywood Wonderland
1947

The Woman of the Town
1943

Death Valley Rangers
1943

Gunfire at Indian Gap
1957

The Last Stand
1938

Three Men from Texas
1940

The Return of the Rangers
1943

Boot Hill Bandits
1942

Rimfire
1949

San Francisco Docks
1940

Pioneer Days
1940

California Mail
1936

Six Shootin' Sheriff
1938

The Spy Ring
1938

Devil's Canyon
1953

Lawless Range
1935

Dracula in the Movies
1992

Quantrill's Raiders
1958

Double Crossbones
1951

Riders of Death Valley
1941

Born to the Saddle
1953

Billy the Kid Wanted
1941

The Devil's Saddle Legion
1937

The Fighting Gringo
1939

San Antonio Kid
1944

Gun Packer
1938

Sunset on the Desert
1942

Down Texas Way
1942

Arizona Days
1937

Trail to Gunsight
1944

Across the Plains
1939

A Tenderfoot Goes West
1936

Beyond the Line of Duty
1942

Empty Holsters
1937

Wagon Train
1940

Stormy
1935

Alaska
1944

Cyclone of the Saddle
1935

Texas Trouble Shooters
1942

The Bandit Trail
1941

Rolling Down the Great Divide
1942

Sonora Stagecoach
1944

Avenging Waters
1936

Little Joe, the Wrangler
1942

Border Wolves
1938

Come on Danger
1942

Silver City Kid
1944

Billy the Kid Trapped
1942

Go West, Young Lady
1941

Overland Mail
1939

Wyoming
1940

The New Frontier
1935

Stagecoach Buckaroo
1942

The Law of 45's
1935

Harmony Trail
1944

Wild Horse
1931

Valley Of Vengeance
1944

Trailin' West
1936

Black Bandit
1938

Oklahoma Terror
1939

Arizona Trail
1943

The Monster Maker
1944

Pals of the Silver Sage
1940

The Painted Trail
1938

Law of the Pampas
1939

The Cowboy from Sundown
1940

Renegades of the Rio Grande
1945

Western Cyclone
1943

The Kid Rides Again
1943

In Old Mexico
1938

Wild Horse Stampede
1943

Rhythm of the Rio Grande
1940

California Frontier
1938

I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies
2006

Roll, Thunder, Roll!
1949

Honor of the West
1939

The Mexicali Kid
1938

The Phantom Stage
1939

Lone Star Law Men
1941

Raiders of the West
1942

The Kid's Last Ride
1941

Guilty Trails
1938

The Llano Kid
1939

Billy The Kid's Round-Up
1941

The Thrill Hunter
1933

The Sunday Round-Up
1936

Covered Wagon Trails
1940

Black Market Rustlers
1943

Call of the Rockies
1938

The Contender
1944

The Man from Hell
1934

Westward Ho-Hum
1941

Land of the Six Guns
1940

The Driftin' Kid
1941

Guns of the Pecos
1936

The Adventures of the Spirit
1963

Western Mail
1942