Bob Hoy
Robert F. Hoy was born on April 3, . He has been a stuntman, an actor and a director in both TV and the movies for some fifty years, going back to the late 1940's.
Bob Hoy made a number of films with Alan Ladd and Audie Murphy. He doubled for such stars as Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Robert Forrester, Ross Martin, Tyrone Power, Telly Savalas, Jay Silverheels, and David Janssen.
Hoy crossed over from stunt work into acting while guest-starring in the TV Western series, "Bonanza." Some of his Western credits include "Bite the Bullet," "The Lone Ranger," "Nevada Smith," and "The Outlaw Josey Wales".
Bob Hoy guest-starred in numerous Western TV shows, including "Wanted Dead or Alive," and "The Wild Wild West." Then he became Joe Butler, the ranch hand younger brother to Don Collier's Sam Butler, on "The High Chaparral."
This talented man stepped behind the camera to direct Zorro and The Three Musketeers. He is a founding member of The Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures, of which he is a lifetime member
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Dr. James Hoy
Jim Hoy is a professor of English in the English Department at Emporia (Kansas) State University. He writes a regular monthly column in Cattle Country, and he is the author of The Cattle Guard (University Press of Kansas State, 1982), a Seaton Award winner in 1982. He was one of the featured panelists at the first annual National Cowboy Symposium at Texas Tech University in Lubbock in June of 1989, an event sponsored at that time by the Ranching Heritage Center.
Jim Hoy is also an accomplished singer and musician and nationally known folklorist.
Check out further information on Jim Hoy at the University's web site. CLICK HERE.
You may contact Jim by email at: hoyjames@emporia.edu.
Rusty & Tania Hudelston
If you like Western music, and especially if you like first-class yodeling, you will love the music of Rusty Hudleston and his lovely and talented daughter Tania.
They hang their Stetsons in Levelland, Texas, when they're not out on the road performing for this group or that.
Rusty plays the accordian and piano,while Tania plays the guitar. They both sing very well. And they really light up audiences when they launch into their "dueling yodelers" routine.
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Tom Hubbard
(Deceased)
Thomas G. Hubbard, actor and writer, was born on April 2, 1919.Tom Hubbard wrote at least twelve screenplays which made it to the Silver Screen. And he appeared in several episodes of the TV Western "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" in 1951.
Hubbard's Western movie acting credits included Buffalo Bill in Tomahaw Territory (1952), The Yellow Haired Kid (1952), Thunder Trail (1954), Hidden Guns (1956), Secret of Treasure Mountain (1956), Hell Canyon Outlaws (1957), and Raiders of Old California (1957). Tom Hubbard died of cancer on June 4, 1974 in Rochester, Mich.
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Rock Hudson
(Deceased)
Rock Hudson was born as Roy Scherer on November 17, 1925.Hudson made many films in the 1950's and 1960's, many of them Westerns. He starred in "Giant" in 1956, opposite teen idol James Dean.
Rock Hudson was a closet homosexual all of his life. Ironically, he came into his greatest popularity in the 1960's with his romantic comedies opposite Doris Day. Their hits included "Lover Come Back," "Pillow Talk" and "Send Me No Flowers."
Afflicted with AIDS, Rock Hudson died on October 2, 1985. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea.
Clair Huffaker
Clair Huffaker wrote more than 300 magazine stories, numerous TV scripts, and eight Western novels, including Flaming Lance and Posse from Hell.
Stella Hughes
Articles by Stella Hughes have appeared in Western Horseman. She is the author of Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes (University of Arizona Press, 1984) and Chuck Wagon Cookin' (University of Arizona Press, 1974).
Stella Hughes was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Hereford, Texas on June 25, 1988. She was recognized "not only for her writing but also for actively supporting the West and the role of women in the West. She is a living symbol of the strength, spirit, stamina, and courage required in a true western woman."
She was one of the featured panelists at the first annual Cowboy Symposium at Texas Tech University in Lubbock in June of 1989.
Jeffrey Hunter
(Deceased)
Jeffrey Hunter was born as Henry Herman McKinnies, Jr. He was born on Nov. 25, 1926 in New Orleans, LA. He graduated from high school and joined the U.S. Navy, but was given a medical discharge after serving only about a year (1945-56). He went to college and received his bachelor's degree from the School of Speech at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1949.
Jeffrey Hunter then went west. He entered graduate school studying radio at the University of California at Los Angeles. That's when movie studio scounts found him and his first contract was with 20th Century-Fox from 1950 to 1959. Then he changed to Warner Brothers from 1963 to 1965.
This unusually handsome actor was known for playing Jesus Christ in "King of Kings." He also played Captain Christopher Robin Pike on "Star Trek".
Jeffrey Hunter appeared in 51 movies from 1950 to 1969. His Westerns included "Three Young Texans" (1954), "White Feather" (1955), "The Searchers" (1956), "The True Story of Jessie James" (1957), "Sergeant Rutledge" (1960), "Joquin Murrieta" (1965), and "Custer of the West" (1967). He also starred as Temple Houston in the short-lived TV Wester series, "Temple Huston" (1963-64).
In 1969 Hunter was injured in Spain while filming "ˇViva América!" In the script, an explosive device kills his character. During that scene something went wrong and he was hurt. He complained of dizziness and headaches, and he flew back to Los Angeles. He was briefly hospitalized upon his return.
Soon afterwards, Hunter suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while on a stairway outside his home, fell and struck his head. He lay unconscious for an unknown length of time before he was found. Jeffrey Hunter died in Los Angeles on May 27, 1969 during surgery to repair the skull fracture. He was 42. His remains are in the Glen Haven Memorial Park (Olive section, Lot 141, Grave E ) in San Fernando, CA.
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Jerrie W. Hurd
Jerrie W. Hurd received her B.A. cum laude in English Literature/ Speech and Drama at the University of Colorado in 1969, and she earned her MFA at the University of Oregon in 1982. Along the way she worked as a newspaper journalist, both as a writer and as an editor for the Idaho Falls, Idaho Post-Register.
From 1984 to 1988, Hurd taught writing and composition at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash. She also taught an evening seminar in fiction writing for the Northwest Writing Institute of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. For four consecutive summers she was a guest lecturer in the Continuing Education Department of Brigham Young University. Her lectures were on how women are portrayed in scripture and were drawn from the books she has written on this subject.
Jerrie W. Hurd is a creative writing teacher who has published short stories, essays, and plays and has won several awards in the process. She has had work published in South Dakota Review, Antioch Review, Dialogue, Frontier's InFlight, Green's Magazine, and Sunstone. She also wrote one published play, "Starstruck" (1983), and one book, Our Sisters in the Latter-Day Scriptures (Deseret Book, 1987). In addition, she conducts three-day training retreats for business and service organizations through a company called "Skills of Communication, Inc.".
Paul Hurst
(Deceased)
Paul Hurst, cowboy actor, began his movie career in silent films. Then he appeared in the classic film, "Gone With the Wind".He teamed up with singing cowboy star Monte Hale in Hale's sixth film, "Under Colorado Skies." And they worked so well together that he appeared in a dozen more films with Monte Hale.
Paul Hurst committed suicide in 1953.
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