Forrest Tucker
(Deceased)
Forrest Tucker was born on Feb. 12, 1919, in Plainfield, Indiana.His credits in TV Western shows included Little House on the Prairie, Gunsmoke, Alias Smith and Jones, Bonanza, Hondo, The Virginian, Rawhide and Wagon Train. He played Sergent Morgan O'Rourke in the TV series ,"F-Troupe" (1965), a spoof of US Army life in the 1880's.
Forrest Tucker is 3rd from left.His credits in Western movies included The Westerner (1940), The Yearling (1946), Coroner Creek (1948), The Nevadan (1950), Warpath (1951), Bugles in the Afternoon (1952), Pony Express (1953), Jubilee Trail (1954), Stagecoach to Fury (1956), Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958), and the bad guy opposite John Wayne in Chisum (1970).
Forrest Tucker died of throat cancer on Oct. 25, 1986 in Woodland Hills, CA. His remains are at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Hollywood Hills; Court of Remembrance, Columbarium of Radiant Dawn) in Los Angeles, CA.
CLICK HERE to see the complete filmography of Forrest Tucker.
CLICK HERE to go to a nicely done web site featuring Forrest Tucker.
William O. Turner
(Deceased)
William O. Turner was born in Tacoma and moved to Evanston, Ill. with his family when he was 12. He graduated from Knox College in the 1930's and worked in the Midwest and East Coast on newspapers, in advertising agencies and, for a short time, as editor of a magazine in Iowa. He returned to Tacoma in 1965 to devote full time to writing novels.
One of his books, Medicine_Creek, was a historical novel based on the treaty between Western Washington Indians and the United States. Another of his novels, Mayberly's_Kill (1969), was purchased by Universal Studios. Other books included The Proud Diggers (1954), The Settler (1956), War Country (1957), The Long Rope (1959), The Treasure of Fan-Tan-Flat (1961), Throttle the Hawk (1961), The High-Hander (1963), Gunpoint (1964), Destination Doubtful (1965), Five Days to Salt Lake (1966), Ride the Vengeance Trail (1966), Blood Dance (1967), and A Man Called Jeff (1969).
William O. Turner, the grandson of Puyallup Valley pioneer Andrew Oliver, was recognized as a Northwest Indian historian. He was president of WWA in 1963-64, and had served as chairman of the Constitution and ByLaws Committee. And he was a member of the Washington State Historical Society. (See his article, "Ah, The Creative Process," in the March, 1979 issue of The Roundup.)
William O. Turner died on Feb. 26, 1980 in Tacoma, Wash.
Gene Tuttle
Gene Tuttle is the author of five young adult novels for Bouregy: Valley of Hate (1984), Revenge in Peace Valley (1982), Bullets Talk (1983), Cattleman's War (1981) and Enough Rope to Hang (1985).
Marilyn Tuttle
Marilyn Myers was born on September 3, 1925 in Montebello, Calif. Her first role in a movie was in MGM's 1937 smash hit, "Maytime," starring Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDonald. Tiny, blond Marilyn can be seen as one of the kids dancing around a "May pole" that is supposed to be at a festival in Paris.
She also appeared a part of a dance troup in two of Shirley Temple's movies, "Little Rebel" and "Little Miss Broadway".
Later, Maryiln Meyers went to work in an office position for CBS studios. But she was also a fine singer. She married singer and actor Wesley Tuttle.
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Wesley Tuttle
(Deceased)
Wesley Tuttle, singer and musician and actor, was born in Colorado on Dec. 30, 1917. His parents were Charlie and Irma Tuttle. His family moved to San Fernando, California in 1922 and that was his city of choice until his death in 2003.
Wesley Tuttle was a member of the Sons of the Pioneers in the early 1930's. Dale Warren, Sons reigning leader for many years, said that "Wesley Tuttle was one of the first entertainers I met when I came to California in the late 1940's. Wesley Tuttle's tenor voice was beautiful. His harmonizing and yodeling was super."
And that, no doubt, is why Wesley Tuttle was chosen to do the yodeling for "Dopey," the dwarf character the 1937 animated Walt Disney film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
He and his band were featured in several "B-Western" movies. Tuttle's biggest hits were "Detour," "Never" and "Tho I Tried".
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Tom Tyler
(Deceased)
Tom Tyler, movie actor, was born as Vincent Markowski. He had starring roles in some 95 Western films during a career that ran from the 1920's silent films to the talkies in the 1940's. He also played Captain Marvel in the hit movie series, "Adventures of Captain Marvel".
Tom Tyler is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery (Sec. 15 Lot 51) in Detroit, Michigan. Some of his films included BORN TO BATTLE (1935), CHEYENNE RIDES AGAIN (1937), DEADWOOD PASS (1933), FAST BULLETS (1935), THE FIGHTING HERO (1934), THE FORTY-NINERS (1932), MYSTERY RANCH (1934), THE PHANTOM OF THE RANGE (1936), PINTO RUSTLERS (1936), RIO RATTLER (1935), THE SILVER BULLET (1934), SANTA FE BOUND (1936), and WHEN A MAN RIDES ALONE (1933).
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Ian Tyson
Ian Tyson was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1933, the son of a working cowboy.
Ian grew up reading Will James books about the wild west. The only thing Ian wanted to be when he grew up was a cowboy, though his father tried to turn him away from that career. When he was a teenager, he began riding broncs in local rodeos. That lead to a 20 year amateur rodeo career as a bronc rider and calf roper.
Then in 1956 at a rodeo in Alberta, Ian Tyson had a accident that permanently damaged his ankle. In a Calgary hospital, recovering from surgery that rebuilt and pinned his ankle, he learned how to play the guitar. And he got pretty darned good at it.
So in 1958 , at age 24, he moved to Toronto to follow his musical career. There he met Sylvia Fricker and formed an alliance that became entertainers "Ian and Sylvia". They eventually married and had a son, Clay.
Ian became disillusioned with life in the city and eventually bought a small ranch outside Toronto. Since his ankle injury prevented him from returning to the rodeo circuit, he took up what he calls "an old man's rodeo" -- cutting horse competitions. The more he became immersed in the cutting horses, the more he thought about moving back to the west.
Then in 1975, after his divorce from Sylvia, he moved out to southern Alberta and worked as a ranch hand. He then worked at a local cowboy bar in Calgary. There he met Twylla Dvorkin. They eventually married in August of 1986 and have a daughter named Adelita. All three live on the T-Bar-Y ranch in Longview, just south of Calgary.
In 1983 he recorded an album in his living room that was intended as a Christmas present for his friends, it was a collection of old western classics, ballads and songs that he had wrote. Thus his second career had begun, the album was Old Corrals and Sagebrush.
"People have been talking about the demise of the cowboy for the last 120 years but he's still there," Tyson said during a recent interview. "Each generation, with their egos, they think they're the last one.
" The guys that I ride with are older. It's not that there aren't any new cowboys out there, it's that the old cowboys all think they're the last generation, the last of the breed. Invariably, that's what they think. I'm just as bad."
"Lost Herd," his seventh album for Vanguard Records (and released on Stony Plain in Canada) is his first new album in five years. It offers nine new songs and a timeless cover of the classic "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
Ian Tyson is one of Canada's most important songwriters. Some of his songs such as "Four Strong Winds," "Someday Soon," "Navajo Rug" and "Springtime in Alberta" have all become near anthems.
CLICK HERE to go to the official Ian Tyson web page, featuring photos, concert tour info and even lyrics to his many fine songs.
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I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations;
I will sing of you among the peoples.
For great is your love, higher than the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
--- Bible: Psalm 108:3-4
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