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Bill Patton
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Actor Born: 1894 in Amarillo, TX Death: 1951 in Los Angeles County, CA Biography:A former cowpuncher and rodeo rider who doubled in films for "Roy Stewart", "William Desmond", and "William S. Hart", American silent screen actor "Bill Patton" became a Western star in his own right with "Outlawed" (1921). Patton actually managed to inject quite a bit of humor into this mundane ranger melodrama but the low-budget film nevertheless failed to develop into a series. Producer "Wid Gunning" attempted to turn Patton into a modern dress crime fighter with "Alias Phil Kennedy" (1922), filming on location in Long Beach, but, again, no series materialized. Personable enough and a splendid rider, Patton bore an unfortunate resemblance to white-faced slapstick comic "Larry Semon" and was quite simply not hero material. But not for the lack of trying: Patton went on to star for various fly-by-night organizations all through the 1920s, usually playing his stock-in-trade of a lawman disguising... Full Biography
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