Tom Mix

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About this star

  • Category: Motion pictures
  • Star rank: 1107
  • Address:
    1702 Vine St
  • Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing north
  • GPS location:
    34.101820, -118.326543

Biography

Tom Mix, 1925

Source: Wikipedia

Thomas Edwin “Tom” Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed.

Fact file

  • Born: Thomas Hezikiah Mix January 6, 1880 Mix Run, Pennsylvania, U.S.
  • Died: October 12, 1940 (aged 60) Florence, Arizona, U.S.
  • Other name(s): Thomas Edwin Mix
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Years active: 1909–1935
  • Spouse(s): Grace I. Allin (1902–1903) Kitty Jewel Perinne (1905–1906) Olive Stokes (1907–1917) Victoria Forde (1918–1931) Mabel Hubbard Ward (1932–1940)

Read more about Tom Mix at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database

Vine St, east side, between Hollywood and Yucca