Monte Hale
Birthday
1919/06/08
Day of death
2009/03/29 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Ada, Oklahoma, USA
Also know as
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Biography
Monte Hale (born Samuel Buren Ely) was an American B-Western film star and country musician. Sometimes reported to have been born in San Angelo, Texas, he was actually born in Ada, Oklahoma but grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma, attending Washington Grade School and Shawnee High School. (Texas birthplace reportedly sounded better for the movies). After working as a laborer at various jobs in Ada and Enid OK Herod Ely settled in Shawnee and became an evangelist with the Church of God. His oldest son,...Read more
Acting
(1956) Giant
as Bale Clinch
(1945) Bandits of the Badlands
as Steve Carson
(1949) Ranger of Cherokee Strip
as Steve Howard
(1946) Out California Way
as Monte Hale
(1945) The Purple Monster Strikes
as Dr. Harvey
(1976) Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
(1950) Trail of Robin Hood
as Monte Hale
(1946) The Phantom Rider
as Cass
(1949) Prince of the Plains
as Bat Masterson
(1949) Pioneer Marshal
as Marshal Ed Sherwood Posing as Ted Post
(1944) The Big Bonanza
as The Singer
(1946) Home on the Range
as Monte Hale
(1946) Man from Rainbow Valley
as Monte Hale
(1966) The Chase
as Dental Delegate (uncredited)
(1949) San Antone Ambush
as Lieutenant Ross Kincaid
(1948) The Timber Trail
as Monte Hale
(1949) South of Rio
as Jeff Lanning
(1948) Son of God’s Country
as Monte Hale
(1948) California Firebrand
as Monte Hale
(1950) The Missourians
as Marshal Bill Blades
(1950) The Old Frontier
as Barney Regan
(1945) Colorado Pioneers
as Cowhand That Quits
(1946) California Gold Rush
as Pete - Driver That Quits
(1946) Sun Valley Cyclone
as Jeff
(1945) Rough Riders of Cheyenne
as Ward Tuttle
(1947) Along the Oregon Trail
as Monte Hale
(1947) Last Frontier Uprising
as Monte Hale
(1947) Under Colorado Skies
as Monte Hale
(1950) The Vanishing Westerner
as Chris Adams
(1949) Law of the Golden West
as Bill Cody
(1949) Outcasts of the Trail
as Pat Garrett
(1954) Yukon Vengeance
as Jim Barclay
(1996) Return to 'Giant'
as Self
(1976) It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Sgt.
(1951) The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as ---
(1958) The Texan
as ---
(1965) Honey West
as Sheriff Johnson
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Bank Teller