Glenn Strange
Birthday
1899/08/16
Day of death
1973/09/20 (74 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Weed, New Mexico, USA
Also know as
George Glenn Strange, Glen 'Peewee' Strange, Glen Strange, Peewee Strange
Biography
At various times in his life a rancher, deputy sheriff and rodeo performer, this huge, towering (6' 5") beast of a man was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but grew up a real-life cowboy in Cross Cut, Texas. Of Irish and Cherokee Indian descent, he taught himself (by ear) the fiddle and guitar at a young age and started performing at local functions as a teen. In the late 1920s, Glenn and his cousin, Taylor McPeters, better known later as the western character a...Read more
Acting
(1948) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
as The Monster
(1954) Cattle Queen of Montana
as Indian Chief (uncredited)
(1944) Knickerbocker Holiday
as Big Muscle
(1948) Disaster
as Foreman Davis (uncredited)
(1945) House of Dracula
as The Frankenstein Monster
(1937) Arizona Days
as Henchman Pete
(2006) I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies
as Self
(1935) Stormy
as Arizona Wranglers Band Member 'Peewee' Strange (uncredited)
(1937) Adventure's End
as Barzeck
(1951) Comin' Round the Mountain
as Devil Dan Winfield
(1979) The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(1942) The Mummy's Tomb
as Farmer Holding Horse (uncredited)
(1940) The Fargo Kid
as Sheriff Dave
(1942) Billy the Kid Trapped
as Boss Stanton
(1952) The Lawless Breed
as Ben Hanley
(1931) The Range Feud
as ---
(1951) Double Crossbones
as Capt. Ben Avery
(1943) The Kid Rides Again
as Tom Slade
(1943) The Black Raven
as Andy
(1953) Calamity Jane
as Prospector (uncredited)
(1953) Devil's Canyon
as Marshal (uncredited)
(1936) The Fugitive Sheriff
as Trial Spectator (uncredited)
(1945) Saratoga Trunk
as Cowboy (uncredited)
(1959) Last Train from Gun Hill
as Gun Hill Bouncer
(1942) The Mad Monster
as Petro
(1942) Stagecoach Buckaroo
as Henchman Bill
(1941) The Kid's Last Ride
as Bart Gill / Ike Breeden
(1945) Bad Men of the Border
as Sheriff Peters
(1938) Whirlwind Horseman
as Henchman Bull
(1942) Sunset on the Desert
as Deputy Louie Meade
(1944) Harmony Trail
as Marshal Taylor
(1991) Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as The Monster (archive footage)
(1958) Quantrill's Raiders
as Todd
(2000) The Many Faces of Dracula
as The Monster (archive footage)
(1991) Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as The Monster (archive footage)
(1935) The Law of 45's
as Monte
(1949) Master Minds
as Atlas the Monster
(1944) San Antonio Kid
as Frank 'Ace' Hanlon
(1942) Down Texas Way
as Sheriff Trump
(1944) Alaska
as Miner
(1955) The Vanishing American
as Beleanth
(1940) Wagon Train
as Stagecoach driver
(1957) Last Stagecoach West
as Sheriff
(1941) Lone Star Law Men
as Marshal Scott (as Glen Strange)
(1949) Enter the Lone Ranger
as Butch Cavendish
(1942) The Lone Rider and the Bandit
as Luke Miller
(1937) Land Beyond the Law
as Bandy Malarkey
(1944) The Contender
as Biff Benham
(1938) Black Bandit
as ---
(1938) Ghost Town Riders
as Tex - Henchman
(1938) Gun Packer
as Sheriff
(1942) Texas Trouble Shooters
as Roger Denby
(1944) The Monster Maker
as Giant
(1940) Land of the Six Guns
as Manny
(1957) The Halliday Brand
as Townsman
(1938) The Mysterious Rider
as Henchman Cramer
(1938) Air Devils
as Messenger
(1940) Covered Wagon Trails
as Fletcher - Henchman
(1943) Death Valley Rangers
as The Marshall
(1953) Escape from Fort Bravo
as Sergeant Compton
(1956) Backlash
as Milliken, Stage Driver (uncredited)
(1939) The Lone Ranger Rides Again
as Raider Thorne
(1939) The Llano Kid
as Henderson
(1939) Across the Plains
as Jeff Masters
(1938) The Mexicali Kid
as Foreman Jed
(1938) Six Shootin' Sheriff
as Kendal Henchman
(1931) Wild Horse
as Cowboy Who Refuses to Ride
(1931) Cavalier of the West
as Trooper
(1935) Cyclone of the Saddle
as Singer / Fiddler / Townsman
(1936) Guns of the Pecos
as Wedding Groom / Rustler
(1939) Oklahoma Terror
as Ross Haddon
(1939) Overland Mail
as Sheriff Dawson
(1934) The Man from Hell
as Singer
(1936) Avenging Waters
as Henchman Jake
(1939) Arizona Legion
as George Kirby
(1942) Come on Danger
as Henchman Sloan
(1939) Rough Riders' Round-up
as Boggs
(1939) The Night Riders
as Angry Riverboat Gambler
(1944) House of Frankenstein
as Frankenstein Monster
(1938) The Painted Trail
as Sheriff Ed
(1940) Stage to Chino
as Bill Hoagland
(1963) The Adventures of the Spirit
as Frankenstein Monster
(1939) Days of Jesse James
as Cole Younger
(1936) Flash Gordon
as Gocko/Robot/Soldier
(1953) Born to the Saddle
as Tom Roper
(1941) Billy the Kid Wanted
as Matt Brawley
(1952) The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
as Butch Cavendish
(1941) Wide Open Town
as Henchman Ed Stark
(1955) Marty
as Bit Role (uncredited)
(1937) The Cherokee Strip
as Harry, Fiddle Player and Band Leader
(1939) The Phantom Stage
as Sheriff
(1949) Roll, Thunder, Roll!
as Ace Hanlon
(1941) The Driftin' Kid
as Jeff Payson (as Glen Strange)
(1943) The Desperadoes
as Lem - Jack's Gang Member
(1940) Pals of the Silver Sage
as Vic Insley
(1935) Westward Ho
as Carter
(1949) Rimfire
as Curt Calvin
(1939) Sunset Trail
as Bouncer
(1937) Blazing Sixes
as Peewee
(1933) The Thrill Hunter
as Studio Western Cowboy
(1937) Empty Holsters
as Tex Roberts
(1937) The Devil's Saddle Legion
as Pewee
(1936) Trailin' West
as Henchman Tim / Trooper (uncredited)
(1932) Ride Him, Cowboy
as Hawk Henchman (uncredited)
(1942) Bandit Ranger
as Frank Curtis
(1942) Overland Stagecoach
as Harlen Kent
(1941) The Bandit Trail
as Idaho
(1941) Riders of Death Valley
as Tex, a Benton Rider
(1940) Triple Justice
as Frank Wiley
(1947) The Sea of Grass
as Bill Roach - Brewton Ranch Hand (uncredited)
(1940) Wyoming
as Bill Smalley - Henchman
(1935) Moonlight on the Prairie
as Stew-Bum
(1940) The Cowboy from Sundown
as Bret Stockton
(1938) Pride of the West
as Saunders
(1938) In Old Mexico
as Burke
(1939) Range War
as Sheriff
(1939) Law of the Pampas
as Slim Schultz
(1940) Three Men from Texas
as Stokes
(1940) Dark Command
as Tough Yankee #1
(1944) Sonora Stagecoach
as Paul Kenton
(1952) The Lusty Men
as Rig Ferris - Foreman (uncredited)
(1943) False Colors
as Sonora
(1956) The Fastest Gun Alive
as Sheriff in Silver Rapids (uncredited)
(1942) Western Mail
as Sheriff Big Bill Collins
(1955) The Road to Denver
as Big George
(1951) Texas Carnival
as Tex Hodgkins
(1951) The Red Badge of Courage
as Colonel (uncredited)
(1936) California Mail
as Henchman Bud
(1953) The Veils of Bagdad
as Mik-Kel
(1942) Little Joe, the Wrangler
as Banker Jeff Corey
(1944) Forty Thieves
as Ike Simmons
(1941) Dude Cowboy
as Henchman Krinkle
(1948) The Gallant Legion
as Renegade
(1942) Rolling Down the Great Divide
as Joe Duncan
(1941) Arizona Cyclone
as Roy Jessup
(1936) The Sunday Round-Up
as Master of Ceremonies
(1943) Arizona Trail
as Henchman Matt
(1943) Bullets and Saddles
as Jack Hammond
(1941) Saddlemates
as Little Bear
(1942) Boot Hill Bandits
as The Maverick
(1943) Black Market Rustlers
as Corbin (as Glen Strange)
(1942) Raiders of the West
as Hank Reynolds
(1952) Wagons West
as Marshal Jim
(1942) Romance on the Range
as Lead Henchman Stokes
(1941) Westward Ho-Hum
as ---
(1941) Billy The Kid's Round-Up
as Vic Landreau
(1940) Pioneer Days
as Sheriff
(1940) Rhythm of the Rio Grande
as Sheriff Hays (as Glen Strange)
(1941) Fugitive Valley
as Gray
(1943) The Return of the Rangers
as Frank Martin
(1943) Western Cyclone
as Dirk Randall
(1943) Haunted Ranch
as Rance Austin
(1944) Valley Of Vengeance
as Barker
(1945) Renegades of the Rio Grande
as Bart Drummond
(1944) Silver City Kid
as Henchman Garvey
(1944) Trail to Gunsight
as Duke Ellis, Gang Leader
(1947) The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
as Lefty
(1941) Badlands of Dakota
as Bob Russell
(1942) The Spoilers
as Deputy (uncredited)
(1950) Comanche Territory
as Big Joe
(1943) The Woman of the Town
as Walker
(1943) Cattle Stampede
as Boss Coulter
(1953) The Great Sioux Uprising
as Stand Watie
(1943) Wild Horse Stampede
as Henchman Tip
(1941) Go West, Young Lady
as Townsman
(1943) The Kansan
as 2nd Gate Guard
(1957) Gunfire at Indian Gap
as Matt
(1932) The Hurricane Express
as Jim
(1938) The Last Stand
as ---
(1938) The Spy Ring
as The 'Champ' (uncredited)
(1940) Teddy the Rough Rider
as Jim Rawlins
(1939) The Fighting Gringo
as Rance Potter
(1935) Lawless Range
as Burn's Henchman
(1943) Action in the North Atlantic
as Jake (uncredited)
(1938) Border Wolves
as Deputy Joe O'Connell
(1943) Mission to Moscow
as Southerner in Montage (uncredited)
(1938) State Police
as Henchman
(1948) Red River
as Naylor (uncredited)
(1959) Alias Jesse James
as James Gang Member
(1942) Beyond the Line of Duty
as Cal (uncredited)
(1940) San Francisco Docks
as Mike
(1966) Spaceship to the Unknown
as Robot / Ming soldier / Gocko (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1935) The New Frontier
as Norton
(1947) Hollywood Wonderland
as Singing Cowboy (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride", 1939) (uncredited)
(1936) A Tenderfoot Goes West
as Prankster Butch
(1938) California Frontier
as Blackie
(1939) Blue Montana Skies
as Bob Causer
(1939) Honor of the West
as Bat Morrison
(1946) Up Goes Maisie
as Cop (Uncredited)
(1999) Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage)
(1934) The Star Packer
as Loco Frank
(1948) Four Faces West
as Posse Deputy (uncredited)
(1949) The Lone Ranger
as Cavendish
(1963) Petticoat Junction
as Hawley
(1949) The Lone Ranger
as Butch Cavendish
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Sam Noonan
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Red Herring
(1959) Rawhide
as Bartender
(1960) Thriller
as Indian (scenes deleted)
(1955) The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as ---
(1956) The Adventures of Jim Bowie
as ---
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Red Wing
(1958) Frontier Doctor
as ---
(1955) Buffalo Bill Jr.
as ---
(1955) Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
as ---
(1951) The Adventures of Kit Carson
as ---
(1957) 26 Men
as ---
(1955) Judge Roy Bean
as ---
(1952) Hopalong Cassidy
as ---
(1952) The Abbott and Costello Show
as Tessie's Steady Boyfriend
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Sam (uncredited)
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Man
(1995) Svengoolie
as Frankenstein's monster
(1950) The Colgate Comedy Hour
as The Monster